{"id":267731,"date":"2026-01-05T03:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267731\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:17:09","slug":"simu-liu-pitches-melissa-barrera-to-be-the-next-wonder-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267731\/","title":{"rendered":"Simu Liu Pitches Melissa Barrera to Be the Next Wonder Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/simu-liu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_simu-liu\" data-tag=\"simu-liu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Simu Liu<\/a> pitched <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/melissa-barrera\/\" id=\"auto-tag_melissa-barrera\" data-tag=\"melissa-barrera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Barrera<\/a> to be the next <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/wonder-woman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wonder-woman\" data-tag=\"wonder-woman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder Woman<\/a> during a recent interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hf21AdzZnH0\">JoBlo<\/a>, calling her dedication to stunt training \u201cWonder Woman-esque.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cShe really pushes herself,\u201d Liu said of his \u201cThe Copenhagen Test\u201d co-star. \u201cI don\u2019t know who might be listening to this interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\" data-tag=\"james-gunn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Gunn<\/a> or anybody else out there. But I think she really pushes herself. There were a couple of moments during stunt training where I was like, \u2018That\u2019s Wonder Woman-esque.\u2019 I\u2019m just throwing it out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn June of 2025, DC Studios boss James Gunn <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/wonder-woman-movie-james-gunn-1236424855\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">confirmed there was a new Wonder Woman movie<\/a> \u201cbeing written right now.\u201d The film comes in addition to an upcoming HBO series about Wonder Woman\u2019s homeland of Themyscira, which Gunn explained is \u201cslow-moving, but it\u2019s moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSupergirl\u201d screenwriter Ana Nogueira was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/wonder-woman-movie-writer-ana-nogueira-supergirl-1236466047\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tapped to write the script<\/a> for the new Wonder Woman movie back in July 2025. She is also writing a live-action \u201cTeen Titans\u201d for DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGunn told Extra that \u201cHit Man\u201d star Adria Arjona was among the actresses he could see playing the DC icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI follow Adria on Instagram, but everybody came out [and thought], \u2018He just followed her, that means she\u2019s Wonder Woman,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/james-gunn-adria-arjona-wonder-woman-dc-studios-1236444716\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gunn shared.<\/a> \u201cShe\u2019d be a great Wonder Woman, by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGal Gadot was the first to bring Wonder Woman to the big screen in the modern era. She played the role in \u201cBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,\u201d \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d \u201cJustice League\u201d and \u201cWonder Woman 1984.\u201d She also has two uncredited appearances as super heroine in \u201cShazam! Fury of the Gods\u201d and \u201cThe Flash.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simu Liu pitched Melissa Barrera to be the next Wonder Woman during a recent interview with JoBlo, calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,927,11820,327,30170,50521],"class_list":{"0":"post-267731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-james-gunn","13":"tag-melissa-barrera","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-simu-liu","16":"tag-wonder-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115840328824940597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}