CineFOOLS did a recent interview with Brent Strickland, writer of Wonder Woman and Villains.
Check out a bit of the interview where they talk about the tone of the Wonder Woman film, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon's take on the project and about the fan-made Megan Fox poster. Check out the interview below:
CF: There was word through the interweb that a spec script you wrote featuring Wonder Woman in World War II was bought and then you were both hired to work on a script in present day what is the progress of Wonder Woman, and are you approaching the war story (it's a shame if you can't)?
BS: That is correct, they bought the spec script and then hired us to make it modern day. Since we turned that in, Silver Pictures has gone through some changes and we're waiting to see how they decide to proceed.
CF: Joss Whedon once said in an interview that other than a great origin story there isn't much you can draw from for Wonder Woman without creating it yourself, is this something you agree with and did you both have to embelish on the source material in your vision for Wonder Woman?
BS: Let me first say I'm a huge Joss Whedon fan. I, like pretty much everyone, thought when Joss took the reins of Wonder Woman it would hit theatres in short order, and I was looking forward to seeing his take. I get what he's saying about the origin story. Hollywood kind of insists that you embellish source material - a movie is different than a comic book or graphic novel and needs to be addressed differently. We certainly took liberties on our spec Wonder Woman, but we also used a ton of stuff from the comic. My feeling is that ultimately something iconic like Wonder Woman needs to be a hybrid of the source material and the writer's original inspiration. We feel an obligation to the fan base not only to treat the property with respect, but also to make it fresh - to reinvent the story without reinventing the wheel, so to speak. We enjoyed the research because her backstory often revealed things we could use and build on. I think fans would dig it.
CF: What sort of tone do you want for Wonder Woman?
BS: I want it to be a ride. It should be a lot of fun in a world taken seriously. There should be breathtaking action sequences alongside character beats that allow the audience to relate to this Amazon princess, and moments where they get to laugh but not because it's campy. People have described the spec as Wonder Woman meets Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think that's a pretty good tone. However it ends up, I hope it will be seriously fun.
CF: Earlier in the year there was a website set up where each day a piece of a poster was reveled to show Megan Fox as Wonder Woman what are your thoughts of her as Princess Diana?
BS: If somebody put me in charge of casting I would certainly ask Megan Fox to screen test.
I think it would be a terrible idea to have Megan Fox as Wonder Woman. I've even heard (from the mouth of Lynda Carter) that Megan Fox had said WonderWoman isn't even a superhero with real powers, and the lasso of truth is stupid. Anyone who shows disrespect to a role doesn't deserve to don the famous red, yellow and blue leotard. It just pisses me off that hollyweird is always looking for some hot young actress to take on a money making franchise, instead of looking to the perfect person who would do Wonder Woman justice. Catherine Zeta Jones. I also would have liked to have seen what Joss Whedon would have brought to the WW franchise. No one writes amazinf female characters like Joss does.
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