Wonder Woman Movie News

[Brian Damage]

Unless something changes (and considering Joel Silver is producing, it likely will) before someone types ‘on’ the credits, it’ll be Brent Strickland and Matthew Jennison’s names you’ll be seeing listed as the writers of the long-gestating “Wonder Woman” movie.

School-buds Strickland and Jennison sold their “Wonder Woman” spec script to producer Silver a couple of years back. He consequently hired them to update the script – namely change the time period the story is set in (the spec was a period piece; Silver wants a contemporary piece).

‘’Since we turned that in, Silver Pictures has gone through some changes and we're waiting to see how they decide to proceed’’, a cautious Strickland tells CineFools.

Strickland says he and Jennison ‘’ took liberties on our spec Wonder Woman, but we also used a ton of stuff from the comic. My feeling is that ultimately something iconic like Wonder Woman needs to be a hybrid of the source material and the writer's original inspiration. We feel an obligation to the fan base not only to treat the property with respect, but also to make it fresh - to reinvent the story without reinventing the wheel, so to speak. We enjoyed the research because her backstory often revealed things we could use and build on. I think fans would dig it.’’

The scribe says he’d like the film to be “a ride. It should be a lot of fun in a world taken seriously. There should be breathtaking action sequences alongside character beats that allow the audience to relate to this Amazon princess, and moments where they get to laugh but not because it's campy. People have described the spec as Wonder Woman meets Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think that's a pretty good tone. However it ends up, I hope it will be seriously fun.’’

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[MickeyMac]

I've never even heard of these writers.