DC's Next Film #1 - Wonder Woman

Casting?

The cast will be the make or break Wonder Woman. Whoever is cast as Diana herself, has the potential to become a role model to generations of women and this is certainly something that should not be taken lightly. The actress would need to hit all the key points that make Wonder Woman such an iconic character: beauty, physical and mental strength, combat skills, charisma and independence. After one of the best performances in this year's underrated John Carter, Lynn Collins might just be the most suitable actress around to play Wonder Woman. Collins is a life long martial artist, she's clearly very attractive and has proved her acting, fighting skills and feminine strength as Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Mars. As you can see from the image above, she's well adjusted to looking like an Amazon Princess. Also she has shown her sex appeal and charisma in her role as Dawn Green in HBO's True Blood. Another woman who has proven her charisma, beauty and fighting skills is Gina Carano. The face of women's mixed martial arts (MMA) for many years, Carano is well versed in kicking ass in a very real way. The downside is that Gina has yet to prove herself on the big screen. Outside of the MMA world, she is most famous for playing the lead in 2011's Haywire where she looked great and whooped butt. But, one thing Haywire didn't really display, was a deep acting skill from it's lead actress. Also, Carano's voice was altered in post-production to give her a more powerful tone, something that would probably have to be replicated if she were to play an Amazon. When Wonder Woman makes it to the big screen, Steve Trevor will almost certainly feature in some capacity. Trevor is Diana's main love interest and link to the human world she eventually grows to love and protect. He's her rock and is able to show her that not all men are evil. The Fast and The Furious star Paul Walker has definitely got the look needed to play Trevor and he's got the action chops too. Something that works in Trevor's favor is that he doesn't have a lot of features of his personality set in concrete unlike so many other characters with a seventy year comic history. This allows a great deal of flexibility with the character's age, history and relationship to the world around him and that flexibility in turn allows for a wider range of actors that could do justice to the role. A good example of this might be Nathan Fillion, who voiced Trevor in the aforementioned animated film. A brown haired Canadian Steve Trevor in his 40s could function in much the same way as a blonde American 30 something Steve Trevor does. Click "next" below for the final part, "Director"
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Jack used to study Astrophysics, now he writes about comics, movies & TV on What Culture! He's also an aspiring and beginning writer of both comics and novels. He spends most of his time reading sci-fi & fantasy novels and comics, writing articles comics and a novel, watching a variety of movies and television shows, playing his Playstation 3 and watching & training in mixed martial arts.