Wonder Woman To Get CW Television Series

Wonder Woman is meant for the bigscreen not a cheesy tv series. If she were to be in the small screen let it be done right am sick of that "smallville" crap!

Wonder Woman is meant for the bigscreen not a cheesy tv series. If she were to be in the small screen let it be done right am sick of that "smallville" crap!

i really want a supergirl tv show with the talented gorgeous laura vandervoort.

I just ope that CW stops turning DC comics into shows before they get to Flash which would be a CGI blur or Aquaman which would be Smallville but on a beach.

Oh yeah and how does Smallville tell you about Superman before he became Superman? Last time I checked Superman didn't fight the likes of Zod, Doomsday and Darkseid till his mid 30's.

As long as it stays true to her true origin. I'm pretty sure the General audience and people who only know WW's name/appearence don't even know where she's from, the General audience probably think she's kryptonian or is just magically strong, and I know CW might appeal to that (dumb) logic. True origin please

@Alton: just because you consider WW a bad character doesn't make it true,she is the female that has sold more,and is the most recognized female in comics,so she is iconic,she is one of the few females that don't live in the shadow of a man,like all the females based on a male character.

wonder woman is her own character,her own origing,her own story,DC tried to give otther females the spotlight,but they didn't work as well as WW,if she is a good seller on her own,and is the most recognized female worldwide,that counts for something.

your argument is that she's bad,lame?,that's cheap,you say the same that anyone says about a character that doesn't like,superman and batman hasn't changed that much over the years,that doesn't make them timeworn,WW can be as good as any character if you have a good writter to make good stories,with that any character can shine and show its potential,WW is an interested character for a lot of people,that shows in her sales and popularity over any other female,and that's enough for DC to keep the character,if you aren't interested,i don't know why you are wasting your time in her forum.

@sethysquare :Again you read half my statement to attempt to prove a point.Any of the other characters you've just listed are all second fiddle characters to male counterparts.They exist in the same OCD universe hard core DC fans need to have the same story told over and over again.It's time to move on dude to something new,but any of the other characters you listed would be better than WW. Just because something may pull in bigger numbers doesn't make it any good and doesn't avoid being timeworn.For the Luva God WW is bad enough,but you put Supergirl at the top of your list??

I would wait to know who they would cast as Wonder Woman Diana before comitting myself to the show. Because Adrianne Palicki wasn't really who I pictured for her. I was just wondering why everyone says Heinberg has touched the comic domain because he wrote the Young Avengers, when it would be much more obvious - not to mention reassuring to fans like myself - that he has already written Wonder Woman back in 2006, and thus, knows something about the character. (click on the thumb for proof)

@Alton said:

@sethysquare said:

@Alton said:

@Kairan1979 said:

They need at least five years so we can forget the horrible Wonder Woman pilot.

The real problem with the pilot and any future adaptation is that WW is a silly and outdated concept that needed to be put away permanently years ago. Enough with the misguided advocacy for this character and let's move on to something worth producing.Anything but WW.

Thats like saying Superman is a silly and outdated concept.

Wonder Woman is DC's biggest female icon and 3rd most iconic character. Iconic means they can stand the test of time.

What an ignorant statement.

This character is not Iconic and has only seen a brief resurgence as a result of the unfortunate Trinity storyline a few years ago.The general public looks at this and laughs. DC keeps it because they don't have enough viable female characters around that generate strong fan interest let alone crossover interest.The time for DC to dump this character is now and develop a wider female character base that deserve being spunoff and aren't second fiddle to Batman,Superman,GL etc.The only thing ignorant here is calling WW iconic.

You are speaking absolute nonsense. Just randomly search the net on most iconic superheroes

http://media.gunaxin.com/the-12-most-iconic-comic-book-heroes/36336

http://comicbooks.about.com/od/characters/tp/topsuperhero.htm

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/top-20-greatest-comic-book

In addition to that. Wonder Woman has been a solid seller. She is the female character that has the most number of ongoing.

Also, who says DC doesn't have enough Viable female characters?

