
With Superman in theaters, another major piece of James Gunn‘s strategy for DC Comics‘ return to box-office glory is falling into place. Ana Nogueira has been hired to pen the script for Wonder Woman, the latest big-screen outing for DC‘s premiere heroine. The film has not been formally announced yet, nor does it have a director, star, or projected release date.
Variety reports that DC is fast-tracking the project, which represents one of the studio’s most famous and successful characters. Nogueira is a veteran TV actor, with credits on The Vampire Diaries, The Blacklist, and Hightown. She’s recently made the pivot to screenwriting; her first movie script was DC‘s Supergirl, which will fly into theaters next summer with Milly Alcock filling the red boots of the Maiden of Might. Gunn is clearly pleased with her work, as she’s also slated to pen the first-ever live-action big-screen adventure of the Teen Titans for the studio, one of many projects DC Comics has in the works. Don’t expect that one any time soon, though, as Gunn recently noted that they haven’t started casting it.
Who Is Wonder Woman?
Created in 1941’s All Star Comics #8 by writer William Moulton Marston and artist H.G. Peter, Wonder Woman is the daughter of Queen Hippolyta, ruler of Themyscira (also known as Paradise Island). Raised in an all-female society to be their superheroic champion, Wonder Woman is Themyscira’s representative to the outside world, and battles evil with both her tremendous superhuman abilities and the powers of truth and love. The character has been adapted for the silver and small screens numerous times. Lynda Carter embodied the character in a popular, if campy, 1970s TV show, while the character made the leap to movie theaters for the first time in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which she was played by Israeli actress Gal Gadot. Gadot went on to reprise the character in two solo films of her own, as well as Justice League and The Flash.
Gadot initially planned to return to the character for a third solo Wonder Woman movie helmed by Patty Jenkins, but those plans were swept away in the Gunn-led reboot of the comics company’s big- and small-screen slates. Another Wonder Woman project is in the works, in the form of Paradise Island, an HBO series focusing on Wonder Woman’s Amazonian compatriots.
Wonder Woman is in development; no director or star has yet been announced.
via Collider
