PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN Trailer Details The Controversial Creation Of The Iconic DC Heroine

PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN Trailer Details The Controversial Creation Of The Iconic DC Heroine

Annapurna Pictures has debuted a full trailer for director Angela Robinson's upcoming biopic of Wonder Woman creator William Marston, which stars Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, & Bella Heathcote. Take a look...

By MarkCassidy - Jul 18, 2017 07:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Woman
Following a brief teaser last month, Annapurna Pictures has released the full trailer for Professor M, AKA Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.

The movie tells the true story of the creation of one of the most iconic superheroes in history, and stars Luke Evans as William Moulton Marston, Rebecca Hall as his wife Elizabeth, and Bella Heathcote as Olive "Dotsie" Byrne, who is widely credited as Marston's inspiration for Wonder Woman.

The film details the unconventional life of Harvard psychologist Marston, who invented the lie detector, engaged in a polyamorous relationship, and eventually drew inspiration from the women in his life to come up with the Wonder Woman character.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is set for release on October 27. Check out the trailer below, along with the first teasers for Alpha and The Disater Artist.



 

 
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Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:15 AM
I liked the Wonder Woman movie on balance, but it was a huge missed opportunity to finally create an epic origin story for one of comic books most iconic heroes. This was obviously an effort to copy Marvel, which worked, but creatively it was at the expense of making something epic along the lines of the Dark Knight Trilogy. That is unfortunate, because going forward it is still going to lead to second tiered stories that will not stand the test of time.
incredibleTalk
incredibleTalk - 7/18/2017, 7:19 AM
@Forthas - ...be careful...someone's gonna get triggered...
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:22 AM
@Forthas - I completely disagree with you. I hated the Dark Knight Trilogy because it wasn't focused on telling the authentic story of Batman. It kinda did in some elements, but it was more focused on this "EPIC" crap.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:23 AM
@incredibleTalk - To whom do you refer?
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:24 AM
@incredibleTalk - I prefer the world before it came up with a word for contrary opinions based on passionate beliefs. "Triggering" is just gonna happen, whether you have these labels or not. It needs to.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:29 AM
@ImmovableForce - That is what made it great. It told an authentic story. I like Marvel films too but like Wonder Woman...it is fun "popcorn" movies that have little depth. Wonder Woman...I guess because of the sexism of the earlier comic book community...has a challenged and muddled history. Martson ideas about her made it difficult to make a more modern day and epic origin story...all in the name of being true to her comic history. You can do both. Jettison the sexist parts of her story and create a history that is more in line with what people can relate to. Not just relying on the mythology of Amazons which no one can relate to.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:30 AM
Telling the somewhat comic-book-correct story of a superhero is not an invention of Marvel's. If it were, I'd say, f it anyway. Do it. Who cares if they got there first?
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:31 AM
@ImmovableForce - "comic book correct" THERE IS NO SUCH THING! Characters in comic books have changed...costumes...stories...even their physical appearances, based on the writer. There is no reason to be beholden to that beyond the spirit of the character.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:32 AM
WonderWoman is my idea of "getting it right" minus a couple little effects and problems.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:34 AM
@Forthas - why I specified "somewhat". Maybe I should've said "within reason"? Ballpark? kinda? "More than Nolan did"?
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:37 AM
@Forthas - Right, I agree. The spirit of the character. The animated features around the late 2000s were even getting that right. I wish the movies could. At least WonderWoman did.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:38 AM
@ImmovableForce - HOW is she right? You left the theater with more questions than answers

Why could she not return to Themyiscira?
Why did her mother lie to her?
What were the circumstances that led to Zeus deciding to "create her"


It is still not even clear the thinking of why the Amazons were created. That ancient story does not relate to people. I have always believed that is why Thor is the weakest of the Marvel characters.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:39 AM
@Forthas - Well, they could still ruin it with the answers to those questions in the sequel, but I hope they won't while Patty Jenkins is at the helm.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:41 AM
I don't mind, under these circumstances, where I love what they did with the superhero herself, leaving a bit unanswered, to be answered in future movies. I sense that there are good answers.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:43 AM
@ImmovableForce - I think Nolan did get the spirit of the character right. I think that is the appeal of Captain America, irrespective of his costume and those two heroes represent the best of the CBM genre.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:46 AM
My guess on why she may never return, because of the one-way nature of the entryway to themiscara (except whatever happened that allowed Steve's plane and the germans in).

Her mother didnt lie to her about the god-killer. She let her believe what she assumed was the god-killer. Her mother wanted her as a daughter and wanted to keep the amazons separate from the real world forever, because she has given up on the world they left.

