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Wonder Woman dream Movie casting update.
On the Newsrama web site earlier in December they had narrowed down the list of actresses that the public (or those visiting the web site) had chosen. This link takes you to the article (http://www.newsarama.com/film/120802-Wonder-Woman-Three.html) and here's what I have to say about it.
The three they have it narrowed down to are Megan Fox, Morena Baccarin and Cobie Smulders. For those of you that have been living under a rock, Megan Fox played the female lead in the Transformers movie from 2007. She is incredibly attractive, but so far all I can remember her being in is a movie that I saw while I was in Parkland Hospital in August 2007 (that was Downloaded and burned to DVD illegally). From what I can remember, she was rather the pretty tomboy type that was the male lead's love interest. I don't think that one movie she's been in has endeared me to her at all. Cobie Smulders was Joss Whedon's initial choice when he was writing a script for a Wonder Woman movie. So far, all I have heard her being in was the television comedy How I Met Your Mother on CBS. I don't think that being in one comedy on television exactly qualifies you for a role like Wonder Woman. That leaves us with Morena Baccarin who I think has the right combination of looks and charisma to play Wonder Woman. Anyone who has seen any of the episodes of Firefly or the movie Serenity must be able to see the kind of acting chops she has. The only drawback is that Ms. Baccarin is only 5' 7½" tall, but there are ways around that. Wonder Woman is known for wearing boots so why not make them high-heeled boots? The only other actress I'm tempted to mention is Emily Deschanel who put on a Wonder Woman costume in a Halloween themed episode Mummy in the Maze of the Fox series Bones. She really filled out that costume and even though she's about as white as I am, I think she could pull it off.
Newsrama Dream Wonder Woman Movie Casting UPDATE
The readers of Newsarama have spoken and according to them they want Morena Baccarin to be Wonder Woman in the hopefully upcoming Wonder Woman movie. This link (http://www.newsarama.com/film/120805-Casto-Off-WW.html) shows a side by side of a headshot of Ms. Baccarin and a head shot of Wonder Woman; outside the beautiful brown eyes of Morena and Wonder Woman having blue eyes and the height difference, I think the readers made a good choice.
One Big Crossover Ends
Back in December Marvel's big cross over event, Secret Invasion, ended with what I would call a so-so note. Sure the Skrull invasion was destroyed and a bunch of Marvel heroes were returned to earth, but it just seems like an empty victory. I still have no idea what the Skrulls were after even though I have every issue of the main title. If it was like DC Comics' Final Crisis where the most important stuff happened in the main book and the side books were good to see what else was going on, I would probably know more. There were a few lines in the last issue that gave me a hint that this mission by the Skrulls was an all or nothing proposition.
The only good thing that came out of this is that Hawkeye and Mockingbird are back together. I'm not ashamed to admit it; I'm a big Hawkeye fan. When they got divorced, I felt really let down by the writers and then when Mockingbird died in an issue of West Coast Avengers I saw that there was no hope for reconciliation. Hawkeye went on to become Ronin and only became Hawkeye when the Hawkeye in the Young Avengers went down and he picked up her bow and started taking out Skrulls in issue five or six. When we were teased with a Hawkeye & Mockingbird reunion in issue two, I felt the writers had finally done something right. Then they took the carrot away in the same issue when they killed her.
As with everything else that is going on from the big two this always leads to the next big event. Frankly I'm getting kind of tired of things like this. I miss the times where you had the big crossover event and then everyone involved returned to whatever was going on in their books.
While One Still Goes On
With Marvel's big crossover event over, it is now time to focus on DC's crossover event Final Crisis. I think there is a crisis going on at DC because not only is it not over yet, but it is now two months behind schedule. The last issue was supposed to be out this month, but it is only the next to last issue. Rumors are going around the internet that Dan Didio is making the series writer, Grant Morrison, re-write the remaining issues because what he had written had made little to no sense. Having read the series to date, I must say the series was really making little sense until the December issue.
I don't know if I have mentioned this before, but I really liked the other books that came out with this event. The one I really liked was Final Crisis: Rogues Revenge. This limited series showed how the members of the Flash's Rogue's Gallery essentially turned on Libra when he offered them the ability to have all the power they wanted. They essentially give Libra the finger at his offer and he promises to make their life hell (or something to that effect. It just seems like something a villain like him would say.) Libra sends his own version of the Rogues after them, and the originals handle the look a-likes like the punks they were. The third issue was probably the weakest of the series, but still good enough to make me recommend it.
An Open Letter to Grant Morrison
Dear Mr. Morrison,
I don't know why virtually every fanboy wets his pants when there is a comic coming out with you as the writer. I read all six issues of your Batman RIP storyline and I got nothing out of it. If I am going to have to keep getting Batman just to make heads or tails out of those issues, then I'm just going to scream and leave the Batman series of books alone for a while.
You also took the helm of Final Crisis that was supposed to be the big mega event of 2008 and promptly confused the heck out of me. I know the New Gods (both good and bad) are dead and are taking possession of new bodies, but could you please stop all the tap dancing you are doing in the book and JUST GET TO THE G-D DAMN POINT. It's bad enough I'm having to wait until February for this event to finish, but you also killed Martian Manhunter in the first issue, and he was one of the DC characters I really liked.
Until you decide to start making sense in your writing, and quit dancing around the point I'm not going to buy any new books that you write. There are plenty of other books in both the DC and Marvel lines that I can purchase and read that are fun and get to the point.
Sincerely,
Mathew Bredfeldt
That's all for now; more next month.
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