Tag: Wonder Woman

Yesterday's Kim Masters piece on the WB superhero program revealed a lot of behind-the-scenes disarray, especially with the long problematic Wonder Woman movie. Five...

SKMBT_C55413062109020 I was at HeroesCon a few years back and ran into Jill Thompson. "Whatcha working on, Jill?" I asked. She said it was secret, but showed me a page of art with an island on it. So I guess that Jill Thompson's Wonder Woman project has been a badly kept "Secret" for a while. However on FB yesterday she cleared up what the project is and even gave it a name:

Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes

A wee bit more gossip has emerged about director Michelle MacLaren departing the Wonder Woman movie, courtesy of Badass Digest:

As one female-fronted superhero film begins to get its building blocks into place, another one hits a big snag

It's the start of another week, here's your collection of headlines that are making some waves today

This week DC has been revealing new looks for its core characters, including some startling fashion changes. The new looks have been revealed in various places We've cobbled it all up for you below but here's the shorter version:

A weekend round-up of assorted entertainment headlines just before the Oscars

§ Jack Katz, 87, creator of the oddball self published space fantasy epic The First Kingdom, and Golden Age artist, is indiegogoing a new project, called, encouragingly, Beyond the Beyond. It will run to some 800 pages, but he's good for it. The tale is streamlined from an riginal 1000+ outline, but his agent told him he might not have time to finish it. Not much is revealed of the story, and the art shown is tiny, but...it is certain to be wild.

  Great Hera! Variety has reported that Michelle Maclaren will direct Warner Bros' "Wonder Woman" standalone motion picture. There's still a lot we don't know...

Word on the street of late has been that a female director had been approached to direct the 2017 Gal Gadot Wonder Woman movie. Who could it be? Lena Dunham? Miranda July? Well now a name has emerged and it's Michelle McLaren. If you're a fastidious credit watcher you've seen McLaren's name in the credits of The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. With a resume like that how could she NOT direct a superhero movie? IN particular, she directed some of the most brutal and riveting Breaking Bad episodes, showing she knows her way around a meth lab at least.

Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman, talks about how the Amazons origins are tied up with the history of suffrage and birth control and nicely sums up the history of women in comics in a couple of paragraphs: