Beyonce Fancies Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman Role
Posted by dominie in Films, News on November 10th, 2008
In an interview with LA Times, popstar Beyonce Knowles revealed she met with Warner Bros. and DC Comics reps to express her interest in playing their superhero princess, Wonder Woman. My fingers quiver at the possibility of this becoming true. I am a huge fan of Beyonce and her music, however the interview speaks for itself. She does not fit the role, only the costume. Read on for excerpts from her interview.
The recent success of sophisticated comic-book adaptations is the main reason for Beyoncé’s interest, she said, but her focus on Wonder Woman was intensified earlier this year when she saw Lynda Carter’s costume from the 1970s television show on display at the Costume Institute’s “Superhero” show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Wonder Woman costume is an “unforgiving one” she tells LA Times. “I would definitely have to keep it right for that costume. The way that Lynda Carter wore it, she was sooo fine. She was amazing. I saw her costume at the Met. Her waist was unbelievable. It was pretty crazy, actually, her proportions. But I love Wonder Woman and it’d be a dream come true to be that character. It sure would be handy to have that lasso. To make everybody tell the truth? I need that. It would come in very handy.”
On Beyonce’s latest project, a thriller titled Obsessed, she experienced her first brawl for the camera and hence now she is ready to be a superhero. “I play a wife fighting for her family and I have this big, big fighting scene with Ali Larter, who is an incredible actress. It took us days just to film it. I had my boots on and, wow, I got into it. So I really want that now. Now I have to do an action film. It’s like dancing and choreography. And the superhero movies now, they’re not corny, not corny at all, so that’s what I want to do. And I would love if it could be Wonder Woman.”
“I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman? It would be great,” she tells the LA Times. “And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It’s time for that, right?”
Beyonce’s right. It would be a powerful thing, only she just doesn’t sound passionate enough about the character. Already two attempts have been made to develop a Wonder Woman project—the first in 2001 by producer Joel Silver and the second in 2005 that spanned two years before Joss Whedon departed from the project in February 2007 citing “script differences” with Warner Bros. I would not object to a squashed 3rd attempt if the pieces don’t fit for a proper picture. What’s your take? Do you feel Beyonce should don the red, white, and blue suit? Read the full interview here.
