Ten-hut, geeks! After months of much jawing and searching, David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal) has finally found the his perfect gal to star in his Wonder Woman reboot: Friday Night Light‘s Adrianne Palicki.
Early buzz says that Palicki (who you will also be seeing in the upcoming remake of Red Dawn—in the C. Thomas Howell role, I hope) not only looks the part (hello, hottie!), but can probably play the crap out of the role. UNFORTUNATELY, buzz is also buzzing that Kelley’s script is STINKO. Here’s the official description:
The series pilot is a reinvention of the iconic DC Comics title in which Wonder Woman — a.k.a. Diana Prince — is a vigilante crime fighter in Los Angeles but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.
Auurrhgghh!! That line made my underpants crawl up inside of me. Anyway, good luck, Adrianne! (You’ll need it.)
I’d watch Tyra Collette fold her laundry.
>a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.
WHAT WHAT WHAT. Because we can’t tell a story about a female character without making it about the fact that she is a women? Ugh.
Remember the time before, when it seemed like making comic book movies was a good idea? Yeah… not so much now.
.. and tv shows too…
…and just remaking every movie that doesn’t need to be remade? Karate Kid…Red Dawn…next it’ll be Back to the Future.
I hope they keep that confusing thing where Wonder Woman loses her powers if she’s tied up by a man.
I give it half a season.
I’d rather they keep Palicki, throw out Kelley’s pilot script (which is DOGSHIT) and have her portray Kate Beaton’s Wonder Woman:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/11/10/k…
@Oregometry – seriously, it’s not like either Karate Kid or Red Dawn were unassailable bastions of quality cinema. The Karate Kid remake ended up being arguably BETTER than the original, in fact. Making a new Red Dawn better than the old Red Dawn shouldn’t be a herculean feat of filmmaking.
@Fatboy:
I getcha, but the thing about those films is the nostalgia of being a production in a certain point in time. Why can’t we just come up with new stuff? Some filmmakers are doing it, but the majority of Hollywood just seems content to recycle the same stuff again to make money.
I was having the conversation recently that Jim Henson’s Labyrinth is a movie you can really only appreciate if you saw it as a kid and remember it as such, but it’s just weird and creepy if you watch it for the first time now. Why don’t we have 2011 Labyrinths instead of trying to clamor back to the good ol’ days by remaking everything at the Hollywood Video rummage sale?
Those things ARE happening, though. There’s lots of new stuff out there, that people are probably goggling at with the same uncomprehending eyes we did back when Labyrinth came out. And we probably weren’t paying attention to our parents and older brothers when they were staring at the screen going “What is this weird and creepy muppet shit we’re watching?”
And Hollywood’s been remaking shit since the beginning. Adaptation/reinterpretation isn’t a new thing, really. If all a movie has going for it is the nostalgia factor, then it SHOULD be remade, so that the potential of the story underneath can be realized and made timeless. I don’t have a problem with remaking/remixing (obviously) otherwise I’d have to cut out entirely way too much good entertainment. Cover songs. Battlestar Galactica. The Thing.
The fact that everything is everywhere and available on demand at every time makes remaking things LESS destructive, not the opposite. The originals are more available than ever before, and if the remakes fail, that failure is made even MORE apparent by direct comparison.
If someone wants to take John Milius’ jingoistic masturbation and try to rework it into something more than Rush Limbaugh’s boner fuel, I’m willing to check it out.
@ Fatboy
“Rush Limbaugh’s Boner Fuel.”
Dibs on that band name!!
Kelley’s script is basically Batman with boobs and ice cream sleep-overs.
@fatboy, that was a pretty solid analysis. I’d actually add to it that some of the recent remakes have undone horrific sleights to the literary folks that came before.
Easy recent example is True Grit, an excellent adaptation of the novel that had been so bastardized into a John Wayne spaghetti western back when. (Now if they can find a way to turn the Rooster Cogburn sequel with Katherine Hepburn into a watchable film….and still film it in Oregon…).
Anyhow, you and I should get a beer sometime and hash all this out. But also, as soon as they announce the Joel McHale-Hayden Panetierre remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show, I’m out.
@Oregometry – deal! And I hope you didn’t look at any of that Rocky Horror Glee Shit. Because they drained every ounce of charm out of that thing.
Of course not. I won’t touch that show with a ten-foot pole. Plus, my TV gets one channel, and it ain’t worth watching.
“successful corporate executive”? Should we assume she’s going to have a split personality where she’s her own arch-nemesis?
It is already out and Tori Black made a great Wonder Woman.