By Jason Apuzzo. Hey! Word broke today that Friday Night Lights‘ Adrianne Palicki will be the new Wonder Woman in David E. Kelley’s reboot of that TV series for Warner Brothers. My first reaction? So far, so good – at least in the looks department. I assume, incidentally, that Ms. Palicki will be playing the role as a brunette (she’s worked previously as both a blonde and as a brunette).
Whether this new TV series will be in any way working off the D.C. Comics reboot of the character, a reboot which sparked a controversy last year (which we covered extensively here at Libertas), is unclear. Here, however, is how the series is described over at Deadline:
In the reboot, from Warner Bros. TV, Wonder Woman/Diana Prince (Palicki) is a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.
So there it is. We apparently can have successful female corporate executives on TV, by the way, but not in the Governor’s office in Sacramento.
And on that point, since Diana Prince is now going to be a corporate executive, I definitely advise her not to bother doing business here in California, where Warner Brothers is based – because it’s too expensive. Try Texas or Arizona instead. Or perhaps she could tie the ‘lasso of truth’ around our new/old California governor, and get him to admit that we’re all going to be living out of garbage cans if he raises taxes? Perhaps they could put that in the pilot episode!
In other superhero news, incidentally, we’re also today getting the first, semi-official look at the new Superman, Brit actor Henry Cavill, in the latest edition of EW.
There’s been a certain amount of controversy lately over the fact that he’s a Brit playing an iconic American character, but since America seems to be outsourcing everything these days, why not our Superman? [Sigh.] My choice for Superman would’ve been Mark Sanchez.
Posted on February 17th, 2011 at 10:46am.
It’s the Obama era – Michael Cera would be more appropriate.
Right. My mistake.
I have no problem with Cavill as Superman. The last Superman we had was an American and look how that turned out. I could care less if he is a foreigner, he’s acting. As long as he plays the role well, it doesn’t really matter where he is from.
But would you feel the same way if he was French? 😉