Why wonder woman was cancelled

Palicki believed that the show was ahead of its time as superheroes had not established themselves on television at that time. The CW would later flirt with a Wonder Woman prequel series titled Amazon , but that never went forward and now Gal Godot has taken up the torch and put her own mark on the character. More from CancelledSciFi. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Amazon Queen Hippolyta Cloris Leachman , arranges a competition amongst the island women in which the winner will be allowed to accompany the injured Trevor back to the United States and remain there to help battle the Nazis. Her daughter, princess Diana Lynda Carter , is quite taken with the foreigner but is forbidden by her mother to enter the challenge.

Diana dons a disguise in order to compete and wins anyway. After Diana reveals her identity, her mother relents and gives consent for Diana to leave Paradise Island. Once in Washington, D. When needed, Diana slips away, spins around in a circle, and transforms into Wonder Woman, a superheroine with amazing powers.

Despite her confidence in Kelley's writing, Palicki still felt an immense amount of pressure. I was very nervous about that—[and] also very beautifully shocked and pleased that people were very supportive of me getting the role, obviously having not seen the show," she says. That made me feel much more comfortable. I felt like we were all a team and it wasn't just me pushing for this. What a trouper, because Diana gets to kick her ass in the pilot.

During production, they shut down all of Hollywood Boulevard to film a chase sequence in which Wonder Woman leaps over several cars in pursuit of a drug dealer. Unfortunately, Palicki's dream role was short-lived because NBC passed on the pilot. It was so big," says Palicki. These days she wonders if it was just a matter of it being too early. The pilot was shot the same year Smallville ended its groundbreaking season run, and a full year before The CW let Arrow fly with its green-leathered hero and Marvel's Avengers cemented the superhero genre's box office supremacy.

She changed my life. But perhaps it's for the best that it didn't go through?