Gail Simone, the writer of the current run of DC’s renowned “Wonder Woman” title, recently talked a bit with io9.com about the sudden surge of rumors surrounding a “Wonder Woman” movie, particularly ones about pop singer Beyonce’s desire to star, and McG taking the director’s chair.
“In general, I’m very skeptical of any fake irony when dealing with Wonder Woman. If we’re getting some kind of post-modern satire of the Lynda Carter series, I’d rather they just pass on the whole idea entirely. Christopher Reeve showed that the noble characters work best when played nobly. Winking at the audience insults everyone involved” she says in regards to any adaptation being laden with in-jokes. Though no specifics regarding a Wonder Woman film have surfaced since a 2005 announcement connecting “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” brain Joss Whedon to a live-action Wonder Woman project that he stepped away from in 2007, io9 does speculate that perhaps the increasing amount of such stories indicates that progress is being made on a finished script and pre-production.
Simone, best known for creating the “Women In Refrigerators” concept regarding misogyny in mainstream comics as a plot device, has also written critically-acclaimed runs on the sleeper hit title “Secret Six”, the indie hit “Welcome To Tranquility”, and the long-running “Birds Of Prey”, which starred the former Batgirl, Barbara Gordon. She is the first woman writer of “Wonder Woman” since the title’s inception.
DC’s Wonder Woman first appeared in “All-Star Comics” in 1941 and has been long viewed as the ideal feminist superhero. Utilizing her magical Lasso of Truth and powers gifted to her from the Greek Gods, she is an Amazon from the lost island of Themyscira sent to “man’s world” as a hero and ambassador. Along with Superman and Batman, Wonder Woman is generally held as one of DC’s “Big 3”, a concept recently tackled with her in the weekly series “Trinity”.
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By Costa Koutsoutis, (Source: io9.com)
