David E. Kelley's Reboot of Wonder Woman Goes Through a Bit of Rebooting Itself

David E. Kelley's Reboot of Wonder Woman Goes Through a Bit of Rebooting Itself

What would seem to be the natural rewriting process of a pilot script has resulted, according to i09.com, in a much stronger teleplay for David E. Kelley's new version of Wonder Woman for NBC.

By EdGross - Apr 21, 2011 05:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Woman
Source: i09

Offers the site, "We got a hold of a bunch of Wonder Woman pages that were released for casting purposes, including some new revised pages released in February and March, as the pilot was shooting. A lot of the additions seem focused on making Diana seem more formidable, to head off criticisms that she's too weepy and self-pitying. (It's also possible the episode was bumped up from a one-hour to a two-hour pilot.) Here are some of the changes.

Spoilers ahead...

"There seem to be a bunch of these, that were added just so we could see Diana throwing her weight (so to speak) around. At one point, she confronts a pair of security guards, whom the script calls Frick and Frack. They tell her she can't go up to the roof of a hospital, and she says, "I'm Wonder Woman. How do you think this ends?" And then she lifts one of them into the air by the throat and the other one by the chest, until they admit they're goons working for her nemesis, Veronica Cale. There's also a hilarious scene where Diana is driving, and a male driver cuts her off in traffic and makes an obscene gesture. She gives him the finger, and he pulls in front of her, blocking her. They both get out of their cars, and he says his obscene gesture was 'implying something that might be good for her.' He grabs her arm and says, 'Maybe I should teach you some manners.' Diana keeps saying things like, 'Let go of me, sir' and
'I'll ask you again to remove your hand.' But he responds that he'll let go of her arm when he feels like it, and calls her a 'Prada bitch.' So she lifts him into the air by his throat. As far as I can tell neither of these scenes advances the plot, they just let us see Wonder Woman lifting guys by their throats."

So Wonder Woman, it would seem, is now definitely up to kicking a little ass, which is the way it should be. Follow the link for much more, including discussions of more character development and more of the relationship between Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor.

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