A friend of mine was actually the writer & artist for the Wonder Woman comic book for a period time. I just saw him in Provincetown over July 4th and he said the rough cut of the animated feature was very good.
I wish I could get my hands on Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman screenplay. (He wrote Buffy, Angel & Firefly). Whedon spent 18 months developing the script and the film (he was slated to direct as well), but in early 2007 producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) decided he didn't like Whedon's take and put the film in turnaround.
Now that the Justice League film is a definite, Warner intends to use it as a launch pad for other possible films. George Miller spent nearly a year in development before the writer's strike hit. WETA - F/X company that did Lord of the Rings - is working on the costumes. Locations were already scouted and the studio has a script it claims to love. Miller said the film is ready shoot in 2009 for delivery summer 2010, most likely July 4th.
Dave Dobkin, who directed Wedding Crashers, is directing The Flash. Greg Berlanti is directing Green Lantern from a script by Marc (TV & comic writer) Guggenheim and Michael (writer for TV's Heroes) Green. Both films are scheduled for summer 2010 - most likely May & June.
They're borrowing Marvel's plan. Following up Iron Man and The Hulk - Thor and The First Avenger: Captain America, set for a May 2011 release. The Avengers film - featuring all of the characters, hits two months later in July. It's already been teased with Robert Downey's cameo in The Hulk and Samuel Jackson's end credits cameo in Iron Man. It's all in Marvel's stockholders report.
The Dark Knight has made $400 million in just a few weeks and it's on it's way to being the number #2 all-time money-maker. Iron Man will be the no. 2 film of the year. Spiderman, X-Men, etc. huge money-makers (X-Men Origins: Wolverine for summer 09 and David Goyer, writer of The Dark Knight, is directing X-Men Origins: Magneto for summer 2010.
Good or bad, Hollywood will continue to smoke superheroes like crack until they've exhausted even the most secondary characters and properties.
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