‘Wonder Woman’ Fan Trailer Brings The Amazon Princess To Life [Video]
Wonder Woman has finally been revived in a short fan trailer that shows the Amazon Princess doing battle on Earth and back in her homeland of Themyscira.
On Earth, Wonder Woman takes on a group of bad guys, including one who doesn’t seem so sure he wants to fight. And for good reason — when he fires at Wonder Woman, the bullets bounce off her bracelets. In Themyscira, Wonder Woman hits a giant horned beast with a spear as her Amazon sisters cheer. Back on Earth at the end of the clip, she looks up to the sky and ascends.
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Creator Sam Balcomb explained that he and his team spent most of 2013 working on the two and a half minute trailer.
“Whether you like, or dislike, our live action interpretation of Diana of Themyscira, Wonder Woman, born of clay, I think (quite a few of) you will agree she is a character just as vital and crucial to our understanding of humanity as any other superhero… if not more so,” Balcomb wrote in the trailer’s description.
He added, “It’s a scant two and half minutes, but in the end, it’s one hundred and fifty seconds of pure fantasy, where I get to consider the two sides of my favorite warrior: a crusader in man’s world, and a paragon of virtue told through Greek mythology.”
The actress playing Wonder Woman, Rileah Vanderbilt, previously appeared in the horror films Frozen and Hatchet.
The Amazon Princess hasn’t appeared on-screen since Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman series was canceled in the late 1970s. Several attempts have been made to revive the character, including a 2011 TV series written by David E. Kelley for NBC and an origin series over at The CW. NBC opted not to buy the Kelley series, which starred Adrianne Palicki, Cary Elwes, and Elizabeth Hurley, and The CW has put its series, Amazon, “on pause.”
Carter, who played Wonder Woman from 1975 to 1979, said she believes reboot attempts have failed because writers don’t understand the character’s “sisterhood values.” She suggested that studio executives hire a female writer who “understands what that’s all about.”
