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Wonder Woman - The Animated Feature Trailer
August 05 | 8:47 PM
by Devlin

WONDER WOMAN DVD (Feb 2009)
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The
live-action feature film is never going to be made but at least we will
have this straight to video DVD animated feature come February 2009.
And the trailer looks good, featuring a formidable warrior princess
with strong ties to Greek mythology.
Don't
know why the Warner Bros. project to make a live-action feature film of
Wonder Woman never took off. Heaven knows, the story is already there.
Just use George Perez's six-issue arc that re-launched Wonder Woman
comics back in 1987, update it for the new millennium, avoid the
silliness that sank the Catwoman movie (i.e. treat the source material
with RESPECT), find someone with the right mix of beauty and toughness,
and we're all set. The Lynda Carter TV series was successful because
it treated the source material with respect, whereas an earlier pilot,
featuring Cathy Lee Crosby as a powerless and (blasphemously) blonde
Wonder Woman whose only link to the character was the name and nothing
else, failed. Of course, the Lynda Carter version of Wonder Woman
would never work on the big screen now (we're no longer in the campy
70s - and even then, Lynda Carter always treated the character with
respect and portrayed Wonder Woman with real warmth and humour), but
something more akin to Xena: Warrior Princess should find an audience.
After all, Wonder Woman had always been a warrior, and more so after
Perez re-launched her series back in the late 80s. Since then, Wonder
Woman has consistently been portrayed as a formidable warrior, able to
fight even a crazed Superman himself to a standstill. Although
compassionate, she is not hesitant to use deadly force when necessary.
She was lopping off the heads of gods and demons alike, for heaven's
sake, years before Xena appeared on our TV screens. Perez also brought
back with a vengeance Wonder Woman's strong ties to classical Greek
mythology. As a matter of fact, Sam Raimi must have ripped off Wonder
Woman when he created Xena. Wonder Woman is one of DC Comics' three
flagship characters to have survived all the way from her creation in
the early 40s right down to the present. Done properly, a Wonder Woman
movie should be just as big a draw as a Batman or a Superman movie.
But, as usual, Warner Bros., the owner of DC Comics, dithers and
stumbles (only the recent Batman movies have been true commercial and
critical successes - even Superman Returns was really a dud) while
Marvel successfully milks its franchises like the X-men, Fantastic
Four, Ironman and Spiderman. Sigh ... at least there's the animated
feature to look forward to ...
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