Just the knowledge that there are improvements that can be made, and they have the power to make them. Perhaps we’re so used to the “tragic” origin of the superhero that executives have trouble wrapping their heads around a superhero who doesn’t have dead parents, a dead planet, dead girlfriend, a drinking problem, an evil brother, or a giant green rage monster trapped inside them to motivate them to do good. She comes, after all, from a utopian society founded not just by philosophers, but primarily by warriors. What’s unique about Wonder Woman in the DC universe is that she’s a character who doesn’t hesitate to kill, once all other options, including kindness, negotiation, and second chances have been exhausted. But while I do think that Wonder Woman is a great character to, as Marvel has done with Captain America, explore a rare completely non-cynical view of the modern superhero myth, I don’t think sweetness is the way to do it. There’s nothing “merely” about that definition when it comes to Wonder Woman, and it’s my only problem with her New 52 title. I agree with her when she says that executives who see Wonder Woman as merely a “female version of a male superhero” are kind of missing the point. There’s got to be a sweetness, a kindness, a goodness in the character. … There’s a humanity that they’re missing. It’s like, ‘Hellooooo guys, get a female that understands what that’s all about.’ You look at any society that suppresses women, and it’s violent. I’ve often tried not to say that, but I think it’s the truth. Maybe they need a female writer who gets it. She’s smart, and she just happens to be beautiful and super strong, and she has these great cool things like these bracelets and boomerang headband and non-lethal kinds of ways of dealing with people… She is an Amazon Princess and she’s got really strong sisterhood values. I think they try to just make her a female version of a male superhero, and that’s not what she is. Lynda Carter, the last woman to play the Amazon Princess in a live action adaptation, thinks she knows why Hollywood has struggled to adapt a version of the character that makes it to screens.Ĭarter, who is in the middle of partnering with DC comics in their We Can Be Heroes campaign against hunger in Africa, tells ETOnline: With the release of a long awaited and well produced Wonder Woman fan film today, the discussion of why she hasn’t had a feature film adaptation, while her counterparts Batman and Superman have had nearly twenty between them, has been riding high.
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