Hot off the heels of this weekend’s Wonder Woman Day, we at Blog@ found an interesting article from Sci Fi TV Zone, with Deborah Joy Levine. Levine, who created the Lois and Clark television show, apparently was also contacted to create a similar Wonder Woman series.
Here is a highlight from an unearthed interview from way back when:
I guess my new take is that she is a Greek history professor, a young and very bright woman having a hard time juggling her personal life with her work. In this case, of course, her real work is being an Amazon warrior. It’s, like, “I’ll save the world, come home, pop a Lean Cuisine in the oven and watch the soap I taped this afternoon.”
Obviously, the show didn’t take off — and while I dug Lois and Clark (I was seven, give me a break), part of me doesn’t feel bad about this dropped Wondy show at all. As I’ve said to my colleagues before, Wonder Woman is — repeat, is — a good enough property to tell straight, without Sex and the City trappings. And if she was going to riff on another show, wouldn’t Diana merit the West Wing meets superheroics, instead? What do you think, Rama Readers?
October 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Deborah Joy Levine suposedly also wrote a treatment for an unmade Little Orphan Annie film/reboot.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:15 am
All Wonder Woman pilots pale before the awe and majesty of the William Dozier pilot.
http://cool-mo-dee.blogspot.com/2009/05/william-doziers-wonder-woman-pilot.html
This thing sucked so bad it’ll make your ears pop.
If Batman drove collectors under ground, this would have driven them into the mantle of the earth.
October 26th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
While I do think there’s a bit of latent sexism inherent in trying to do Wonder Woman as Sex in the City, I’d also say that live-action TV simply harbors an aversion to costumes and codenames that movies and cartoons do not. Lois & Clark always seemed embarrassed when it had to accommodate Dean Cain wearing the suit, in the midst of the office banter between him and Teri Hatcher, and Smallville basically had Superman forming what amounted to the Justice League before he even officially BECAME Superman.
The superhero-as-politician angle would be genuinely unique for television, and a great fit for Wonder Woman, but TV too often assumes that we can’t relate to the protagonists of any drama unless there are some obligatory scenes of them emptying cat litter boxes or somesuch.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Sounds like ass (and not a really great, let’s say… Lynda Carter, ass either). Glad this didn’t one didn’t happen.