Wonder Woman Fan Cast

Wonder Woman Fan Cast

Just my thoughts and who and what I'd like to see in a Wonder Woman film.

By MCott - May 28, 2014 03:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic
So we've all heard the announcement.  Wonder Woman is going to appear in the Batman vs Superman film.  It's gotten a mixed reaction.  Needless to say, if the Batman Superman film is successful, Warner Bros. executives will get greedy and ask attempt to turn out a Wonder Woman film.

Personally this what I'd like to see in a WW film.

Special thanks goes to fellow CBM user DrDoom for helping me to iron out the kinks and fails in my plot.

Plot:  (Please bear with me, there are no pictures)

The film opens with a prologue during the opening credits.  Centuries ago, the Amazons of the island of Themyscira faithfully served the gods of Olympus.  One day, the tribe of women warriors held a tournament in which the victor would become the tribe’s new queen.  The tournament wore down until only two warriors remained: Hippolyta and Circe.  Hippolyta eventually won, becoming queen of the Amazons of Themyscira.  Circe tried to take the crown using dark magic, but she was again defeated and banished from the island.
 
(The following is told through a series of flashbacks interwoven through the film’s main narrative)
During her exile, Circe was visited by Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft and the moon.  Hecate wanted revenge against Olympus for what she felt was an injustice; despite being the daughter of titans, she was never considered one of the twelve Olympians.  She was also once queen of the Underworld, married to Hades; however, he pushed her aside, demoting her to a mere servant, and married Persephone.  Humiliated and angry, Hecate swore revenge but she knew she wasn’t powerful enough to achieve it.  So, the goddess decides to transfer her soul and all of her powers to her most devoted follower—Circe.  Circe becomes stronger, gains new powers, and becomes immortal.  Before she dies, Hecate gives two final commands to the sorceress:
 
“Reap my revenge on the one thing the gods most covet, Zeus’ children.” (mankind)
 
“Beware she who bears the moon in her name.  For it is she who will be your undoing.”
 
With her new powers, Circe attacks Themyscria again.  Hippolyta and the Amazons defeat her, but find that she cannot be killed.  Instead, they imprison her in a magically sealed tomb which they hide on the island.
 
As a reward for stopping Circe and the threat she posed, the gods grant immortality to the Amazons, but it comes at the cost of seclusion.  They must live their lives in isolation away from the outside world around them.  So Themyscira is moved away from Greece and isolated in the middle of the ocean.
(The flashbacks end here)

(This is the film’s main plot)
Hippolyta’s daughter, Diana has found herself searching for something that she can't quite grasp. She feels a yearning for more than what’s she’s been given.  She wants more out of life.  Diana’s desires leave at her odds with her sisters and causes contention mother who has come to prefer the seclusion and isolation of Themyscira.  One night, Diana prays to the gods.
 
On Olympus, the gods hear her prayer.  Zeus (making very cryptic hints that Diana is his daughter) decides to grant her wish.
 
The next day, a squadron of the US army is conducting test flights for a new kind of jet on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean.  One of the test pilots is Captain Steve Trevor.  During his flight, Trevor unknowingly flies over Themyscira.  Zeus decides that he is how he’ll grant Diana’s wish.  He throws a lightning bolt at Trevor which strikes his jet and makes him lose control.  Trevor is forced to make an emergency crash landing on Themyscira.  Coming out of the crash unhurt, Trevor leaves his jet and goes off to explore the island in search of help.
 
The camera then pans away from Trevor as he departs.  Mere yards away from where he crashed is Circe’s hidden tomb.  During the crash, a piece of debris flew off the Trevor’s plane and struck the tomb, leaving a crack in the magical seal that binds her there.  Circe’s magic (in the form of pink mist) begins to seep out of the crack in the tomb and slowly begins to grow.
 
Steve comes upon the Amazon’s city, but he is captured after a short chase.  Hippolyta interrogates him with the golden lasso of truth, given to her by Zeus, and realizes that he is not an enemy or any kind of threat.  They agree to help him return home.  Amazonian customs dictate that an emissary be assigned to escort guests back to their homes.  Hippolyta decides that a tournament will be held to appoint the emissary.  Diana tries to enter, but Hippolyta vehemently refuses to let her participate.
 
Discouraged, Diana watches the tournament from afar, when she finds a suit of armor appear in her room (a gift from Zeus).  Disguising herself with the armor, Diana enters and wins the tournament.  Hippolyta is shocked and appalled that her daughter defied her, but realizes that she cannot do anything about it.  Hippolyta takes Diana to their temple where she gives her daughter a suit of armor and a sword and shield that have been blessed by the gods and will grant her superhuman abilities.
 
