"in your satin tights, fighting for your rights... ♪ "
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:50PM She makes a hawk a dove, stops a war with love, makes a liar tell the truth. She's a wonder, wonder woman.
Yes, it's the first official photo of 27 year old Adrianne Palicki (Tyra from Friday Night Lights) as the new Wonder Woman. I'm not sure what the rights issues are for this Big Three DC character but they've been rejecting movie concepts forever, whilst the the DoubleW watches Supes and Batman get multiple big screen reboots. So why not TV again for the Amazon? THR has some extremely vague details on the show. Cary Elwes will play the CEO of the company Diana owns and Elizabeth Hurley a rival CEO and thus, we assume, the Big Bad. David E. Kelley, aka Mr M. Pfeiffer, aka TV's favorite legal dramedy hit-and-miss machine is the man flying this particular invisible plane. Invisible for now that is...
And maybe forever. You never know with TV shows. Movies don't have "pilot season" in which entire crews and casts and production happens before studios decide whether or not to give the property a go. They'll do their pilot and NBC will take a looksee at this (and all the other pilots) and in May they'll order some of them to series. So if they say yes, we'll see it. TV is so volatile. Movie studios have to order basically the same amount of stuff every year. TV does too but whether or not it's new stuff is a different equation. All of the new pilots will only be competing for the open slots after all so they're all undoubtedly hoping for several series to be cancelled so that there are more slots to fill.
But for now we have the new costume to ogle. I know people are going to hate it but I think it's okay. It's not like Wonder Woman can be uncheesy. Her costume requires tiara, lassos, bracelets, and multiple colors so it's always gonna be busy. It also requires patriotism which is the final straw; ever noticed how silly people look when wearing their national flags? So for what it needs to be, I kinda like it. But I'm not trying to make your opinion for you. Do you?
Here's all the spins from the original "Wonder Woman"s second season with Lynda Carter.
If the new Wonder Woman doesn't spin, I'm out. That's always the best part.
NBC is promising that this is a serious and non campy take on WW, but I'm hoping that Kelley manages to shove in a few musical numbers because that's always endeared me to him. The best part of Ally McBeal was that he found a way to gave every cast member the opportunity to belt their little lungs out at least once.
Adrianne Palicki, Costume Design, TV, Wonder Woman, superheroes
Reader Comments (18)
I'm glad it's a TV series to be honest. TV has routinely proven to be a better breeding ground for female action stars where cinema fails.
Isn't that a bit like doing a serious non-campy version of The Rock Horror Show? Seriously look at that costume. It looks like it's made out of rainbow. .
Although, I will say this - I kinda wish someone like Kathryn Bigelow was interested in a project like this. Not only would she get the action stuff right, but she could also include the female strength that was so missing from the likes of "Aeon Flux", "Tomb Raider", "Elektra" and the female characters of "X-Men".
Glenn -- . a strong woman directing THE strong woman might be interesting, yes.
Robert -- but doesn't it have to be? I mean nobody complains that spiderman wears bright red and blue.
All good points, but must the fabric look so damn cheap?
I don't mind the design at all but the material seems really cheap. It needs more texture to it.
Totally agree with Dominique and JA. The design itself is fine (and I actually really like the boots), but the fabric is horrible. It looks like some kind of cheapo vinyl, like a particularly bad Halloween costume. I wished it looked a little more like, y'know, satin. Like the song says. Maybe it will look better in motion onscreen?
JA and Dominique -- yeah I can see that now. That must be what people are reacting too. Honestly I was expecting they'd overhaul it completely and i was prepared to be very disappointed as in must she look nothing like wonder woman so maybe that's why i like it. it isn't the complete revisionist (but totally lame / dull) thing i imagined
Liz -- hope so, yes, about the motion. I hope the whole show works. I'm tired of Kelley's only presence being all those puffy red faces on Boston Legal.
You haven't been watching Harry's Law.
It's not the colors but the brightness that makes it look awful (imho), and the lack of context for the suit makes the picture look as if it was taken for a halloween costume catalogue.
What are they doing to her poor boobs?
Look, I just can't look at Wonder Woman without remembering the woman at Barnes and Noble who told me that she invented Wonder Woman as a Black Panther who fought racism with her armbands, but the time travelers who watched her through the eye on the One-Dollar bill stole her idea and made it more acceptable for white people. THIS HAPPENED.
But yeah, I think this Wonder Woman "look" is straight out of the 90s. Which is...quaint? I don't watch much TV, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
I hate it. It looks cheap and makes the actress look cheap. At the very least the boots should be in red.
Is that latex? She is going to be sooo incredibly uncomfortable after a long day of filming. Also I think the blue should be a shade or two darker. Design-wise its okay (except for the boobs as Alex pointed out) but they should really rethink the material.
Lol. That video is hypnotizing.
The material looks cheap. The hair is a FAIL. The headband is proportionally too small. The golden lasso looks like it's made of that stretchy string you see on department store gift-wrapped boxes. Did they forget to hire homosexual stylists on this project?
She looks like she went to Girls's Costume Warehouse for this look:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1715915
Everyone already chimed in on the "flaws" of the costumes and the look itself so I won't repeat them. I'll add something new.... way too much make-up. I mean Adrianne is such a pretty girl, hell, she's HOTT. You don't need to sex her up THAT much
This looks like disaster with a capital D to me. A woman in 2011 is supposed to solve crimes in this era looking like that? And it's supposed to be non-campy and serious? I'm not buying that at all. And if David E. Kelley's the one writing it, then this woman's going to have some quirks.