33. Wonder Woman

36. Batgirl

45. Batwoman

58. Catwoman

66. Supergirl

All of which sold more than FF and all of which except for Supergirl sold more than FF which had a movie.

The fact that Wonder Woman sold more than Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Captain America, X-men and Thor says alot about her.

If you really think Wonder Woman is not iconic, you have got to be seriously Naive.

I think the Buffy/Xena era of female super powered females is over with. Also, I have to agree that while WW is the #3 character, most see her as still on the same level as GL, Flash, or Aquaman. However, just as far below Batman & Superman as those others are. The fact she is female is what makes her stand out, but she is not part of a Trinity of Equality. Batman & Superman are the top of DC. Then WW.

Now, I thought it was because of Steve that she left the island? & if they are not going to have the royalty, then are they going to have her rouges based in mythology? Or make them that, gag, realistic BS that Smallville thought was so good.

Cant they make Xena, but just more realistic?

@thespidey307 said:

Just make the movie...

@sethysquare said:

@Alton said:

@Kairan1979 said:

They need at least five years so we can forget the horrible Wonder Woman pilot.

The real problem with the pilot and any future adaptation is that WW is a silly and outdated concept that needed to be put away permanently years ago. Enough with the misguided advocacy for this character and let's move on to something worth producing.Anything but WW.

Thats like saying Superman is a silly and outdated concept.

Wonder Woman is DC's biggest female icon and 3rd most iconic character. Iconic means they can stand the test of time.

What an ignorant statement.

This character is not Iconic and has only seen a brief resurgence as a result of the unfortunate Trinity storyline a few years ago.The general public looks at this and laughs. DC keeps it because they don't have enough viable female characters around that generate strong fan interest let alone crossover interest.The time for DC to dump this character is now and develop a wider female character base that deserve being spunoff and aren't second fiddle to Batman,Superman,GL etc.The only thing ignorant here is calling WW iconic.

@SpideyMilesMorales said:

Didn't CW already do the Arrow? The Green Arrow series? I guess it didnt turn out to well. I just read the comic and i didn't like it,

I don't even know where to begin with this.

1. Welcome to the internet

2. Try actually reading articles before commenting

That would be super lame if they made a show about her b4 she became wonder woman. Honestly what they need to do is go ahead and hire me to assist them in making anything DC related. Bc they r messing up big time. Arrow is looking really bad but we shall see when the pilot comes out. I hope its not bad. And they need to just stop trying to make wonder woman work as a tv series. She is a big name and needs a movie. A tv series about WW sounds dumb and i bet they would try and make it similar to smallville which also wasnt a good show lol.

Not sure. I don't really care for a show if it revolved around the Amazons and their exploits.

if they are going to a "smallville" with diana it will fail what need to do is the opposite and make to where she is first starting out as wonder woman and adjust to mans world w/ steve

They need to do the movie and cast Angie Harmon for it.

I'll watch it if Cory is the one singing the intro song.

@ips said:

1) Diana's Amazon Princess heritage is a huge part of her character. If you remove it or other similarly critical elements of it; she's not Wonder Woman anymore. She may as well just be another character if the only thing the same is the name.

Furthermore, from a literal perspective, the bracelets are Iconic. If you literally remove the bracelets it's like removing Batman's cowl or Superman's S.

2) It doesn't matter how many issues Hippolyta appeared in as Wonder Woman. The point is that the character was retconned a years ago making Hippolyta THE Golden Age Wonder Woman. In other words; every issue was her as Wonder Woman when she wore a dress -- or close to that.

@sethysquare said:

1. Yeah, so what she loses the bracelets and the crown. It doesn't mean she loses everything. Smallville ran for 10 seasons. If they followed a similar formula, but go straight to the point like how they're doing with arrow, this could easily last 5 season. It doesn't mean they're removing everything from the equation.

