What looked like a Battle of the Megans (Megan Fox vs Megan Gale) turned out to be a fan started fraud that was convincing enough to start internet speculation.
Let’s start at the beginning. Wonder Woman, the iconic DC superhero, is a troubled property. They have been trying to bring her to the big screen for sometime now. Joel Silver, the super producer behind such hits as Die Hard, The Matrix, Lethal Weapon and V for Vendetta had the rights and really wanted to bring her to the screen. Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) had been attached to write and direct that film, but alas, it all ended up falling apart.
Recently, George Miller (Mad Max series, Witches of Eastwick, Happy Feet) had been signed to direct “Justice League Mortal” and had even hired actress/model Megan Gale to star as Wonder Woman. She was finally going to get her big screen appearance. But then again, studios are a fickle bunch of bastards and the plug has been pulled on that production too.
That brings us to now.
Fan hysteria broke our when a new site launched that looked very much like a real teaser site, complete with company logos and everything, for a new Wonder Woman film starring Megan Fox (Transformers, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People). Megan Fox was recently rated one of the sexiest people alive, so you can imagine the fanboys suddenly finding out that she might be dressed as Wonder Woman (a big geek fantasy but not as big as Princess Leia in the gold bikini, you know what I’m talking about!) Warner Bros. has denied all the reports and says it is a fake. You can visit the site here. It was a very convincing mock up, but wasn’t Megan Gale signed to play Wonder Woman?
Megan Gale’s publicist said her Justice League contract with Warner Bros prevented her from speaking on the controversy. She said. “Megan has an agreement with Warner Bros that she cannot comment on details of film projects that she’s been linked with and she has to respect that request.”
Australian director George Miller has always said that Megan Gale was his first choice for the role because, in his words, “She got the job because she blitzed her screen test. I had no idea she was so good. She was brilliant. Once she read we all looked around at each other and said, ‘Well, there’s no question.’ ”
It will be interesting to see if the Amazon Princess will ever make it to the big screen because Warner Bros. has decided that all the DC heroes have to be dark, moody and realistic because of the success of “The Dark Knight”. The only problem with this theory is, to make Wonder Woman ‘dark, moody and realistic’, you would have to pretty much re-invent this fairly high camp concept hero and wouldn’t that pretty much change what we all love about Wonder Woman. I mean do we really think we can make a dark and serious Wonder Woman and still have her running around in that costume? If you change the costume, she just isn’t the same, in my opinion.
Other than cartoons, the last time Wonder Woman graced our screens (TV screens that is) was in the 70s when Lynda Carter put on the bracelets.
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I think they should just cast me as Wonder Woman :-)
I think they should just cast me as Wonder Woman :-)