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Wonder Woman -­‐ p. 36
April 15 th , 2013
Instead, the Wonder Woman of the pilot is a strong and confidant fighter
who will stop at nothing to get her job done. The public knows her as both
Wonder Woman and Diana Themyscira, the head of Themyscira Industries,
along the lines of Tony Stark being known to be Iron Man. In order to get
away from these very public personas, she maintains an unknown alter
ego, Diana Prince, who lives alone with her cat Sylvester.
On May 12 th 2011, it was announced that NBC was not picking up the
Wonder Woman pilot for production. There were many speculations as to
the reasons behind this decision, but Robert Greenblatt simply stated that
the show did not fit in with NBC’s fall schedule and the direction the
network was taking in the 2011-2012 television season.
As a result, another Wonder Woman project failed to materialize,
disappointing many longtime fans of the character. The original script may
have been a disaster, but the script that was ultimately shot did show
promise. There were issues to be addressed, such as Wonder Woman
torturing a suspect for information, a completely unnecessary action given
her possession of the Lasso of Truth, and the fact that Wonder Woman at
one point kills a man with a lead pipe to the throat, an action firmly out of
place with Wonder Woman’s character. However, pilot episodes are often
altered, edited, and in some cases re-shot once picked up for production,
and therefore there is no reason that these issues could not have been
addressed. The failure of this incarnation is even more disheartening when
taken into consideration how much the show had improved from its original
script. Given a chance to develop further and iron out the remaining
problems of the pilot, this show could have potentially grown into
something great.
While this version of Wonder Woman did not make it onto primetime, the
television network The CW is currently developing a new Wonder Woman
television series tentatively titled Amazon. Vulture first reported in
September of 2012 that Warner Brothers Television and The CW were in
the early script phase of development, with no word if or when this project