No Wonder Woman TV Series At This Time - It's a Case of Marvel vs. DC

No Wonder Woman TV Series At This Time - It's a Case of Marvel vs. DC

Deadline is reporting that David E. Kelley's take for a TV version of Wonder Woman is not going forward for the time being, and one of the reasons could be due to a classic Marvel vs. DC situation.

By EdGross - Jan 07, 2011 07:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Wonder Woman
Source: Deadline

According to Deadline, Kelley met with DC in September, wrote the script and actually took it to the networks this past Wednesday. Fox and ABC passed and the CW simply couldn't afford what the show would likely cost per episode.

Offers the site, "While the project was never considered a fit for Fox and was taken to the network mostly out of courtesy, the ABC pass was more politically motivated. With its empowered female lead, Wonder Woman seems well suited for for the network, but word is a potential DC-Marvel clash got in the way. ABC parent Disney acquired Marvel last year for $4 billion, and ABC and Marvel have been busy developing Marvel properties, including a Hulk series with Guillermo del Toro and David Eick and an adaptation of a Marvel female superhero, Jessica Jones, with Twilight writer Melissa Rosenberg. This left CBS and NBC in play. I hear the CBS executive team was split, while the fluid situation at NBC where new programming chief Bob Greenblatt is yet to take the reins, made it impossible to get the type of license fee that the studio was seeking in order to do the show Kelley had envisioned. So a decision was made not to go with the show at this time. The script may be taken out again in the future."

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