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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
Wonder Woman -‐ p. 37 April 15 th , 2013 would go into production. However, it was reported that this series would focus on the early years of Wonder Woman, similar to The CW’s origin series of Superman, Smallville. If this project does come to fruition, it is entirely possible that a Wonder Woman project may finally not only actually happen, but it has the potential to be an enormous success. Smallville ran for ten highly successful seasons, and currently The CW has a hit with their other DC Comics television show, Arrow, based on the character Green Arrow. This show has proven itself to be massively popular, despite the Green Arrow recently appearing on Smallville for several seasons as a series regular, and Arrow has already been renewed for a second season. Given that audiences have embraced two versions of a minor DC Comics character, Wonder Woman may have finally found the network with the audience ready to welcome her back to television.
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