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EXCLUSIVE: The CW just wrapped its pilot orders for this season with eight pickups, including planted The Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals. Amazon was not among them, and I have learned that the network has decided to roll the Wonder Woman origin project to next season. Additionally, I hear the CW may order an off-cycle pilot, so Amazon may go into production sooner if the network is happy with the final script.
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Amazon was the first project this development cycle to begin preliminary casting back in November when Warner Bros TV started exploring choices for the lead, Diana, while the script by Allan Heinberg was still being written. “We’re waiting to see the script and are busy casting Diana,” the CW president Mark Pedowitz said at TCA earlier this month. In the end, I hear the CW brass felt the project needed more time.
Getting another DC drama on the air has been important for the CW, especially in light of the success of Arrow this season, so Amazon remains a high priority at the network, sources say. The CW just proved that it stands by concepts it likes, ordering a second pilot for The Selection, which was originally piloted last season.
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script must suck
Hopefully that off cycle pilot order is for Embrace. Glad they are saving amazon for next season
Hopefully they also keep sherwood for next season as well.
Every single person involved in getting DC properties out of the comic books and onto the screen needs to be fired. All of them.
Marvel is making billions, DC comics is doing nothing, now that Batman is over.
How many terrible unpicked up pilots have they done? Two wonder womans, aquaman, deadpool, blue beetle? They should be making MOVIES, but they’re putzing around with these tiny CW shows, and they can’t even get a show on network. Oh yeah, and Green Lantern — which looked like it was produced by people who’d never read a script before.
They mothballed Whedon’s Wonder Woman script. So he went and did avengers which was great, and made billions.
Geoff Johns mothballed fast-tracked scripts for the flash and captain marvel so that he could write them himself, and they’ve gotten nowhere for years. He was in charge of Green Lantern.
Justice League is being written by the guy who did gangster squad. Yikes.
Superman… we’ll see. But that director — yikes. And the commercials look like they’re 1990s Calvin Klein commercials.
there should be ten DC Comics heroes movies rolling out, over the next five years — but they got nothing.
what are they doing???
Their scared
Best post ever, Bobby. They should hire you at the WB.
What they lack in boffo, they more than make up for it in the animated division, especially the DTV movies. That’s just the way the world revolves sometimes.
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“more than make up for?”
You’re saying that those direct to video/netflix shazam movies are making what the avengers/thor/captain america/hulk movies are making? Because that’s about six Billion bucks, over the past four years. And half of those DC direct to video cartoons are too violent to even show to kids — the Dark Knight Returns one, the red hood one — scared the crap out of my five year old. So not only are they making little cartoons instead of giant movies, they’re making little cartoons you can’t show to kids. smart thinking. And some of them were outright bombs, even by meager video sales standards — the green lantern one’s sequel got pulled — no more of those coming out.
and marvel puts out little cartoon DVDs, too. they also have a well-run grown-ups division, DC should think of doing that.
Notice how I began that sentence with: ‘what they lack in boffo returns?”
Their DC Universe Original Animated movies DVDs are their own niche market – they are mostly faithful to the source material, and that’s why they’re popular. Marvel tried to tap into that area with their deal with Lionsgate to distribute eight animated straight to dvd films and they mostly tanked. Starz tried the same strategy with Turok and Hellboy and a few forgotten Stan Lee Presents projects that immediately all fell into the dollar bin.
That’s not say, Marvel’s a complete failure – they’ll be testing original CGI dvds of Iron Man and Incredible Hulk later on this year.
I don’t understand why people have to take sides on this issue. DC’s enjoying success with Arrow and the Dark Knight – so why does it always have to be a pissing contest on who can churn out the fastest product?
And bobby – there was a sequel to Green Lantern: First Flight called Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.
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And one more thing bobby:
These animated movies are not supposed be for kids. They’re usually rated PG-13 and if you notice, Best Buy does shelf them along with the other action oriented movies rather than the kiddie section.
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come on, you gotta admit — for DC/warners to be only putting all of their heroes on these little low-budget straight-to-video cartoons for adults, and low budget CW shows is incredibly short-sighted, and small thinking. total AA ball. The only excuse for there not being tons of Big Great movies of more of the DC superheroes is poor executives.
Other than batman, DC Comics somehow missed the superhero train that swept the world. Inexcusable. They’ve been around for 80 years. They invented superheroes.
Bad CEO, bad CCO — time to clean house.
Bobby – just a reminder: Marvel’s record in developing live shows in the past has had a few blotchs on their records.
Both Night Man and Mutant X immediately spring to mind.
NOW those two were small time investments.
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developing live shows… ??? You’re totally missing my point.
marvel has done, in the last ten years, FOUR giant spiderman movies, SIX giant x-men movies, TWO hulks (even after the first one sucked, they got right back up on that horse), two ghostriders, three ironman, two captain america, two thor, avengers — tons more in the works, and I’m sure I’m missing a few. all of them HUGE hollywood movies, all of those made hundreds of millions — EACH. avengers a billion.
