In light of this, casting Teresa Palmer as the Amazonian princess is pure GENIUS!!! :D

Instead of wasting thousands of dollars and loads of time trying to convince audiences Palmer's a 6ft tall brunette, why not just hire one in the first place? Hollywood can't FIND one??? We all know that's a giant load of walrus poo.

I'd rather they simply hire someone tall enough to actually be considered an "Amazon," like they did with Lucy Lawless and Lynda Carter. It really ISN'T that hard to do.

And Teresa Palmer's resumé is minimal. She's not exactly in demand for her stellar acting abilities. I guarantee there's no shortage (pardon the pun) of other actresses with similar skills. I SERIOUSLY doubt her reading for the part was "awe-inspiring," anymore than Jessica Alba's was when she won the part of Invisible Girl over FAR more accomplished (and blonde) actresses she was competing against.

And we ALL saw the results of THAT brilliant choice of casting in the Fantastic Four flicks.

And no, these actors won't look tall on screen. You can always tell--proportions, the shape of various parts of the physique. Maybe, with skinny model-types, but shorter people can't both buff up and look tall.

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By Josh Tyler: 2007-10-26 13:02:00

I’m flat out sick of reporting on Justice League of America casting rumors. The movie sounds like it’s going to be a second tier, replacement actors, teen superheroes flick and it’s being directed by a guy who thinks it’s such an important project… that he’s shooting two other movies simultaneously with it. There’s no way JLA is going to be any good, and we’re all wasting our time by paying attention to it.

Still, I guess it’s my job to report this stuff, no matter how much it beats me down. So I’m just going to spit this latest casting rumor out and be done with it. An actress named Teresa Palmer may have been cast as Wonder Woman in JLA, according to Moviehole. They seem pretty certain about it, so maybe this is it and we can stop reporting on at least this role. Thank god.

Teresa played the blonde girl Vanessa in The Grudge 2. She’s mostly done bit parts in movie’s you’ve seen, or bigger parts in movie’s you haven’t. She’s 21 years old and 5’5” which makes her too young and too short to play Wonder Woman… if Warner Brothers was making a movie that was at all faithful to the characters rather than a film designed to sell discount boxes of cereal. Sadly, it’s the latter that’s going on here and not the former.

Posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 10:52 am by: Peter Sciretta

The big news today is the supposed casting of Wonder Woman in the big screen Justice League movie. Moviehole claims that Teresa Palmer may have scored the role.

Age 21 years of age, Palmer is the youngest of the bunch of Wonder Woman hopefuls. Her publicity materials list her as 5′ 5¾”, which is considerably shorter Amazon character who is known for her curvaceous long legs. The modern day character is 6′3″ while the older version was much shorter (5′11″ was “amazonian” height for a woman in the 1960’s). Palmer starred in December Boys and The Grudge 2.

Again, this casting has not been 100% confirmed by the studio. But looking over the past hopefuls for the role worries me a bit. Does Warner Bros have any idea what they are doing with this film? It’s beginning to look a lot like the JJ Abrams Star Trek casting, young actors with little to no name value

Date: October 26, 2007

By: Ryan 'The Rican with the Irish name' McLelland
Source: MovieHole.net

Irish Rican here with my continuing look on the UGH-tastic Teen Titans, ERRRRR, Justice League of America casting.

Today's great rumor??? That Wonder Woman has been cast. Who is set to play?

It's this chick: Teresa Palmer. Yes - she's blonde! But they can dye her hair - or will they? This movie is already going to blow so I won't be surprised by a blonde Wonder Woman.

Keeping with the "what the hell are you casting for?" effect - Palmer is 21 years young and has starred in such remembered classics like The Grudge 2 and December Boys. She was recently named one of Australia's Top Stars of Tomorrow. That's right ladies and gents...she's an Aussie.

I'll bet the big question everyone is asking is how tall is Palmer. Cause surely you need to be TALL to play the Amazonian Princess. SURVEY SAYS: She's 5'5. Oh, excuse me, she's 5'5 and 3/4 of an inch.

Something tells me that sitting down to watch Batman and Robin thirty times while having someone insert nails into my head a la Pinhead is going to be less painful then the new JLA movie.

