The WONDER WOMAN Origin Story About to Rock Your World
Well, I'll be doggone. The Wonder Woman comic was inspired by two badass queer women? And we get to see their story on the big screen, written and directed by a queer woman of color (Angela Robinson, known for The L Word and True Blood)? Oh Hollywood gods, you get it wrong so many times, but when you're right it is so so good!
Set in 1940s, PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN is an origin story that stars Luke Evans as Harvard psychologist and Wonder Woman creator Dr. William Moulton Marston and Rebecca Hall stars as his wife Elizabeth, while Bella Heathcote plays their lover. More in the official synopsis:
While Marston's feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her 'sexual perversity', he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women who defied convention: working with Marston on human behavior research -- while building a hidden life with him that rivaled the greatest of superhero disguises.
Please, please, please be good. This could be epic, y'all.
Here for Rebecca Hall, here for Angela Robinson, and here to look at Luke Evans. Bring it. My body is ready for it all.
PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN hits theaters everywhere October 27, 2017!
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