Silver Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Sign Joss Whedon to Write and Direct DC Comics' Wonder Woman

Silver Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Sign Joss Whedon to Write and Direct DC Comics' Wonder Woman

BURBANK, California, March 18/PRNewswire/ -- Silver Pictures, producer of the revolutionary, US$3 billion-grossing
Matrix franchise, has signed Joss Whedon, creator of the phenomenally popular
Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series, to write and direct the feature
film action adventure Wonder Woman based on the DC Comics character. The
announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner
Bros. Pictures.

"We are excited about working with Joss," Robinov said. "He brings great
energy and creativity to the process. His work on Buffy makes him uniquely
qualified to handle the Wonder Woman character."

"There's no one better than Joss to adapt the legendary Wonder Woman
comic book character created in the 1940s into a dynamic feature film for
21st century audiences," producer Joel Silver added. "Wonder Woman was the
first great female superhero to emerge from comic books and later inspire
millions of fans in her television incarnation, but unlike her counterparts
Batman and Superman, this groundbreaking heroine has yet to be reinvented for
the feature film arena."

"Wonder Woman is the most iconic female heroine of our time, but in a
way, no one has met her yet," Whedon said. "What I love most about icons is
finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power. When Joel
and I began discussing the character, I realized there is a woman behind the
legend who is very fascinating, very uncompromising, and in her own way,
almost vulnerable. She's someone who doesn't belong in this world, and since
everyone I know feels that way about themselves, the character clicked for
me."

Whedon created and executive produced the hit television series Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, which ran for seven seasons on The WB and UPN, based on his
screenplay for the 1992 feature film of the same name. Whedon also created
and executive produced the successful Buffy spin-off series Angel, and wrote
the screenplays for the films Toy Story and Alien: Resurrection. He is
currently completing post-production on the feature film Serenity, which he
wrote and directed based on his television series Firefly.

Wonder Woman will be produced by Joel Silver and Leonard Goldberg, and is
based on the DC Comics character created by William Moulton Marston.

Wonder Woman will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a
Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures International

For more information, please contact: US Enquiries: Jan Craft, +1-818-954-2279, jan.craft@warnerbros.com . UK Enquiries: Jayne Trotman / Louisa Radcliffe, , +44-(0)207-984-5222 / +44-(0)207-984-5286, jayne.trotman@warnerbros.com / louisa.radcliffe@warnerbros.com

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