Recently WB CEO Kevin Tsujihara has said that he is all for a Wonder Woman movie and at the same time said that they would be making an animated Justice League movie centered on Wonder Woman.
WB seems to feel that their female characters can’t support their own films.
A few years ago Jill Pantozzi with themarysue.com interviewed casting/dialogue director, Andrea Romano, for their Superman/Batman: Apocalypse film. While it carried the names of both Superman and Batman in the title, the movie was actually the story of Supergirl, based on Jeph Loeb/Michael Turner’s 2005 comic book arc.
“So much more of these other pieces are male dominated and there’s women characters on the side. This is a very female focused piece,” Romano told me. “I think the main reason why they didn’t call this piece Supergirl is because for some reason the Wonder Woman home video that we made, which was very, very good and filled with male characters, didn’t sell well. And so marketing people said, female titled pieces don’t sell well. So this is a female piece, it’s got a very strong feminine character in it but they called it Superman/Batman: Apocalypse just to get people to come into the video stores and buy them.”
The truth is that the Wonder Woman direct to DVD film brought in
$7,584,099 coming in 4th behind;
1. Superman: Doomsday $9,455,120
2. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies $8,479,891
3. Batman: Gotham Knight $8,072,890
4. Wonder Woman $7,584,099
5. Batman: Under the Red Hood $7,162,929
6. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse $6,330,826
7. Green Lantern: First Flight $6,265,172
8. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths $5,426,113
9. Justice League: The New Frontier $5,242,952
10. All-Star Superman $4,673,815
This proves that Woman Woman can pull in the money. What's The problem that WB/DC has with getting Woman Woman her own franchise? I believe they fail at marketing.
Notice anyone missing?
This is a book set with 12 mini figures and not one of them is a female character.
My daughter loves Wonder Woman, she’s 4, and picked this book over any princess book from the store that day.
I keep looking for a Wonder Woman action figure for her but I’ve only been able to find one in the packaged set for $50. She already has Superman, Bizzaro, and Zod action figures despite not seeing MOS. It’s not worth it to me to buy the pack.
It is very disappointing to me as a father to not be able to find more things Wonder Woman. She is a strong role model for my daughter to have.
WB/DC just seems to fail at getting Wonder Woman out there to the general public and because of that she has retained a small fan base.
Obviously with the cinematic universe about to explode with WB/DC it’s high time to get that character out there. I believe one way to do it is with an animated series on TV. There are a lot of ways to do that story line. You can just keep her young and on Themyscira telling stories from her youth (it's been talked about possibly for live action). Having her youth as an origin and in the real world.
Either way the wonderful thing about animation is no one expects them to coincide with the live action universe. The storylines wouldn't matter; plus, Wonder Woman in animation does pull in money with youth audiences, possibly into teens and young adults - WB/DC could have a reason to get into more merchandising and show even more that this character can hold her own.
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