Justin Bruening (Steve Trevor), on the other hand, isn’t quite up to par: “It’s like watching a cardboard standout.”.Adrianne Palicki (Wonder Woman) and Tracie Thoms (Wonder Woman’s assistant) acquit themselves well, or about as well as they could given the “not very good” script.Fight scenes are “adequate,” and involve a lot of lassoing and wire work.The violence in the pilot is “over-the-top”: “Wonder Woman would kill people without even blinking an eye.”. –With this season’s Hawaii Five-0 and Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica standing as notable exceptions, TV remakes have a rough track record (see: Bionic Woman, Knight Rider, Melrose Place, etc).Ī partial review of the pilot episode of Wonder Woman (2011) from a test screening at Universal Studios (no spoilers…like it matters anymore though): Since then we’ve seen Buffy, Ripley, Sarah Connor and a gazillion other girls kicking butt. –Decades ago, when the concept of feminism was still a national debate, the idea of a “Wonder Woman” - a tough female action hero - was a novel idea. –The cheese factor: Modern audiences take their superheroes seriously, and the ultra-kitschy Wonder Woman - a golden lasso? Bullet-stopping bracelets? - is a tough sell nowadays. Was someone in wardrobe obsessed with copying Sandy’s pants from Grease? –Test screenings had mixed-to-negative buzz. Ultimately, the wardrobe department went back to the drawing board but that didn’t seem to save the project.Įntertainment Weekly reason’s against Wonder Woman (2011): And then there was all the online blow back about the costume – which seemed to de-emphasize the patriotism and play up the comic’s Greek mythology. NBC isn’t saying for now but scuttlebutt reveals the pilot earned mixed reviews at test screenings. Why did the ‘ol girl fail to pass muster? could conceivably try to shop the pilot elsewhere, but given that no one seemed to want it in the first place, the chances of it being picked up seem slim. This will no doubt draw some knowingly rueful chuckles from execs at other networks, all of which passed on the chance to even produce the pilot.
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