As the season of television series pickups, renewals, and cancellations draws to a close there’s only a few more shows whose future hang in the balance. One of those is NBC’s Hannibal, which still hasn’t received confirmation whether it’ll be renewed or not, and does not appear on the NBC’s fall schedule. Another is the CW‘s Wonder Woman prequel, Amazon.

At CW’s upfronts earlier today, CW Topper Mark Pedowitz confirmed with Entertainment Weekly Amazon wasn’t dead, but remains in development and won’t be seen in the coming 2013-2014 season.

Oh God, yes. It’s being redeveloped. We don’t want to produce something that doesn’t do the franchise justice. It’s the trickiest of all the DC characters.

A leaked casting notice from last year told us who they’re looking to cast as the Amazon Princess. They want a young woman, as this series will be exploring Diana’s teenage years, though the casting names the woman as Iris, and she must be 5’8 or taller. Diana– err, Iris, comes from a, “secluded country where she was raised as a solider in a brutal environment. Now a stranger in a strange modern big city, she’s a fierce warrior with the innocent heart of a romantic ­ and she will fight to the death to make the world safe.”

Pedowitz assures EW these “basics” are still present in their development of Amazon, but that they need to work on perfecting the execution. Which I’m all for. If they do a Wonder Woman televisions series, they need to do it right. Think we’ll see Amazon in another year or so? Or is the Amazonian not fit for TV?

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Damon Lindelof has a knack for dividing fandom, think Lost or Prometheus, but he’s also got a reputation for being a fixer, like he did with the climax issues around the upcoming World War Z. Well, if Lindelof is so smart, why doesn’t he tells us how he get Justice League in front of the cameras finally? Well, the Hollywood Reporter put that question to the writer/producer during a recent round of press for Star Trek Into Darkness.

“The Justice League problem? I think a lot of that depends on Man of Steel,” Lindelof explains. “The Justice League problem is not a problem of, who is the bad guy that Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, Superman, whoever you decide to pit them against. The problem is: What’s the tone of that movie? They’ve been struggling with launching their own tone.

Tell us more Lindelof, and cite specific examples.

“The tone of Green Lantern is very different from the tone of The Dark Knight,” Lindelof says. “They clearly inhabit two entirely different worlds. You want to feel like someone is establishing a world where the Justice League can exist, maybe Man of Steel is that movie. If Man of Steel works, and it’s great, I think it starts to make sense where Paradise Island is in that world. Because that’s an entirely different world than the one [Dark Knight director] Christopher Nolan introduced.”

He’s right, but I don’t think anyone was ever looking at Nolan’s Bat-films as part of a shared universe situation. It can be done, obviously, but the studio needs to ask itself: do they want to create good films whether or not they fit into a larger schism, or push hard for Justice League not caring whether they’re producing anything of quality or not. Lately, it’s seemed that Warners has been eying the latter and not the former.

Before signing off, Lindelof did talk about another matter concerning Man of Steel, its PG-13 rating. Let’s let the man himself explain:

“It should be PG,” says Lindelof. “In the spirit of not throwing stones from the glass house in which one resides, the same should be said of Star Trek. The limitation between PG and PG-13, particularly as it pertains to violence — there’s no sex in Star Trek. There are a couple of ‘s-words,’ but only because we already knew we were going to get PG-13. They are easily excisable. I always loved that moment in ‘Temple of Doom’ when Indy says, ‘s—.’ Because that’s exactly what he would say. You don’t use it to be gratuitous, but it’s what a character would say in that moment. Donner’s Superman is a very adult movie. It doesn’t feel like it’s being whitewashed or watered down in any way. It feels real, cool, fun, escapist and upbeat. The larger thing for Man of Steel is like, ‘Yes, we all are consuming darker stories.’ Again, glass house. But it’s like, ‘Is there any way we can get the word dark in it?’”

What do you Bastards think of Lindelof’s comments? Feel free to disagree, I know how much love there is out there for the man.

