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Wonder Woman’s Chris Pine Talks about the Importance of Female Heroes

Chris Pine stopped by the Jimmy Kimmel show and the conversation turned to the project he is currently working on: Wonder Woman. While Kimmel seemed completely bewildered by the idea that a man would take a supporting role in a female-lead film, Pine spoke eloquently about why female heroes are important and what he thinks they bring to the table.

“For all of these big tentpole, and they’re fun and they’re action-packed and the whole bit, and I’m being honest [but] what I think is really neat about it is that with all of the Thors and Captain Kirks, and I feel with men at the the helm, it’s always this kind of revenge cycle thing. It’s an eye for an eye, ‘We’re going to go get the bad guys,’ and the bad guys are defeated.

“What I think is really lovely having a woman at the helm of something like this is just by virtue of her being a woman, there’s a great deal more compassion [and] love at the center of the story, which for something as big as a film as this is going to be, and with the kind of eyes that will watch it, I think it’s wonderful. The little bit we can do to hopefully inch this universe towards something not as aggressive and as violent as this world can be.”

A minor side note is that even though he was obviously not supposed to reveal anything at all regarding the specifics of the film, Pine pretty much confirmed that there will be no invisible jet in the movie, since he had no idea what Kimmel was talking about when it was mentioned during the interview.

First Wonder Woman Footage Released

Last night the CW previewed it’s new TV show, Legends of Tomorrow, as well as Warner Bros. upcoming superhero movies — primarily Batman vs. Superman. But we were most excited about the very brief glimpse we were given of the still filming Wonder Woman, which is not set for release until the summer of 2017.

It looks like Warner Bros. has decided to do a classic origin story for the character, to explain to movie goers who she is and why she is important in the DC universe. This bucks the recent trend of eschewing origin stories in films like the upcoming Batman and Spider-Man films. But unlike those characters, Wonder Woman has not already had her story told multiple times on the big screen and introducing the character to the audience is probably necessary.

Wonder Woman is scheduled for release on June 23, 2017

Wonder Woman Goes Digital and Poison Ivy Gets Her Own Limited Series

DC Comics made some big announcements at New York Comic-Con last week. Including two new titles featuring some of their most powerful women.

Wonder Woman! The Legend of Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman! The Legend of Wonder Woman

First up is Wonder Woman! The Legend of Wonder Woman, a “Digital First” series launching in January. Written and drawn by Renae De Liz, The Legend of Wonder Woman is the spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed anthology series Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman. It covers Diana’s earliest days with her mother, Queen Hippolyta, training on the  Amazon island kingdom of Themyscira.

Poison Ivy: Circle of Life and Death
Poison Ivy: Circle of Life and Death

Also announced is a six-issue limited  series featuring Gotham’s baddest botanist, Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death is written by Amy Chu with art by Clay Man. In the series, Dr. Pamela Isely joins the plant sciences department at Gotham Botanical Gardens. When a colleague is murdered, all signs point to  Poison Ivy as the culprit. Ivy has to solve the mystery and clear her name before things get a little batty…

From the DC press release:

Also announced at San Diego Comic-Con and revealed during a panel at last week’s New York Comic-Con was POISON IVY: CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH, written by Amy Chu with art by Clay Mann. In this six-issue miniseries, Dr. Pamela Isley joins the prestigious plant sciences department at Gotham Botanical Gardens. But when a fellow scientist is murdered and it looks like the work of Poison Ivy, what happens next?

For our Digital fans, January also brings a new Digital First series featuring the Amazon warrior princess herself, WONDER WOMAN! THE LEGEND OF WONDER WOMAN is a nine-issue digital series written and illustrated by Renae De Liz, with inker/colorist Ray Dillon. In the beginning there was only chaos. But Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, sees a better future – and eventually her daughter is destined to bring that new world to life. But before her ultimate destiny is revealed, Diana of Themyscira must learn the important lessons of an Amazonian childhood!

The Disney Princess / Justice League Mashups You Didn’t Know You Needed

There usually isn’t a ton of overlap between Disney princess fans and superhero fans. The culture of each fanbase is quite different and they tend to attract different types of people. But DeviantArt user Micah Graham (a.k.a. MuiMushroom) saw princess and superheroes as two great tastes that taste great together and made these brilliant Disney/Justice League mashups.

I was just thinking that it would be a fun crossover to do, it started out as just a discussion with my brother, “If the princesses were super-hero’s who would they be?” That sort of thing, and we began matching them up. It was just a fun little thing to get ready for Comic-con, and it was a lot of fun designing the costumes.

Check out the gallery of superheroic princesses below, and then check out Micah’s other work on DeviantArt.

Baterella
Bell-anna
Brave Green Arrow
Martian Jasmine Hunter
Pocahawkgirl
Princess and the Ring
Sleeping Canary
SnowMan
The Flashy Rapunzel
The Little Aquamaid
Wonder… Woman…