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<blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 3326893" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>As a Raimi fan, I was wondering why he was given such a high profile movie (although I tend to forget that he's been slowly moving into mainstream films with movies like A Simple Plan and The Gift). I think you mentioned the biggest factor yourself: Hercules and Xena. They were insanely popular and made a great deal of money. To a studio, that's all that really matters.</p><p></p><p>And I don't think that the choice really bothered comic fans since Raimi is a self-professed fan himself. He tried to do The Shadow (before that movie came out), but couldn't get the rights. He also lobbied to take over the Batman franchise, but they gave it to Schumacher instead...and we all know how that turned out.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As a survivor of his writing the book, the Wikipedia paragraph describing his time on it can't convey the sheer wrong-headedness of his run. Paradise Island can travel through time? Time is altered so that everyone now "remembers" Hippolyta (WW's mom) as the original Wonder Woman of WW2? Wonder Woman is a goddess? She killed a duplicate of Doomsday by herself? The original Wonder Girl (now Troia) was WW's twin sister, who is cursed to live an infinite series of horrible lives in which she is killed, reborn, and made to suffer again and again? Aliens give WW an invisible jet? And why does a woman who can fly need a jet? Byrne also said in interviews that he was going to marry her off, but since that didn't happen, I assume the editors shot that down. </p><p></p><p>I haven't read the new series, but I've heard that WW now changes her costume by spinning around like on the TV series, so maybe I shouldn't give the DC editors too much credit for good sense.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Villano, post: 3326893, member: 505"] As a Raimi fan, I was wondering why he was given such a high profile movie (although I tend to forget that he's been slowly moving into mainstream films with movies like A Simple Plan and The Gift). I think you mentioned the biggest factor yourself: Hercules and Xena. They were insanely popular and made a great deal of money. To a studio, that's all that really matters. And I don't think that the choice really bothered comic fans since Raimi is a self-professed fan himself. He tried to do The Shadow (before that movie came out), but couldn't get the rights. He also lobbied to take over the Batman franchise, but they gave it to Schumacher instead...and we all know how that turned out. As a survivor of his writing the book, the Wikipedia paragraph describing his time on it can't convey the sheer wrong-headedness of his run. Paradise Island can travel through time? Time is altered so that everyone now "remembers" Hippolyta (WW's mom) as the original Wonder Woman of WW2? Wonder Woman is a goddess? She killed a duplicate of Doomsday by herself? The original Wonder Girl (now Troia) was WW's twin sister, who is cursed to live an infinite series of horrible lives in which she is killed, reborn, and made to suffer again and again? Aliens give WW an invisible jet? And why does a woman who can fly need a jet? Byrne also said in interviews that he was going to marry her off, but since that didn't happen, I assume the editors shot that down. I haven't read the new series, but I've heard that WW now changes her costume by spinning around like on the TV series, so maybe I shouldn't give the DC editors too much credit for good sense. [/QUOTE]
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