Warner Bros.: If 'Justice League' Does Really Great, You'll Get Your Wonder Woman Movie
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Deals, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Scripts
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Over at her blog, Nikke Finke has written a long and somewhat contradictory post-mortem on last weekend's big news story, spawned by her, that Warner Bros. no longer sees women as viable leads for their motion pictures. She notes a number of communications she's had over the last few days with Robinov, the studio chief who apparently made the offending comments, but says they are off the record and won't discuss them. She also strangely calls his e-mails "charming" at one point before returning to defend herself against accusations of overreach on this issue. Just as I was rolling my eyes and about to flip away from the blog, I noticed that Finke also throws in something on the Justice League movie. She says Robinov "has been saying he would only make Wonder Woman ... as a spin-off of Justice League. But his proviso is that Justice League, about four superheroes including Wonder Woman, would have to do really, really boffo to justify having a female as the main star of a spin-off pic."
This makes sense to me. I bet Robinov tried to lock Jessica Biel into some indentured servitude contract that would pay her peanuts for both the Justice League film and a low-budget Wonder Woman stand-alone to follow (think Catwoman-level cheapness), and she balked. If that's the case, then what is Robinov's problem? Why doesn't he just stop postponing the inevitable and cast Jennifer Connelly in this thing -- honestly, could anyone else do Wonder Woman justice? -- pair her with an A-list male star to alleviate concerns over womanly box-office punching power and throw money at someone to write a script that's actually not terrible. How hard could it possibly be?
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10-11-2007 @ 10:40AM
E said...
I'm not that impressed with Jessica Biel's acting abilities anyway (though she is really hot). I agree that Jennifer Connolly would make a good Wonder Woman.
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10-11-2007 @ 11:40AM
finkeforpresident said...
I am sooo tire of hearing about Nikki Finke... she is the source of controversy but not in a good way. First she slams Eli Roth and Hostel 2 with a biased agenda with no respect to him as a film maker and now she posts this junk about WB making unoffical statements about women in leading roles. I'm not saying its not true. but John from the movie blog caught up with a WB rep and here is what they had to say
WB Rep - “Mr. Robinov never made that statement, nor is it his policy.”
TMB - “So are you saying it is not now, nor will be Warner Bros. policy to stop producing films with female leads?”
WB Rep - “Correct. That is not our policy. A blogger (assumably Nikki Finke) made a statement without giving us the opportunity to first respond.”
TMB - “All right, that’s all I needed to know. Thank you for calling me.”
Obviously a studio rep wouldnt actually go out and say "Yea, WOMAN DONT SELL MOVIES and thats WB's new policy!" Nikki Finke probably had a casual off the record conversation with the folks at WB but posting this as some big story is kinda like jumping the gun. She should have allowed WB to comment and also waited a few months to see if WB actually committed to their of the record remarks. If WB didnt have any more movies with leading woman and never responded to Nikki Finke allegations then she would have solid ground to stand on. In my opinion she is a biased, sloppy blogging hippie that writes nothing of any value!
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10-11-2007 @ 11:40AM
Joseph J. Finn said...
"First she slams Eli Roth and Hostel 2 with a biased agenda with no respect to him as a film maker "
Well, there she was dead on. Eli Roth doesn't deserve any respect as a filmmaker for his torture porn that barely rises above the level of an Uwe Boll movie.
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10-11-2007 @ 11:44AM
KMF said...
I have to say, Jennifer Connelly as Wonder Woman, not a bad choice! Usually I dig my heels in the sand definately at the choices of gals the studios come up with fot WW, but this one, I could see provided she hit the gym for a little strength training.
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10-11-2007 @ 2:30PM
Shawn said...
Jennifer Connelly as Wonder Woman...interesting choice. Definitely a better choice than Jessica Biel. But not as perfect a choice as Charisma Carpenter
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10-12-2007 @ 2:01PM
Matthew Gronlund said...
Jennifer Connelly is good, but what about Megan Fox?! Who wouldn't want to go see Wonderwoman with Megan out there as the lead?
-Matthew
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12-27-2007 @ 5:07PM
Jason said...
Eliza Dushku anyone?
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