Jessica Biel in talks for Wonder Woman in JLA????!?

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Jessica Biel in talks for Wonder Woman in JLA????!?

When I said I had been dreaming about a superhero team-up movie that would involve the likes of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman… Jessica Biel was not exactly who I pictured in my mind for one of the lead roles.

In fact, she couldn’t be further removed from what I had imagined.

It’s unbelievable but true. I had to read the report three times to just check my eyes weren’t giving out on me. Variety report that Jessica Biel is in talks to play Wonder Woman in the upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA movie. This looks likely to be the first casting on the massive picture, and it would seem she beat out yesterday’s Aussie hopeful Victoria Hill.

Is Biel really the best you could come up with Warners? At 25, yeah I’ll agree she is a good age for the part but come on man, she can’t act herself out of a paper bag. She’s pretty yeah, but she’s kinda stick thin too and way too short for the role - there’s no where I’m going to be able to believe she is of superhuman strength.

This is exactly like the casting of Halle Berry for CATWOMAN, which Warner Brothers made a few years ago. I’m telling ya, when Warner Brothers get something on their mind they can make some hideous decisions. Just thank God we have Christopher Nolan behind the stand alone Batman series because if WB had their way, God knows how it would turn out.

Biel for Wonder Woman? What next, Michael Cera as Batman?

Bad, bad choice and it shows ya… when movies are being fast-tracked and they only have a small window to find who they want… they will pick marketable names over talent. If I were auditioning for the part of Wonder Woman, I would be royally pissed at this.

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Christ! they are gonna fuck this up big time with this kind of casting!I’m convinced it’s just gonna be a rehash of that dodgy JLA tv movie warners has tried to bury.
It’s just lazy casting, if they’re gonna do tyhis film they should do it right.

Comment by The Glove | September 25, 2007

This seems like incredably lazy casting, they’re not even trying to find someone right for the role, they just picked her because shes a current “it” girl in hollywood…..I have very little faith in this film, I just hope im prooved wrong.

Comment by Tino | September 25, 2007

I’ve had little hope for the film since it was announced. Its going to be Asthon Kutcher as Superman next!!

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I don’t think this is that bad an idea. It’s way too obvious, and I reckon Joel Silver has had a say in it, but she’s got the physique for it and held her own in The Illusionist with two much better actors.

Did anyone see her with McAvoy at the Oscars? He looked like a little boy next to her… I’ll wait until some stills and a trailer before I write this one off.

Comment by Will Reynolds | September 25, 2007

Given how she bulked up for Blade:Trinity I’m not too overly concerned about her waif-thin physique. However she does NOT look like Wonder Woman and she sure as hell can’t carry the part!

I’m not sure who I’d put up for the role (sounds like a damned good time to find an unknown and give them a break -that’s how Hugh Jackman became Wolverine, as we all know) but she would be American -that’s a MUST!- and she would know that constantly standing rigid with a half-vacant stare doesn’t look good on camera.

Comment by JaySmack | September 25, 2007

I’ve said from Day One that I refused to judge this thing until I had some details first. Well, the way things are going I’m not comforted. Matthew Fox should be a shoe-in for Superman, but so far his name hasn’t even been mentioned. Miller may be a good director, though he hasn’t made a movie since Reagan was predisent, but can he really handle a 21st century, SFX-intense project like this with so many folks so emotionally vested in it?

Jessica Biel’s name being mentioned isn’t encouraging either. And still no word on the villain.
From the looks of things this project is being rushed -no surprise with the strike looming- and they’re slapping a cast together from the covers of Premiere and US Weekly magazines rather than building a real team you build a franchise on top of. X-Men and shows like LOST show how you build an ensemble cast, a group of folk with chemistry as a group and charisma all on their own. Hard as hell to do but when it happens you have magic!

I’ve done what I feel I was obligated to do, withheld judgment until I had some fact. Now that I got them I can say this project is not off to an encouraging start.

Comment by JaySmack | September 25, 2007

This is me laughing at JaySmack, who was seriously being rude to everyone who saw what a mess this film was shaping up to be a month ago. No Bale or Routh? Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman? Omacs and Max Lord for villains? Oh wait… you mean they’re also fighting White Martians and possibly Darkseid? Wow, this sounds like a friggin’ masterpiece.

This is what it’s been since the day it was announced: a pre-strike rush job that will end up doing serious harm to ALL of WB’s superhero franchises. There hasn’t been a shred of good news related to this flick from day one, and most of us got the hint pretty quickly, only to be berated by JaySmack.

Comment by Scramble Network | September 26, 2007

I figured it was only a matter of time until Scrambled “Eggs” Network checked in. BTW I was never rude to you. You got sassy with me, I shot back –nuff said.
First of all, no Routh in this movie is a good thing. Second, there’s no genius in dogging out a movie concept sight-unseen (and mind you I’ve always defended the IDEA of doing this movie, not the movie itself, because I had no facts on the movie to defend). It would be like me castigating Indy 4 because both Harrison Ford and Spielberg’s last few movies haven’t been all that great.
You were agaisnt this movie from the moment it was announced on general principle, though what principle you were upholding is anyone’s guess since you ahd no real reasons to down it, just the usual, “Well, I don’t like it.” I always said I liked what this movie had the *potential* to be. I never said I was hot and bothered over it, (though you implied that I had on more than one occasion) simply that they had the right to make it, and unless and until I had an actual reason (other than a typical knee-jerk fanboy reaction) to dog the movie I would withhold judgment until I had some actual facts. So far there’s only one fact (George miller is directing) and a few unsavory rumors about the casting. I’m not encouraged thus far, but neither am I turned off –you seem to have read much more into my comments than I actually posted. I know how a bad film in a genre (Catwoman, Ultraviolet, Aeon Flux) can kill several other potentially good projects (Black Widow) I tend to give each project a chance. Not a free ride, but a chance.
You hoped from Day One this movie would be turn out to be bad and you would have held that position no matter what facts emerged. Nothing we’ve seen casting-wise is etched in stone, in fact it’s all rumors, but as a fan of movies, I won’t dog out a flick without a reason. It sure beats the alternative –hoping and praying Hollywood will make bad movies so I can say, “I didn’t want them to make this flick, and it turned out like crap! Whoo-hoo!” Who would *want* to be right about something like that?

Comment by JaySmack | September 26, 2007

Wrong again…

When the movie was first announced, I was VERY excited about it. But when we learned, in succession that 1) Routh and Bale would not be in the film, doing damage to both DC’s tentpole Superhero franchises, 2) the main villains were Max Lord and The OMACs, and 3) the studio was super-rushing production to get in before the strike, it was pretty obvious to everyone but you that this film was a disaster in the making. Follow that up with rumors of Tom Welling and Jessica Biel, and it’s almost laughable.

There has yet to be a single piece of good news about this film. Period.

And while I’m certainly gloating a bit now, in those previous posts, you were spectacularly overbearing and childish. Well, turns out, maybe the rest of us were just a bit more clued in and able to see what a mess this is. You were so fanboy-giddy about the premise, that you ignored all the details about the execution.

Look, most people love the IDEA of a JLA film, myself included. But this isn’t shaping up to be a good film by any stretch of the imagination, and it’s a blatant slap in the face to Chris Nolan and Christian Bale, as well as Bryan Singer and Brandon Routh. It will create a confusing, jumbled mess of multiple Batmans and Supermans. It’s a pre-strike rush job and a cash grab, nothing more.

Comment by Scramble Network | September 26, 2007