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Joss Whedon - "Wonder Woman" Movie - Another hero gets a modern makeover

Monday 17 April 2006, by Webmaster

Another hero gets a modern makeover... Is nothing sacred any more?

Will these miserable revisionists never give us peace? I am sick and tired of the meddling and underhand way in which they challenge our heartfelt memories and reduce our heroes and heroines from yesteryear to dust today.

Easter Rising? No, not a bit of it. I am talking about the plans that Hollywood have to make a movie of Wonder Woman.

The image of Lynda Carter in her huge Bridget Jones star-spangled knickers is one of the few bright moments in many a youth’s adolescence during our troubled history. And then there was her cleavage which tried to break out of her costume like a paramilitary trying to escape from the Crum.

Carter’s Wonder Woman was Saturday night television at its tackiest best, and truthfully, one of those programmes that asked hard questions about nationalism and loyalty.

For those of us used to the sight of Tricolours and Union Jacks, it was certainly something to behold how provocative a costume based on a national flag could really be.

You had to feel sorry for those poor paramilitaries in their dirty balaclavas and second-hand combat jackets on the streets of Belfast. It’s one thing to disappear into a safe house and come out looking like a poor man’s Che Guevara and another for the gorgeous Lynda Carter to find a quiet space, take off her glasses, spin like she was at a céilí and emerge as Wonder Woman, a hero we could all believe in.

I always felt sorry for her companion, Steve, who only knew Wonder Woman by her alter ego, Diana Prince. Admittedly, she looked like a repressed nun when in her civvies and Steve, despite being a top intelligence operative, had all the cop-on of a box of bricks.

He was the sort of spook who confirmed your prejudices about secret agents being really thick. It’s no wonder the Americans couldn’t find WMD in Iraq when their best guy didn’t realise that Wonder Woman without glasses was Diana Prince with glasses. Talk about an intelligence failure.

Let’s be fair to Steve - he probably wasn’t looking at Wonder Woman’s face too much, if you get my drift. I mean he was staring at her - you know - her golden lasso.

And now Hollywood is writing a new movie and names such as Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garnier and Jessica Alba are being mentioned as the next Wonder Woman. Children the lot of them. Why can’t revisionists just leave us our heroes?


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  • Joss Whedon - "Wonder Woman" Movie - Another hero gets a modern makeover

    17 April 2006 12:42, by Jonny Kirby

    If you dont like it dont watch it.... simple as that!

    alot of peopel didn’t have wonderwoman growing up... let them have their wonderwoman for a new generation!

  • Joss Whedon - "Wonder Woman" Movie - Another hero gets a modern makeover

    17 April 2006 17:37, by Sam Cucinotta

    What reactionary drivel. Nostalgic schlock drudged up by those who believe that everything in the past had a silver lining. When applied to politics, it’s been labeled "Return to Normalcy", in media, there is no name for it, but it all rings of one thing: Bull.

    How can this person be leaping to conclusions so soon, and only by analyzing a single aspect of the entire project? It’s just starting out! The script was only just finished—and we probably won’t see the finished product until 2008.

    Beyond the conspiracy-theory level speculation of the article, there’s the entire idea of holding the 70s Wonder Woman series as some paragon of good entertainment. Now, I’ve seen the series and I can only liken its entertainment value to 70s camp and nostalgia. Here, it’s being treated as the equivalent to "Star Trek" in how it set up a grand example.

    Worse, the author does not realize that Wonder Woman is and was, first and foremost, a comic book character, not a TV character. The author may enjoy that particular interpretation of the character, but he forgets that it is just that—an interpretation of a character. And now he has the gall to spew venomously against a second adaptation when he doesn’t even acknowledge the source material? It’s blatant hypocrisy.

    Hypocrisy, ignorance and nostalgia are a nasty combination, and this article shows that in spades.

  • Joss Whedon - "Wonder Woman" Movie - Another hero gets a modern makeover

    18 April 2006 11:43, by Rainkiss
    I can see where he’s coming from. Did you SEE the Dukes of Hazard movie? The Bewitched movie? ::shudder:: Heck, do you remember the last of the Superman movies? Loved Chris Reeve, I did, but the scripts he had to work with got worse every movie. Yes, he’s being reactionary, and he probably doesn’t know Joss like we do, so I can see where he’d be concerned. Wonder Woman is pretty much the last of the big superhero icons to get a modern update. WE know Joss can handle it, this guy just needs to learn.