Wonder Woman - when in doubt, make a TV pilot
This week in the midst of firing out CVs for subbing jobs, I came across the news that suddenly, despite over six years of development hell for the Wonder Woman film franchise, that American network NBC are currently filming a TV pilot ? With Liz Hurley playing a villain. Truly a villainous decision in itself, but I digress.....what was wrong with making the movie? I guess when faced with the risks between a live action multi-million movie or a smaller budget TV pilot, the studio financiers would opt for the latter. However, Watchmen was mired in purgurtory for over a decade, yet the movie was eventually made. Can you actually imagine Watchmen developed as a TV show? To me the WW TV pilot is a cop out; how is it that nobody seems capable of writing a big-budget movie script depicting one of comic's greatest superheroines? Let's look at the evidence. Pitof's lamentable effort Catwoman (2004) featured one of Gotham's wiliest anti-heroines without - wait for it...