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Vulture is reporting that a new Wonder Woman series is in the earliest stages of development at the CW, home of Smallville and this fall's Arrow. Notes the stie, "Our sources say the new take on the comic book crime fighter is being written by Allan Heinberg (Grey's Anatomy, The O.C.) under the working title Amazon. Unlike past TV incarnations, it will focus on Wonder Woman as a young, budding superhero, rather than a fully formed defender of liberty. (Think Smallville, but instead of a 'no tights, no flights' rule, this show might have a "no bracelets, no crown" mandate.) Heinberg seems a logical candidate for the job: His resume includes work on the kinds of soapy dramas the CW favors as well as comic-geek street cred (he wrote the Young Avengers comic book series back in 2005).
It should be noted that CW is only developing a script at this point; no pilot production has been greenlit or even contractually guaranteed." For more, click HERE.
The website Thinkmcflythink.com (gotta love that name!) is reporting that Warner Bros., which had made note that a Justice League movie was on the table, is developing a Superman/Batman film. States the story, "The studio is also quietly developing a Batman/Superman team-up movie. Similar to Justice League, the Brothers Warner has wanted to get their two biggest superheroes on the same screen together for years. The closest it came to fruition was Batman vs. Superman with Wolfgang Peterson-directing from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker. That fell apart as we all know, but executives loved that script. In a classic case of covering your ass, what we're hearing is two separate incarnations are being tooled. One version where the World's Greatest Detective is firmly established and helps mentor an up-and-coming, fresh-faced Supes and vice versa. Essentially, they're hoping they can woo Christian Bale back into the cape-and-cowl for a fourth time and in case the Oscar-winner tells them, 'No thanks, I'm done!', they'll go for a new actor altogether. Both versions would feature Henry Cavill's Last Son of Krypton."
Editorial Note: While an intriguing notion, any possibility of a Superman/Batman movie would be years away. At least it would seem so, given that Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises hits theatres summer 2012 and Zack Snyder's Man of Steel the following summer. Still, this would be such a preferable idea to the notion of a Justice League movie; it would just be that much more realistic... if that's not too weird a word given the context.
Warner Bros. has released the first official photo of Henry Cavill in costume as Superman in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. The only word that springs to mind is AWESOME!
The L.A. Times' Herocomplex is reporting that acclaimed actor Laurence Fishburne has been cast in the role of Daily Planet editor Perry White in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. Notes the story, "Fishburne is the first African-American to take on the role in any of the many film, television or cartoon versions of Superman’s adventures. Last year was the 70th anniversary of the newsroom character who first appeared on The Adventures of Superman radio serial and then a few months later make his on-the-page box in the seventh issue of Superman. Fishburne, whose credits include The Matrix, Apocalypse Now and Mystic River, has just left the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation after just 2½ seasons as Dr. Raymond Langston." He'll next been seen in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion. For more, click HERE.
