The "search" for the new Wonder Woman is over.
Deadline just announced that NBC has found the right lady to play the iconic role in David E. Kelly's take on the comic book character, and that lucky woman is Adrianne Palicki, of Friday Night Lights and Lone Star fame. Fellas, start your oogling now. The twenty-seven-year-old actress was announced as the new Diana Prince for NBC's upcoming pilot on Wednesday, surprising many.
Mad Men star Christina Hendricks previously expressed interest in the role.
Palicki, who had a starring role in last year's thriller film Legion, will take over the role made famous by Lynda Carter back in the 1970s. Wonder Woman will apparently be a straight-faced, non-camp take on the famous superheroine, and will follow NBC's previous attempts at a successful superhero series, such as the recently cancelled Heroes and the flagging The Cape.
The casting of Palicki, who appears as a blonde in Friday Night Lights, has been cited as "brilliant casting [for a] horrible script," by HitFix, who claimed "a David E. Kelley-written Wonder Woman is going to be a complete embarrassment, even with somebody like Palicki in the title role."
So even with the bad press floating around, will Palicki be able to snag NBC a much-needed hit as the woman also known as Diana Prince? That's still very much up in the air at this point -- NBC hasn't even committed the pilot to series!
If you're unfamiliar with Palicki's work, anyone who has seen the show will highly recommend that you go and check out Friday Night Lights, which just finished airing its final season earlier this month. In the meantime, keep your eyes on TVOvermind for more Wonder Woman news!
Additional reporting by Sam McPherson
I immediately recognized her as Sam's girlfriend from the 1st few episodes of Supernatural, you could have mentioned that.