Joss Whedon off of Wonder Woman

S.M.B.

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.

Quite a big Whedon fan here so I don't know what to make of this news. Mixed feelings really! Was anyone else looking forward to Joss' WW?

Karl Hungus

Can't say I'm a huge Whedon fan (He's great, but hardly the greatest) and I certainly wasn't looking forward to Wonder Woman, but I think any chance of the film actually being good has just gone down the drain. Studios seem more interested in snatching up some nobody director who can't afford to get on their bad side, rather than have to wrestle with someone who has vision like Whedon.

S.M.B.

I agree that the chances of this being anyway decent have rapidly decreased. I like the way the situation has been handled though. Rather than trying to force Joss into changes further down the line they just decide to part company at an early stage.

madrab

well hopefully this will give whedon a cahnce to start a new project to delight us with (or hopefully some more firefly/serenity)

I love all Whedon's work and had mixed feelings about Wonder Woman. It's one of the few comics I could never get into, but I still had high hopes for the film due to Whedon's involvement.

Hopefully he can get financing for a Serenity sequel and make me the happiest boy in the world.

qwertplaywert

WAS REALLY looking foward to this one......im a huge Whedon fanboy[not ashamed of it!]

hopefully now he will pursue getting finance for the spike movie