Sneak Peek: Wednesday, February 16

Adrianne Palicki Ties Up Kelley's "Wonder Woman"

NBC reports that actress Adrianne Palicki ("Friday Night Lights") has landed the lead role in producer/writer David E. Kelley's reboot of the classic 1970's TV series "Wonder Woman", based on the DC Comics character.

Palicki previously appeared in "Legion", the CW's unaired "Aquaman" TV pilot and on the Vancouver-lensed series "Smallville".

Kelley's TV pilot will incorporate the iconic comic book character's signature 'magic lasso' and 'invisible plane', in what is being described as a "...serious, non-campy take on the DC Comics character...".

Kelley ("Boston Legal") is no stranger to 'genre' ideas, as his wife, actress Michelle Pfeiffer, played the iconic 'Catwoman', in the 1992 feature "Batman Returns".

Kelley is also noted for creating TV series "Ally McBeal" and "Chicago Hope" as well as writing screenplays for features "Lake Placid" and "Mystery, Alaska".

The best known adaptation of the Wonder Woman character was the three-season live-action series in the 1970's, starring actress Lynda Carter as the 'Amazon Princess' and her alter ego, 'Diana Prince'.

DC Comics recently rebooted the character with a new costume and origin backstory, different from the established 1940's originating character.

DC Comics co-publisher, illustrator Jim Lee re-designed WW's costume for 'the modern era' in collaboration with writer J. Michael Straczynski and artists Don Kramer/Michael Babinski.

"Wonder Woman" # 600 "...begins a run that is both forward-looking and true to the legendary character, planting her firmly in the modern era..."

'Wonder Woman' was created by pyschologist William Moulton Marston, ('Charles Moulton') who saw the “great educational potential of comic books”, and was subsequently hired as an ‘educational consultant’ for National Periodicals/All-Winner Comics (forerunners of DC Comics) in 1941, before creating a female comic book superhero, in a field dominated by male characters.

Marston was inspired by his lover Olive Byrne, who lived with him and his wife in a ‘polygamous, polyamorous’ relationship.

Having 2 children with both women, Marston said that both women served as exemplars for his character, subsequently illustrated by artist 'Harry Peter'.

"Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world," Marston wrote at the time, defending his character’s look and sado-masochism, with usually every story highlighting women tied up by a ‘magic lasso’ (of truth), chains, ropes, etc, in order to 'force obedience'.

"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power", said Marston. "Wonder Woman satisfies the subconscious, elaborately disguised desire of males to be mastered by a woman who loves them"

For Marston, Wonder Woman was not primarily a role model for girls, but the vehicle through which he could get young boys familiar with the idea of 'dominating' women.

"Women are exciting for this one reason — it is the secret of women’s allure — women enjoy submission, being bound" Marston said.

"This I bring out in the 'Paradise Island' sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them".

Virtually all th early "Wonder Woman" stories included a full-length WW in an oversized bondage panel. In one 1948 story, there were no fewer than 75 panels depicting bondage.

"The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound," said Marston.

"Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society.

"Giving to others, being controlled by them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element…"

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Wonder Woman"...

Scorsese's "The Wolf Of Wall Street": Party Like A Rock Star, Live Like A King

According to reports, director Martin Scorsese is now attached to a big screen adaptation of author Jordan Belfort’s 1990 best seller "The Wolf Of Wall Street", from a script by "Boardwalk Empire" executive producer Terence Winter, starring actor Leonardo DiCaprio. "Wolf" author Belfort, founded one of the first and largest 'chop shop' brokerage firms in 1987, then was banned from the securities business for life, before serving time for fraud and money-laundering. In his memoir, Belfort covers how he worked with managers of obscure companies to acquire large amounts of stock with minimal public disclosure, then pumped up the price and sold it, making profits while investors lost, laundering money through the purchase of legitimate businesses and cash deposits in Swiss banks. The book also focuses on the vast amount of sex, drugs and risky physical behavior Belfort managed to survive. Before he gets to "Wolf", Scorsese's next film project will be "Silence", based on the novel by author Shusaku Endo. Premise of "Silence" follows two Jesuit priests who move to Japan and are met with violence and abuse. Based on a script by Jay Cocks, that film will star Daniel Day-Lewis ("Gangs of New York"), Benicio Del Toro ("The Wolfman") and Gael Garcia Bernal. Click the images to enlarge...

Miley Cyrus In "Marie Claire"

Sneak Peek new images of actress, pop singer Miley Cyrus, posing for an upcoming fashion editorial for "Marie Claire" magazine.

The 18-year old former "Hannah Montana" star is currently concentrating on her budding feature film career, recently wrapping work on the motion picture "LOL" with Demi Moore and currently filming "So Undercover" with costar Kelly Osbourne.

Author Candace Bushnell ("Sex And The City") is also interested in Cyrus to play teenage 'Carrie Bradshaw' in the upcoming New Line feature film adaptation of Bushnell's "The Carrie Diaries", a prequel to "Sex And The City", from HBO and writer-director-producer Michael Patrick King.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the Miley Cyrus "Marie Claire" photo shoot...

"Elle" Magazine Gets Under MTV's "Skins"

The teenage cast of the controversial Toronto-lensed MTV series "Skins", including Sofia Black-D’Elia, Britne Oldford, Camille Cresencia-Mills and Eleanor Zichy have posed for an upcoming fashion editorial in "Elle" magazine. The photo shoot was organized by "Elle" Creative Director Joe Zee and shot by photographer Thomas Whiteside. "These kids do spend more on-screen time out of their clothes than in them," according to "Elle". "It really is so much easier to dash out the door when you’re wearing the outfit you slept in. Who better, then, to model one of spring’s sexiest trends, innerwear as outerwear?" Debuting January 2011, the new "Skins" is the North American version of the popular UK series of the same name. Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Skins"...

Universal Gearing Up For "The Terminator"

According to reports, Universal, home of the most famous monsters in filmland, is looking to acquire motion picture rights to "The Terminator", for director Justin Lin ("The Fast And The Furious").

"The Terminator", released in 1984, was directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. Lensed in Los Angeles, the film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures.

Schwarzenegger played the 'Terminator', a cyborg assassin sent back in time from the year 2029 to 1984 to kill 'Sarah Connor' (Hamilton). Biehn played 'Kyle Reese', a soldier from the future sent back in time to protect Sarah.

In 2008, "The Terminator" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".