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Lynda Carter Comments on the Wonder Woman Movie

Who's her pick to play the new Princess Diana?

 I don't think she's lassoing anybody with that shoe lace on her belt.
 I don't think she's lassoing anybody with that shoe lace on her belt.

The WONDER WOMAN movie might be in development-Tartarus right now,  as it were - - X-MEN producer Lauren Schuler-Donner’s vocal petition for the rights was the last I heard about it - - but the Coventry-Telegraph’s saying, offhandedly, that it’s due for 2013. So, as you’d expect, when they got the chance to talk to Lynda Carter, they asked for her thoughts on the potential feature…. even though it’s been decades since she played the role. The interview runs through the usual questions. She’d love to cameo in it, but only if it was a worthwhile part, not just an excuse for her to show up and basically wink at the audience. Interestingly, she doesn’t have picks for any known actresses to replace her - - she’d rather they get an unknown who could handle the character's duality.

Actually, her take on WW’s secret identity was pretty interesting… == TEASER ==

"I've seen the faces of so many people (actresses), but the interesting thing about Wonder Woman is that you really knew her by both characters, because the audience knew she was Wonder Woman when I was playing Diana Prince, so for them it wasn't two different people. And I never dumbed her down. I just thought she needed to be smart and capable, but nobody really knew how smart and capable. It's got to be somebody that you want to be best friends with…"

Actually, seeing as how Carter’s WONDER WOMAN hasn’t aired since ’79, I suppose the younger members of the Comic Vine community might need refresher here. It was from the same era as the Lou Ferrigno INCREDIBLE HULK and the Nicholas Hammond SPIDER-MAN, when these comics-based shows seriously downplayed the more fantastical elements of the characters’ mythos (and I suppose this is a bit timely given how Marvel and DC are both talking about doing more live-action TV shows.)

Anyway, Carter also brings up the interesting angle of how Wonder Woman was one of the very few leading roles for a woman on TV in the 70s….   

 "You have to understand that at that time when they were casting there were no women in television. Lindsay Wagner, who is a dear friend, had done a couple of episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man and they killed her off (before she was revived by public demand and given her own spin-off series); Angie Dickinson had a sidekick in Police Woman, and the rest were comedians. There just weren't scripts. They didn't think a woman could hold a show. In so many ways it is a really great thing."

Wonder Woman’s quest to getting a modern movie adaptation may seem Sisphyian, but any of you wanting to see a live-action take on the character might do well to check out the show. As I’m aware, all its three seasons are out in some handy box sets. And I suppose this would be a good time to bring that old question up again - - what actress do you Comic Vine maniacs think has the chops to inherit the bullet-proof bracelets from Carter?

Tom Pinchuk’s the writer of HYBRID BASTARDS! & UNIMAGINABLE . Order them on Amazon   here   & here .