Source: MTV

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It’s an idea so stupid it’s a wonder that a She-Ra series hasn’t always been made for NBC already. Sorry if you clicked on this article and thought it was real news, but as it turns out it was just a hilarious notion the good folks at Funny or Die had.

In the below “preview,” which is heavily influenced by NBC’s attempted Wonder Woman series, we see Kylie Minogue as She-Ra battle Skeletor, get arrested for it, get busted out of prison by special guest star He-Man before launching into a “very special episode.” One also has to appreciate the attention to detail as well, as the fake ad perfectly parodies the real NBC ads.

Prepare to laugh (or die) by pressing play on the video below.

Source: Topless Robot

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DC hasn’t made too many impressive entries into the super hero media wars as of yet.  Sure, there’s the Dark Knight trilogy and a successful television adaptation of Arrow, but that’s about it for now.  Man of Steel is coming out in just over a month, so we’ll see how that one does.  Despite the hit-and-miss nature of DC properties on both the big and small screens, the Chief Creative Officer over at DC, Geoff Johns is hopeful about the future.  In a recent interview with Collider, he had a few things to say on more than a few subjects.  Check out the highlights after the jump.

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

Above: This is how you cosplay Wonder Woman. Fiercely. Created by kelldar and her husband, this is a costume years in the making, and their attention to detail shows. See more on her Tumblr. [Fashionably Geek]

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This week on The Bastardcast, Jeremy and Jason welcome Nerdbastard and Blastr word pooper-outer Mathew Jackson to venture out into the super unknown and discuss the burden in Jon Hamm‘s hand (wordboy means his dick, “Hamm Dickgate Part 2″), the majesty of Zombie Time Traveling Dragon Weekend, aka Time Traveling Dragon Zombie Weekend, aka… you get the picture… Doctor Who and Game of Thrones are back! The Walking Dead is going away! We’re talking about it!!

Also on the show!

Can Independence Day 2 and Independence Day 3 outshine the original while blowing up the outside world? Ash Williams has been away too long, will the rumored Army of Darkness sequel live to rise? Not enough for you? How about Jason becoming a born again Nerdist fan and the mystery of Heisenberg’s stolen script, bitch!?

Holy great pillowy boob-resembley cloud in the sky! You want more? Fine, how about we talk about a great innovation in sexy time? A bacon condom that both looks and tastes like bacon when you have bacon-y big dumb sex? How about that slice of butter fried greatness? We don’t even care that the Vandelay Industries pastrami flavored condom never took off, this is better!

C’mon folks, WRAP YOUR HAMM IN BACON AND DELTA YOUR BURKE!!! (Listen to the show to get that reference.)

The Bastarcast: We really like Soundgarden and exclamation points!

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In a recent chat with Deadline, before he headed out to SXSW on a bus with some members the Much Ado About Nothing cast, Joss Whedon talked about his new flick, wrapping on the S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot, his passion for smaller projects, and his attempt at a Wonder Woman movie for Warner Bros.

His candid recollection of the Wonder Woman movie is depressing to say the least, and speaks to the current disarray WB finds themselves when it comes to their superhero properties,

DEADLINE: How much do you keep an eye on Warner Bros with their DC properties?

WHEDON: I don’t keep that close an eye on it. But I loved Batman Begins so much and thought Christopher Nolan nailed Batman in a way that nobody ever had. It couldn’t be more different from The Avengers, and the Marvel and DC universes are different animals. If they actually crack the code which has not been done in terms of creating a shared sensibilities where all the movies are interesting and come together, I’m going to be thrilled. I have no fear that we’re going to be stepping on each others’ turf.

DEADLINE: You’ve had a history with DC. Do you think anyone will ever pull off Wonder Woman?

WHEDON: It’s not easy. It’s not a simple trick. The Marvel properties with the exception of Batman who has often been described as the Marvel character in the DC universe are much easier to translate to a modern audience. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern are so far above us and their powers are amorphous and that makes it 10 times harder. Even when you’re doing a fight, it’s harder to write a fight for Thor than it is for Captain America because he’s that much stronger. I loved what I was doing on Wonder Woman. Clearly I was an excited party of one. I wrote the movie, I felt good about the characters, the structure needed work, I did another outline, they read it and were done. There wasn’t even a phone call.

