CW Wonder Girl Series from Berlanti

[ben6543]

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.

Rodriguez joined Queen of the South in Season 2 as a co-executive producer and No. 2 to then-showrunner Natalie Chaidez and was elevated to exec producer and co-showrunner at the start of Season 4. With Rodriguez and Ben Lobato at the helm, Queen of the South ranks as USA’s most-watched and highest-rated original scripted series. Rodriguez is repped by Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston and attorney Darren Trattner.

https://deadline.com/2020/11/wonder-...cw-1234616503/
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[kevin87]

Originally Posted by ben6543

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.

Rodriguez joined Queen of the South in Season 2 as a co-executive producer and No. 2 to then-showrunner Natalie Chaidez and was elevated to exec producer and co-showrunner at the start of Season 4. With Rodriguez and Ben Lobato at the helm, Queen of the South ranks as USA’s most-watched and highest-rated original scripted series. Rodriguez is repped by Rothman Brecher Ehrich Livingston and attorney Darren Trattner.

https://deadline.com/2020/11/wonder-...cw-1234616503/
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Not looking forward to the political stuff that'll eventually come up with her being a "Dreamer"... but it sounds interesting. I guess they need another superpowered girl with Supergirl going off.

It's weird that they throw in Batwoman since Black Lightning was on 2 years before and introduced the first black AND lesbian superhero with Anissa, even if she's not the show's titular character, she's still main cast.

[doctorD]

Wow, I’m surprised this character is getting a series over Donna Troy but maybe because Donna Troy is already on Titans. Although Donna is the original Wonder girl. Cool...bring it on.

[Petey Parker]

Originally Posted by doctorD

Wow, I’m surprised this character is getting a series over Donna Troy but maybe because Donna Troy is already on Titans. Although Donna is the original Wonder girl. Cool...bring it on.

DC is doing a big push on diversity and synergy. At least this will be an existing character in the comics by the time it comes out. They legit threw in an unnecessary under the radar cameo of Ryan Wilder in the final issue of Batgirl not that long ago so that she “exists” in the comics, which was embarrassing.

[UniSol GR77]

Oh no.

[JamesKurtovich]

Hard pass.

[Network23]

Sounds like a great series to come. I like the direction the new tv DC series are going in the structure of shorter 10 or 12 episodes a season with a built in story arc at the beginning and then a concentrated effort for that season. It has worked well for Black Lightning and Star Girl, Titans, Doom Patrol etc

[ps3bd_owner]

That description made me chuckle. CW has cringey shows, but yet they can be comedic. lmao

[merlinjones]

Should be Donna or Drusilla.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Network23

Sounds like a great series to come. I like the direction the new tv DC series are going in the structure of shorter 10 or 12 episodes a season with a built in story arc at the beginning and then a concentrated effort for that season. It has worked well for Black Lightning and Star Girl, Titans, Doom Patrol etc

The DCU/HBO Max shows are just shorter because that's just how streaming usually is... but season 1 of Titans was longer, and while Black Lightning was increased for s2 and 3 it was probably only shortened to 13 due to COVID. The only reason Black Lightning didn't have a lot to begin with is because it premiered midseason and even when it premiered in the fall, it didn't run as long as the rest to accommodate CW's typical more-shows-than-time attitude they've have for a while.

Unless Stargirl premieres midseason or doesn't run as long to allow for something else midseason, I fully expect CW to mess with the flow and drag it out to a full season like The Flash, Supergirl, and Batwoman.

[ben6543]

Show is not picked up by CW

Dailyn "La Jefa" Rodriguez
@dailynrod
So some sad news. 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.

https://twitter.com/dailynrod/status...24356354629633

[kemcha]

This is a miracle that it wasn't picked up.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Wonder Girl character, the Donna Troy character. I've been a fan ever since I started reading Marv Wolfman and Geoge Perez's version of the team when it debuted in 1980. When this series was announced a few months back, apologies to anyone who might think otherwise, I was like "WTF". Why were they adapting a TV series of a superhero who hasn't even appeared in a comic book yet. Future State hadn't even appeared on comic shelves yet when the series was announced.

I would have preferred if they would have chosen the Donna Troy version of the character but they chose "Yara Flor"? It could have opened the door for a true adaption of Titans into the Arrowverse and not the series that's currently bring produced.