Michelle MacLaren has been developing the Wonder Woman feature film for several months, but Warner Bros. have now announced officially that she's left the project. The reason cited is, as usual, "creative differences." As the old joke goes, maybe MacLaren was being creative and Warner Bros. wanted her to be different. There hasn't been, it's worth pointing out, a statement from MacLaren herself, and nor is there likely to be. We'll be waiting for her to speak about this in interviews somewhere down the line. The best clues as to what might have been going on are, for now, just rumours. According to Badass Digest, MacLaren and the studio disagreed over what time period the film should be set in, and whether or not Wonder Woman should have a pet tiger. The tiger was, apparently, MacLaren's idea. At least they apparently agreed on the colour of her invisible plane. Wonder Woman is still set for a release on June 23rd, 2017. This suggests that production should get underway later this year. Warner Bros. will need to find a new director, STAT, and I hope for their sake they find a woman to do the job.
Brendon Connelly has been a film writer since the early 90s, with time on the staff of Orbit Magazine, Slashfilm, Bleeding Cool, Den of Geek and many more. He's a long time teacher of film studies and practical filmmaking classes, and has directed music videos, commercials, short films and more. His favourite film is Terry Gilliam's Brazil, his favourite food is pancakes or crepes, and he tries to live his life by the teachings of Kermit the Frog.
