About 24 hours ago we got the breaking news that Wonder Woman has been cast, and it's Gal Gadot.
Now let's start with the casting. Even thought Gal Gadot wasn't my first choice (for a long time I thought that Gemma Arterton would be the perfect Wonder Woman), I have to disagree with the internet, and say that Gal isn't a bad choice. First of all, most people will hate any choice, and that's because so many people on the internet don't have an actual opinion, they just say what others say. People hated the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman, but I think it's a great choice (again not my first choice, but I do believe Affleck is a great actor, and his Daredevil days are long past). I remember that when Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker, no one thought he will be good, but hell, the man showed as a all new level of acting. So I think it proves that people are quick to judge casting choices, and you can never really know how the actors will be in the movie, especially a year and a half before the movie is even came out.
Now people cry and complain on the fact that Gal is to skinny, some even said that she can't be Wonder Woman because she had an accent and also she has small breasts. And few even said that Wonder Woman can't be played by a Jew (God help us all).
Well, yes it's true, Gal is skinny, but I don't remember the "fan-boys" saying that Jaimie Alexander is too skinny. And Jaimie is just as skinny as Gal (and she doesn't have bigger breasts either).
The only reason people want Jaimie to play Wonder Woman is because she played Sif in Thor. This is the same reason why people want Bryan Cranston to play Lex Luther, because he was bald in Breaking Bad. Not saying that Cranston shouldn't be Lax, I would love to see him in the movie, but just because someone is bald or was bald on some movie, automatically means he should play Lax. Now going back to Jaimie, I don’t have anything against her. But I wasn’t really impressed by her in the Thor movies, and I don’t really want Wonder Woman to be played by someone who already is playing a similar character in the Marvel movies.
There are also people who saying that Gina Carano must be Wonder Woman. Why? because she look like her, because she has the “body”, because she looks strong and big. There is only one problem there, Gina isn’t an actress, she is an MMA fighter. She was only in two movies. She stared in Haywire, but she was really bad, and some of her dialog was made by a voice actress. In Fast and Furious she was a minor character, and barley had lines, and for good reason. This is the same thing happened with Scott Adkins, his fans said he must play Batman. But he can’t carry a role like Batman, and you can’t compare him to Affleck. So what do people prefer, an MMA fighter that trying to become an actress or an actual actress? You can work hard in the gym and have a bad-ass body, buy learning to be a good actress is much harder.
Now, Hollywood is very good in making actors to look bigger, and few months in the Hollywood gym would defiantly make Gal look bigger and more like Wonder Woman. Just look at Antje Traue who played Faora in Man of Steel, she was totally bad-ass, and I believe that Gal can be too. And don’t worry, they can use movie magic to make her boobs look bigger (for all of those that see this as a problem), they have done this before many times with many actress.
My actual concern here is if out new (and first cinematic) Wonder Woman can act. To be honest, I didn’t saw that much of great acting skills from Gal in the Fast and Furious movies, but let’s be fair, no one there really came to show-off their acting. Even Luke Evans was very generic in these movies, so I can’t really say anything about Gal’s acting. But I do trust in the WB and Zack Snyder, and I believe they didn’t cast Gal only because of her good looks. Wonder Woman is an Amazon, so she can’t look and sound too American, and so maybe Gal will be the perfect woman for the role.
So with this out of the way, I have to talk about something else. Lots of people saying that this movie is no longer a Man of Steel sequel and they just need to call it Justice League. Look, I think that Wonder Woman will be in the movies for about 15 minutes, probably even less, and Gal won’t even wear the suit. I think she will be there only so the audience could see her before her own stand-alone movie or the Justice League movie. I also don’t think that any other superhero in this movie (other than Superman and Batman) will be there for too long. Even if we see the Flash of Aquaman, it will be only as a short cameo.
In the end of the day, people will rush to see this movie anyway. Other than The Avengers, this is the biggest comic book movies ever. We get two of the greatest superheroes facing off on the big screen, for the first time (and we also get some more Justice League heroes in there), and you can’t go bigger than this. Superman vs. Batman is a movie that people were waiting for, and I believe this movie will be one of the biggest and most successful movies of 2015 (the other two are Avengers 2 and Star Wars).
I believe this one will make the billion dollars, a finally lunch the DC cinematic universe, and we will finally get the movies that we all been waiting to see: Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, Justice League and more.