SATIN TIGHTS NO LONGER. Joss will not be fighting for our rights after all.

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.

Well, sorta. There is that "Goners" movie I can finally finish polishing, and plenty of other things in the hopper I've wanted to pursue. I'm as relieved as I am disappointed, and both of those things lead to drink, so that's a plus. Truly, you may be hearing some interesting things brewing in the coming months. But all potential jets therein will be visible.

But most importantly, I never have to answer THAT question again!!!! And you don't have to link to every rumor site! Finally and forever: I never had an actress picked out, or even a consistant front-runner. I didn't have time to waste on casting when I was so busy air-balling on the script. (No! Rim! There was rim!) That's the greatest relief of all. I can do interviews again!

Thanks for your time. You are the people who make the world go 'round. Or, no, science does that.

-j.

ps All right, it was Cobie Smulders. Sorry, Cobes.

http://whedonesque.com/comments/12385

And I no longer have any interest in seeing it.

From Whedonesque.com:

These types of movies are difficult because they are either gonna come out really good: the last Batman movie, Spiderman and the Superman or its really bad: the last X-men (ugh!) Catwoman (Double ugh!!), the Hulk (ugh infinity!!!!!)

It's like you want to stay true to the legacy and story but you have to adapt it to modern day movie making which can be complicated.

I don't think it's as complicated as all that. It's just a matter of letting the fanboys and girls have the creative control jobs, and not a market research panel or lowest-common denominator pandering exec. All it takes is some twat in a sharp suit who thinks they understand what it takes to make a decent superhero film better than the people who've geeked out their whole lives over these things to fuck up a movie.



P.S. -I will never, ever forgive Bryan Singer for leaving the X-Men franchise and subsequently fucking up what should have been a fantastic movie, X3.

i thought joss was playing wonder woman.

I like Joss but prefer him as a writer (when he can control his urge to be clever).

wonder505 said:

I don't think it's as complicated as all that. It's just a matter of letting the fanboys and girls have the creative control jobs, and not a market research panel or lowest-common denominator pandering exec. All it takes is some twat in a sharp suit who thinks they understand what it takes to make a decent superhero film better than the people who've geeked out their whole lives over these things to fuck up a movie.



P.S. -I will never, ever forgive Bryan Singer for leaving the X-Men franchise and subsequently fucking up what should have been a fantastic movie, X3.

RipHer2Shreds said:

He's too clever when he directs?

sextonseven said:

Uh, that's not what I said. I said he's a good writer when he can control his urge to be clever. He can get mired down in his cute, clever, hip dialogue.

meow85 said:

X3 could have been a lot worse. It could have been 'League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.

meow85 said:

Thank you!

ohh...and superman returns *and* both spiderman films sucked!!!

sosgemini said:

Thank you.

I wish we were done with super heroes.

Although I got a slight interest in the Silver Surfer, but that is just for masturbatory issues.

hollywood needs to realize that Wonder Woman is just not filmable. Who is gonna buy a superhero in that outfit who flies an invisible plan? its just too korny for the big screen.

ohh...and superman returns *and* both spiderman films sucked!!!

ohh...and superman returns *and* both spiderman films sucked!!!

sosgemini said:

In bizarro world maybe.

sextonseven said:

oh come on...superman returns was loathed by many....i concede my distaste for spiderman isn't the norm but both of those movies were way way too long...the special effects laughable and the green goblin in the first film was just straight arse silly.

there...i've said it. feels. so. good.

sosgemini said:

I would hate to hear your opinions of really bad superhero films like 'Howard The Duck' or 'Swamp Thing'.

sextonseven said:

hey, a film is a film and should be judged on its own merits...i make no exceptions because of the genre of film.

and thats part of the problem..."geek directors" seem to want to please geeks soo much that they forget that its a film first and that it needs to stand on its own.

i have to agree with you on Wonder Woman. It's going to be a disaster like Catwoman.