Once again, Joss Whedon's name comes up. With his proven track record of female leads and success with comic book characters, I feel that Whedon would certainly be many people's number one choice for director. However, considering that he has already been dropped from the project once, it seems very unlikely to see Joss as the director of Wonder Woman. Interestingly, Nicolas Winding Refn, director of 2011's critically acclaimed Drive, has expressed his desire to be involved in a Wonder Woman movie. In a recent Q&A session Refn stated:
I think my whole fetish and my interest in Wonder Woman came from three or four years agoMy daughter got obsessed with the Wonder Woman television show. The old, 70s version. I would watch them back to back with her and really enjoyed them immensely. And Ive always been fascinated by her as a character. Im not a knowledgeable comic fanatic, as a lot of other people are. But I was very fascinated by a woman of power. And I couldnt come up with any other great role models for my daughter to, say, Thats a woman. Besides her mother. So I started getting wholly, completely obsessed about Wonder Woman and saying, Ive got to make her as a movie. Ive got to make my take on it. And then I met a comic book writer who told me the origins about her, which was very fascinating and I began to see that myself and the creator of her probably had the same fetish of women. And then I knew that I had to make this film if it ever gets made.