For over 70 years, Wonder Woman has stood as an icon of female empowerment, the embodiment of feminine strength, and ultimately, a fiercely determined superhero who fights side by side with Superman and Batman, superhero icons in their own right. With the release of
Superman in 1978, superheroes emerged from the back shelves of dusty comic book stores and into mainstream pop culture. Today, half a dozen films inspired by comic books are released a year, with budgets reaching up to $300,000,000 and bringing in billions of dollars at the box office. Batman has just completed a franchise-rebooting trilogy, Spider-Man is about to be rebooted a third time, while the Man Of Steel is set to face off against the World´s Greatest Detective in an epic showdown that is sure to rock the global box office. Even second tier or little known comic book heroes such as Antman and Hellboy have managed to rack up or announce sequels between them. Yet throughout all this, Wonder Woman remains conspicuously absent. Where is Diana, princess of the Amazons? Continually published since 1942, her popularity and place in pop culture can not be disputed, yet for all that she has achieved, Wonder Woman has remained over the years in that most hated of industry spaces: development hell.
Fortunately it seems, with the release of Batman V Superman, DC are finally ready to unleash The Amazing Amazon in her first solo outing sometime in June of 2017. However, over the years DC have tried and failed to bring this giant pop-culture icon to the silver-screen, most famously the now abandoned Josh Whedon project, which he was to write and direct. More curious though are the lesser known screenplay attempts that have ranged in the hundreds by writing staff at warner brothers studios over the last decade, that have never seen the light of day.
This First Draft of an abandoned Untitled Wonder Woman Screenplay from 2010 released by Warners for Educational Purposes on Tuesday 27th OCTOBER 2015 is sure to be just one of many which may well be scrutinized for flaws by generations of Wonder Woman fans of to come:
Ares The Savage One 2.pdf