2. She only briefly assumed the role as wonder woman in a few issues. She was never Wonder Woman. Thats like making Azaral, Batman before Bruce Wayne was Batman. Diana is the first person who took up the role of Wonder Woman and should always stay that way

1. Smallville did that and it went for ten seasons. It introduced Superman to a whole new generation of viewers and made people fall in love with Clark Kent all over again. also the most iconic part about Superman was his 'S'. He went like 7 seasons without the 'S'

2. The character was only retconned a few years ago as the golden age wonder woman. but that really did not have much of an impact, even though its cannon, almost no one viewed hippolyta as Wonder Woman. Furthermore, its retconned out that there is no Wonder Woman in the golden age anymore.

I recently purchased the first volume of Amalgam comics (TPB, DC side), and would rather see Amazon (Storm/Wonder Woman). That said, I think they should do a series that starts with her when she first arrives to Man's World, maybe narrated by Hippolyta or something. Show Diana adjusting to a new country and modern technology and such. Also, Nerf her. Make her more like the movie versions of the X-Men, rather than the planet-tosser she is in the comics (<100 tons). Superman and Wonder Woman are too similar in powers/pacifism/message to the world to simply do another Smallville-style series (though I do wish they'd go back to their original intent and do Bruce Wayne, detailing his training). Maybe even set the series during Amazons Attack, minus the other heroes, and have her trying to act as mediator, or figure out who prompted it. Idk, but there are better ways to handle this.

@moywar700 said:

@Wboy said:

Cameo in Man of Steel PL0X.

Somebody else had this idea...

It can go with Clark at office with his co-workers.Lois Lane plays a youtube video and we see a video clip of Wonder Woman for 20 seconds. Lois says."Nobody knows who she is...it looks like she can Superman a run for his money."

OORRR, near the end Superman could unknowingly fly past Paradise island where Wonder Woman is bada$$ fighting(training) and she looks up as he flies past she turns around. Giving her a reason to come to Man's world with her curiosity.

^Got that from a comment section

It actually seems their gonna give her a cameo anyway so I'm happy.

According to our source part of WB’s plan is to use ‘Man Of Steel’ and drop hints that Superman is in a shared universe with his DC counterparts. The hints will be very subtle such as character mentions. The one character that DC is really wanting to reference is Wonder Woman. The source was unclear on if this would be to set up a solo movie for the Amazon Princess or to the Justice League, but with the info that was just posted it seems more likely to be the JLA.

I think these small series should be about the less relevant heroes of the DC. I mean Batman- Superman and Wonder Woman kinda belongs to the big screen. While the less exposed characters should have the spotlight with the TV series.

Personally, I don't think a ''humanized'' Wonder Woman won't work as good as Smallville series since Clark actually raised as a human while Diana was always an Amazon Princess.

Although , as said if it was an all-amazon cast, I would watch 1....or 5 episodes :D

Lynda Carter(70's WW) and Phil Jimenez say about this news.

“I am delighted to hear this news," Carter told The Huffington Post when asked about the new CW project. "Wonder Woman is a fantastic, inspirational character who should be introduced to a new generation. I wish them great luck and look forward to seeing it on air."

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"For a variety of reasons but many, I'd argue, that are rooted in deep-seated notions held about gender and sex, Wonder Woman can be a very difficult character to make commercially potent in comic books," Jimenez said in an email statement. "Wonder Woman is, after all, a woman with a capital 'W' -- always a trick with fanboys (and some fangirls, too), because of her mission statement, point-of-view and hyper-feminist origins, especially the one creator William Moulton Marston ascribed the original incarnation of the character years ago."

Jimenez said he hopes a TV show can explore Wonder Woman's history in a compelling manner while sticking to the elements that make the character iconic and "not just some proto-Xena." After writing the character for three years, Jimenez said he has some interesting insights about the character and her story, should DC or Heinberg want a little help.