Once equipped and ready, Diana departs from Themyscira, taking Trevor back to his home in America.  On Olympus, Hera talks with Zeus revealing that the armor isn’t really blessed—further hinting that Diana is a demigod.
 
Diana and Trevor arrive in Gateway City, Trevor’s home.  With Trevor’s help, Diana takes on the alias “Diana Prince,” Trevor’s roommate.  At first, Diana has trouble adjusting to the modern world, but Trevor helps her through.  One night, Diana watches from Trevor’s apartment window as a man is mugged.  Not standing for such a travesty, she quickly changes into her armor and goes after the thug, easily defeating him.  As she continues to adjust to Trevor’s world, Diana works as a vigilante, being dubbed “Wonder Woman” by the media.
 
Back on Themyscira, the seal on Circe’s tomb is completely broken in half.  Suddenly, the tomb bursts open and Circe steps out of her prison for the first time in centuries.  On Olympus, Zeus attempts to intervene, but Hera stops him, telling him “It’s Diana’s destiny, not ours.” A flashback reveals that Zeus knew about Hecate’s lust for revenge and of her dying prophecy.  To ensure that Circe would be permanently defeated, he seduced and bedded Hippolyta who bore his demigod daughter, Diana (which is also the name of the goddess of the moon—“Beware she who bears the moon in her name”).
 
Circe attacks Themyscira again, this time nearly defeating Hippolyta.  But Hippolyta lets slip that she had a daughter during Circe’s imprisonment.  Circe decides to kills Hippolyta’s daughter (whose name she has not yet learned by the way) as an act of revenge, and sets off for the modern world, not yet knowing what her name is.
 
That night, Zeus visits Diana in her dreams.  He tells her that Circe has escaped her prison and she is coming to man’s world in order to kill Diana.  Meanwhile, Circe arrives in Gateway City.  She sees a story on the news about “Wonder Woman,” and Circe immediately recognizes the armor as the same armor from the temple in Themyscira.  Using her magic, Circe summons demonic creatures to rampage through the city in a ploy to draw Diana out.
 
Diana awakes to the sounds of an attack going on outside.  She finds a creature known as a chimera (a beast from Greek Mythology) rampaging through the streets.  Diana suits up and confronts the monster, killing it.  Seeing a fire in the distance, Diana flies up to survey the damage only to see several more demons rampaging through the city.  Circe, watching from a distance, witnesses Diana fly off into the fray.  Rather than flat out attacking her, Circe plays it smart and decides to observe her, looking for a weakness to exploit.  Watching Diana fight her harpies, Circe recalls her other demons.  After Diana defeats the harpies, Circe follows her to the apartment she shares with Steve and watches the two interact.  A sinister smile plays on her face as Circe forms a plan.
 
The next day, Diana and Trevor are on the roof of their building engaged in a sparring match.  The purpose of the scene is to show the developing relationship between Diana and Steve along with the growing romantic tension they have which has slowly been growing throughout the movie.  But nothing happens.  Diana and Steve do not get into a relationship at this point (or-- spoilers-- in this movie).  My plan for the build up to them ultimately hooking up is to have it develop over the course of multiple films.
 
That evening, while Diana is out again as Wonder Woman, Steve walks home when he’s attacked by demonic looking Greek soldiers.  He manages to fight them off for a short time before he’s overwhelmed and captured by them.  Meanwhile, Diana flies home to find the apartment complex she lives in with Steve is on fire.  She flies into the blaze and rescues everyone in the building.  While looking for Steve, Diana is attacked by another (mythological) creature, a manticore.  Diana fights the beast in the burning, crumbling building.  Diana manages to win by using the building to her advantage (she makes it collapse on top of it) and escapes the inferno in time.
 
The victory is cut short by Circe, holding Steve hostage in the air.  Circe says that if she wants him back then she’ll have to confront her on Themyscira.  Before she can fly after her, Zeus finally appears to Diana in person.  He tells her that she is his daughter and that she is the only one that can stop her because of Hecate’s prophecy (in as short an explanation as possible because we, as an audience, already have this information.  Diana, however, does not which is why it’s being repeated).  He presents her an enchanted sword, blessed by the gods.  He tells her that with when she combines the sword with her own powers, Diana will be able to defeat Circe.
 
