• The only reason I will tune in is to hopefully see some good catfights. I would like to see Wonder Woman win and lose, and I hope that they are good fights and not the campy crap with a bunch of cutaways and external male interrupts breaking it up.

• Ugh. It's worse than I thought. Have a read: - Pages 61-66: Diana and Myndi have a "sleepover," complete with ice cream ("It's been a three-scoop day") as they watch Katy Perry's sexually suggestive Wonder Woman homage music video and "scream like schoolgirls." Later, Diana glimpses her original costume in the closet (the Lynda Carter one!) and sadly stares at a picture of herself and Steve in happier times, before crying herself to sleep.

• That's grim news. I'm not sensing any real "synergy" from this particular WB/NBC team-up. Mostly, it seems like a way for David E. Kelly to get "back in there" with a carbon copy of his standard formula. - This is why I'm glad I'm not in the industry or part of Hollywood: I would lose my cool and tell some executive what an obtuse asshole he is, and then I'd be out of the business and unable to make a direct-to-cable movie in that town.

• Just the fact that it's a superhero show on NBC is enough to make me cringe.

• Yeah, to reiterate what "anonymous" said, the scene is absolutely real and is in the script. The script blows. Hard. I can only hope that this sucker doesn't make it past the pilot stage. Sadly, whether the show is ditched before it makes it to air or cancelled after six episodes (really the only remotely realistic options), it's going to put the Wonder Woman character on ice for a looong time. What a shame.

• If the stuff they say is truly in the script, It's gonna take more than a little charisma to pull off this drek.

• Granted you may have seen much worse....but in some part she is being judged on this tape, he delivery on every line is that bad that there is literally no way he performance here could land her a role. A good actress could make this horrible horrible script almost bearable.

• Ask 99% of the Worlds population who Power Girl is and they'll look at you with a blank stare. The only reason this is even getting a shot is because it has the Wonder Woman title.

• Power Girl would have fit better...she's as powerful as Superman, has a huge rack and runs her own company. Power Girl is also a strong female character, but still occasionally has doubts and insecurities, unlike Diana. Plus, since she's been in the JSA, JLA and Birds of Prey, it's easy for any DC universe character to show up without it feeling forced.

• I'd like to think I'm a pretty educated guy, well-read, and thorough in my attention to detail.<br> But this is the third time I've read an article related to this, this week, and I keep reading her name as TAINT PHOENIX.<br> Dear Dark Horse, have I got a character for you...

• Also, David E. Kelly is next in line for getting the Wicker Man treatment.

• I just think it's cool that someone is named Tanit after the Phoenician/Carthaginian goddess.

• I think Batman survives the process because he doesn't have any powers. Stay with me on this... I think Warner Bros. live-action television and film producers don't know what the fuck to do with super powered characters. They have NO IDEA how to make them interesting or relate-able to the non-comics fans. They think the only way to handle super powered characters is to make them funny or "quirky", or to go the opposite direction and be all gritty and 1990s (which only works with Batman). So we get Superman movies that continue to throw Lex Luthor at us as a villain. We get Wonder Woman TV shows that weaken her to the point of her being a normal woman with some magic bracelets, a rope, and a plane. We get Batman TV shows that are campy. Guaranteed that Green Lantern is going to be borderline comedy. We get a Flash show that tries to mimic Batman 1989 at first, but quickly degrades to mimicking Batman Forever or Batman & Robin, instead. We get Joel Schumacher directing Batman & Robin. We get Catwoman boiled down to a moron in torn pants. We get Smallville that spends 99% of the time trying to avoid showing powers, costumes, or anything that stops the cliche story from meandering onward. And you know, all DC has to do to make a successful series of live action superhero shows and/or movies is to give complete control over the DC characters film & television license to Dini & Timm. If they did that, we wouldn't get this hokey Wonder Woman shit. We'd get a great run from those guys... I know it.

• Yeah. That's one of the things that irks me the most about this. She has the beauty of Aphrodite, the strength of Heracles, etc. -- She is more perfect than any human could be. This version probably won't even be able to fly. She'll have a stupid invisible plane. And she'll talk about being "born" on Paradise Island. We can't have our everywoman protagonist on prime time television telling people she was forged from clay and imbued with life by the gods. This ain't Wonder Woman. This is fucking Ally McBeal with a gold rope.

• See? I told you it was going to be <b>Diana McBeal</b>. This gives no credence to the comic book character as she currently stands. It's just a cheap update to the 70s TV show version, but mixed in with some Ally McBeal/Sex in the City/Gilmore Girls to "modernize" it. It's going to be filled with this "snappy banter" and lots of "modern gal" fluff... And we're not going to see one second of the Amazon princess who was molded from clay and given the powers of the gods. We're not going to see armor forged by Hephaestus, or Diana brandishing a sword and shield as she charges into a fight. She's going to live in a world where there are no other super heroes, and she's going to be a mishmash cliche of "busy modern gal juggling career and inter-office romance" while having lots of sassy gossip-sessions with her gal-pals. The very thought of it makes me want to retch. They could have used any number of lesser DC characters... You know, the ones that aren't iconic, or able to stand toe-to-toe with Superman. Instead, they're <i>calling</i> this "Wonder Woman" but paying no attention to the character's actual personality, powers, history, origins, or attitude. Wonder Woman may have changed a lot over the years, but she was never a fluffy bimbo who gossiped about guys and complained about the size of her tits. Fuck you, David E. Kelly. Fuck you right in the ear.

• That script's been out on the internet for some time now. Considering the fact that all her "auditions" are in the same location, it's pretty clear that she cribbed the script from the net and tried to pass this off as a "real" audition for free publicity. I'm also pretty sure Phoenix isn't her real last name anymore than Vin's Diesel's is.

