Wonder Woman Origins Series Being Developed For The CW

Here we go again.

You can’t keep a good feminist icon down; the CW is developing a script for a Wonder Woman centric series, said to be focusing on her origins. The project is currently titled Amazon, and according to the Vulture blog, “unlike past TV incarnations, it will focus on Wonder Woman as a young, budding superhero, rather than a fully formed defender of liberty. think Smallville, but instead of a no tights, no flights rule, this show might have a no bracelets, no crown  mandate.” I think the no costume/limited powers thing comes from Warner Brothers, who probably wants to save the fully powered and decked out Diana for a Justice League movie, or maybe even a fully fledged Wonder Woman movie down the line.

I have often said the CW is the proper home for a character like Wonder Woman. And unlike David E. Kelley, who made the dreadful Wonder Woman pilot for NBC that never got picked up, this is being written and developed by Allan Heinberg. Aside from being a prolific television writer for shows like Grey’s Anatomy and the O.C, he is also a successful comic book writer and creator of the Young Avengers. He even wrote a stint on Wonder Woman’s comic a few years back that was pretty decent, although mostly remembered for how shockingly late it was. Having an actual comic book fan at the helm of this series means we aren’t going to get something that changes everything about her mythology, or like the NBC pilot, just ignores it. I have a good feeling about this one this time.