Warner Bros. green lights Wonder Woman filming for fall

Marvel’s continued takeover of the film industry will continue when Wonder Woman begins filming this fall, with Warner Bros. announcing the schedule.

The Marvel universe will get just a little bit bigger in 2017 when Wonder Woman hits the big screen. According to Screen Crush, Warner Bros. has said filming on the Amazonian epic will begin this fall, with Michelle MacLaren to direct and Gal Gadot in the title role.

MacLaren is known for her work as director on two of TV’s iconic series of this century—Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad—and also directed the second episode of the Breaking Bad prequel spinoff Better Call Saul.

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The character will actually debut in 2016 as part of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before getting her own film to be released the following year.

Gadot, a 29-year-old Israeli actress and model, had small roles in some films that will be familiar to American audiences, including Date Night, Knight and Day and two of the films of the never-ending Fast & Furious series—Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6.

The initial film is scheduled to be the first of a Wonder Woman trilogy. The first film will be set on the character’s home of Paradise Island in the 1920s.

So a strong, independent woman will be dumped into the immediate post-women’s suffrage era in the United States. That could be interesting and it fits the character’s theme of being thrown in a world that doesn’t make sense to her.

The second film wound move to the 1930s and 1940s—the era of the original television series starring Lynda Carter that shepherded me through much of my teenage years—and the final film would move to present day with the Justice League, which is also getting its own film launch in the fall of 2017.

Batman v. Superman is scheduled for a March 2016 release, with Wonder Woman slated for a June 2017 opening and Justice League to debut in November 2017.

The problem with the success of the Marvel universe is that every other film company wants one. Sony has been trying to do it with Spider-Man. Fox has X-Men. The Jack Ryan reboot last year as supposed to launch a new series in a Tom Clancy universe, but the initial film met with too many moviegoers dressed as empty theater chairs for that to happen.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and what Marvel has done is remarkable. It just means we’ll be experiencing a glut of failed attempts for the foreseeable future.

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