It's been quite a week for superhero news, with Black Panther, X-Men, Captain America 2 and Justice League items all breaking over the last 24 hours. And amid all these developments, a not-minor story kind of got buried last night: The Wonder Woman live-action movie is back on track at Warner Bros.
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The news was buried at the end of Variety's Justice League story yesterday, where it was stated that Green Lantern scribe Michael Goldenberg "was hired to write Wonder Woman." It's not clear when this hiring took place, nor if it was a move made in concert with the hiring of Will Beall to write the new JLA script for the studio.
Variety also points out that two other Green Lantern writers, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green, are working on The Flash for director Greg Berlanti (also a GL vet!). This isn't news, but the overall impression is that Warner Bros. is finally getting serious about the rest of their superheroes in the wake of The Avengers' success (and with The Dark Knight trilogy soon coming to an end). What's less clear is why they're relying so heavily on the team that helped to create Green Lantern, which obviously was not the success the studio had hoped for (though certainly a bulk of the blame for that film has been laid at director Martin Campbell's feet).
Anyhow, Warners and DC have been trying to get Wonder Woman onscreen for some time. There was that Joss Whedon/Joel Silver big-screen push several years back (which must sting for the studio in this post-Avengers world), and just last year a TV show from The Practice's David E. Kelley, starring Adrianne Palicki, made it to the pilot stage before getting dropped. Now, the princess' time may finally have come.
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Source : ign[dot]com
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