The Status of Wonder Woman: “Joss [Whedon] is close. His last draft was close and he’s doing another pass now. There’s a few things he wanted to go on to do. Look, we need this to work. It’s got to be good. I hope next year we’ll be talking about the movie. I mean, it will be real. I just hope that the studio wants to make it. They want to make it, but it’s got to be a good script. We green-lit it before, but I was never happy where we were. We’ve got to get the right material. It’s an origin story, so she’s young. She’s a young girl so I don’t know if you’ll ever heard of her before or not.”
Silver continued, “I’ve seen two scripts. He’s getting there. It’s a process of development. I’ve been through this for many years but I didn’t want to make it until it was a really good script. I think we’re getting there – I think really getting there.” Whedon’s script will be set now. “It’s now, I mean the movie’s right now. He’s gone through all the comic books, but it takes place right now.”
There haven’t been any announcements yet on who will star in the title role and Silver says it may very well be someone we haven’t heard of. “She’s young so it will either be somebody you’ve never heard of or somebody very young. She’s a teenager, late teens.”
Bryan Singer’s Involvement in Logan’s Run: “Logan’s Run is a project that’s been in the works for years. “[Singer’s] going to do another Superman,” confirmed Silver. “He’s definitely going to do that. Look, I wanted to do Logan’s Run. We’ve been talking about it for years. The studio has in the past said, ‘Let’s just move on,’ and I just don’t want to move on until I’m sure Bryan won’t do it. He keeps saying he wants to do it.”
Could Logan’s Run be made with a different director if Singer’s not available? “I don’t know. No. I mean he’s a guy that I’ve been working with on this thing for years. I don’t want to just say goodbye. I work with people for 10 years… You work with people for a while, you have a relationship with them that you want to just keep. I did a movie with Stephen [Hopkins] almost 20 years ago, I guess. Not quite 20, maybe 18. He’s been there with me for years. You just stay with people that you like. I meet new people all the time. Oliver Hirschbiegel - the first time I worked with him was on The Visiting and I’m working with Neil Jordan on The Brave One with Jodie Foster, and I’m working with David Dobkin who I never worked with before who did Wedding Crashers. He’s doing Fred Claus with me. So there’s new people, but I like Bryan. I like to work with him.”
Is Silver’s company branching out into comedies? “I don’t know. I mean Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was a funny movie but no one really saw it. But this movie’s got a lot of action in it, too. It’s a big movie and I think it’d be fun to do and I like Vince [Vaughn]. We’ve known each other for a long time.”
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was a good movie, yet no one saw it. Was it marketed wrong? “I always say it was a feathered fish,” answered Silver. “It was neither fish nor fowl. It was kind of an odd duck. There was no way to get it out there. They tried. I don’t blame Warners. They tried. They aggressively marketed it in five cities. People didn’t respond. It was a weird kind of movie. …We had good spots. The first week it would be strong, and people would go and then they wouldn’t. And they’d open in five more cities - it would be strong and it wouldn’t. We tried everything. Maybe it will find an audience on DVD. I hope it will. If it had been Mel Gibson and George Clooney as those two guys, they wouldn’t have had a problem but Val [Kilmer] and [Robert] Downey are great in the movie, but they wouldn’t draw an audience into the theater. It got marvelous reviews.” Silver added, “I’m still very proud of the movie. I just wish more people would have seen it.”