On the island, Steve and Hippolyta are held captive, being forced to watch what Circe believes will be Diana’s defeat.  When Diana arrives, Circe summons her two most powerful monsters, a Minotaur and a hydra to attack her.  The combined strength of the monsters almost overwhelms Diana, but she gains the upper hand and bests them both.  Diana mocks Circe, claiming that as a former Amazon she should be honored to be a warrior and fight, and instead she hides behind monsters like a coward.  The insult infuriates the sorceress who decides to fight Diana herself.
 
The two women engage in a vicious fight, trying to rip each other to shreds.  The battle winds up continuing in the skies of Themyscira.  Circe uses all of her power to gain the upper hand, savagely beating the crap out of Diana.  Before she lands a killing blow, Circe demands to know the name of her opponent.  Diana proudly states her name as a full moon rises.  Circe realizes that Diana is the one Hecate warned her about.  Diana takes advantage of the sorceress’s shock and turns the battle in her favor.
 
Diana stands over a defeated Circe who challenges her to try and kill her.  She boasts how she carries Hecate’s soul in her which makes her immortal.  Diana seemingly agrees that Circe cannot be killed, and then she plunges her sword through Circe’s stomach, stabbing it into the ground.  Diana adds that her immortality doesn’t mean she can’t be imprisoned.  Desperately trying (and failing) to remove the enchanted sword from her stomach, Circe slowly morphs into a tree wrapped tightly around the sword that impaled her.
 
Diana returns and frees Trevor, her mother and the amazons.  Zeus and Hera, after the seal on her first prison was broken, they are taking more drastic measures to keep Circe’s prison safe.  Should the sword be pulled out of the tree, Circe would awaken and be free again.  To ensure that another accident (or intention) like that does not happen again, Zeus will be placing Themyscira in another dimension.  The Amazons accept the god’s decree.  However, Diana is given an ultimatum; she can either join her sisters on Themyscira, or she can return to the mortal world with Steve at the cost of her powers, making her mortal.
 
Diana contemplates both choices, but ultimately chooses to return to the mortal world.  Zeus strips her of her powers and her armor vanishes and is replaced with civilian clothes.  The film ends with Diana and Steve being teleported back to the mortal world, ready to live with and face the consequences of the choice she made.

A post-credits scene cuts to the Gateway City Community College at night.  A man whose back is facing the camera walks down the halls of the abandoned school.  He opens the door to his office and steps inside, taking a seat at his desk.  Back still to the audience, he raises his hand and examines it.  In his palm, a fireball forms which he shoots somewhere off screen.  The chair turns around to reveal and old man.  He stares at his hand again before he looks to the camera as his eyes begin to glow.  The camera zooms away to outside of his office.  The door closes in front of the camera.  Then name on the window of the office door reads “Felix Faust”

That came out longer than I expected it to.  I'll try to be shorter in explaining the cast that I would like to see in this film.


 
Because I mentioned that Batman/Superman film, I kinda had to go with Godot for WW.  I'm curious to see what she'll you do.  You see, I've never seen her in anything, so I have no idea what she's capable of acting-wise.  But I'm not gonna tear her apart as if it were a bad choice.  Like I said, I really don't know what to expect because I had never heard of her prior to her being cast.

My original choice would have been Jennifer Morrison.  I mean just look at her!


But what's done is done.  Godot is Wonder Woman.

COSTUME
 
The costume design is something I think the design team has to be super careful with.  Because the costume, as it was originally designed, could end up looking very corny on screen.  Personally, I think the best representation of a WW costume was the one we got in the video game Injustice: Gods among us


I think something based on that design would work best for a film.
 


A lot of people really want Lynda Carter (who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 60s) to play this role.  I get it.  But, to me, that's really just fan service.  Also, in the last Wonder Woman fan cast I did, I cast an actress who was the same age as Carter (an actress in her 60s named Barbara Herhsey) and commentors told me she was "too old."  The amazons don't age, they're immortal.  So, I reached into a younger pool.

I WAS SO FREAKING NERVOUS ABOUT THIS CHOICE!  You have no idea!  Most of my nerves stem from the fact that last time Thurman ventured out into a CBM, the results were pretty diastrous (I will not name the film).  However, Thurman is a beautiful and talented actress known for her roles as ass-kickers like in Kill Bill.
 


We haven't seen Hartnett in a while, have we?  But I recently saw him in showtime's Penny Dreadful and he's still as good an actor as he ever was.  To be honest, I don't know what drew me to cast him in this role, but I have to say I like it. 


For the king of the gods, I wanted someone who could be commanding and imposing. This took quite a search.  My original pick was Peter Stormare, but thankfully I kept looking.  Then, I decided on Benicio Del Toro, but I said no because he's already playing the Collector in the MCU.  Finally, I came across Head.  And it was just an instant fit.  Good actor with that commanding presence I was looking for.