• But mother shes got big cans.

• She can't even deliver the Line about her breasts beeing to small. Well, OK, they are fine like they are and shouldn't been bigger, but thats still not acting. i second your Obvious Attention Whore is obvious.

• Jeez, I couldn't take 60 seconds of that. My beer has more character.

• I didn't know there was doubt that this wasn't going to turn out well...

• its not pronounced that way?

• This is real. I work in "the industry" and these are the audition sides that were released. They actually auditioned hundreds of girls, but Adrianne is the only one they TESTED - which is industry lingo for auditioning in front of all the studio honchos and then all of the network honchos. I feel bad for Tanit... this type of stuff isn't meant to be scene but tons of people. This is called a self-tape; it's an audition Tanit did to send to her agent, who was to send it to casting. It's raw and far from a finished product... all things considered it's not that bad. I've seen much much worse.

• Uh, if she was using actual material from the script, then I imagine she was indeed trying to audition. Where is all the hatred for her hotness coming from?

• I think its gonna be more like "Ally McBeal" meets "The Cape" only awful.

• Plus Diana was gifted with beauty by the gods, so she is in essence the most beautiful woman alive. What the hell would she have to feel insecure about?

• Obvious Attention Whore is obvious. "Look at my fake auditions! Hire me because i'm pretty! Only ugly people need talent! LOOK AT ME!"

• Oh please tell me this is an early April Fools joke. Please. PLEASE.

• Not that I am pining for Whedon, I actually think he is overrated, or that I think this should TRY to be Buffy-like, but, but if they fail to make it smart, a little funny, a lot dramatic, and maybe even a little scary..it will fail. Buffy set the bar for female heroes..there's a lot to live up to.

• I don't know whether it's my unyielding addiction to porn or my general apathy for 80% of the Justice League characters, but when I read Diana Prince, I immediately thought of the porn star.

• Hey, remember when they made Catwoman into Hally Berry playing a murdered artist out for revenge on evil cosmetic exsec Sharon Stone? Remember when Birds of Prey became more of an Mutant X knockoff than anything about Gotham City and any of the actual characters from the book? Remember when Smallville did.. well take your pick of anyone from Sueprgirl to Flash to Bizzaro to Mister Mxyzptlk. Hell, I don't even need to go into failed pilots like the 90s Justice League that tried to come across as MTV's The Real World with superheros or the Aquaman Smallville spinoff. The ones that made it to air are bad enough. I don't care if David E Kelly is involved. Warners and DC cannot make a TV show out of one of its characters to save its life. Maybe the best recent try was Lois and Clark, but even that had a ton of problems. Hell, they couldn't even relaunch Superman in films right. That Batman got a decent film restart is a miracle.

• Hollywood and TV exsecs think all women need to be neurotic and insecure, especially about their physical looks. Really, how else do you expect them to sell all their cosmetic ads during the commercial breaks for the show?

• If Warner / NBC / David E Kelly wanted a super strong yet insecure DC heroine.. and one who's a CEO... Why not pick up Power Girl? This sounds like a scene out of one of her comics. Though moreso the other way around, that her chest is too big and people look at it too much. Of course, networks want brand recognition. If the character the brand is based on is preserved or turned into an entirely new unrecognizable character, they don't give two shits. All they want is that trademarked name. A friend of mine was talking about a SomethingAwful forum thread where someone in the industry was explaining how Hollywood wants brand name recognition over new names and concepts. That's why you see so many damned sequels and remakes, even if they're in name only.

• I know! If David E Kelly wants an insecure yet super strong super heroine, why not use She Hulk?! Hell, she's already a lawyer. Yeah, the Dan Slott run is a perfect example. He definitely ran with the Ally McBeal aspect.

• "The bad news? Well, it's that the content of the scene -- about Wonder Woman wishing her tits were bigger -- is part of the Wonder Woman TV script that's floating around. Now, I'm not 100% sure the script is authentic, but a lot of folks think it is." Well, the animated movie had Steve say "Your daughter has a nice rack". So I wouldn't be surprised at all if that was authentic.

• I'll just stick with the DC cartoon movie...that was well done :D

• And is this actual dialogue? WW has never quipped about publicity and her outward appearance. She's an Amazon princess! I'm sure any sexually oppressive comment (especially made by any mortal man)would be met with a lasso and kick to the groin.

• same here.

• ... and then Peter David came along and tossed out the Superpowered Law aspects of the book that made it so much fun. Still haven't figured out why that happened.

• So this is the big updating we're getting for WW for today's woman. Instead of a strong, self assured amazon, we get an insecure whiney flake. Wonder Woman indeed.

• Wait wasn't she in Lost Boys 3? The one who writes the "supernatural bo-dice rippers"? Am I alone in liking that film?

• The whole thing just makes me think of a shitty version of She-Hulk, specifically the awesome Dan Slott run from a couple years back She's a lawyer but she's also a big green superhero: she has complicated relationships with male superheroes; they go into the "archives" of Marvel comics to do reseach etc Seems like they're trying to do a TV version of that but dropping all the wit, humour and style And also shoe-horning WW into it instead of Shulkie Man I miss that SHe-Hulk. Remember when she realised that she could make the She-Hulk part of her exponentially stronger by working out in her human form? Brilliant stuff. Guaranteed this show will have nothing of that calibre

• As a South African, I think I speak for all when I say I'm really, really happy she didn't get the role...

• Who else kept reading her name as "Taint"?

• Unless she is banging Booster Gold on the show I don't see why she would care about her action figure or any other merchandise.

• Keep in mind that this show is being created by David Kelly, AKA the man behind Ally McBeal. So...I wouldn't keep your hopes too high for this one.

• Given her filmography, I can't say I am surprised. But this does not bode well at all for the series...or the WW brand.

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