All Things Wonder Woman: An Open Discussion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 25

[regwec]

great poster by Japanese illustrator.

Other than the fact that her weirdly diminutive left hand isn't holding her sword, I love this.

 

[Dark Raven]

Her right hand is rather small too.

 

[regwec]

Yes, and the tea cup is also floating of its own accord, though less obviously than the sword.

 

[Travesty]

The artwork looks to be inspired by what you see on a deck of playing cards. It may explain why her hands look like that?

 

[Dark Raven]

The artwork looks to be inspired by what you see on a deck of playing cards. It may explain why her hands look like that?

I dunno. Do Kings, Queens and Jacks have small hands in playing cards?

 

[Greenlite]

 

[Thome216]

Seems like the Japanese marketing of WW might not be very good at all


Wonder Woman doesn’t need the kawaii treatment

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture...s-not-happy-kawaii-wonder-woman/#.WYMQgYjytPY



It might end up quite a different movie to what Patty Jenkins produced, and Japanese fans might go in seeing something different and not liking it, thinking that this is what the movie is. But in the first place, they might have misinterpreted what Jenkins was trying to do.


Wonder Woman promoted in Japan with idol song “A Woman Can’t Sleep Alone,” angering some fans

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2017/08/...-a-woman-cant-sleep-alone-angering-some-fans/

I get the feeling that WW might be promoted as something other than she is in Japan, and then movie-going audiences there won't like what this thing is and could dismiss the movie, not realising that it's the Japanese marketing's own doing and not the movie itself.

If her voice is dubbed in Japan, I hope Gal isn't given some very shy and demure kind of voice that makes her sound weak and submissive and lacking any authority. But it wouldn't surprise me if they did do that.

So when she's railing against the Generals, will she sound like she's moments away from crying..?

 

[Iceman]

Other than the fact that her weirdly diminutive left hand isn't holding her sword, I love this.

Loved the poster and yeah, might not have noticed that otherwise haha.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/theme-parks/2017/08/03/six-flags-single-rail-wonder-woman-coaster/534583001/

Six Flags announced today that Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster will open next spring at its Fiesta Texas location in San Antonio. The park says the new attraction won't look or behave like any thrill machine that preceded it. That's because instead of riding a set of two rails like traditional coasters, its narrow trains would soar along one 15.5-inch-wide steel track. It will be the world's first single-rail IBox track coaster.


The coaster will be "visually stunning," says Jeffrey Siebert, president of Six Flags Fiesta Texas. It will be set against the multi-hued quarry wall that surrounds the park. Visitors may be surprised when they first encounter the ride. "It's just going to look wrong, but in a nice way," Siebert adds. Instead of a wooden coaster's lattice-like timber structure, Wonder Woman will have steel supports. But its ultra-thin track won't require as many supports as a typical steel coaster. Chickola says it will look like a thin ribbon of track suspended in the sky.

The eight passengers aboard the coaster's trains will have unique views as well. Each car will have a single seat. There won't be anybody sitting to the left or right. And when they look to either side, riders won't see any track either. The single rail, a scant few inches wider than a foot-long sub, will be underneath the train. If passengers lean over the cars, they'll see straight down to the ground. "You're going to feel like your gliding through the air," says Chickola.

Wonder Woman will climb a 113-foot hill, drop about 100 feet straight down at 90-degrees, and hit a top speed of 52 mph. It will include overbanked turns and the free-floating sensation known as airtime. Among its three inversions will be a "180-degree stall," in which the train will roll halfway over and suspend riders for a few agonizing moments before it unrolls and returns them right-side-up.

Siebert says that it is going to be "odd to go upside down on such a tiny track. It will feel like you're riding Wonder Woman's whip." The ride's queue will include a crashed airplane, Greco-Greek architecture, and other references to the comic book world of the female superhero, whose popularity surged after the huge success of the recent Wonder Woman movie.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/fashion/wonder-woman-leather-armor-whitaker-malem.html

Gal Gadot, DC Comics and the whole Justice League gang are not the only big winners from “Wonder Woman,” the film franchise that has already taken in more than $780 million globally; it just seems to keep on giving (and is already gearing up for a sequel). The latest beneficiaries of the movie’s halo effect: Whitaker Malem, the London leather designers behind the super heroine’s metallic leather armor as well as the armor for her fellow Amazons. They’re this season’s breakout British brand.

 

[whenforeverisnt]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/america/theme-parks/2017/08/03/six-flags-single-rail-wonder-woman-coaster/534583001/

It looks so much fun ????

