Eliza Dushku

Lynda Carter has officially passed the Wonder Woman baton to actress Eliza Dushku, insisting she’d make a great comic book heroine.

Carter, who played the iconic character on TV in the 1970s, insists the world needs a new Wonder Woman - and if reports suggesting director Joss Whedon is set to launch a new franchise with Dushku are correct, the original star would be thrilled.

She tells WENN, "I’ve always liked Joss, and Eliza would make a great Wonder Woman."

Carter has even offered her services to help groom the next Wonder Woman.

She adds, "People worry about, ’I really helped with this movie and I didn’t get paid,’ which I could care less about. People don’t usually contact the original people to find things out because they’re afraid of being sued claiming it was their idea. I hope if they make the movie it makes a bajillion (millions) dollars, which means they’ll continue to make them."