I would like to see a storyline where Wonder Woman show up at the White House and smacks Woodrow Wilson upside the head and knocks some sense into him.
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Wasn’t Wonder Woman original written in the early 20s? Wouldn’t that be the reason why WWI provides a backdrop?
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Holy crap, yes! I’m sure that she would have been considered “too old” and not a big enough of a box office draw for the role, however. Sad, cause she’d be perfect…
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DC really dropped the ball by not establishing a Justice League film franchise in the late 90s. Not just because they could have had a “Xena”-era Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman, but also because they could have made The Flash back when audiences were still wowed by “bullet-time” special effects.
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Early 40s. First appearance in 1941.
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I just checked out of curiosity - Sigourney Weaver in Alien: Resurrection was the only older-woman action star I could think of. Turns out Lawless is the same age as Weaver was then that movie was made.
At any rate, I doubt that Lawless is upset that she wasn’t type case into action roles. But I sure would have watched her play Wonder Woman.
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Ah! I thought she was around longer!
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Nothing wrong with that!
Caption: Must keep eyes up while on camera!
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I think Warner Brothers has owned DC and their related characters pretty solidly since at least the seventies. Why would they have to reserve the rights to any of their characters?
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Just looked it up. WB does indeed own DC. Never knew that.
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I don’t think there were any comic book/strip superheroes until the 1930’s. Superman usually gets all the credit, but the Phantom and Mandrake the Magician actually arrived a bit earlier.
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Right. Even the Greeks mostly heard about them second hand from the Persians, and some time after the fact.
Assuming she is some kind of Tomyris analogue, then we are talking Eastern Iranian more than Greek.
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As some one pointed out, Wonder Woman’s first appearance was 1941.
The first comic book comic book, like super hero comic is from 1938, featuring Superman in Action #1. The precursor to comic books were reprints of news paper comics in the early 30s. The other big influence is what are known as pulp novels or character stories which were most popular from 1900-1950, printed on cheap paper, usually with tantalizing covers, and covered a variety of genres such as science fiction, crime, romance, westerns, fantasy, and adventure. Many famous fiction writers got their starts in pulps, as did many characters such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, Buck Rodgers, Conan, Zorro, and many others. There were many pulp heroines as well, but they have all fallen into obscurity for the most part.
ETA - Both Batman and Superman borrowed liberally from pulps. Batman was influenced by The Shadow and Doc Savage, and Superman was heavily influenced by Doc Savage.
So retelling the story a few decades earlier isn’t a big deal. IIRC the original plot is a pilot crash lands on the island of Amazons and she fights for the right to take him back to where he was from and then ended up fighting crime and Nazis.
She should still be kicking ass in next season’s Ash vs Evil Dead
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i hope this movie is good. i am all about dc (except for their most recent logo design and so-so movies). don’t let me down this time.
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Maybe, but I loved that show too, when I was 8.
Lynda Carter was the truth.
That being said, I will probably see this new film, but I probably will not pay for it.
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Yeah, for years. How did you think the Prince Batman album happened?
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Cool! And thanks @ChuckV and @stinkinbadgers… I don’t know why I was thinking this goes back earlier than it does… Confusions, I haz them.
But I too see no reason it’s problematic to set it in WW1 either, despite that.
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Yeah, I was confused by the WWI talk, but I also don’t see any reason not to retconn it, as WWII is pretty played out and the kids nowadays could use a jumping off point to learn a little more about an important part of history 
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One can pray for a Wilhelm scream.
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I’m up for an actual theater visit for this. I’ll never buy Snow White as a paladin, but Wonder Woman was born to kick ass in barely an outfit. My preteen self wanted to reject any less than a Lynda Carter 36C, but the costuming here works and is (other than like, lots of other places for bullets to land) more practical for a superhero.
It feels like a good casting choice as she is very low key, making the action scenes more explosive. I also like the motif and the palette. If done as present-day, no doubt she’d be confronting something to do with climate change causing the destruction of her civilization.
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