Bosco685 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) Quote The network is developing Wonder Girl, a drama series based on the DC characters created by Joëlle Jones. It hails from Queen of the South executive producer/co-showrunner Dailyn Rodriguez and Berlanti Productions. Written by Rodriguez, Wonder Girl centers on Yara Flor, a Latina Dreamer who was born of an Amazonian Warrior and a Brazilian River God, learns that she is Wonder Girl. With her newfound power must fight the evil forces that would seek to destroy the world. This would mark the first Latina superhero title character of a DC TV series. Rodriguez, who is the daughter of Cuban immigrants, is executive producing with Berlanti Prods.’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and David Madden. Berlanti Productions produces in association with Warner Bros. Television. The series tells the backstory/origin story of the DC Comics character of Yara Flor, who was recently revealed as a new Wonder Woman. In addition to the Future State Wonder Woman with adult Yara Flor as Wonder Woman, DC concurrently is publishing the Wonder Girl comic series written and drawn by Jones. At the CW, Wonder Girl will be looking to join Berlanti Prods’ existing DC Universe, which includes Batwoman, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, the upcoming Superman and Lois, Supergirl — which will be wrapping its run with the upcoming sixth season — and Black Lightning. Batwoman and Black Lightning, respectively, introduced the first gay lead character — male or female — and the first Black lead of a live-action DC superhero series. This is one of two famous Warner Bros.-controlled IPs Berlanti Prods. is developing as a series for the CW this season, along with The Powerpuff Girls. Rodriguez has been co-running USA’s Queen of the South for the past two seasons as part of an overall deal with series producer Touchstone TV. While her studio pact ended last month, she has made a new deal to continue co-running the show — whose production was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic — through the end of Season 5. Filming on the fifth season recently resumed in New Orleans. Edited February 12, 2021 by Bosco685 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 A New Wonder Girl Series May be Coming to The CW Quote Yara Flor may not be a name many DC fans are familiar with now…but that could change very soon. Announced initially as a core part of DC Future State, the massive line-wide 2021 comic book event that will change the direction of the DC Universe, Yara will soon be making waves on the comic book page in a miniseries written and drawn by Joëlle Jones, but it appears the new hero isn’t stopping there. Deadline announced today that The CW is developing a new Wonder Girl live-action series that will feature Yara Flor from Queen of South executive producer Dailyn Rodriguez and Berlandi Productions. Greg Berlanti and The CW have already won acclaim for the diversity found within their small screen DCTV universe, which includes DC’s first Black-led series, Black Lightning, and its first led by an LGBTQ+ superhero, Batwoman. Wonder Girl would be the first DCTV series to feature a Latinx character in the starring role. Wonder Girl features a take on the longtime character that will be new to most Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl fans. Yara Flor is a Latina Dreamer whose parents were an Amazon Warrior and a Brazilian River God. When she discovers that she’s Wonder Girl, she must use her newfound powers to fight the evil forces that would seek to destroy the world. If greenlit, Wonder Girl would mark the latest entry in The CW’s robust slate of interconnected DCTV shows, which will already be expanding in 2021 with the in-production Superman and Lois. Also returning in 2021 are ongoing “Arrowverse” series The Flash, Batwoman, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning and Supergirl, which announced earlier this year that its upcoming season will be its last. For fans looking to learn more about Yara before her possible live action debut, they’ll get their first glimpse of the hero in Future State: Wonder Woman, which debuts as a part of DC Future State in January and February, 2021. That miniseries features an older Yara after she’s inherited the Wonder Woman mantle from Diana Prince. The CW series will focus on Yara as she’s younger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted February 12, 2021 Author Share Posted February 12, 2021 Quote The writer/producer behind The CW's Wonder Girl adaptation announced today on social media that the pilot has not been ordered, and will not go forward at the network. The series, which would have centered on the character of Yara Flor, was announced back in November, as the network began moving pieces around the game board to try and figure out what their lineup might look like after losing Supernatural, Supergirl, and Black Lightning all in the space of a year. Recent announcements have seen the network pick up Naomi, based on the comic written by Miles Morales and Jessica Jones creator Brian Michael Bendis, and The Powerpuff Girls, which will apparently see the girls as young adults with mixed feelings about their childhood superheroics. Yara Flor, daughter of an Amazonian warrior and a Brazilian river god, was created for the current Future State comics event, and represents the Wonder Woman of the future. The character is one of the few who will get their own ongoing series spinning out of Future State. "So, some sad news," producer Dailyn Rodriguez shared on social media. "For all of those asking, Wonder Girl is not getting picked up at the CW. I was very proud of the -script I wrote. Wish I could've shared the world I created, but unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be. Thanks for everyone's enthusiasm. It meant a lot to me." As fate would have it, some of the series' potential critics have been won over -- just in time for the show to be cancelled. A vocal minority of fans were concerned about building a series around a character who, at that point, had not yet appeared in the comics, but the popularity of the character in her early comics appearances seemed to have largely given fans a little more reason to be optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
media_junkie Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Well that didn't take long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
