Christina Hendricks says she would love to play Wonder Woman.
When she was asked if she would be up for starring in Wonder Woman for Winding Refn, she said, "Sure! I grew up on the TV show, and I had Wonder Woman Underoos…
She's said it a lot. And, aside from some potential height concerns, I think she'd probably be perfect for it, though it would be yet another hair color for her to try on. The sad fact of the matter, though, is that she's probably too old at this point for any casting director to seriously consider her. A successful show would run for five to seven years, and hot jailbait ass is generally regarded as a critical element of any new property.
I love Christina Hendricks, but I have a hard time picturing her as Wonder Woman. I wouldn't mind seeing her in Wonder Woman Underoos, though.
You guys are missing the crazy-awesomest part of wishful thinking in that quote: Winding Refn's Wonder Woman?!
This sounds like something that would normally pop up on Mystery Science Theater at some point, had it been released.
I don't suppose it's viewable anywhere? I have a macabre desire to see it now.
If anyone is actually brave enough to let that .exe install to watch this, let me know if your PC gets b0rked up real good and maybe I'll watch it. It wanted me to install Java (eh? Also, I have Java already) and it does that even if I pick "download".
Also, the video preview image is "error" LOL.
.exe? I went there, clicked the X on the ad, closed the popup it opened, than clicked play on the video. It's the block right under the line "UPDATE (2/8/11): And here's the whole thing. Watch it while you can!"
Using Chrome.
Here... direct link to that same video: http://www.novamov.com/video/zu2iw90sc5sf3
I'll give a look when I get home, then!
Okay, watched it last night. Here's what I thought.
Funnily, I thought the acting was pretty good, and some of the production values were pretty good. The woman who played WW was pretty intense and seemed to do a good job, in as far as what it appears she was directed to do.
Now, I'll qualify this by saying I don't read WW comics. I'm a TV WW guy, so this may have been more or less faithful to the comics...but I doubt it.
Physically, the actress that portrayed WW was very attractive, but I didn't get any actual, um, female or attractive vibe off of her, --especially-- when she was in WW mode. She actually sort of moved like a guy, with lots of shoulders and hard stares and a strange sort of male strut. I thought back to Victor/Victoria, where Robert Preston was teaching Julie Andrews how to impersonate a man. This actress did a better job than Julie did.
Her costumes were just bad. How do you show so much skin without any appeal? Somehow they managed it. Not sure how, but part of it might have had to do with the way the actress walked and otherwise moved (above). Also, the costumes looked kind of PVC-cheap. And the designs on the costumes had no artistic flows to them. The stars didn't flow in to the eagle pattern, for instance. The whole thing was kind of jarring and not attractive at all.
Oh, stop looking at me like that. I used to sell clothes. I know things.
I thought the action wasn't bad at all, really. But her lasso, which I thought made people tell the truth, apparently didn't do that in this pilot, as she ends up torturing some guy nearly to death to get some information she wants.
The police seem okay with all this, so long as she doesn't generate too much extra paperwork, apparently. They have to honor all of our pesky civil rights, but seem pretty happy to let WW stomp all over them like a mouse in her kitchen. One gets the very distinct message that the cops in this show really really would like to be more like the dirty cops in some post-WW2 Hollywood sleaze movie.
I didn't see too much of the touchy-feelie stuff that was a constant complaint in the reviews. The limp-libido relationship she had with Steve Austin, now a Justice Department lawyer who seems to really love him some vigilantie-ism was a total non-starter, though. And the guy who was her company CEO? Yeah. I've met a number of CEOs. "Deeply sensitive" is not a characteristic that is integral to most of their careers. He was more like a grief councilor than a CEO.
Overall, I see why it didn't get picked up. It was kind of all over the map. The heroine was cruel and hard, yet at the same time lonely and trying to convey sympathy for the victims in the show. Her barnacle characters were pretty one-dimensional, but it was just the pilot, I suppose.
It's kind of a pity, though. The WW actress was pretty intense and looked like she was working her butt off. She might have been okay if someone had a better oar in the water, rather than just sort of dipping a spoon in the water to steer the ship.
If they ever try bringing Wonder Woman to the screen again... Gina Carano.
Salma Hayak might have been good around the time she was doing From Dusk Till Dawn.Originally Posted by jason
Dear God that sucked. Normally, I'm all for bad TV pilots, especially superhero ones (I'm looking at you, Greatest American Heroine), but this just made me all stabby.
And, for what it's worth, I maintain that Cobie Smulders is the natural choice for WW.
It wasn't good, I wouldn't have watched it if it'd been picked up by the network, but it wasn't --stabby-- bad.
Saturday Night Live right after they got rid of the original not ready for prime time players, now THAT was stabby bad.
We have a winner.
It kind of was. Totally disjointed mess of nothing remotely interesting or cool-looking. Short of setting my monitor on fire, it pretty much failed in every way possible.
I think the thing that really irritated me was her blatant disregard for the law she's ostensibly trying to uphold, and the fact that nobody holds her accountable for her actions, especially given that David E. Kelly has pretty much made a career out of shows about lawyers and legal procedures.
Spoiler: Spoiler:
Dunno if this was brought up earlier by anyone, but the woman who played Kahlan in Legend of the Seeker would make a great Wonder Woman (Bridget Regan, I believe). She has already proven as Kahlan that she has the choreography down.
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