Before you take the trip to Asgard this November, you might wanna stop on by Themyscira. A new trailer for Wonder Woman is out, however, it's fan made. The short film/sampler trailer is hoping to succeed where Avengers director Joss Whedon failed, by getting a Wonder Woman feature film off the ground. Will we see WW in the Justice League anytime soon?
Independent writer/director Sam Balcomb spent a large portion of 2013 producing a live action Wonder Woman short. Balcomb made the trailer in the hopes of showing Warner Brothers that a live action film is feasible.
The short film stars actress Rileah Vanderbil as Wonder Woman. The official YouTube page for the short film offers an open letter to viewers:
"Firstly, thanks for watching. Whether you like, or dislike, our live action interpretation of Diana of Themyscira, Wonder Woman, born of clay, I think (quite a few of) you will agree she is a character just as vital and crucial to our understanding of humanity as any other superhero… if not more so. We spent the majority of 2013 working on this — the look, the feel, the aspects we most wanted to portray. It’s a scant two and half minutes, but in the end, it’s one hundred and fifty seconds of pure fantasy, where I get to consider the two sides of my favorite warrior: a crusader in man’s world, and a paragon of virtue told through Greek mythology."
Avengers' writer and director, Joss Whedon, previously penned a ill fated script for the Amazon princess. He spoke with Rookie Magazine about his take on the now shelved project:
“[Wonder Woman] was a little bit like Angelina Jolie [laughs]. She sort of traveled the world. She was very powerful and very naïve about people, and the fact that she was a goddess was how I eventually found my in to her humanity and vulnerability, because she would look at us and the way we kill each other and the way we let people starve and the way the world is run and she’d just be like, ‘None of this makes sense to me. I can’t cope with it, I can’t understand, people are insane.’ And ultimately her romance with [classic Wonder Woman love interest Steve Trevor] was about him getting her to see what it’s like not to be a goddess, what it’s like when you are weak, when you do have all these forces controlling you and there’s nothing you can do about it. That was the sort of central concept of the thing. Him teaching her humanity and her saying, OK, great, but we can still do better.”
So should there be a Wonder Woman film or TV show? Check out the film and let us know what you think?
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