Joss Whedon Talks Wonder Woman

Joss Whedon was recently interviewed by ABC Radio National in Australia about his upcoming film Serenity. During the interview he was also asked about his next project a movie version of Wonder Woman. That project is in the very early stages but Joss did have a few things to say.

"We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series to an extent. Neither of them are really a template. I've never loved the comics and I didn't watch the television series, but I loved the character very much."

While that may seem rather contradictory, I think I understand where he's coming from. Wonder Woman should be a really cool character, but often the way she's been handled has been less than inspiring. Whedon went on to talk about what his take on the Wonder Woman character will be.

"she doesn't really understand this world, she's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not quite as little as the girls I'm used to writing, but she's definitely one of them in the sense of she'll undergo that kind of baptism of fire that used to be relegated to the male gender. She'll have to come into the world and see how corrupt it is and learn to deal with it and with her own powers. She is kind of, in a way, the grandma of everything I've been writing my whole life, so it makes sense that we should meet."

Sounds like a traditional Whedon heroine to me, and thats a good thing.