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Wonder Woman -­‐ p. 25
April 15 th , 2013
She has these bands that they all wear, just a piece of armor, and she puts
it up. And then she gets good at it. By the end, it's kind of her thing, but it's
because she got shot one time and didn't think that it was awesome. I think
that is probably not the feeling the producers wanted to have. Though
honestly, that could have been their favorite thing. I don't know, because
when I asked Joel Silver, point blank, "Well, if they don't want what I'm
doing, what do they want?" he said, "They don't know."
I loved what I was doing. I mean, it was really hard. It took me a long time
to break the story structurally to my satisfaction. When I did that, it was in
an outline, and not in a draft, and they didn't like it. So I never got to write a
draft where I got to work out exactly what I wanted to do. In terms of the
meaning, the feeling, the look, the emotion, the character, the relationship
with Steve Trevor, all of that stuff, I never wavered for a second. I knew
exactly what I wanted to do. It was really just a question of housing it. I
would go back in a heartbeat if I believed that anybody believed in what I
was doing. The lack of enthusiasm was overwhelming. It was almost
staggering, and that was kind of from the beginning. I just don't think my
take on Wonder Woman was ever to their liking.
I wasn't getting them to feel what they wanted to feel. They couldn't
describe what that was to me. We're talking about a huge investment. To
ask somebody to jump on that, what is going to be a few hundred million
dollars these days, if they just don't have that feeling… I had that feeling. I
got chills when I think of some of this stuff, but apparently I was the only
one who was chilly. Everybody was very gracious about it. It was a blind
date, and everybody thought we'd get married, but let's just leave it at the
door.”3
3 Robinson, Tasha, www.avclub.com/articles/joss-­‐whedon,14136/, Aug. 8, 2007.