I am – Hercules!!

I just got back from the Museum of Television and Radio’s Monday night “Veronica Mars” event. They screened the March 29 episode, which has lots of stuff with Veronica’s mom, Veronica’s parentage, what Leann was doing with Jake in that hotel, and it’s all great. Rob Thomas revealed what 1.21 is about. I'm confident "Moonshine" will have a full recap on all this for the TV side of the site presently.

So anyway, at the end of the event, as dozens of teenyboppers rushed Kristin Bell and Teddy Dunn, I had a really brief chat with Joel Silver, who produces the show.

Now to understand this stupid conversation, you have to know that on Dec. 14 Ain’t It Cool broke the news Silver was pursuing Joss Whedon to write and direct a “Wonder Woman” movie. Silver finally confirmed as much to SciFi Wire on Feb. 20. "I'm trying to work a deal with Joss,” he told SciFi. “I don't know if I could work that out. It's a complicated deal to do, but I would love him to do it. It would be great if he could do it."

Cut to tonight:

HERC: Joel Silver!!! (Silver hears me and leaps from his seat. I wave him over. Shockingly, he wanders over and shakes hands.) I’m with Ain’t It Cool News.
JOEL SILVER (all smiles): Oh yeah!
HERC: I want to ask you what’s going on with Whedon!
JOEL SILVER (smile vanishes; pulls away hand; he begins to retreat to backstage): Two days!
HERC: You’re announcing something in two days? (Silver stops, nods, continues toward the backstage area.) Do you want to say anything about what’s holding things up?
JOEL SILVER: Two days!
HERC: This week?
(Silver nods and disappears backstage.)

Lame, right? Maybe Silver just says “two days” to any stranger who asks him about something he doesn’t want to talk about.

So I get home and what’s the first thing I see on Ain’t It Cool? Moriarty’s story about the “Layer Cake” guy getting the “X3” directing job that every X-Men fan on this planet thought Whedon should get.

Stay with me. Here’s the exact words the guy – the guy who first gave us the Whedon Wonder Woman scoop - used way back on Dec. 14::

Joss Whedon is in final negotiations with Joel Silver and Warner Bros. to write and direct WONDER WOMAN for Summer 2006. Joss Whedon. Joel Silver. WONDER WOMAN. 2006. That's right, baby!!! Ain't it cool?

The only possible thing standing in this picture's way is X-MEN 3. I know what's been said, but Fox is still coming after him hard to direct that, and that's a tough thing for a guy like Joss to pass up. But he probably will. For WONDER WOMAN.

Remember now: prior to AICN getting this missive, we hadn’t heard anything about any Whedon involvement in Wonder Woman. Nobody had.

“Two days.”

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