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Joss Whedon joins Wonder Woman
18 March

We've been following the Wonder Woman film both here and on Girls Kick Ass, depending on whether it was the possibility of Joss Whedon or Charisma Carpenter's involvement that was under the spotlight.

Now the former has been announced as both writer and director of the movie about the DC Comics character, who he described as "the most iconic female heroine of our time."

"In a way, no one has met her yet," he said. "What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

The film's producer Joel Silver said, "There's no one better than Joss to adapt the legendary Wonder Woman comic book character created in the 1940s into a dynamic film for 21st Century audiences," said Silver.

"Wonder Woman was the first great female superhero to emerge from comic books and later inspire millions of fans in her television incarnation ... but this groundbreaking heroine has yet to be reinvented for the feature film arena."