With Gal Gadot on board to play Wonder Woman in the new Man Of Steel sequel, it hasn’t taken long for the rumor mill to crank up about what that role may entail. Someone named Jett from a site called Batman On Film is speculating that Wonder Woman may get a new origin story:
With all that said, I’d bet a year’s pay – in MONOPOLY money, of course – that the “Amazons” of this cinematic DCU will be descendants of those “ancient Kryptonians” who attempted to set up Kryptonian outposts throughout spacedom thousands and thousands of years ago. Furthermore, I say that Wonder Woman will be powered-down, if you will, relative to Superman because these Amazons have evolved and adapted to living on Earth for hundreds of centuries. And since Kryptonians are produced without any “He’n and She’n” – Jor El and Lara excluded – couldn’t this original Kryptonian on Earth have used this reproductive science to create an all-female race? I say yes!
That statement was in response to answering mailbag questions on the site:
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Well, I’m hoping that Jett’s speculation turns out to be a nonstarter. Given that so far WB has managed to stick, more or less, to canon with the Batman franchises and much (though certainly not all) of the Arrow TV show, there is no reason for a script to toss out Wonder Woman’s origin story beyond complete and total ass-hatted laziness. I’m not interested in a “powered down” Wonder Woman, evolved from Kryptonians. Frankly, I didn’t like the Asguardians as more evolved alien race when Marvel did that for the Thor movies. It’s a cop out.
Why would writers for a MOS sequel want to shy away from myth and magic by making the Amazonians Kryptonian? Guillermo del Toro is still on record that the Justice League Dark movie will be part of the DC movie shared universe. If you have Justice League Dark then you’re going to have power sources that come from the unexplained going on with this universe already. Why would you potentially diminish the legacy of one of DC’s Big Three characters by voiding her origin? If Jett’s scenario is the direction the MOS sequel plans to follow, then I fail to see why you’d even include Wonder Woman to begin with. Why shoehorn in a character that you won’t have time to tell a proper story around? Seriously, did people learn nothing from Sam Raimi’s last Spider-Man movie?
At this rate, I expect that when Justice League Dark drops, the Powers That Be are going to explain away magic in the world through Midi-chlorians rogue, Kryptonian nano-tech, seeded across the planet and swimming through the blood streams of ancient descendents of humans enslaved by the Kryptonian settlers Jett is pitching. It’s not magic, god forbid, it’s just science we don’t understand.
Bah. Humbug.
Via The Mary Sue.
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