Short Promo Video for the WONDER WOMAN TV Pilot. NBC recently passed on the much talked about pilot from director David E.
Kelly, which has received mostly favorable reviews from the select few news outlets who have seen it. The new Wonder Woman series is a reinvention of the iconic DC Comics title in which the heroine – AKA Diana Prince – is a vigilante crime fighter in Los Angeles but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life. It was announced a earlier this year that Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, Red Dawn) will star in the title role of Wonder Woman.
Tracie Thoms has been cast as a regular, playing Etta the bubbly personal assistant of Diana and Pedro Pascal will play a liaison to the police department who is devoted and loyal to the princess of power. Elizabeth Hurley has signed on to portray the show's villain opposite Palicki, while Cary Elwes will portray the CEO of the company owned by Diana Prince, Themyscira Industries. NBC Explains Why They Didn't Pick Up Wonder Woman. CONFIRMED: Wonder Woman Pilot Rejected By NBC! When the costume was first revealed, the negative feedback from fans was overwhelming.
While a slightly redesigned version was met a little more positively, it would appear that the Amazonian princesses outfit is the least of her worries, as NBC have passed on the pilot. Here is an excerpt from the report over at Entertainment Weekly. More details can be found by clicking on the link below to head on over to the site. Well that was fun (to make fun of) while it lasted. Is The Wonder Woman TV Show In Trouble? Follow Mark "RorMachine": By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 5/6/2011 It seems that this story originated in the LA Times, but I picked up the info from this vid over at IGN, in which they reveal that certain upcoming TV show's futures may be looking grim, including Locke & Key and Wonder Woman..
The LA Times is reporting that NBC's Wonder Woman is unlikely to get picked up, which lets face it, is probably for the better. Or for the best even. Would anyone be surprised if this show wasn't picked up? DISCLAIMER: This article was submitted by a volunteer contributor who has agreed to our code of conduct. More Wonder Woman TV Pilot Casting News! TV's New Wonder Woman Has a Third Look In Her Closet, NBC Boss Reveals. April 12, 2011 06:32 AM PDT If you were one of the many (many!)
Who saw the costume Adrianne Palicki dons for NBC’s Wonder Woman pilot and tittered, “No… seriously?” You were probably gratified when a seemingly revamped get-up was unveiled. “The producers listened!” You might have cheered. Only, it turns out, they didn’t change anything — and they didn’t have to, because according to NBC president Robert Greenblatt, the particular outfit sported by the superheroine in the Hollywood Boulevard set photos spied last month was always in Diana Prince’s closet. “There was an initial outcry about the long pants – you know, skintight pants as opposed to those little shorts [worn by Lynda Carter in the original TV series],” Greenblatt concedes to TVLine.com.
“We haven’t made any changes from what was planned,” the NBC boss reiterates. There’s no chance of that. Several More Actors Join Broadcast Pilots.
Tournage. Adrianne Palicki Is NBC’s Wonder Woman. Tanit Pheonix's Wonder Woman Audition tape. Follow Mark "RorMachine": By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 2/16/2011 Phoenix has been confirmed to be actively pursuing the role, but it's only rumor for now that she is actually being considered for it.
Watch the below audition tape in which she appears to be rehearsing a scene in which Wonder Woman is critiquing doll likenesses of herself wearing both her old and new costumes! See if you think she has what it takes.. CAPRICA Director Jeffrey Reiner Signed to Helm WONDER WOMAN TV Pilot. The man known in Hollywood for producing and directing successful TV pilots is nearing a deal to bring DC's Amazonian princess back to the small screen for NBC.
Veteran showrunner David E. Kelley's modernized take on DC Comics' Wonder Woman has been picked up by NBC, though no date for the pilot's production start or small screen airing has been established yet. That day is now closer to reality according to the most recent report about the show. Jeffrey Reiner is finalizing his deal to direct the NBC drama pilot, which is a modern re-imaging of the character. In this story, Wonder Woman -- aka Diana Prince -- is a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.
Reiner acted as director/co-executive producer on Friday Night Lights for the series' first season on NBC. Hollywood Insider : Wonder Woman has a scene with Green Lantern! - What’s Playing. Will Katy Perry Write A New Song For Wonder Woman TV Show? Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors. A plot point in the pilot script for the Wonder Woman TV show, scooped, read and written about by m’colleague Brendon Connelly for Bleeding Cool, has Katy Perry performing a song “Super-Duper Me”, inspired by Wonder Woman.
It’s on the songlist for the show. We saved this from the original report, hoping for official comment. Sadly that comment was not forthcoming, so here it is anyway. SCOOP: David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman TV Pilot Script Dissected – Without Major Spoilers Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors. Most details of the upcoming Wonder Woman TV show are being kept very securely under wraps.
For all that the fans know, NBC and David E. Kelley could be cooking up a slightly goofy comedy-drama about a hotshot business woman who moonlights as a superheroine, packed with Girl Power pop-songs and including the awkward phrase “You go, girl.” Bleeding Cool has now read a draft of the pilot script, and without issuing a single real spoiler, want to let you know just what you’re in for. This new Wonder Woman does feature a lot of elements and characters from the comics continuity: There’s a Myndi Mayer, herein portrayed as Diana’s BFF.There’s a scene with comics character Etta Candy, a role that’s pretty much written like a job offer to Melissa McCarthy.Long ago, government man Steve Trevor crashed onto Wonder Woman’s island and brought her back to New York, but now they’ve split up.
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