Deadline.com is reporting that Wonder Woman, the most famous female superhero of all time, may be coming back to television, in a series written and produced by David E. Kelley, the creator of Ally McBeal, Boston Public, and other shows.
Kelley is working with DC Comics, the publisher of the Wonder Woman comic, to develop the series. No network is yet attached.
It’s not known if the Wonder Woman reboot will follow the comic’s current incarnation (which was recently updated), the “classic” version from the 1940s (after the character was created in 1941), or some altogether new version.
Wonder Woman was previously a TV series, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, that famously starred Lynda Carter who became strongly associated with the role. It ran from 1975 to 1979 on both ABC and CBS.
A live-action movie version of the character’s story has also long been in the works, and is reportedly still in active development.
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I would be far more excited about this except for David’s name being attached to it. I have fears of Diana and a dancing baby…
Potentially EXCELLENT news.
I’m not a fan of the recent “reboot” in the comic books (with the new costume and the new “origin” that has disturbing similarities to the origins of both Batman and Superman), but even if the TV series used the “reboot” version of Wonder Woman, I would be tuning in each and every week for as long as it was on air.
A movie franchise would have been good, but the possibility of multiple seasons of a TV series with the vast supporting cast of Hippolyta, Steve Trevor, Etta Candy, Circe, Ares, Cheetah, Donna Troy, Cassie, Artemis, etc is even better. It will be very interesting to see how this develops (if it develops past its current stage).