Does anyone out there agree this is going to be crappy? Or is everyone liking the idea of this new JLA movie and I'm just 'out of it???" Do me a favor and let me know at ryan@latinoreview.com!

Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Batman should ALL be at least 32 years old, and in Batman's case, I wouldn't buy any less than 35. They should all look authoritarian, powerful, and like people you would listen to if they gave you an order.

This little princess looks like she just got back from selling cookies door-to-door.

Fuck you, Warner Bros. You ALWAYS compromise the source material when it comes to DC Comics. Fuck you and your shit casting. Brandon Routh sucked as Superman. Most of the Batmen sucked. Nicholson's Joker was stupid as hell (and NOT the Joker by any means-- It was just Jack's character from the Shining with whiteface), Halle Berry was shit as Catwoman, DeVito crap as the Penquin (although that's because you let him act like Louie from "Taxi" and not like Chester Cobblepot, the aristocratic pugilist), and so on and so on. I shouldn't need to mention Batman & Robin's abysmal cast.

OK, so you'd had a couple lucky breaks. Bale is a good Batman. V for Vendetta was well-cast and well-played. But then you turned around and give us THIS LITTLE GIRL as the Amazon Princess? WHAT PART OF "AMAZON" DON'T YOU GET?!?!

Wonder Woman should look like an adult woman, not a just-out-of-high-school girl. She should look like she can kick Superman's ass on a good day, and she should look like she's the BEST MELEE FIGHTER IN THE WORLD, which she is, and the STRONGEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD, which she also happens to be.

You've cast someone that couldn't even play Supergirl convincingly, let alone Wonder Woman.

Fuck you, WB. Fuck you for not having ANY respect for your target audience-- AS USUAL.

Moviehole is reporting with great brio that George Miller's Justice League of America has lassoed its Wonder Woman. And, as you can see, it's not Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Blondie-to-your-right's name is Teresa Palmer. If she looks familiar, that's because you probably saw her in December Boys or The Grudge 2. I skipped both, so I cant speak to her acting ability or va-va-voom bona fides; she's definitely cute, but, if you ask me, the more... substantial, 5'8" Winstead seemed the obvious choice to fill out Diana's red-and-gold bustier. The 5'5" Palmer, not so much.

But, as we heard earlier this week, Miller might be casting tiny.

If Moviehole is correct and Palmer is definitely JLA's girl, she also beat out Friday Night Lights' top knockout, Minka Kelly, for the role. This is, sadly, not a surprise; what Kelly's got in looks, she completely gives away in talent (though her perpetual blankness is perfectly suited to her FNL character's sudden, unquestioning capitulation to megachurch Christianity; still, I give her another couple of weeks before Garrity's shacking up with Riggins again).

There's been no confirmation on the Rupert Evans as Superman rumor initiated by Dark Horizons the other day. But the diminutiveness does seem to be catching, doesn't it?

Prize for funniest post goes to the joker who said Wonder woman has to be played by an American because of her costume. The character comes from an island off the coast of Greece, just south of The Isle of Lesbos.

Doesnt sound so bad right about now does it?

If anything this is a role that she was born to play. (under these circumstances that is..)

I'm in the middle on this one. I'm gonna wait and see how the casting goes, etc...
24.90% = 315 votes

I was NEVER into this idea in the first place and even less so now!
18.97% = 240 votes

Unless I hear that they have a SUPERB screenplay, there's no way this movie will work because there's too many "big" characters and some are inevitably gonna get lost in the shuffle
16.28% = 206 votes

Straight up, I was sorta into this flick at first, but the more I hear about it, the more I'm pretty sure it's gonna suck ass!!
12.02% = 152 votes

This movie looks/sounds like it's gonna blow the big one, kids!
11.30% = 143 votes

F*ckin' aye, dude! Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc..., how can you go wrong?!?
9.09% = 115 votes

I was at first, but I'm not AS excited as I was initially. I hope it rocks though!
7.43% = 94 votes

TOTAL VOTES = 1265 votes

Really, I've heard that many Americans can't read, many who can don't, only a fraction of those read for entertainment, only a fraction of those ever read comic books or graphic novels and only a still smaller segment of those still do.

