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How come Warner Bros./DC never made a Wonder Woman movie w/ Lynda Carter?

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (19392)
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Especially when DC was making their Superman movies with Christopher Reeve and the initial Batman movies with Michael Keaton. I wonder if the failure of 1984's Supergirl movie with Helen Slater scared them off on the idea of making anymore female lead superhero movies for a long while.

Regardless, even by around 1992, Lynda Carter if you ask me, still looked credible enough to play Diana on screen. Her costume would naturally, had to have been updated in order to be more "presentable" (i.e. not as campy looking) on the big screen.

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[–] pioneergrrrl (2388) 2 years ago

Supergirl came at the tail end of this when both Wonder Woman and Charlies Angels were off the air--which was a mistake. They needed to have a movie about a female comicbook hero while it was on.

I don't think the studios knew how to make it appeal to everyone....to girls who wanted a role model and then guys who basically wanted a T&A flick.

Supergirl yes had to rescue the power source for her home planet (how do they manage to stay alive while she is gone?) but her other big battle is fighting over a guy each barely knows. Superman rescues Lois--but they are established co-workers as Clark and Lois so of course they would fall in love. They could have omitted him and just had Selena try to dominate the world. It would have been far more plausible a plot.

Diana of course has to rescue Steve--who she knows much better. So yes they should have gone ahead with this. It's also possible Carter had other commitments/ did not want the schedule a film involved. And the studios realized Wonder Woman would not be plausible without her.