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I came in here expecting to jump all over the fact that McG is a hack, and you beat me to it. Color me pleasantly surprised.
Mmmmmmmmmm. Megan Fox! I do think she looks the part, but I’ve never seen her act. Is she an actress or just another nude model?
Beyonce as Wonder Woman? I vote ‘no.’ Orson Wells wore blackface as Othello, by the way. I doubt Beyonce’s going to do the opposite equivalent if she gets the part.
But I think the real problem here is that DC can’t seem to get their act together and make superhero movies. Why is that? They’ve got a whole lot of vastly-better-known characters than Marvel, and yet they can’t seem to make anything other than Superman and Batman movies, and much as I like the last two Batmans (Batmen?), their average isn’t really very good.
Why is Wonder Woman white? I mean, she’s supposed to be an amazon, right? What color are people in that region of the world? Not white.
Still not sure Beyonce is right for the role, mind you…
I… Hmm. I’ve never been a big fan of Beyonce’s music, let alone her minor acting skills. (I suppose that could just be a lack of training; she might turn out to be a competent actress with some coaching.) Also, she just doesn’t have the right aura for Wonder Woman. It’s hard to articulate what that quality is, but we’d know it if we saw it.
Well, what do I know? I still think Gina Torres would make an awesome Wonder Woman, but the studio seems set on doing an origin story and sadly she’s a bit too old for that.
As for McG, yeah, he’s not really suited to the kind of superhero movies we’re coming to expect. He seems to be more about films that are light, fun, and full of explosions. The grittier comic movies like Iron Man and Dark Knight are a little outside his comfort zone.
“All of this talk and speculation makes me long for the Joss Whedon Wonder Woman that never happened.”
Me, too. Heck, with the way Hollywood works, maybe the studio will come back around in five years or so when he might be less busy. By then we’ll have a whole new set of actresses — possibly some of them even Latina and/or native South American — to speculate over.
The Beyonce thing is still just a rumor…she mentioned in an interview that she’d “love to play Wonder Woman”, and it’s turned into a “news story.” But from what I can tell, it’s not actually true.
Gina Torres for Wonder Woman ’08!
I’m totally on board for Gina Torres as Wonder Woman!
I think with the success of Iron Man and the acclaim for Heath Ledger’s work in The Dark Knight, it’s going to be hip for a while for actors to be in superhero movies.
@ Wolfger:
Diana/Wonder Woman is generally supposed to be Greek, or Grecian-looking, which makes her either flat-out white if she’s real old(Grecians and other mediterranean peoples started darkening following increased contact with Arab cultures in the Ottoman Imperial period and the period from 711 to 1492 when the Moors captured the Iberian peninsula and the mediterranean islands)or olive-skinned if she’s more modern. So white or off-white, really. Lighter than me in either case.
@ Robin:
Beyonce was kind of charming in that movie about church choirs a few years back, I forget the title. She’s good when she’s playing a normal girl, less good when she’s playing anything more elaborate. And of course she refuses to use any words profanities related to the supernatural because of her religious upbringing (“Goddammit to hell!” is out, “Jive-ass turkey!” is ok).
@ Alpha Girl:
The funny thing to me is that everyone seems to be wrestling with how to do WW “Dark and Gritty” like the Dark Knight, when she seems so light and happy and airy. I don’t get that. To me, she’s always been a borderline-disturbing character. I mean, pretty much by definition she’s a lesbian, right? And she’s immortal, and super-strong, all fairly common vampire attributes. You can’t lie to her, which is a fundamental human right. She was conceived by the inventor of the lie detector who was in a polygamous relationship w/ 2 bisexual women, all of whom were into B&D. Again, kind of borderline-creepy there. And in the early years of the comic, she was followed around by young girls in diaphanous gowns who used to hang around tying each other up and forcing each other to submit.
Not to mention breaking Max Lord’s neck in cold blood.
I think there’s plenty of edgy stuff in there to work with…
@Hoobahjoobah: I hear what you’re saying about “dark and gritty”. Thing is, The Dark Knight wasn’t successful because it was dark and gritty – you know that, I know that, but we also know that one of the easiest ways to make a quick buck is to copy something that was successful whether it makes sense for the property or not.
@Hoobajoobah: “Beyonce was kind of charming in that movie about church choirs a few years back, I forget the title.”
Don’t think I heard about that, let alone saw it. Actually, now that I look at IMDB, the only thing I’ve seen her in was Austin Powers, which isn’t really a good metric for anyone’s acting prowess. (Nothing wrong with those movies, but they’re not anywhere near the same ballpark, acting-wise.) Oh, and the ads for Carmen: A Hip-Hopera, which were enough to convince me not to watch it, but that’s mostly because I like the original a lot more than I enjoy most hip-hop.
“And of course she refuses to use any words profanities related to the supernatural because of her religious upbringing…”
Well then praying to Athena would probably fall under that stricture as well. I guess that’s that.
As for making Wonder Woman “gritty”… I don’t know. I mean, certainly not as light the Lynda Carter TV series, but I don’t think the character belongs in the world of Dark Knight either. I could see something closer in feel to Iron Man, though. I mean, she is a princess, so she has a bit of Tony Stark’s spoil-rich-kid thing going on, yeah?
That Megan Fox fan poster really. creeps. me. out. Just the possibility that she could ruin a beloved comic character for me is just too much.
But I’m trying not to judge, cause I’ve only seen her in the one thing (Transformers). But it’s getting harder not to judge when she keeps invading stuff I love (Simon Pegg movie, Diablo Cody movie, Hack/Slash).
Sigh. If McG is directing, I can already see WW taking a F4 turn for the rediculous.
@AG: Yeah, it’s good because it’s well acted, directed, and has a great script which brings something new to the characters that wasn’t there before. But the reviews all say “Gritty” just like the reviews 20 years ago invariably compared Burton’s Batman to Wagnerian Opera, thereby clearly proving that when adults like kid stuff, they have to cook up dipshit pretentious justification s for it. Sigh.
@Robin: I was just saying that there’s more than enough dark stuff in her, and the happy-go-lucky stuff always struck me as a bit plastered on. Hell, she was dating Batman in the DCAU.