The author got this story completely wrong, and I don't need as much space to get it right as he did to get it wrong.
The correct reason we can't have a Wonder Woman movie is simple: no one can hold a candle to Lynda Carter. She was the epitome of Wonder Woman. Anyone else would be a mere shadow.
Who would look as good as Lynda Carter, but be humble enough not to show that she looked that good? Who is athletic enough to play the role? Who has the perfect mix of toughness and humanity and compassion to pull off that role as well as Lynda Carter? Answer: no one.
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You are absolutely right, IMO. When I first saw Lynda Carter in that role, I thought they could not have found a better person for the job. She was the physical embodiment of the cartoon character, and portrayed it perfectly.
I felt the same way about Christopher Reeve in the role of Superman. In my mind, there is no other Superman. He was just too perfect.
Darren: "The correct reason we can't have a Wonder Woman movie is simple: no one can hold a candle to Lynda Carter. She was the epitome of Wonder Woman. Anyone else would be a mere shadow."
This is why we can't have a *GOOD* Wonder Woman movie. But the 1998 Avengers movie (without Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee ... and without any clear way to meet the high expectation that they set in the 1960s) show that Hollywood is quite capable of making bad remakes with actors that can't hold a candle to the original actors.
The 2008 movie "The Women" was created just to make sure that those of us with a statistical bent wouldn't worry about small sample sizes for bad remakes :-)
-Mark Roulo
How about Emma Stone?
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