It was reported last month that Warner Bros. was
searching for a female director to helm Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in her solo
outing. I speculated at the time a few names that might had the background WB
is looking for, among which was Green Street Hooligans and Punisher: War Zone
director Lexi Alexander.
Now speaking with Forbes, the director says that the
studio has not approached her and that even if they did, she wouldn't want to
do it. The German born director also says that an offer to another director has
already been made.
"Alexander said that she has not been approached
by the studio, and has discouraged her managers from throwing her hat in the
ring. “I can’t say they wouldn’t consider me, but they haven’t reached out.”
She said she heard Warner Bros. had been made an offer to another female director.
“If
she says yes, everybody will be very happy, including me,” Alexander said.
“Still, I don’t see at this point why anyone would say yes. There is huge
pressure … If [a female director] does fail, then all of a sudden it’s ‘all
women suck at directing.’”
Alexander said that once a Wonder Woman director
– presumably female – is announced, she plans to publish a blog post
asking for transparency about the production process. She believes such
transparency would make it harder to blame any potential failures on the talent
and skill of a female director, by exposing the additional challenges women
directors face.
“People need to understand the system,” she said,
insisting that it is misleading to isolate the profits of a film as a measure
of a director’s success without taking into consideration the investment put
into a director’s vision. “We have to demand transparency so we as a public can
judge whether she f**cked up or not.”
Wonder Woman opens on June 23, 2017.
Source - Forbes
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