Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly/Serenity, has parted ways with Warner Brothers and Silver Pictures on what was his latest project, a big screen adaptation of Wonder Woman.

Whedon announced the news on 2nd February on a fan Web site, Whedonesque.com saying that he had quit over “creative differences”. He wanted to do one take on Wonder Woman whilst the studio wanted another. After not being able to reach an agreement on the script he decided to quit.

Joss Whedon came on board the project in March 2005 and was paid $2 million-$3 million to develop and write the adaptation of the comic book classic and was also attached to direct. He is now working on a thriller called Goners and overseeing the storyline of Buffy for Dark Horse Comics.

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David Koepp, the writer behind Spiderman has begun negotiating with Columbia Pictures to write the script for a fourth installment of the studio’s most lucrative franchise. The second and third installments of Spiderman were written by Alvin Sargent.

The franchise would appear to be in good hands as Koepp’s script played a significant role in creating the box office hit that was the original film. The writer has also recently finished a draft of the fourth Indiana Jones movie which was good enough to get Spielberg, Lucas and Ford to agree to it.

However if a fourth Spider-Man movie is to be made, new deals will have to be made with the principal players such as Tobey Maguire, Kirstin Dunst and James Franco, as well as Raimi who directed the previous films. The studio would release the sequel in 2009 or 2010.

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Gotham City’s sexiest socialite knows more than how to throw a party. Kathy Kane also knows a bit about throwing punches—and she introduces herself to comic book readers by striking her ex-girlfriend right across the jaw.

In various incarnations, Batwomen have had a long history in Batman comics, starting in 1956 when Kathy Kane first appeared. But this new version of Kane shares only a name with her predecessors. The campy heroine who once carried a utility purse while clad in a full-body yellow one-piece now sports a new, dark costume, and she’s got an attitude to match. Batwoman will be the highest profile gay superhero to ever grace the pages of DC Comics.

Batwoman reemerges from obscurity in the pages of 52, the real-time weekly limited series chronicling a year in which the big three—Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman—have all mysteriously vanished from Gotham City. In Batman’s absence, a major crime organization called Intergang moves into town only to find a new Bat already roosting. Read the rest of this article on out.com

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