"I particularly hope to see some sort of exploration of the long-standing relationship between the precocious Diana and her mother, the over-protective Queen Hippolyta; how a child raised in a mythological paradise becomes interested in anything but; and how Wonder Woman's near utopian upbringing affects her POV and what she brings to humanity as opposed to say, Batman's dark, dystopian one," he said. "And if anyone can manage the commercial needs of television as well as the tonal essentials of joy, hope, and empowerment-thu-action that make Wonder Woman 'Wonder Woman,' it's Heinberg."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/wonder-woman-the-cw-amazon-show_n_1862365.html

1) Diana's Amazon Princess heritage is a huge part of her character. If you remove it or other similarly critical elements of it; she's not Wonder Woman anymore. She may as well just be another character if the only thing the same is the name.

Furthermore, from a literal perspective, the bracelets are Iconic. If you literally remove the bracelets it's like removing Batman's cowl or Superman's S.

2) It doesn't matter how many issues Hippolyta appeared in as Wonder Woman. The point is that the character was retconned a years ago making Hippolyta THE Golden Age Wonder Woman. In other words; every issue was her as Wonder Woman when she wore a dress -- or close to that.

@sethysquare said:

1. Yeah, so what she loses the bracelets and the crown. It doesn't mean she loses everything. Smallville ran for 10 seasons. If they followed a similar formula, but go straight to the point like how they're doing with arrow, this could easily last 5 season. It doesn't mean they're removing everything from the equation.

2. She only briefly assumed the role as wonder woman in a few issues. She was never Wonder Woman. Thats like making Azaral, Batman before Bruce Wayne was Batman. Diana is the first person who took up the role of Wonder Woman and should always stay that way

Thank you!!

If your not going to do an animated series...then do a developing story on the Character before the whole Wonder Woman idea.

Adventures on the island...hell yeah. That means more Greek Mythology to dig into the character, other characters, creatures, etc.

Hell with it being ther WB Smallville setup...I'm sure they are going to mix all the new Origin stuff with old if it makes it pass a certain number of seasons.

Other Wonder Woman origin mixes I'm sure I'll see...new 52 (some how) and Wonder Woman online anime style...yeah she rides a winged horse!

SOOO lets start guessing...who's the actress going to be? and Diana's Mother IS Equally if not MORE important a figure in this new idea.

@Wboy said:

Cameo in Man of Steel PL0X.

Somebody else had this idea...

It can go with Clark at office with his co-workers.Lois Lane plays a youtube video and we see a video clip of Wonder Woman for 20 seconds. Lois says."Nobody knows who she is...it looks like she can Superman a run for his money."

Cameo in Man of Steel PL0X.

I'd like to see her get her own live action movie. She's a very high profile character and, if done well, the movie could be a blockbuster.

@PowerHerc said:

@thespidey307 said:

Just make the movie...

This, just this. ^

One step at a time...

@thespidey307 said:

Just make the movie...

This, just this. ^

Didn't CW already do the Arrow? The Green Arrow series? I guess it didnt turn out to well. I just read the comic and i didn't like it,

They never say they're not going to show her as a hero just that she wouldn't be a seasoned hero. Basically they want to show her learning how to be a hero in a world she's not used to. Besides that it is very rare for a show to actually make it to air with the same concept as when it was thought up. Just go look up some of the original pitches for things people loved when they came out that are barely even similar to the final product. In the original idea for Toy Story, Woody was a borderline psychotic villain.

Wait. So, is this going to take place in Themyscira, Man's World, or a kind of combination of the two? If it's some combo of the two places, then this could easily turn into a mash-up between Xena, Boy [*cough, cough* girl] Meets World, and Rookie Blue... Which could be either a horrific bit of television history we'll all want to burn out of our minds at the demise of season one or a an oddly fantastic 10-season show to rival Smallville. Hm... and to think this could be just another rumor to die on the table before it hits paper.

Is this serious this time?

I think a TV show could work. If it is anything like the garbage they tried to come out with already, then any other Wonder Woman projects, like a feature length film, will be set aside for a long time. IMO, Wonder Woman is too extravagant a story to be isolated to a TV budget. She needs a movie!!!!!

I don't know...

Won't go anywhere. Just give us a MOVIE!!!!

I would love for Wonder Woman To have a T.V show and Movie (she deserves it)!

yeah, seriously.

