Producer Joel Silver spoke to Sci-Fi Wire about the upcoming “Wonder Woman” film, which is still moving forward and will tell the superhero’s origins.
“I thought for a while that I didn’t want to do a genesis story of Wonder Woman,” explained Silver. “And so the first few drafts I created weren’t genesis stories. And I don’t know, maybe after I saw Spider-Man or whatever, I thought that it should be a genesis story. And then I had to kind of go back to the drawing board, because I had a version that the studio wanted to make that was not a genesis story.”
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon turned in one script for a Wonder Woman movie before leaving the project last year. Writers Matthew Jennison and Brent Strickland, whose original spec script was purchased by Warner Brothers, are currently working on a new draft. Jennison and Strickland’s script was set in World War II, but Silver said that he doesn’t want to do a period story. Wonder Woman is based on the long-running DC Comics franchise about an Amazonian superhero.
“I just think it should be a genesis story, and I’ve got to find a way to tell it,” Silver said. “Because whenever I got into the stuff, you know, Paradise Island and stuff, it was kind of goofy. But I’ve got to find a way to do it where it’s effective. I mean, I thought some of the stuff they did in 300 was great. I don’t know if I want to make it that way, but, I mean, I think there’s a way to do this where the audience is going to accept it. But I’ve got to figure it out.”
As for Jennison and Strickland’s screenplay, Silver said: “It was a good script. They wrote a good script, and I liked it. But I think that I don’t want to make that movie that way. I want it to be a contemporary story.”
Silver described the project as being “tabled for a while now,” but added that he is still determined to find a way to make it work. “It’s sitting there, and when I figure out a way to do it, I’ll do it,” he said.
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