DC has a WAY better roster of superheroes, and in the past ten years, DC has done Batman… and… the horrible flops Green Lantern, and superman returns. and… They’ve been ‘developing’ a bunch of failed pilots, and done little cartoon DVDs you can’t evn show your kids (f’ing genius business sense — cartoons about shazam you can’t show kids.)
face it — that is a horrible track record. anywhere than at WB/DC every turkey within five miles of their development meetings would have been fired five years ago.
The Avengers still would have made billions under a different director. Blompkamp could have done TA and it would have rocked!! I can list a dozen other directors that are better than Whedon.
The audience was waiting for an assemble piece that just happened to have Whedon at the helm.
Balls. You seem to forget that he WROTE the scricpt and then filmed it. That’s James-Cameron-Quentin-Tarrantino-Orson-Welles-style rare in this town. And the Wheedonisms survived intact because of this. The Hulk slamming Thor out-of-frame and the Schwarma moments are as fabulous as the death of you-know-who.
Few of the directors on your list could juggle that many balls as well.
The script he wrote, sucks. Anticipated hype sold TA. Who cares that he can write and direct when what he writes and direct isn’t great!! Google the many constructive criticisms of the story. If I was Ike I would not bring Joss back for the sequel.
There is hope but it is rather cloudy right now.
They have a new CEO at WB now, Kevin Tsujihara. He apparently worked with and is personal buddy of the now demoted former DC publisher Paul Levitz who was the head honcho until Diane Nelson ousted him and installed buddies Mssrs. Lee and Didio. Tsujihara and Nelson apparently also rivals at WB vying for the CEO job.
Its unknown if Tsujihara believes in the New 52 and would reinstate Levitz as publisher, demoting Didio and Lee. We’ve already seen them change course with allowing comics people to work on the movies with Man of Steel and instead using Christopher Nolan as a mentor for Snyder. But there could be even creators of the comics on the TV series such as Arrow and any future live action series.
Who the fuck is Diane Nelson?
“And the commercials look like they’re 1990s Calvin Klein commercials.”
You say that like it’s a bad thing….
“Deadpool” is a MARVEL character, not a DC one.
my bad. But there’s anothe failed pilot I can’t remember…
and I also forgot the WB/DC disasters catwoman, and jonah hex, those were under this regime, too.
I say again — wtf is warners/DC doing. they need to get their act together.
Say goodnight, CW. It’s almost over.
Next season does that mean we have to wait for a possible Amazon Wonder Woman show until fall 2013-14 or midseason 2014,or fall 2014. If that is the case this show better get an order and for making us wait that long better be epic.
What’s an off-cycle pilot? It’s escaping my mind at the moment.
Jackie –
Legal at the studio I’m working at right now just informed me that it’s a pilot that will be shot sometime in May or June rather than Febuary through April.
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MAYBE and it’s a big maybe, The CW could do a launch next Summer for Wonder Woman, the way ABC Family does with its series.
There is no such thing as a cool female superhero.
I don’t care if she’s naked or shoots lightning out of her breasts.
In the end she’s still a chickie-baby.
Yep, that’s why Wonder Woman has lasted all these years. Because there’s no such thing as a cool one.
I’ll tell ya a secret. Guys weren’t watching Wonder Woman in the 70′s to see her kick ass… it was just to see her ass.
Truer words were never spoken, sir. Make a show with a female action lead, and watch it drift into the abyss. No one will watch it. EVER.
Nikita was doing OK during its first two seasons, so is Revenge actually (even though that’s not a true action-based show).
You’re so right. Buffy was completely unsuccessful, (it only had SEVEN seasons after all….) oh and Xena, yeah another tanked COMPLETELY unsuccessful show. And then Nikita. That was not successful either…..nor was Charmed. You MUST be right. No one wants to see girls kicking ass……what were we thinking….
They did do Red. Not bad.
not warner brothers. summit.
See?
Hopefully, Beauty & the Beast will be renewed for a second, third & fourth season. It, by far has been one of this season’s newbie dramas which has captured me completely. The use of actors who have starred in something but nothing major has been brilliant, Keep it coming!
How is everyone not over this whole idea yet?
I’d permanently “postpone” the Wonder Woman pilot. It’s pretty clear, series with female leads (Gossip, Carrie, 90210, Dixie, Nikita) are not making big inroads with viewers. Girls want to see hot GUYS, and guys steer away from “chick shows.” Didn’t Dawn Ostroff’s failed tenure teach us anything? Look at the CW’s top shows: Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and Arrow. See the common denominator? Very hot guys and intriguing mythology.
