RUMOR: DC Studios' Wonder Woman-Less TV Series PARADISE LOST May Have Found Its Creative Team

DC Studios appears to be forging ahead with Paradise Lost as a new report claims James Gunn and Peter Safran may have found a creative team for the series set on Wonder Woman's home island of Themyscira.

By JoshWilding - Jul 24, 2024 04:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Wonder Woman

When DC Studios announced its "Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters" slate at the end of last January, one of the most surprising projects was a TV series titled Paradise Lost.

While both Superman and Batman were given big screen reboots, there was no mention of Wonder Woman beyond a TV show which looks set to explore Themyscira's past long before Diana Prince was born.

Since then, filmmaker Patty Jenkins has confirmed she won't be back for Wonder Woman 3, while Gal Gadot has claimed to be the DCU's Wonder Woman, only for insiders to debunk the notion. All the while, James Gunn has remained silent on the Amazon Warrior.

Today, Nexus Point News has shared an update on Paradise Lost, revealing that Kira Snyder and Janet Lin are in talks to take charge of the HBO/Max series.

Snyder (no relation to Justice League director Zack Snyder, FYI) is best known for writing and producing The Handmaid's Tale and The 100. As for Lin, she counts the likes of Bones and Bridgerton among her credits.

"Set in Themyscira, home of the Amazons and birthplace of Wonder Woman," reads the show's official logline, "this drama focuses on the genesis and political intrigue of an island of all women."

That's all we have to go on for now and, even with a creative team possibly found, it's clear Paradise Lost is still years away from reaching our screens. Wonder Woman seemingly won't follow until after that and, by then, Gunn and fellow DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran should have no issue introducing a new, much younger version of Diana.

As noted, Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984 writer/director Patty Jenkins was given her marching orders by the studio and, back in May, confirmed the planned threequel isn't happening.

Asked if the movie has been scrapped, the filmmaker said, "Yeah, for the time being, but probably easily forever." As for whether another director would take her place, Jenkins responded, "No, they’re not interested in doing any Wonder Woman for the time being."

"It’s not an easy task, what’s going on with DC," she added. "James Gunn and Peter Safran have to follow their own heart into their own plans. I don’t know what they’re planning on doing and why...I have sympathy for what a big job it is."

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ItsNotForMeWahh - 7/24/2024, 5:03 AM

harryba11zack - 7/24/2024, 6:25 AM

@ItsNotForMeWahh -

Clintthahamster - 7/24/2024, 8:15 AM

@harryba11zack - Lesbians, and the men who love them.

TheVisionary25 - 7/24/2024, 5:38 AM

Cool , they both seem to have decent resumes so we’ll see especially since this site has tended to be hit or miss with its scoops.

Anyway , there’s definitely inspiration this can take from the comics whether it be George Perez’s “Paradise Island Lost” arc or Wonder Woman Historia:The Amazon’s by Kelly Sue DeConnick (a series Gunn himself has praised).

Maybe even the new 52 origin which while controversial would perhaps fit the GOT-esque approach for this…

Anyway , overall I hope it turns out well when the show does happen!!.

ObserverIO - 7/24/2024, 5:43 AM

lol, they actually went and hired The Handmaid's Tale and Bridgerton creatives for their female-led project.

Would you have hired them for Batman? Or any male-led project? I mean, Handmaid's Tale is dope, so I'm sure that's why you hired her. Not because it's a feminist show. It's because of the quality of the show, of course. So why would she not be good for a project like Brave and the Bold or Lanterns. There are similar themes in The Authority, hire her for that.

Clintthahamster - 7/24/2024, 8:21 AM

@ObserverIO - The Headline: Qualified women hired to run a show.

The internet:

ObserverIO - 7/24/2024, 11:32 AM

@clintthahamster - Headline: Qualified women specifically associated with feminist shows hired to run a Wonder Woman show.

It strikes me as insincere. And I would even say it's...(what was that phrase Leslye Headland used recently?)... benign sexism.

Clintthahamster - 7/24/2024, 11:40 AM

@ObserverIO - I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Surely you're not saying that women with experience writing for shows about women being hired for a show about women is a bad thing, right?

ObserverIO - 7/24/2024, 12:38 PM

@clintthahamster - They're not just shows about women, Handmaid's Tale is a specifically feminist work.

Now it's a great show, so she's probably a great writer. So if she's a great writer then you want to hire her because of that right? Not because of her associations with a specifically feminist show. You would want to hire her to write things.

If you want her to do something similar to The Handmaid's Tale, then The Authority would have been the best fit, thematically. If you want a show with a similar tone, Lanterns would be a better fit.