My original Hera pick was Nicole Kidman.  But recently, I've watched her and her performances just seem to get hammier and hammier.  In my eyes, she's either doing too much or not enough.  While looking at other choices, I came across Blanchett and she just seemed to fit.  She has that sort of godly beauty to her.


Circe would be the film's main villain.  A lot of comic purists might complain that I changed her character slightly.  But really, I didn't do that much.  I just changed her origin so that instead of just a sorceress, she was a fallen Amazon.  And it was all for the purpose of character motivation.

I really like Rose McGowan.  I think that she's a really good actress (not the best, but still really good).  I never saw Conan the Barbarian (thank god), so that had nothing to do with my decision.  However, I do think she could be a great villain... especially if it was a witch (because she's played like...3 different witches now).


Faust was originally going to be a supporting villain in my story.  He was gonna be to Circe was Kurse was to Malektih in Thor: The Dark World.  However, nothing I came up with seemed to work.  I know Faust is generally an enemy of the Jusice League, but I think he could work really well in a solo Wonder Woman film.  So, I added the post-credits scene, saving him as a villain for a future film.

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Thank you for taking the time to read my article.  As always, I appreciate your reviews and thumbs up.
--Mcott
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RextheKing
RextheKing - 5/28/2014, 3:40 PM
Big fan of you're Zeus casting, I love Anthony Stewart Head, and I'm also like your Hera, and Steve Trevor castings. I'm not a fan or your Wonder Woman casting, or your costume choice though. The rest of the cast is fine.

Just your Zeus casting alone, gives you a thumbs for me.
Pasto
Pasto - 5/28/2014, 3:42 PM
I can get behind this. Morrison as Wonder Woman is inspired casting.
UltimateCookie
UltimateCookie - 5/28/2014, 3:43 PM
I like the cast but I still think Eva Greene would be a better Circe.
MCott
MCott - 5/28/2014, 3:46 PM
@RextheKing uh Godot isn't my choice of Wonder Woman casting...it was Warner Bros.

@CookieKid247, given who my Hippolyta is, I wanted someone who was closer to Thurman's age (because in my story, Hippolyta and Circe were rivals). I like Green, I do, I just feel she's been overused in fan casts lately.
RextheKing
RextheKing - 5/28/2014, 3:49 PM
@MCott I actually meant Morrison not Gadot.
UltimateCookie
UltimateCookie - 5/28/2014, 3:55 PM
Well, despite that, thumbs up from me!
kong
kong - 5/28/2014, 3:59 PM
The cast is okay, but I've seen better I'm coming back to read the plot later.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 5/28/2014, 4:20 PM
YES
great fan cast. I'd love to see all of these in the roles!

Yay for you for thinking out of the box with Rose McGowan, I'm a big Charmed fan and I think she's great, she just has this dark, sexy quality to her!
Evan Green would be a great Circe, but I'd much rather her be Catwoman.

Uma Thurman would be a pretty good Hippolyta! :) considering she's a tall, beautiful action woman in her own right.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 5/28/2014, 4:27 PM
I'd also love Juliana Margulies for Hippolyta



She's so elegant and womanly but gives powerful performances.
MikeZ
MikeZ - 5/28/2014, 4:49 PM
Finally, some of our favorite fan casters are coming back!

- I think I saw Jennifer Morrison kick some ass in the Once Upon a Time pilot, but I don't know if that's enough to match Wondy's physicality. My alternate picks would be Odette Yustman or Katrina Law.
- Ooh, Uma Thurman would do well in a film like this. Especially as Hippolyta!
- I can't wait to see Penny Dreadful on Netflix. I'm not sure if it's available to watch on my cable service. But Josh Hartnett doesn't get deserved respect. I think he'd be interesting for the role of Steve Trevor.
- We need Anthony Head in a good film right about now! He could work well as Zeus!

