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Bridesmaids Director Pitched Wonder Woman Film Oct 11th 2013, 00:00, by Scott Collura I attended a dinner last night with director Paul Feig to discuss his buddy-cop comedy The Heat. The Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy film hits Blu-ray next week, but Feig was very amenable to discussing other aspects of his career as well, including a never-before-revealed pitch he made to Warner Bros. for a Wonder Woman movie. The idea for Feig's film would've involved a Wonder Woman who "keeps hitting the glass ceiling" of the superhero world. Conceived as a lighter action-comedy, this Princess Diana of Themyscira has to contend with male heroes like Batman and Superman who are perhaps not as forward-thinking regarding their female counterpart as they should be. (I think the word "jerks" might've come up.) Feig compared this Wonder Woman to the suffragist Cicely Hamilton (who wrote the 1908 "feminist" play Diana of Dobson's). Continue reading… Media files: 1280-wonder-woman-610x343.jpg (image/jpeg)

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