But that's not why James Gunn and Peter Safran have selected them. He's selected them because they are not only women but associated with women.

Who would they get to do a Black Lightning movie, the guy who did Roots?

It's low key insulting. It's benign prejudice. Because they would never hire these people for a male-led project, they would not even consider it.

It's a pattern. Look at the pattern. This is optics. And it results in segregation of genders and races in the creative space.

It results in shitty writers and directors getting big projects based on their gender and race and it results in great writers and directors only ever getting the opportunity to work on a project that matches their race or gender and being stuck doing projects that they may not be inclined to do otherwise.

Clintthahamster - 7/24/2024, 2:53 PM

@ObserverIO - To summarize: The writers are uniquely suited for the show, but too talented for the show, and they should be given a higher profile project to work on. But also hiring them because they are uniquely suited for the show results in "shitty writers and directors getting big projects based on their gender and race." So, they are both too talented for the show, and shitty? What are you even saying, dude?

For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that the DCU is not going to try to do something similar to The Handmaids Tale.

ObserverIO - 7/24/2024, 3:16 PM

@clintthahamster - Exactly my point! They're not going to try to do something similar to The Handmaids Tale. So how are they uniquely suited for the show exactly? And how is Lanterns a higher profile show?

Also, I never said that these writers were shitty, I'm saying that these are things that result from this kind of prejudice.

Clintthahamster - 7/24/2024, 5:10 PM

@ObserverIO - "I'm saying that these are things that result from this kind of prejudice."

So it really does just come down to white dudes not being considered for a job, huh?

ObserverIO - 7/24/2024, 6:21 PM

@clintthahamster - Prejudice against women and non-whites. Not prejudice against white dudes.

Clintthahamster - 7/25/2024, 9:37 AM

@ObserverIO - What if, and hear me out, we considered women and people of color for jobs that they are uniquely suited for, and also jobs that would be a stretch? Maybe even just consider them for every job.

But what other industry can you think of where people don't occasionally say "I like that individual's work, and I'd like to have them work for me doing the same thing?" Every sport, most corporate jobs, most freelance jobs, music and art commissions. It is VERY common for a single job offer to go to a single prospect.

ObserverIO - 7/26/2024, 9:42 AM

@clintthahamster - yeah it's called typecasting, which is one step away from stereotyping, which is one step away from sexism and racism.

"Maybe even just consider them for every job."

That's what I'd like to see. That one. If they're good, they're good. The race and gender of the lead characters shouldn't matter.

ObserverIO - 7/26/2024, 9:43 AM

@clintthahamster - sorry for the late reply, I was going radio silent to avoid D&W spoilers.

Clintthahamster - 7/26/2024, 12:02 PM

@ObserverIO - Agree to disagree I guess? From my POV, hiring people for jobs based on relevant previous experience is a good thing, actually, and if the artists in question are worried about being pigeonholed, they can simply decline the offer.

And yeah, I feel you on dodging spoilers. I'm still checking in a couple of times a day, but when EVERY article has a photo of DP&W and a headline like "SPOILER's surprise return in the third act of DP&W sets up Eternals 2" or whatever, I just avert my eyes. Going to an EARLY show first thing tomorrow morning, with my nephew and my best friend, who I've been trading comics and dreamcasting CBMs with for 30 years.

Oh, and my wife, too. Please don't tell her she was third on the list. 😬

ObserverIO - 7/26/2024, 12:11 PM

@clintthahamster - lol, I won't. Have fun and might wanna avoid all D&W articles until then, because there are spoilers in the comments section at this point.

Clintthahamster - 7/26/2024, 2:16 PM

@ObserverIO - Oh yeah, not clicking on those (or any other new articles.) Just looking for that little message alert flashing.

Malatrova15 - 7/24/2024, 5:47 AM

Baba booey

TheVisionary25 - 7/24/2024, 6:01 AM

When we do get Diana (which I think will be sooner then later) then my 2 choices are either Melissanthi Mahut or Charlee Fraser.

Radders - 7/24/2024, 8:55 AM

Good looking lesbians on an island...isn't that already a reality show...or another kind of movie?

DocSpock - 7/24/2024, 9:41 AM

EEeek!!!! Grooming issues.

McMurdo - 7/24/2024, 11:23 AM

These are good shows with good writers. I don't see the issue.

ANewPope - 7/24/2024, 11:28 AM

Absolutely insane that they'll do everything but finally give Diana her own animated series...

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RUMOR: DC Studios' Wonder Woman-Less TV Series PARADISE LOST May Have Found Its Creative Team

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