Zeus created her to kill Ares. Giving the amazon queen her wish of a daughter just worked out well for him to keep her hidden until she could confront Ares.
Slader
Slader - 7/18/2017, 7:51 AM
@Forthas - Do not lie to yourself, you are a marvelite, simple like that, Lol.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:54 AM
@ImmovableForce - When you think about Spiderman's, Batman's and Superman's origin...there are no questions left unanswered. They are self contained stories designed to help people understand what influenced their desire to be superheroes. I can't say the same for Wonder Woman's new origin movie.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:54 AM
@Forthas - Nolan's approach infuriates me. He focused completely on making everything real-worldy, but even ended up going way off that mark. He never showed how Bruce got his training on electronics and such. I guess we're to assume he just learned it all from his new job in the tech department, but he hadn't been doing that for long. Suddenly he's inventing grids of detection that no one had come up with yet, using cellphones, all by himself? And the characters are realed down, as if you can't make the characters as they should really be and have people buy it or like it. Everything he did screamed that. "This is the real world! So we can't do that and that, it must be this real-worldy way instead with things that already exist!" Can't CatWoman Catwoman. Can't have a Bane who actually LOOKS like he could break Batman's back with his arms. Can't show Bane using a formula to make himself stronger because we HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT AT ALL COSTS!!!
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:55 AM
@Slader - You are so wrong...I am a "Nolan" DC fan!
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 7:56 AM
A Joker who loves to laugh all the time? Nooo. Must make him like a real-world psychopath, who laughs almost as a way of cynically ridiculing the very act of laughing itself.
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 7:58 AM
@ImmovableForce - Yeah it was real worldy so people could relate to it! That is the point.

Batman did not invent the cell phone device...it was Lucius Fox.

When Bane broke Batman's back...it looked good to me!
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 8:00 AM
@ImmovableForce - Even the animated joker does not just laugh all the time. It is supposed to be at inappropriate times.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 8:02 AM
Look, Bane, part of his character, some would say, a huge part, and yes I'm one of those who would say that, is that he has that formula, that drug, that makes him physically bigger and stronger. You dont change that. You just don't.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 8:03 AM
@Forthas - The animated Joker doesnt laugh all the time. Yes I know. But, the Ledger version, god rest the actor's soul, was not the Joker.
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 7/18/2017, 8:05 AM
And Catwoman seemed to be defined by how she looks on the fat bike. Ah look, she looks sort of like a cat. Let's call her.... no, let's not. It's a Nolan film. Can't do that.
dnno1
dnno1 - 7/18/2017, 8:50 AM
@Forthas - copying Marvel? Wonder Woman was an adaptation of the original comic book story from Sensation Comics. It was far from being any Marvel story. Where do you get off saying it was a missed opportunity when it is domestically the second highest grossing (supehero) origin to date?
Forthas
Forthas - 7/18/2017, 9:55 AM
@dnno1 -

1st off Sensation Comics did NOT have her as the daughter of Zeus

2nd...Many of the plot points in the film is very likely lifted from Marvel's Captain America and Thor.

3rd...It is ridiculous to compare origin stories when not all of them benefitted from inflation, 3D and Imax Screens and the quickly growing foreign market.

Sure it was a success...I stated it was a missed opportunity to finally make an epic origin story befitting Wonder Woman. This was a story!
dnno1
dnno1 - 7/19/2017, 11:26 AM
@Forthas -

???

Okay, the Sensation Comics tale has been basically made into a myth or a bedtime story, if you will. In this new take, Diana was born naturally and her father was/is the Greek god Zeus (one of the last children he sired before he presumably died). The decision to to change the origin was not to copy from Marvel but rather to make the story more palatable to today's mainstream audiences. It is only a coincidence that she and Thor happen to be siblings of gods.

Secondly, outside of fighting Germans, the story-line of Wonder Woman remains, as Cinema Blend's Conner Schwerdtfeger put it, "incredibly faithful to Diana's origins from the 1940's" (see http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1666580/5-changes-wonder-woman-made-to-the-dc-heros-origin-story?story_page=1). Sure, General Ludendorf was given super strength from a chemical gas, but that is a plot point that has been used in many comic book movies (films like Underdog, Meteor Man, Man of Steel, and Spider-Man come to mind, but there are more). It is not a plot point that is uniquely Marvel's, so, no Wonder Woman was not ripping them off, but in fact attempting to differentiate themselves from their rival.

Finally, please stop trying to insinuate that films like Captain America: The first Avenger or Thor would have had the same box office as Wonder Woman if they had the same ticket price (they both were released in 3D although CATFA was not released in IMAX, but that was a choice the studio made - it was available to them). Even if you corrected for that, Wonder Woman would still beat them out. Ticket prices ore only 9 cents higher per dollar today than they were six years ago. Wonder Woman is a success and it wasn't a missed opportunity. In fact it was a great opportunity to produce a film that will eventually become a superhero movie top 10 domestic box office hit.
DiegoMD
DiegoMD - 7/18/2017, 7:28 AM
I did not hit her, its bullshit I did not hit her I did naaawwt! Oh hi Mark!
DiegoMD
DiegoMD - 7/18/2017, 7:31 AM
@AndrewHolland - That's the movie I'm waiting for
Desrow
Desrow - 7/18/2017, 7:37 AM
The best thing about this article is The Disaster Artist trailer
McGee
McGee - 7/18/2017, 7:42 AM
I agree with his lifestyle. Call me old fashioned, but I believe marriage should be between one man and two bi-sexual women.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 7/18/2017, 7:48 AM
@McGee - It's a shame that the good honest traditions are in decline
incredibleTalk
incredibleTalk - 7/18/2017, 7:57 AM
@SimplyAz - ...for years men have been bragging on how good vagina is...now women want to find out for themselves!!!Go figure!!!
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