AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Alum Adrianne Palicki Explains How Marvel Could Have Helped WONDER WOMAN Succeed

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Alum Adrianne Palicki Explains How Marvel Could Have Helped WONDER WOMAN Succeed

Long before Gal Gadot was cast as Wonder Woman, Adrianne Palicki was set to play the iconic DC Comics superhero on the small screen. Here, she talks about what went wrong with the scrapped TV series...

By JoshWilding - Nov 09, 2017 02:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Woman
Source: The Wrap
Before Warner Bros. decided to finally move forward with a Wonder Woman movie, the studio teamed up with NBC to bring the Amazon warrior to the small screen. The pilot failed to land a series order though and was widely considered terrible by those who managed to see it and now star Adrianne Palicki says she was left "devastated" by the news that she wouldn't get the chance to play the hero.

Joss Whedon and others have argued that Ally McBeal showrunner David E. Kelley simply wasn't the right fit for Wonder Woman but Palicki believes that it ultimately boiled down to a matter of timing.


"We were a year or two too soon," she says. "It was right before the main pop of Marvel movies and television series. The movies [had started coming] out, but it wasn’t like [today, where] that’s what makes money now — that’s what people want to see. It was a little too soon, it was a little early."

So, had Marvel launched its cinematic universe a year or two sooner, would Wonder Woman really have found success? Probably not, especially as it was genuinely quite bad and audiences have shown they won't tune in to poor quality comic book TV shows like Inhumans. What do you guys think of Palicki's comments? As always, be sure to share your thoughts in the comments section below. 
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obarium
obarium - 11/9/2017, 2:22 AM
I heard the pilot just plain sucked...
Origame
Origame - 11/9/2017, 2:26 AM
@obarium - It did. They basically made Diana into Batman, but with confusingly 3 different secret identities. And they forget to give us a good reason to hate the bad guys simply because "they're drugs have side effects that can kill" even though they're doing everything in their power to correct that and even cough medicine mentions the possibility of death.
grendelthing
grendelthing - 11/9/2017, 7:25 AM
@obarium - It was on youtube for a while. I was only able to handle about 15 minutes before moving on.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/9/2017, 2:28 AM
I watched the Pilot.

Only two...things...were good. :P
The rest was gutter trash.
rabid
rabid - 11/9/2017, 2:31 AM
What really went wrong with her Wonder Woman series:
-cheap plastic costume
-unattractive actress
-skipped her origin and cultural heritage
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 11/9/2017, 2:32 AM
@rabid - -"unattractive actress"

Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 11/9/2017, 2:36 AM
@Sauron -
Man, i want ber back in AoS!
Instead i heard we'll get that loser...what was his name? Hunter?
Whatever, always hated that guy...
TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 11/9/2017, 3:12 AM
@rabid - "unattractive actress"

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