 

[Blitzkrieg]

SteelBook Cover:

3D+2D Blu-Ray/DVDLenticular Slipbox (Double Cover Face):

4K UHD Blu-Ray Lenticular Slipbox:

3D+2D Lenticular Slipbox:

 

[Broseph44]

SteelBook Cover:

3D+2D Blu-Ray/DVDLenticular Slipbox (Double Cover Face):

4K UHD Blu-Ray Lenticular Slipbox:

3D+2D Lenticular Slipbox:

The steelbook will be mine.

 

[Gee]

Is that exclusive to a particular retail store? Target has the Digi-book and Best Buy has the "drawn art" cover for their exclusive Steelbook.

 

[Dark Raven]

So apparently the New York Alamo Drafthouse put on a special screening of WW for Bill and Hilary Clinton last night:

http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/06/hillary-bill-clinton-wonder-woman/

Let the outrage begin for all the non-former presidents who weren't included.

 

[Dark Raven]

Gal Gadot To Appear As Wonder Woman In Flashpoint; Could She Be The Villain?

http://epicstream.com/news/Gal-Gado...-Woman-In-Flashpoint-Could-She-Be-The-Villain

The Flash solo movie is one that hasn’t been doing very well when it comes to pre-production, but it looks like WB is finally getting the wheels spinning on the project. The movie has been officially titled Flashpoint, and we get confirmation that other League members will be making an appearance in the film.

According to Forbes, Gal Gadot will be making an appearance as Wonder Woman in Flashpoint. There’s no official statement on just how much of the movie she’s in, but if we follow the comics, Wonder Woman could be one of the main villains.

In the Flashpoint Paradox, Barry Allen attempts to save his mother from death, resulting in an altered timeline where he doesn’t have his powers, and everything has basically made a turn for the worse. In the story, Wonder Woman was the lead of the Amazons who were at war with the Atlanteans, leading to most of the destruction on Earth. This was a result of a messy love affair with Diana and Arthur Curry—one that ends with Diana beheading Atlantean queen Mera and wearing her helmet like some sick trophy.

Having Wonder Woman as a villain would be totally bonkers to see in Flashpoint, but I can see the DCEU wanting to keep Wonder Woman in a good light in the movie. You think the DCEU audience is ready for an alternate universe story?

Flashpoint is set to come out sometime in 2020. Justice League comes out Nov. 17.

I think this is very speculative. I don't think WB would possibly risk making Wonder Woman the villain of Flashpoint. Not when she is so popular, and audiences haven't even seen a Flash movie yet. Why would anyone side with him over her?

Even if she may have been at war with the Atlanteans in Flashpoint, it would be just like Iron Man in the comic Civil War. He may have been more of an antagonist and hated by readers, but the movie version never went that route. Marvel would never have risked making their most popular character a villain or for anyone to hate him. WW is surely the most popular character in the DCEU now and the most successful one. She is WB/DC's Iron Man.

 

[Dark Raven]

SteelBook Cover:


3D+2D Blu-Ray/DVDLenticular Slipbox (Double Cover Face):

I think the cover on the right is most representative of the movie, if you were to only have one cover. It's of the film's most iconic scene and summarises everything you need to know about it right there in that picture.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

So apparently the New York Alamo Drafthouse put on a special screening of WW for Bill and Hilary Clinton last night:

http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/06/hillary-bill-clinton-wonder-woman/

Let the outrage begin for all the non-former presidents who weren't included.

It's kind of nice that Hillary and Bill still go to movies together.

 

[Flemm]

I think this is very speculative. I don't think WB would possibly risk making Wonder Woman the villain of Flashpoint. Not when she is so popular, and audiences haven't even seen a Flash movie yet. Why would anyone side with him over her?

Well, the story in the comic doesn't really work like that, in the sense that it's not Flash vs. Wonder Woman primarily. The WW in the alternate timeline is basically an evil, power mad version of the character, though.

I think it's unlikely that the Flashpoint movie will adapt the comic story directly in all aspects. The Atlanteans also have a pretty unflattering role in the comic.

More likely they will keep the basic concept, revolving around the Flash's personal story, but not all the details of the alternate timeline. However, that is just speculation on my part.

 

[Greenlite]

Gal Gadot To Appear As Wonder Woman In Flashpoint; Could She Be The Villain?

http://epicstream.com/news/Gal-Gado...-Woman-In-Flashpoint-Could-She-Be-The-Villain



I think this is very speculative. I don't think WB would possibly risk making Wonder Woman the villain of Flashpoint. Not when she is so popular, and audiences haven't even seen a Flash movie yet. Why would anyone side with him over her?

Even if she may have been at war with the Atlanteans in Flashpoint, it would be just like Iron Man in the comic Civil War. He may have been more of an antagonist and hated by readers, but the movie version never went that route. Marvel would never have risked making their most popular character a villain or for anyone to hate him. WW is surely the most popular character in the DCEU now and the most successful one. She is WB/DC's Iron Man.

