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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1984738" data-attributes="member: 835">1) Make Better Movies. Both Catwoman and Elektra stunk, and looked like it from the previews. The Lara Croft movies were only passable, and still did excellent business. It's not that teenage boys are scared off by women heroes and their sexuality - it's that if that's the ONLY thing that's bearable in a movie, the movie is dead on arrival. 2) Start off with mass marketable premises. You can't sell Catwoman as a mass market heroine when most of the mass market thinks of Catwoman as a villain from Batman. You can't sell Elektra as a mass market heroine when she's a relatively obscure (speaking in terms of the general population, that is. If every single person who ever bought a comic in which Elektra appeared went and saw the movie, it would still flop.) character whose only introduction to most people was through another superhero movie that wan't very good and didn't do all that well, and which incidentally, killed off the character you're trying to promote. Wonder Woman is known by more of the public, is unambiguously a heroine, and remembered fondly from TV series, and is on TV now in Justice League. In other words, there is large enough fanbase to support a movie.  A decent movie, featuring her, would do well at the box office.</blockquote>