Kate Beckinsale has almost played Wonder Woman for this Marvel director in disgrace

In 1996, when superhero films were roughly the only field in Batman, producer Ivan Reitman had the idea of ​​making a Wonder Woman film live. This turned out to be the beginning of 20 years of development difficulties for the character, while various Wonder Woman films have been developed, abandoned, redeveloped, transmitted and restarted several times. There was once a planned version of “Wonder Woman” with Sandra Bullock in the game. In the early 2000s, there was potential production with Mariah Carey or Catherine Zeta-Jones as a superheroine. Lucy Lawless was approached the role at some point. Dozens of writers have taken a crack on a script.

It was in 2005 that Joss Whedon, then still climbing his reputation on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel”, Pallait a film “Wonder Woman” together for Warner Bros. Time Warner published a press release announcing Whedon as a writer / director. Whedon’s script was, completely curiously, to say from the point of view of Steve Trevor, the mortal beloved by Wonder Woman, and it had to take place in the modern world. Whedon had not played the role of Wonder Woman, because he did not want to think about it until he finished with his scenario. He should never perfect it, however, and the project collapsed.

In 2018, Kate Beckinsale was interviewed by Variety, and she revealed that she had been approached once to play in “Wonder Woman” by Joss Whedon. Beckinsale was, at this stage, recently appeared as a vampire warrior dressed in vinyl in the action / horror film “Underworld”, proving his credibility as a star of the action. At the time, Beckinsale seemed to be a logical choice. However, she refused the role for several reasons, saying – in the variety interview – that the script she read was not very good.

Beckinsale was very frank about “Wonder Woman”, saying very briefly that she was involved in the project when Joel Silver was attached as a producer. When asked if she had regretted that she could not play Wonder Woman, Beckinsale simply said: “No. It would have been a terrible film based on the script I read.”

Beckinsale has entered a little more details in an interview with Yahoo! In 2017, noting that playing another character of supernatural hero so little time after appearing in “Underworld” was not the most desirable idea. Her daughter was born in 1999 and she started thinking about how her roles could turn to a young girl. In addition, she would have felt parental pressure at home if her daughter knew that she was also Wonder Woman. This would have created a strange parental standard. In his words:

“I don’t know if I was desperate to be in a leotard. I had already done the rubber pants. […] You should take care of that you have a child at some point and how much you could embarrass them. […] It’s such an oppressive thing. […] If your mother is Wonder Woman, you will have problems. “”

Whedon would continue to make two ultra-hit films “Avengers” in 2012 and 2015, and directing Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in “Justice League” of 2017, taking control of the production of Zack Snyder. It was not until 2020 that the stories of the terrible behavior on the Whedon set began to go to the general public. He would have been cruel, mocking and abusive on the regular. Many young women with whom they worked on “Buffy” began to confirm that he was violent towards many of his actresses and co-editors; He liked to make women cry. He threatened careers. Whedon has never violated laws, but it has been revealed to be a fairly horrible person. He has not been able to work since.

So maybe Beckinsale dodged a bullet. Or the deflected with his bracelet.