So there's a huge amount of mainstream public who just doesn't get superhero movies, who think of them as a fad rather than a genre and of course those cranks who come to these talkbacks to claim that since "Superman and the Mole-Men" or whatever their example is was made in 1961 there don't NEED to be any more super-hero movies.

But for the fraction of a segment of a portion of a small percentage of the population that ever read or still reads comics knows, super-heroes tap into a primal adolescent power fantasy, at the sense of hopelessness in a world gone mad, and at a primal bloodlust love of violent vigilante crime-fighting and evil-vanquishing. A present day fairy tale, a modern mythology.

Comics are great because, unlike film, they have a special effects budget limited only by the artists imagination. Super-heroes are the most popular genre of comics. Mainstream 4-color super-heroes from the major publishers are the most popular because they're primal, universal, widely recognized, often the first comics we came in contact with as children, archtypal and widely copied or imitated, readily available, and are proven properties popular enough to have laasted in some cases for over sixty five years. Of those, the best known are the heroes from DC and Marvel, of those DC has been around the longest, of those Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are THE BIG THREE, with Flash and Green Lantern being the most iconic characters that relaunched the popularity of super-heroes for a second generation of fans and started the Silver Age of comics. And the idea of a super-hero team establishing continuity and a shared universe between these characters is widely beloved. Martian Manhunter was technically the first Silver Age hero and a key player on the JLU TV series, Aquaman is remembered (if mocked) from SuperFriends, Max Lord was a key character introduced in the DeMattais/Giffen justice League relaunch, Talia is Batman's lover, daughter of one of his deadliest arch foes and mother of his illegitimate son, and OMAC was the creation of Jack Kirby, the single most influential comic book creator of all time (all due respect to Stan Lee and Will Eisner and Alan Moore) and layer of the foundation of the entire marvel universe.

Jeez, people wander in here and wonder why this movie is such a big deal? Look, whether it's as good as 2001 (It won't be) or a total trainwreck (it won't be), it's the ultimate superhero movie with the ultimate line-up of the founding members of the greatest superhero team in the country. It's a big deal because it's the fucking JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA!

Forgive me for stating some incredibly obvious points, but either you get it or you don't, and amazingly, apparently some people don't.

To recap, you misspelled my name, insulted me, misunderstood both specific words and the general meaning of what I wrote and are hoping for a Superfriends movie with Grundy and Cheetah.

The round cheek, big eyes, bobble head, skinny waif look is IN. It's the latest look of all the Hollywood starlet wannabes.

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Now, again I say this girl is WRONG for the part. She'll look ridiculous in armor, and if they give her a cloth/lycra/spandex costume, it will look cheap and cheesy.

She's too young. Too small. Too blonde (and believe me, even when you color a blonde's hair, you can still tell they're naturally blonde. They have a certain "feel" that they can't avoid.) She's wrong in every way.

Wonder Woman should be WOMANLY. Older. Authoritarian. Strong. Athletic. Stern-but-beautiful. Toned. Deep-voiced. Who fits these qualifications???

TWO choices: Lucy Lawless (who is NOT too old. She looked incredible on Battlestar Galactica) or Jennifer Connelly (who would need to work out a bit to get the muscle tone, but has the looks and regal bearing... She doesn't look like a little girl.)

What are they aiming for instead? Just-out-of-high-school girly girls who have high-pitched voices and look like the prom queen.

Once again, I say FUCK YOU Warner Bros. You have no respect for the fans or for your own comic book company's long history and established character bios. You're making a bog-screen version of Smallville, and for that I say FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU!

Just because Spider-Man 3 sucked and still made a shitload of money does not mean it's OK to make a crap-ass JLA movie that barely resembles the comics. Show some fuckin' respect for the fans for once. We bought the comics for a reason, and SHORT, BLONDE, CHEERLEADER WONDER WOMAN was NOT it!

Seriously--- Any questions about how JLA should look could easily be directed to Dini and Timm. They know this stuff better than ANY other filmmakers. GIVE IT TO THEM.

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Unfortunately, women this pneumatic can never come across as action heroines on film.

*sigh*...

I'd still do her though

So there, ya whiners.