CineFOOLS has an interesting interview with Wonder Woman and Villains writer Brent Strickland. Here is an excerpt from the interview…

CF: Joss Whedon once said in an interview that other than a great origin story there isn’t much you can draw from for Wonder Woman without creating it yourself, is this something you agree with and did you both have to embelish on the source material in your vision for Wonder Woman?

BS: Let me first say I’m a huge Joss Whedon fan. I, like pretty much everyone, thought when Joss took the reins of Wonder Woman it would hit theatres in short order, and I was looking forward to seeing his take. I get what he’s saying about the origin story. Hollywood kind of insists that you embellish source material – a movie is different than a comic book or graphic novel and needs to be addressed differently. We certainly took liberties on our spec Wonder Woman, but we also used a ton of stuff from the comic. My feeling is that ultimately something iconic like Wonder Woman needs to be a hybrid of the source material and the writer’s original inspiration. We feel an obligation to the fan base not only to treat the property with respect, but also to make it fresh – to reinvent the story without reinventing the wheel, so to speak. We enjoyed the research because her backstory often revealed things we could use and build on. I think fans would dig it.

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