This whole conversation about smiling is insane.
WB exec: "We're considering finally greenlighting a Wonder Woman movie. What do things look like on the WW fan forums?"
DC exec: "About which potential Wonder Woman movie actress has a sufficiently radiant smile to play the character."
WB exec: "...Seriously?"
DC exec: "Yeah."
WB exec: "Okay, that just tears it. We're never doing a WW movie. They really want to pass judgment about whether an actress's *smile* is good enough? Height, looks, chest size, athleticism, musculature, and now her freakin' smile? There is no actress in the entire universe we could ever pick who could keep all these fans happy. It's a recipe for bad buzz from the start no matter who we cast. Let's just take the money and make another 'Fast and Furious' sequel instead." [walks off muttering to self about overaged Comic-Book-Guy-esque fans who still live in their parents' basements]
Lol, but in reality more like:
DC exec: What about Jamie Alexander?
WB exec: Who?
DC exec: The girl from Thor?
WB exec: Natalie Portman??
DC exec: No, Sif, the warrior girl
WB exec: Oh... she's okay I guess.
DC exec: Are you kidding me? She's got action experience, loves the character, she looks like the character, she's a young up and comer...
WB exec: Yeah, but she doesn't really have that... charisma we're looking for Diana's sweetheart side
DC exec: but... but... she can act like she has charisma!
WB exec: Speaking of which... what's charisma carpenter doing?
DC exec: *headdesk*
I mean, if you guys were saying it can be worked around, I'd be like: well, yeah, but can Jamie? But you guys are saying its a non-issue, when its the difference between the careers of Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock. No matter how great an actress you are, there's certain parts that just require a natrual/radiant/whatever you want to call more appealing smile.
It's true, they could just downplay her sweetheart side, as modern comics do, and make it a straight actoiner, in which case, Jamie wouldn't be doing much (any?) smiling anyway, and it wouldn't be important the story, so not having the most appealing smile would be actually irrelevant.
Also...
Who would you cast as Ares? Or would you start with another villain?
Who would you cast as Steve Trevor?
Who would you cast as Etta Candy?
How would you interest people who think they already know all there is to know about Wonder Woman?
What Power Level would you put her at?
How prominently should the lasso figure in the story?
I tried to start a conversation about something more vital, but that simply wasn't interesting. Should I continue to talk to myself?
1) I would cast an A-lister, or superhot up and comer as Ares. Anyone who's willing to immerse themselves in the character. No character actors who are known for villains though, so bye to Ralph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving, no, no, somebody that the audience will love and believe as a badass hardcore warrior king. Bruce Willis would be ideal. Nicolas Cage would be sad, but acceptable, given a great director. Jeffery Dean Morgan would probably give him a very earthy swaggery edge that the character needs to feel less 'out of touch' and ethereal, but still better than you in every conceivable way.
2) For Steve Trevor, I imagine a sidekick-like character to help the film with a male audience, which is part of the reason why the original comics were so successful and the character so consistently present. Ryan Gosling would pretty much own the idea of an air-force super spy falling in love with an uberchick. And he'd make it look cool and manly to do so.
3) Etta is also needed as a female sidekick-ish type supporting cast to give room and credence to female-female interaction in the film, outside of the context of mythology that comes with the Amazons. I think that the TV pilot was schrewd in making her black (and not overweight), so I could see a Kerry Washington bringing home that sort of professional girl who Wonder Woman frees from herself. Alternately, for a more traditional take, Nikki Blonsky (the girl from Hairspray) would make a sufficiently excitable type.
4) To interest the disinterested, I would use some sort of hook, like Batman Begins did with Batman, starting him out in a prison, and started the trailers out with that as well, to assure all, this is not who you think it is, it's more than that. This for a character that most like anyway. Starting Diana out in some unexpected position, perhaps not so far as to make her pregnant, or turned to stone, but something significant and interesting outside of "yeah, everything's been going great so far" so that she'll have a journey.
5) For power level, I'd probably save her full force for the climax, but even then, I'd only have her picking up a few hundred tons (trucks, jets, maybe train stopping). I find the arbitrary strength levels of comics are not only narratively unnecessary in films, but remove tension (and thus quality) that clear benchmarks would keep in place.
6) The lasso and it's truth-power would be at the crux of the climax. The idea would be that she would save Ares from himself with Truth, during a lengthy close quarters conflict.
is something that has to be done, so i'm on with it. However, if you're going to move away too much from the character's roots and espacially the mythology behind her... It's not 
