Details have emerged on NBC’s “Wonder Woman” pilot scripted by David E. Kelley (“Ally McBeal,” “Harry’s Law”). A few revelations:
* There is a secret identity. The whole world knows Wonder Woman as Diana Themyscyra, superpowered head of Themiscyra Industries, but she’ll also don spectacles to go undercover as Diana Prince.
* Diana funds a basement full of helpful nerds.
* Diana flies a fleet of multicolored airplanes, but no one bumps into anything invisible.
* Pilot Steve Trevor (first appearance: All Star Comics #8, December 1941) crashed on Themyscyra and brought Diana to New York long ago, but the pair are estranged as the series begins.
* Diana apparently dons the classic star-spangled bottoms twice in the pilot.
* Her best friend is Myndi Mayer (a publicist introduced during 1987’s “Gods and Mortals” reboot storyline).
* Her big bad is Luthor-ish rival industrialist and superscientist Veronica Cale (first appearance: #196, November 2003).
* Etta Candy (first appearance: Sensation Comics #2, February 1942) turns up.
* Kelley hopes to stick a load of pop songs – everything from Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” to Beyonce’s “All The Single Ladies” – in the pilot.
* One character uses the word “fuck” and another makes an obscene gesture. One assumes these will be censored “Southland”-style should the series ever find its way to NBC’s primetime schedule.
Is the pilot script any good? “Well, some of the jokes are good,” writes Bleeding’s Brendon Connelly, “but the general dramatic situation seems a bit thin, the character relationships are, to be kind, familiar, and there’s nothing in the plot that merits any special recognition. As Buffy-inspired as this script no doubt was, Joss Whedon it ain’t.”
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