Warner Bros. Shelves Plans For Wonder Woman TV Revival

They also had some trouble finding a suitable actress to fill the role.

The argument about raising exposure is nice, but the real argument is that it’s a character that can work for television at a time when movie options aren’t rushing forth — Green Lantern is being followed by Flash, Batman by Superman, and by the time Justice League gets planned it’s quite likely Batman will be back on screen too. David Kelly could do a decent job of it too, since he has a reputation for getting pilots that work.

What I find really curious about the whole thing is that WB passed on WW in favour of Raven. WHY? The network is already struggling for viewers, its top rated show (Smallville) is ending, and its newest show Hellcats just got moved to the “death” slot (Tuesday against #1 NCIS). Wonder Woman would certainly be attractive to them, and they shouldn’t have to pay DC rights because they are owned by the same company. Something is really fishy there.

I mean, ABC we can all understand — they own Marvel. Fox has a string of pilots sewn up. CBS has no spot on their roster, even with Medium gone and maybe one or two others. It was NBC or their own, and when their own declines because of “costs,” there’s something else not being said there.

My question is why is there a need to even put a show on the networks? Just have a mini-series, stick it into the SyFy channel, and go from there. If it gains traction, then move it up to syndication. That’s how “Xena: Warrior Princess” lasted a long time, and with today’s SPFX, a decent show can be pulled off.

Despite her popularity, durability, and influence Warner refuses to respect Wonder Woman.

Today news that David E. Kelley’s inability to get his Wonder Woman pilot green lit by any network proves that Warner will not put any real effort behind realizing or promoting the number one greatest and most well-known female super heroine. You may remember current Avengers director Joss Whedon ’s treatment for a Wonder Woman feature film that Warner rejected. Far more prolific Disney/Warner sees fit to support Whedon’s attempts at their properties yet Warner continues to evade fan requests for a Wonder Woman’s feature film.

In terms of the character’s durability, as a character she is far older than Thor, Hulk and Spiderman. She’s as old as the big three most mature characters of this kind: Superman, Batman and Captain America. At their respective publishers, each of these characters have 4 to 8 books especially devoted to them; Wonder Woman has only one. Most of the big three’s protégé’s, derivative characters and sidekick’s either have their own comic books and in some cases TV shows; and characters influenced by Wonder Woman’s have none.

Though DC comics, Warner’s comic distributor, will continue to put out excuses why Wonder Woman and her legacy characters don’t deserve more comic books, TV shows or feature films, while continuing to put out a ever greater assortment of failed comic books, TVs shows and films in circulation. It’s clear that women characters are second-class priority at the company and the heads of these companies will continue to tell us keeping her out of circulation is best for the character.

They weren’t, we were.

If they were to finally start this movie and connect it with Batman and Superman for a JLA universe thing it probably wouldn’t start until the next Bat reboot begins. Given how much time passed between Batman and Robin and Batman Begins (8 years), 2020? GL is a good place to start universe sharing but it already has been confirmed not to link with Snyder’s Superman or Nolan’s bat trilogy. Once Snyder’s Superman movies conclude if they make three (2016?), it will take a good long awhile from the to replcate Marvel’s Avengers shared movie universe. Which is probably good for toy companies and DC’s comic business. A new comic movies pretty much drive merch sales of any media these days, if done correctly…*Cough* The Dark Knight/FInal Crisis

FYI, it has not been decades since Wonder Woman used her invisible plane, it was last seen in post-Infinite Crisis title relaunch.

Wondy is cursed! The oldest female superhero is not getting any respect! First the movie and now the tv show. Don’t even get me started with the comics, esp., the recent JMS reboot.

Surprise surprise.

The problem is that there’s still a preconceived notion in our society that all cartoons, like comics, are for kids. Yet those people that make that notion tend to be people who haven’t either watched certain animated series or read a comic in years to move beyond that perception. Unfortunately there are still a lot of those people around.
Gearing Wonder Woman toward an exclusively adult market would exclude kids, while on the other side of that coin, gearing it exclusively toward kids would exclude adults.
If there were a Wonder Woman animated series, it’d be best done in the spirit of animated shows like Justice League, in my opinion. For both kids and adults.
Me? I want both live action Wonder Woman as well as animated! ;)
I loved the Wonder Woman animated dvd from ’09! Great stuff! Watch it all the time.

Wonder Woman sucks as a character and her relevance is gone. Let her die.

Meh. Movies for superheroes can turn out well, but they’re SERIAL characters. Single adventures > continuous story. I wanted a big name superhero in the proper format.

Incidentally, WW’s costume, minus the jacket, is decent. I’d rather see that.

Does not say much about Warner Bros. or DC now does it?
they want to compete with Marvel in the movie or tv arena but lack any real cajones to really launch an agressive attempt of any sort.
when you can’t do anything with a character who is known in every household and pretty much universal.
Hey ! turn Wonder Woman over to Marvel and see just how swiftly they could capitilize on it!!!
lord knows i’m not a Marvel fan but I know a company that can do things and have them turn to gold and apparently that is MARVEL!!!!!

Too silly for words.

Wonder Woman is not popular, has never been popular, and never will be popular. She’s a trademark, nothing more.

I understand what you’re saying, but small budgeted programming does not mean low quality of programming. You’re right in the since that WB/DC should have been promoting WW a long time ago, at the height of the bad-ass, female warrior, along with Xena, La Femme Nikita, Queen of Hearts, HL: The Raven, and, of course, Buffy the Vampire story. I say the SyFy channel route is the best way to go because there is so little expectations to have a quality of programming, that someone talented enough can turn a profit by developing a cult following, not to mention lowering costs at the same time. And today’s special effects are such that the only thing you need is an up-and-coming actress who can act to make the final product believable. Heck, by today’s standards, the original WW series with Lynda Carter is sub-par with today’s production value, but it was the actress itself that made the program an endearing hit. Plus, there are would-be film makers out there who want to get a chance to do business in Hollywood, and some of them are quite good. If, in my opinion, DC was smart, they would interview some of these newcomers, and choose one who can pull off a mini-series of sorts. It ain’t going to cost WB/DC a dime, and they can always reboot things. But, that’s me.

DC needs to realize that Wonder Woman has gone the way of Namor; USED to be popular way back in the day, but not so much anymore

Hrmm that was weird, my comment got eaten. Anyway I wanted to say that it’s nice to know that someone else also mentioned this as I had trouble finding the same info elsewhere. This was the first place that told me the answer. Thanks.