7 Actresses Who Were Almost Wonder Woman
1. Adrianne Palicki
Shot in the same year Smallville ended, and the year before the Arrowverse made its debut, there was quite a lot of hype for the 2011 Wonder Woman TV show.
A pilot was filmed with Adrianne Palicki in the lead role, and when production pictures of her hit the internet the whole world was excited to welcome Diana back to the small screen.
Palicki was to portray three identities for this version, a prospect she was delighted about. Those identities were Wonder Woman (obviously), Diana Themyscira, CEO of a multinational business organization, and Diana Prince, her true self who owns a cat and enjoys watching romantic movies.
Palicki isn’t too upset that the show never happened after NBC passed on the pilot. She feels the constant three years of shooting, working out and stunt work would have been exhausting, and she's happy she got to read lines with one of her childhood crushes, the Dread Pirate Roberts himself, Cary Elwes.
One aspect of the proposed series did go on to cement itself in Wonder Woman history, though. Pedro Pascal, who was cast as Wonder Woman's police liaison on the show, went on to perform as the villainous Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984.