Peven wrote:MasterWhedon wrote: I just re-read that, and it comes off as pretty strong fanwank. My apologies.
that's ok, MW, we're used to it.
Flumm wrote:MasterWhedon wrote: I just re-read that, and it comes off as pretty strong fanwank. My apologies.
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Ah, who am I kidding, no matter what Peven says, you can fanwank me anytime, Whedo.![]()
MasterWhedon wrote:It's being reported that Rachel Bilson has been cast as Wonder Woman. I've never watched The OC, so I can't attest to her acting ability--though I will be seeing The Last Kiss this weekend--but she sure is purty.
She certainly looks like a Whedon heroine...
So anyway, onto other subjects, then. One of the more interesting things I've read is that your name is being bandied about to play Wonder Woman in Joss Whedon's big-screen adaptation.
[Laughs.]
Can you discuss?
I just laugh about it. I mean, I'm not gonna deny it, or admit to it. But it's funny because no one has even received this so-called Wonder Woman script. It's like there's so much buzz created around a script that isn't even in the hands of any actresses yet. And that's all I'll really say. Yes, there have been, you know, like, conversations about it, but as far as the role being mine, or me being the lead up for it, I don't really know. I don't know what goes on behind the scenes in terms of producers and directors getting together to talk about a potential film. As far as I'm concerned, I don't even know if [a] Wonder Woman [movie] is going to happen for sure. I mean, I don't know who's financing it. So it's very flattering. And I think it's interesting how I've somehow wound up in the media again. My manager makes fun of me; he says, ''You're just like my little press hound, aren't you?'' [Laughs.]
Well, it's got to be a little flattering to be mentioned for such an iconic role.
I will say, I do hear some things my fans are concerned about — they're very protective, my fans — and when they heard I was doing a Shape magazine cover shoot — first of all I don't know how they find out about stuff like that — but they're concerned that I'm gonna be this slutty female on the cover of a magazine, and that's not my direction at all. As far as them being concerned about Wonder Woman being my first movie, I think it would be a huge mistake for me to attempt to tackle a role like that for my debut. I really want to make smart choices, and I don't think that would be a smart choice. A lot of times, regardless of whether you're a blockbuster actress, those kinds of movies fail. So it wouldn't be very smart for the girl off a reality television show to take a film like that for her first motion picture. I keep those things in mind. I'm really business-savvy.... Growing up in the business, and having parents who are in the business, I think I get it. And I understand it's not just about being talented, it's about making really smart decisions, and that's always been my priority. And, of course, the album.
Joss Whedon wrote:Everything that was hard at the beginning is still hard. I don't feel like I've nailed it yet, and I think the studio agrees. So I'm still plugging away. It's probably not as hard as I think it is, because I'm still a little fired from my TV decade. I should have taken a year off. It's now too late to realize that. But it's a big job. And besides her great origin story, there's nothing from the comics that felt right 100 percent, no iconic canon story that must be told. Batman has it made — he's got the greatest rogues gallery ever, he's got Gotham City. The Bat writes himself. With Wonder Woman, you're writing from whole cloth, but trying to make to feel like you didn't. To make to feel like it's existed for 60 years, even though you're making it up as you go along. But who she, and what the movie, is about, thematically, has never been a problem for me. But the steps along the way, it could be so easy for them to feel wrong. I won't settle. She wouldn't let me settle.
RogueScribner wrote:Tiny WW update from Joss via an EW article:Joss Whedon wrote:Everything that was hard at the beginning is still hard. I don't feel like I've nailed it yet, and I think the studio agrees. So I'm still plugging away. It's probably not as hard as I think it is, because I'm still a little fired from my TV decade. I should have taken a year off. It's now too late to realize that. But it's a big job. And besides her great origin story, there's nothing from the comics that felt right 100 percent, no iconic canon story that must be told. Batman has it made — he's got the greatest rogues gallery ever, he's got Gotham City. The Bat writes himself. With Wonder Woman, you're writing from whole cloth, but trying to make to feel like you didn't. To make to feel like it's existed for 60 years, even though you're making it up as you go along. But who she, and what the movie, is about, thematically, has never been a problem for me. But the steps along the way, it could be so easy for them to feel wrong. I won't settle. She wouldn't let me settle.
So I guess he's still trying to crack the nut that is Wonder Woman. I wonder how long he'll go before either he or Warner Bros. decides to move on to other things?
Ribbons wrote:I worry sometimes that this will be one of those movies that the principle filmmakers attached to it talk about making for so long but never do, and that finally gets abandoned several years down the road, there to wait in limbo for a decade until someone else finally finishes it.
Adam Balm wrote:Ribbons wrote:I worry sometimes that this will be one of those movies that the principle filmmakers attached to it talk about making for so long but never do, and that finally gets abandoned several years down the road, there to wait in limbo for a decade until someone else finally finishes it.
Shades of Superman?
Adam Balm wrote:Ribbons wrote:I worry sometimes that this will be one of those movies that the principle filmmakers attached to it talk about making for so long but never do, and that finally gets abandoned several years down the road, there to wait in limbo for a decade until someone else finally finishes it.
Shades of Superman?
Peven wrote:whoa, then, then, Supe's son and WW's daughter could meet while going to boarding school for kids with superpowers, run by a Professor ............Z, and have to come to the rescue of their parents when they fall victim to Lex Luthor who is attempting a land scam deal by blowing up all the dikes in the Nethrlands and creating beachfront property in Germany and Belgium, which of course,he has already bought up for bargain basement rates.
Peven wrote:whoa, then, then, Supe's son and WW's daughter could meet while going to boarding school for kids with superpowers, run by a Professor ............Z, and have to come to the rescue of their parents when they fall victim to Lex Luthor who is attempting a land scam deal by blowing up all the dikes in the Nethrlands and creating beachfront property in Germany and Belgium, which of course,he has already bought up for bargain basement rates.
Peven wrote:hey, SkyHigh was actually a fun, unpretentious little movie my 9 and 10 yr old loved.
ONeillSG1 wrote:Peven wrote:whoa, then, then, Supe's son and WW's daughter could meet while going to boarding school for kids with superpowers, run by a Professor ............Z, and have to come to the rescue of their parents when they fall victim to Lex Luthor who is attempting a land scam deal by blowing up all the dikes in the Nethrlands and creating beachfront property in Germany and Belgium, which of course,he has already bought up for bargain basement rates.
Announcer: So you just basically ripped off the plot to Sky High and made into an abomination. Where are you off to now?
Peven: I'm going to Disneyland!
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Shane wrote:Peven wrote:hey, SkyHigh was actually a fun, unpretentious little movie my 9 and 10 yr old loved.
My oldest is 7. He didn't care too much for it. I think it had too much teen dating stuff for him. It wasn't too bad for what it was. If I were a kid of that age I know It would have been one of my favorite movies.
Peven wrote:so, are you saying you want to see WW as Diana when she isn't fighting bad guys? wouldn't it be difficult to fill an entire movie of WW zipping around in her suit the whole time without any character development? i thought the whole alter ego device was a way to humanize these superpowered heroes so we mere mortals are be able to identify and empathize with them, which draws us into the story more.
RogueScribner wrote:Peven wrote:so, are you saying you want to see WW as Diana when she isn't fighting bad guys? wouldn't it be difficult to fill an entire movie of WW zipping around in her suit the whole time without any character development? i thought the whole alter ego device was a way to humanize these superpowered heroes so we mere mortals are be able to identify and empathize with them, which draws us into the story more.
Dare I say it? I agree with Peven.
Superman wouldn't be half as interesting without Clark Kent.
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