Clark Kent and Diana Prince in Superhero News

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Superman graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly while Hollywood is yakking about Wonder Women’s return to television. Old superheroes are getting new life, but apparently it isn’t all good.

Henry Cavill, the British actor who will play the superhero in a reboot of the Superman movie franchise, talks about the flick in the February 25 issue of EW. About auditioning for the role, he says: “All I could think was, Oh, God, they’re going to look at me and go, ‘He’s not Superman. Not a chance.’ The actor inside me was going, ‘You’re not ready! You’re not ready!’”

The director of Superman: Man of Steel, currently in pre-production and slated for release in 2012, is Zack Snyder. His past credits include Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead and 300, so we can expect the movie won’t be half-bad.

I don’t have the same optimism for Wonder Woman, however. What producer David E. Kelley has in mind for the NBC revival of the lasso lady looks lousy.

A pilot script obtained by The Daily Beast has the heroine, portrayed by Adrianne Palicki, holding down not two but three identities: “mousy” working woman Diana Prince, billionaire Diana Themyscira and the superpowered crimefighter.

That’s only the tip of the bad-TV iceberg. The opening scene is to be an action sequence set to Beyonce’s Single Ladies. Diana/WW is trying to take down an evil drug company that’s killing inner-city youth. She has a broken heart because her romance with a hunky Justice Department lawyer went sour. She can rationalize a busty “Asian Wonder Woman” doll because, in her words, “big tits save lives.” And there’s lots more inanity in a script that TV critic Jace Lacob describes as “cloying and tragically unhip” and littered with “stilted dialogue and bizarre narrative conceits.”

Maybe the creator of Ally McBeal should never have been entrusted with Wonder Woman.

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Michael John Scott
13 years ago

I just never got into the whole super heroes thing. I have tried and tried but I just couldn’t do it. The closest I came was “V” for Vendetta, and I know that he wasn’t really a superhero in the classic sense.

Stimpson
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13 years ago

Judging by the response to this post, no one else here is a superhero fan either.

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