Man, if they were unwilling to pursue Whedon’s Wonder Woman script, which I’m sure was a damn good one considering his track record with strong women characters, you have to wonder what they’re looking for in a big screen adaptation of the Amazon? And, this has me worried about they’re continued want of a Justice League movie. Those recent rumors of a Batman/Superman team-up flick didn’t fill me with a lot of hope, either. Why is it WB and DC are such a mess, and Marvel and Disney seem to have struck gold? There’s clearly interest in a Wonder Woman movie, did you see the sweet fan trailer from last week?

Jump over to Deadline for the whole interview. Do you think WB will ever figure out their superhero woes, or will they continue to reboot the Superman and Batman franchise ad infinitum?

Source: DC Women Kicking Ass

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When it comes to live-action adaptations Wonder Woman has struggled. Not since the 70s and Lynda Carter has there been either a Wonder Woman TV show or movie, and when they have tried, well, putting it nicely would be saying they failed. She’s fared pretty well in cartoons, animated features, and video games, but when it comes to bringing Wonder Woman to life with a real, flesh and blood actress Hollywood doesn’t get it.

So I say, let the fans have a crack at it. This trailer for Female Super Hero Fan Film from Jesse V. Johnson is astounding. This is what I want from Wonder Woman, not her juggling business and crime-fighting, not her discovering herself in high school, I want Wonder Woman kicking ass and protecting the innocent on a major scale. Johnson’s trailer gives us that, plus Nazis, and who doesn’t love seeing Nazis get the shit kicked out of them? Nina Bergman‘s Amazon is beautiful, but also capable and deadly. Ah! I love this so much, just watch.

What do you say? I think I’ll be spamming Warner Bros. and DC with this trailer for the rest of the day. Seriously, call Jesse and cast Nina, please.

Source: io9

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The  warrior princess of the Amazons will make her return to the tube this April. No, I am not talking about the never-happening CW TV show Amazon  since that project is back in limbo. This spring Wonder Woman serves as a focal point and lead into to a documentary about female superheroes in comic books, television, film and, pop-culture. Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines will air at 10 p.m. Friday, April 15th on PBS’s Independent Lens after meeting with rave reviews at its premiere at last years SXSW.

Directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, the documentary uses the character’s 1941 debut as a starting point to explore the empowerment movement as seen through the lens of the cape and tights crowd including interviews with those that made WW famous, like Lynda Carter who played her in the classic TV show, as well as feminist figures such as Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Hanna.

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Ben Affleck is currently riding a wave of success for his talented acting and directing of the Oscar Nominated Argo. It’s no surprise that Warner Brothers would approach him about taking the directors seat for the Justice League movie. What is unexpected is the rumor that Warner Brothers not only wanted Affleck to direct, but also play one of the central leads of the developing Justice League movie franchise, Batman.

Holy CinemaScope Ben Affleck, You’re Batman!?!?

Think about that for a moment. Ben Affleck as Batman. Warner Brothers wouldn’t just want him Justice League if he took the role, they’d want him for any follow-up Batman movies and cameos in other DC Comics movies for the next couple of years, if not longer.

The rumor of Batman Affleck comes to us from Elmayimbe of Latino Review. He’s also been the one to reveal the villain and team lineup of the movie so it’s a fairly safe bet he’s right on the money with this one too.

Neither Warner Brothers of Affleck have confirmed or denied either rumor to date, so we really just have rainbows, mermaid tears, and Elmayibe’s track record to back this up so far. Considering the recent lambasting the Justice League script has been taking on the internet, Affleck might have dodged a Batarang to the career here.

What do you think? Who else should play the role . . . besides Joseph Gordon Levitt? I still think that he’s the best choice to carry the legacy of Nolan’s Batman series, but Affleck in the director chair? That would be a good choice, Affleck has some directing skills, I’d rather see him continue developing those talents behind the screen.

Via: /Film

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