The rest of the cast is great. Hope we see that Wonder Woman film soon enough!
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 5/28/2014, 5:04 PM
@RoadDog

YES! I've been saying Odette for so long, she would've been awesome.
maninfinesuit
maninfinesuit - 5/28/2014, 5:53 PM
Anthony Head is an interesting choice. Really enjoyed him from his years on Buffy, and I could see that translating into the king of Mount Olympus with surprising ease. Good stuff.
jmartinez986
jmartinez986 - 5/28/2014, 5:56 PM
charles dance is an awesome choice..

story is a pretty good origin story too..

also, i agree on the injustice costume, its the best way to go about given her a costume without, like you said, "looking very ocrny"
MikeZ
MikeZ - 5/28/2014, 7:49 PM
@ CherryBomb

Well, I suggested it before. Someone said they saw her and wasn't too impressed to buy her as Wondy. But she's gorgeous and deserves to have a decent movie script thrown her way.
Shadow11
Shadow11 - 5/28/2014, 7:52 PM
@MCott

As far as Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman I have every confidence that she will do a good job as WW but considering DC were the ones who casted her they definitely seem to know what they are doing but personally Jennifer Morrison as WW I definitely cannot see it, even though she would make an all right WW but personally I would have gone with Lady Sif herself Jaimie Alexander as Wonder Woman or even Eva Green

As Hippolyta I definitely like Uma Thurman as Hippolyta I think she would be an interesting choice but personally for me anyway I would have gone with Lucy Lawless, Xena Warrior Princess herself, in the role

Josh Harnett as Steve Trevor, definitely an interesting pick but as for who I would have went with? I would have went with Alex O'Loughlin or even Josh Duhamel in the role

As Zeus I would have gone with Liam Neeson in the role

But I really like Cate Blanchett as Hera, probably your best pick for the role

As Circe, who I would have gone with? Christina Hendricks

But as Felix Faust, Charles Dance is perfect

Overall great fan cast
MCott
MCott - 5/28/2014, 8:22 PM
@Shadow11 I like some of your choices. But just a few things. If someone is already cast in a recurring role in a comic movie franchise (like Alexander, and as I mentioned earlier, Benicio Del Toro who I considered for Zeus) I try to avoid them. I want to be realistic or as realistic as possible when I cast.

For Zeus, I didn't want to cast someone who already played him. So Liam Neeson, Sean Bean, and Luke Evans (which I didn't even consider, but I'm making a point) were all no's.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 5/28/2014, 8:47 PM
Zeus favor's your casting choices and your plot for the film.

Great work, you get a thumbs up from Zeus.
JasonBlue
JasonBlue - 5/29/2014, 12:30 AM
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 5/29/2014, 4:07 AM
@Road

Odette is a tall, tanned and gorgeous woman :) she's also a very talented actress, screw the haters! Haha
kong
kong - 5/29/2014, 5:00 AM
I went back and read the plot and I LOVED it. I'm really interested to see what you so with her now that she is mortal. Lease do a fan cast for the sequel!!!
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 5/29/2014, 1:54 PM
I like your choices, particularly your alternate choices for Wonder Woman
l0rdleg0las
l0rdleg0las - 5/29/2014, 3:38 PM
I never cared for Morrison. I see her kind of in the vein of Keanu Reeves. Just a boring wooden actor.
MikeZ
MikeZ - 5/29/2014, 6:39 PM
@ CherryBomb

ager
ager - 5/30/2014, 4:21 PM
It's a great cast but the real pleasure was reading that fleshed out story. We don't that thT much on this site and I loved it very much.
ager
ager - 5/30/2014, 4:27 PM
My WW1 fancast and story

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ager/news/?a=74932

My WW2&3

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ager/news/?a=78902

Please tKe a look let me know where it was good or where it went wrong
dracula
dracula - 5/30/2014, 9:51 PM
Anthony stewert head perfect no one watches over bad ass girls better than giles
case
case - 5/31/2014, 10:40 PM
Monica Bellucci for Hippolyta!
HeisenbergSaysRelax
HeisenbergSaysRelax - 6/1/2014, 3:38 PM
I'm a little so-so on the story portion of this, so I'm gonna focus my comment on the fan-cast portion if that's alright. The story just has certain story things that I'm usually against (like Flashbacks, etc).

I think this cast would work exceptionally well for a Wonder Woman TV series. I do not think it would be the best bet for a film. While all the actors are fine for their respective roles I do not think they're high caliber enough for a film. People like Hartnett and McGowen were a big deal a few years ago but they've kinda floated into the C-List and I feel with a character like Wonder Woman you'd need bigger name actors.

HOWEVER, marketability not withstanding, I do think a good majority of these people could pull of their roles. I especially like the casting of Head (I'm a huge Buffy fan, so I'm always cool with seeing Giles) and I like the use of Uma Therman. I'm not sure about your original choice for Wonder Woman but I really like that you included Gadot and didn't just ignore her. For better or worse, she is gonna be Wonder Woman and it's nice to see someone including her instead of just recasting the role altogether.

I'm also cool with your costume choice. It seems easily adaptable.
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