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Whedon to treat Wonder Woman seriously
13 April

Joss Whedon has told US cable channel VH1 that his forthcoming Wonder Woman movie will take the title character back to her roots.

"Originally, I was hesitant but then it's also sort of why I became really interested, because she doesn't have so much baggage for me, the way, say, Spider-Man would," Whedon said.

Whedon also said that he plans to explore the character's Amazon princess back story. "I think she sort of sprang out fully formed, much like Athena herself. In the '40s, when it was first done, she came to the world from Paradise Island and then went about her business, and so that experience, which is really a rite of passage, the same as any hero has to go through, has never really been investigated the way I want."

His plans are to take the material quite seriously. "I'm not going to do anything silly. There's a reason why she has those bracelets. There's a reason why she's got the lasso. I think it's going to work out really well."