Last week we got a shocking (and mostly disappointing) first look at Adrianne Palicki in costume as the new Wonder Woman and while we are still trying to get used to the cheap new look of the iconic DC Comics superhero, today we get to hear from WW writer David E. Kelley himself about his [...]
Last week we got a shocking (and mostly disappointing) first look at Adrianne Palicki in costume as the new Wonder Woman and while we are still trying to get used to the cheap new look of the iconic DC Comics superhero, today we get to hear from WW writer David E. Kelley himself about his work on the show. In a new interview with New York magazine, Kelley admits that writing for the Wonder Woman character is “way outside [his] comfort zone” but that he decided to do it anyway. Let’s just hope that he manages to bring something new and interesting to the Wonder Woman character, and not just cheapen her for the sake of TV ratings.
David E. Kelley, the man behind the new “Wonder Woman” television series, has plenty to tell about getting involved with the project and how Adrianne Palicki was chosen for the lead role. For starters, he initially said “No” to the project. In an interview with New York Magazine, Kelley discussed how he ended up changing his mind and taking on “Wonder Woman.” “When I started thinking about all the complications and potential layers to this superhero, I just got more and more intrigued,” Kelly said. “It was also something I was a little bit afraid of. That’s good, too. Any writer should get out of his or her comfort zone, and this was way outside of mine.” He eventually decided to write the script and decide what to do from there. DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Kelley himself all liked how the script came out, so “Wonder Woman” was a go. At that point, all they needed was an actress who would play Diana Prince. “She’s got to be strong, smart, emotionally accessible — and, oh yeah, an Amazon!” Kelley said of the character. He thought it would be a challenge to find an actress, but was impressed with Palicki right away. “I just knew it. I had an instinctive feeling that this was her,” he said of Pailcki, who recently made her debut in the Wonder Woman costume. “So then she read [for the part]. And she was. And she is.”
My concern is that Kelley, because he is out of his comfort zone, will revert to some female template characters that he created in the past to try and “update” the Wonder Woman character … but if he makes Diana Prince / Wonder Woman into a new version of Ally McBeal, I know I’m gonna be pissed off! From what I’m hearing about the pilot script, Kelley has made some great changes to Wonder Woman‘s bold personality … but I cannot be upset about those changes until I see them played out on the small screen. I’m just hoping against hope that the writing does NOT ruin decades of Wonder Woman‘s strength. I can’t even go into how much I am not loving the new costume right now … let’s just hope they end up tweaking the outfit a bit to make it look less trashy. I’m worried about what is being done to Wonder Woman but, again, I’ll reserve final judgment until we get to see the show in full.
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