Mark is not a scoop guy and he got Matt Reeves taking over Bat right and got the interview with Deb Snyder where she dropped the"Cyborg is in The Flash" exclusive (Variety actually wrote it as an exclusive like 2 months later, very sloppy).

So when he drops the release year and WW in FP in an actual report, he's not speculating. =)

 

[Greenlite]

They could easily make Diana someone who is more stubborn at fighting for resources or ideology and they happen to have a conflict of interest with Arthur's men, so they fight. But she is not the main character in the story so their conflict is more in the background, the story should focus on Barry, Thomas and maybe Victor. If they give WW a more meaty role, it won't be villainous, that's just stupid, and paying 25M for JL reshoot/AP with Whedon, and not rushing anything for 2018 is showing WB's new team is not stupid.

 

[Dark Raven]

Mark is not a scoop guy and he got Matt Reeves taking over Bat right and got the interview with Deb Snyder where she dropped the"Cyborg is in The Flash" exclusive (Variety actually wrote it as an exclusive like 2 months later, very sloppy).

So when he drops the release year and WW in FP in an actual report, he's not speculating. =)

I'm not talking about whether she's in Flashpoint as speculation. I'm talking about her being the villain and about this article which is speculating on that. The Forbes article from which it came originally only said that WW was in FP. Nothing about her being a villain.

 

[Dark Raven]

The WW team should make a special shout out to Princess Diana (HRH Diana, Princess of Wales) this year on August 31st. It's the 20th anniversary of her death.

In fact, with this being the 20th anniversary, it's funny how another Princess Diana has dominated the news this year.

And apparently Princess Diana did have some influence in Gal's portrayal.

How Princess Diana Inspired Wonder Woman

http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a10330358/princess-diana-wonder-woman/

Gal Gadot's performance in Wonder Woman, and the film's disruption of the macho-male ethos that seems to permeate the superhero genre, has inspired more than one grown woman to shed a tear mid-screening. (I say that from personal experience.)

But as turns out, Gadot's take on the Amazon princess was inspired by another royal named Diana—the Princess of Wales.

Last year at Comic Con, Gadot revealed that she watched a documentary on Princess Diana shortly before filming and kept the late royal, and her philanthropic efforts, in mind during her performance on-screen.

"Wonder Woman has the strength of a goddess and the heart of a human," Gadot said.

"She [Princess Diana] said she leads from her heart and not from her head. And I think the same is true of our Diana."

Proving yet again, that not all hero(ines) wear capes.

 

[Greenlite]

I'm not talking about whether she's in Flashpoint as speculation. I'm talking about her being the villain and about this article which is speculating on that. The Forbes article from which it came originally only said that WW was in FP. Nothing about her being a villain.

Cool.

 

[metaphysician]

Gal Gadot To Appear As Wonder Woman In Flashpoint; Could She Be The Villain?

http://epicstream.com/news/Gal-Gado...-Woman-In-Flashpoint-Could-She-Be-The-Villain



I think this is very speculative. I don't think WB would possibly risk making Wonder Woman the villain of Flashpoint. Not when she is so popular, and audiences haven't even seen a Flash movie yet. Why would anyone side with him over her?

Even if she may have been at war with the Atlanteans in Flashpoint, it would be just like Iron Man in the comic Civil War. He may have been more of an antagonist and hated by readers, but the movie version never went that route. Marvel would never have risked making their most popular character a villain or for anyone to hate him. WW is surely the most popular character in the DCEU now and the most successful one. She is WB/DC's Iron Man.

I have two main reactions to this theorizing:

1. It would be a travesty to simply yank Wonder Woman's usage from the Flashpoint comic, and stick it in the movie. In the comic, she sucks, and doesn't embody any of the stuff that made the character go over with audiences. Even in an obviously temporary form, it'd be stupid to turn her into a warmongering villain, especially when they clearly want to use her as a draw for the movie.

2. One way you *could* use her, as a potential antagonist figure, while not being disrespectful? Barry changed the timeline, and *Diana knows*. She's a goddess, who walks around with the Lasso of Truth at hand. She sees through the change in the world and her own history, and knows that its. . . well, not a *lie* exactly, but not the only truth to the situation. And she has some pointed thoughts for Barry about this. Thus, in the first half, she serves as an antagonist, someone pursuing Barry who knows what has happened. Eventually, once she convinces Barry of why this was a bad idea, she becomes an ally, helping him put things right. And then, in the coda, with the world restored, she *continues* to help Barry, this time by providing him counsel on dealing with his grief and loss.