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Friday
Mar182011

"in your satin tights, fighting for your rights... ♪ "

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.

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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.

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn

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. .

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRobert

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".

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn

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.

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterNathaniel Rogers

All good points, but must the fabric look so damn cheap?

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterDominique

I don't mind the design at all but the material seems really cheap. It needs more texture to it.

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJA

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?

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterLiz N.

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.

March 18, 2011 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

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.

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered Commenter/3rtfu11

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.

March 18, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterpony

What are they doing to her poor boobs?

March 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterAlex BBats

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.

March 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterWalter

I hate it. It looks cheap and makes the actress look cheap. At the very least the boots should be in red.

March 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterLara Durden

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.

March 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterKat

Lol. That video is hypnotizing.

March 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJames T

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

March 19, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterSan FranCinema

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

March 20, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRyan T.

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.

March 20, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterJo
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