Trying to force-feed female-lead shows is an uphill battle…and not just for The CW, either. Look, for instance, at The B in Apt. 23–GONE. Meanwhile, the hottest buzz is for The Following.
Yeah, that’s why a show about a female CIA operative like Homeland has been a massive failure with its slate of awards. That’s why Girls hasn’t been a buzzed about show and why its star is receiving tons of money for projects. This is why shows like “The Closer” and “Damages” haven’t had awards for their lead actresses.
However I suppose you’re going to tell me that “cable is different”, right?
Listen Jason, as a woman, I thought your post was ridiculous. As a woman, I can tell you that the #1 factor that we desire in a show is story; not “hot guys”. I can name quite a few shows with “hot guys” that have been massive failures.
I don’t know if you have aspirations to be in development but take it from a member of the 50.8% U.S. population – find something else to do. Developing successful shows obviously will not be something you will be good at doing.
Cable is different.
Pbfff whatever. As I understand this was supposed to be Smallville type of Wonder Woman (like Arrow). This probably had the best chance of suceeding compared that to David E. Kelly trainwreck
How is that someone can write a Mary Queen of Scots script easier than Wonder Woman? There are soooooo many WW stories to use as inspiration and other successful shows with female leads…Buffy, Alias…or even just dual identity leads…Smallville, Arrow…that this should’ve been one of the EASIER pilots to write (especially since Heinberg has already written her!).
I think it’s a case of them overthinking her yet again.
Marvel on the other hand just makes a movie. Thor, Captain America, Avengers, etc. and they have a hit.
Warner Bros. is really clueless.
I have little doubt that this show will ever see the light of day. With a supposed JL big screen film they’ll pull the plug on this to not take away from that.
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Summer Series?? hahaha JK
Really? So how is that Buffy, The Vampire Slayer last 8 seasons? Wasnt that action driven by a female lead?
Watch Jaimie Alexander kick ass in Thor 2.
Is Whedon consulting in that one, too?
DEPRESSING!!! I was looking forward to this since LAST SEPTEMBER!…THIS is how they repay the audience that made ‘Arrow’ a hit?! SIGH…
On a plus-note, they also green-lit ‘The Tomorrow People’, and since SYFY cannedits superhero-esque ‘ALPHAS’ and NBC’s ‘HEROES’ has been gone these past few years, it’s good to see the network still has faith in high-concept comic-book-y escapism.
ON A SIDE NOTE, considering CW has waited a year before going forward with the ‘Hunger Games’-esque ‘The Selection’ after over a year in developement, maybe ‘Amazon’ is not dead after all.
Certainly after passing on so many DC projects like ‘Aquaman’, ‘The Graysons’, and ‘Starman’ going back some years, WBTV ut have learned their lesson by now, right?!
Really?LaFemmeNikita and Alias lasted 5 seasons,Buffy lasted 7,Zena lasted several seasons,Nikita will probably last 4 seasons,Charlie’s Angels in the 70s lasted 3 or more seasons and had a remake last year ,Covert Affairs will be in season four this summer,Higlander :Raven lasted a season or two,Witchblade and Painkiller Jane both lasted a couple seasons,Wonder Woman in the 70s lasted 3 seasons, just to name a few.
Yeah..but Berlanti is doing TP! Um…. Sally Field as the kids Grandma anyone! Not too hopeful….
Cannot believe it’s been almost FORTY long years since fans have seen a live-action Wonder Woman(!). I also agree that whoever at Warner’s is managing DC properties should not only be fired–but face a public flogging. It’s criminal how poorly they’ve promoted their highly marketable stable of A-list superheroes. Seriously. Hey you! Yes, I’m talking to all you ignorant overpaid suits. R u listening? $%#^ or get off the pot!!!
I for one would love to see a Wonder Woman project take flight as long as it keeps within the true core of who Diana is and where she comes from. Personally existing for 72 years as one of the 3 big Justice League members I think Diana deserves a big film not tiny TV but an orgin story on the CW would rock if done correctly. Boys have Superman, Batman, and countless other super heroes. It’s long past due for Wonder Woman. A live action film based on the 2009 animated film would be awesome. The only thing I pray does not happen is when it finally does get off the ground, it is not based on this Nu 52 crap that Jim Lee is responsible for at DC Comics. Things always fall apart when you stray from the original material and yet they seldom ever learn. Example the painful eye soar of the failed David E. Kelly Wonder Woman pilot.
DC’s biggest problem with movies is Warner Brothers. They don’t put enough faith in the people they get to do thier superhero properties that the studio plays big brother if the studio doesn’t like it the studio gets rid of it to please investors in the projects. Plus there is the key word reality the studio wants thier properties based in reality so they are afraid to take chances like green lantern and the biggest problem with green latern was that they made changes to please the studio not the fans
Deadpool is Marvel -_-