Joss is out of Wonder Woman

well well .... still hopes he directs it thou :P like he said.. "Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. " so he still has a good relationship with them..
 
Well, I guess a lot of people here are going to be very, very happy.

It may be for the best, after all. :dry:.

SATIN TIGHTS NO LONGER. Joss will not be fighting for our rights after all.

You (hopefully) heard it here first: I'm no longer slated to make Wonder Woman. What? But how? My chest... so tight! Okay, stay calm and I'll explain as best I can. It's pretty complicated, so bear with me. I had a take on the film that, well, nobody liked. Hey, not that complicated.

Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that's never gonna work. Non-sympatico. It happens all the time. I don't think any of us expected it to this time, but it did. Everybody knows how long I was taking, what a struggle that script was, and though I felt good about what I was coming up with, it was never gonna be a simple slam-dunk. I like to think it rolled around the rim a little bit, but others may have differing views.

The worst thing that can happen in this scenario is that the studio just keeps hammering out changes and the writer falls into a horrible limbo of development. These guys had the clarity and grace to skip that part. So I'm a free man.

Well, sorta. There is that "Goners" movie I can finally finish polishing, and plenty of other things in the hopper I've wanted to pursue. I'm as relieved as I am disappointed, and both of those things lead to drink, so that's a plus. Truly, you may be hearing some interesting things brewing in the coming months. But all potential jets therein will be visible.

But most importantly, I never have to answer THAT question again!!!! And you don't have to link to every rumor site! Finally and forever: I never had an actress picked out, or even a consistant front-runner. I didn't have time to waste on casting when I was so busy air-balling on the script. (No! Rim! There was rim!) That's the greatest relief of all. I can do interviews again!

Thanks for your time. You are the people who make the world go 'round. Or, no, science does that.

-j.

ps All right, it was Cobie Smulders. Sorry, Cobes.
 
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The one thing that sucks is that now it's going to take even longer for this damn movie to come out.
 
not if there gonna make the WWII movie that they just bought the script too...
in other words.. we might get a sexist epic WWII wonderbrah insted ..
 
I'm kinda glad he out of ww... unless they go the route of the catwoman film
 
I'd definately give her a shot, but I just expected someone else. I don't know who though.
 
Damn, she definitely looks like Diana.
 
if he issent joking then im afraid that the next guy to take on the movie will go for starpower .. and we will get .. julia roberts or something .. THE HORROR!!! THE HORROR!!!
 
In any case, in regards to the news...HIGHFIVE!

Anyone? Anyone?
 
-HIGHFIVE-

But I still want Smulders for Wonder Woman!!!
 
*sigh* I'm very bummed about this, but not surprised. The studio is gonna make this a sexist camp fest like Catwoman now. Instead of someone who has cred like JW, we are gonna get some lowest common denominator type action flick by someone like McG or something. Ugh. This bodes badly for a Wonder Woman movie.
 
Can´t say I´m surprised, and can´t say I´m disappointed either. I been saying this for months, and Whedom fans don´t take this wrong, it´s not that I find him a bad writer, it´s that his sensibilities were never right for this in the first place. His constant reports of struggles with the script and now this only confirm my feeling.

I remembered what Tom Mankiewicz said about the Superman movies. Guy Hamilton - who was signed for the first one for a while - and Richard Lester were the wrong guys for the job, not because they weren´t talented, they just didn´t have the right frame of mind. They were cynicals, they didn´t believe in it the way you have to. Never once, watching Whedom´s shows, I´d have thought, "that guy would be perfect for a Wonder Woman movie". It´s not because he wrote tough chicks that he was right for WW.
 
*sigh* I'm very bummed about this, but not surprised. The studio is gonna make this a sexist camp fest like Catwoman now. Instead of someone who has cred like JW, we are gonna get some lowest common denominator type action flick by someone like McG or something. Ugh. This bodes badly for a Wonder Woman movie.

I really don´t see this as a "studio takes the easy route" case. Whedom himself told many times he was having a harder time with this script than pretty much anything else he did, and not for studio demand problems. He wasn´t the right guy.
 
*sigh* I'm very bummed about this, but not surprised. The studio is gonna make this a sexist camp fest like Catwoman now. Instead of someone who has cred like JW, we are gonna get some lowest common denominator type action flick by someone like McG or something. Ugh. This bodes badly for a Wonder Woman movie.
What makes you think just because they don't like Whedon's vision, they'll automatically go for something absolutely horrible? It's not your way or the highway, it's not Joss' way or the highway. Anything could happen now. A crappy director could get the job, or an amazing director could get the job. There's really nothing to lead us to believe one thing or another.
 
Can´t say I´m surprised, and can´t say I´m disappointed either. I been saying this for months, and Whedom fans don´t take this wrong, it´s not that I find him a bad writer, it´s that his sensibilities were never right for this in the first place. His constant reports of struggles with the script and now this only confirm my feeling.

I remembered what Tom Mankiewicz said about the Superman movies. Guy Hamilton - who was signed for the first one for a while - and Richard Lester were the wrong guys for the job, not because they weren´t talented, they just didn´t have the right frame of mind. They were cynicals, they didn´t believe in it the way you have to. Never once, watching Whedom´s shows, I´d have thought, "that guy would be perfect for a Wonder Woman movie". It´s not because he wrote tough chicks that he was right for WW.

Agreed. An X-Men movie, he could do (and did do, although they used hardly any of his draft). Wonder Woman needs the kind of positivity as Superman.
 

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