Michelle MacLaren in talks to direct Wonder Women

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There was a time when a way to write, in code, that a movie was a potential train wreck was to combine the phrase "feature film debut" with "previously has only directed television." Well, as you may have heard, we are in a new golden age of television, and that math no longer necessarily adds up. Take, for example, the news this week that TV producer/director Michelle McCLaren is now in talks with Warner Bros to make her feature film debut with Wonder Woman. That's one way to tell the story, but another would be to say that Michelle McClaren was the director of such recent hours of television as four episodes of Game of Thrones, three episodes of The Walking Dead (including the S2 episode where Rick "killed" [SPOILER]), and a whopping 11 episodes of Breaking Bad (including four from S5 with some of the most important plot beats). For her work on Breaking Bad, Michelle McClaren has been Emmy-nominated twice as director, and won two Emmys as producer. Instead, most of the press has focused on McClaren's gender (if she signs on, McClaren will be the second female director of a major comic book adaptation, after Lexi Alexander on Punisher: War Zone). Gal Gadot will star as Wonder Woman when the solo movie is released on June 23, 2017, after first appearing as the character in 2016 in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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