Last time we had news on the first live-action Wonder Woman film, Warner Bros. looked like they were close to hiring a writer. Now it seems they might be going overboard with that whole hiring thing. I guess she really is tricky after all.
Sigh. So there’s really not a whole lot to go on here at the moment. The rumor comes from producer/screenwriter Arash Amel (Grace of Monaco). He tweeted the following:
Someone just told me six writers have been hired to simultaneously write six versions of Wonder Woman movie. WHAT?
— Arash Amel (@arashamel) December 18, 2014
Worrying trend of simultaneous dev on major franchises growing. This is wrong on so many levels.
— Arash Amel (@arashamel) December 18, 2014
I’m sure Hollywood screenwriter’s career will soon resemble the sweatshop that makes tennis shoes for Nike.
— Arash Amel (@arashamel) December 18, 2014
You may recall Warner was also putting writers to work on two different scripts for their Jason Momoa-starring Aquaman film. We have to agree with Amel here that this is not a great trend. Badass Digests’ Devin Faraci tweeted he’s heard they may merge the Wonder Woman scripts, which in my mind could make for a giant mess.
Amel’s other tweets seem to indicate he feels it would actually be illegal for Warner Bros. to do this but I don’t know enough about the Writer’s Guild to comment.
What do you think about this tactic?
(via Blastr)
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Published: Dec 19, 2014 12:29 pm