They believe that a focus on the young Amazon warrior before the days when she met and fell in love with Steve Trevor or joined the Justice League, might make an interesting television show. The big difference here is that the CW wants to keep the bracelets, crown and Princess stuff out of the story.

Aaaaaaaand, I'm not tuning in. Glad I could be saved the time though.

I only ever see this working if it relates to her proposed appearance in Man of Steel. If DC truly are committing themselves to building a cinematic universe (based on themes and concepts outlined in the Man of Steel), treating this as a separate property would seem like a waste of an opportunity. 
Having said that... my opinions are always made redundant from the UK/America's insistence to air American TV years after, if ever, on British TV. 

I would definitely watch it! I just hope they do it RIGHT. (Please do it right!)

But I have my doubts, the CW isn't the greatest channel and Smallville wasn't the greatest show either....10 seasons was WAY too long for Clark to become Superman. It kinda felt like it dragged a little so I hope that isn't the case for WW.

@Alton said:

@Kairan1979 said:

They need at least five years so we can forget the horrible Wonder Woman pilot.

The real problem with the pilot and any future adaptation is that WW is a silly and outdated concept that needed to be put away permanently years ago. Enough with the misguided advocacy for this character and let's move on to something worth producing.Anything but WW.

Thats like saying Superman is a silly and outdated concept.

Wonder Woman is DC's biggest female icon and 3rd most iconic character. Iconic means they can stand the test of time.

What an ignorant statement.

@ips said:

@sethysquare: if you read the article it says...

The big difference here is that the CW wants to keep the bracelets, crown and Princess stuff out of the story. Question is, could this actually work?

Also, Hippolyta was the Golden Age WonderWoman.

1. Yeah, so what she loses the bracelets and the crown. It doesn't mean she loses everything. Smallville ran for 10 seasons. If they followed a similar formula, but go straight to the point like how they're doing with arrow, this could easily last 5 season. It doesn't mean they're removing everything from the equation.

2. She only briefly assumed the role as wonder woman in a few issues. She was never Wonder Woman. Thats like making Azaral, Batman before Bruce Wayne was Batman. Diana is the first person who took up the role of Wonder Woman and should always stay that way

@Kairan1979 said:

They need at least five years so we can forget the horrible Wonder Woman pilot.

The real problem with the pilot and any future adaptation is that WW is a silly and outdated concept that needed to be put away permanently years ago. Enough with the misguided advocacy for this character and let's move on to something worth producing.Anything but WW.

@sethysquare: if you read the article it says...

The big difference here is that the CW wants to keep the bracelets, crown and Princess stuff out of the story. Question is, could this actually work?

Also, Hippolyta was the Golden Age WonderWoman.

@ips said:

no.

if you remove everything about Wonder Woman that makes her Wonder Woman, it isn't Wonder Woman anymore.

Smallville was successful to a new audience. fans of Superman were alienated by the series largely and stayed away until later in the series when it finally started to line up the character to what he was supposed to be. Wonder Woman would work the same way... her fans would be absent and if the show worked on some level that new audience would keep it alive until it became something resembling enough of Wonder Woman for anyone else to watch it.

there's no reason they can't stick to the mythos established -- it's already been done since she's had her own series before. they simply need to start with that and flesh it out from there.

create the series origin with WWII and Hippolyta as Wonder Woman in the first couple episodes telling a story to Diana or something. establish her legacy. then crash Steve on the island and bring Diana to man's world. go deeper into her mythological roots and adversaries -- treat this like Buffy or Supernatural. modernize her career to update her and make her relatable to our audience and that's it. done.

what this character does not need is another Alley McBeal treatment like the last attempt and turning the show into a teen drama like the OC etc is just going to anger the built in fanbase.

Who says they are removing everything about Wonder Woman?

Also, Hippolyta was never Wonder Woman.

Hopefully we get something a bit similar to Xena Warrior Princess. The first attempt at a new Wonder Woman was ridiculously stupid!

Yeah why not? The girl deserves her own TV series.