Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Wonder Woman TV Shows Future: Yes or No?

Last week was a real letdown for Warner Bros. Television, with so many pilot pickups and cancellations being largely a windfall. The most notable among these was the cancellation of the potential upcoming Wonder Woman tv series, that would have starred Adrianna Palicki in the lead role as Diana, re-imagined here as a vigilante crime fighter and in her alter ego, a corporate CEO, while trying to balance all the elements of her extraordinary life. NBC was the final major network to turn down the project, despite having a pilot episode prepped. And while this modern take of Wonder Woman was a major turnoff for fans, the other big letdown was the choice of costume for Palicki, who, as seen in here in the now widely known photo, would have worn the new look costume, which of course had Diana trading in her star spangled shorts for pants. Then there was the second costume, which as we can see here, was starting to take more cues from the comics, and finally, in photo taken by a fan who visited the set, we see that Palicki is sporting the classic Wonder Woman costume.






Warner Bros. CEO Peter Roth spoke on the show today. He is quoted as saying "I think Wonder Woman was a very well-crafted pilot. But after seeing the announcement of the NBC schedule, I now understand and agree with Bob [Greenblatt, NBC executive] that it doesn’t necessarily fit particularly well with their schedule. As well-crafted and contemporized as it was, it was a big and radical shift for viewers to embrace this new idea — and that may, to some degree, have had to do with why it didn’t make it. To be determined. I’m just not sure yet; we haven’t given it a lot of thought."

So dear readers, who knows what this means for the series. It could eventually see the light of day, but for now, it is not meant to be. What are your thoughts on the would-be series? I'd love to hear them.




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