Wonder Woman Pitch Meeting

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**Wonder Woman Pitch Meeting** is the twenty-third episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant.

## Description

Ever wonder how the pitch meeting that started it all went down? Check out this video to find out how Gal Gadot's accent lead to an island of Borat-ladies, or why Chris Pine's Steve Trevor was so non-challant about meeting gods. You might even learn how Diana Prince fighting Ares became one of the most ridiculous third acts we've seen in a while! Trust us, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Notices

* This is the first pitch meeting to cut back to the office after the headline.

**Producer Guy:** So you have a *Wonder Woman* script for me?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do. So we're gonna see Diana as a little girl on Themyscira, which is an island full of badass warrior women. And they all have this sacred duty to protect mankind.

**Producer Guy:** Very cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah!

**Producer Guy:** It's too bad I'm gonna have to give them all silly accents.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What?

**Producer Guy:** Well Gal Gadot can't really do any other accents than her own so we're gonna have to, you know, make everyone talk a little silly.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well, what kinda accent are we talking here?

**Producer Guy:** Not gonna lie, it's gonna sound a little like *Borat*.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[in* Borat *accent]* My wife.

**Producer Guy:** *[in* Borat *accent]* Very nice, Diana, I like.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Alright, so anyway Diana's mom tells her all about this god named Ares that killed all the other gods and wants men to destroy each other.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And Zeus left the Amazons with a weapon powerful enough to kill a god. And there's also gonna be a lot of talk about how Diana can't know who she truly is.

**Producer Guy:** So is Diana the god-killer?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[put out]* Well… yeah. Damn it.

**Producer Guy:** Sorry, was that a twist?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, it's like a big twist later. Is it that obvious?

**Producer Guy:** Oh yeah.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh well, maybe it'll surprise some people.

**Producer Guy:** Nah.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Damn.

**Producer Guy:** But wait, if Diana's mom doesn't want her to find out who she truly is, why does she even tell her about Ares and a god-killer in the first place?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well she tells her that this sword is the god-killer.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, but instead of doing that, why not just… not tell her about any of it at all?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well because I have to have Diana learn this stuff for the movie's plot to happen.

**Producer Guy:** Couldn't she stumble upon some ancient texts or something?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Instead of having the one person who doesn't want her to look into this stuff be the one to tell her all about this stuff?

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** I guess that would make more sense but I wanna have these cool drawings show up on the screen while she's explaining it.

**Producer Guy:** Ah. That sounds cool. Okay, keep it like that.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Great. So anyway, one day Diana's looking out to sea and she sees a guy named Steve Trevor crash his plane and then she saves him.

**Producer Guy:** Did you have anyone in mind to play him?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Maybe we could get one of those hot Chrises?

**Producer Guy:** Oh, which one?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris Pratt?

**Producer Guy:** Ah, he's Marvel.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris Hemsworth?

**Producer Guy:** Also Marvel.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris Evans?

**Producer Guy:** He's Marvel.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris Nolan?

**Producer Guy:** He's a director.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris Plummer.

**Producer Guy:** That's an old guy.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Christina Applegate?

**Producer Guy:** That's a woman.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris… Mas?

**Producer Guy:** That's a holiday.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Chris Christie!

**Producer Guy:** Politician.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Christian Mingle.

**Producer Guy:** Dating website?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well maybe that *Star Trek* guy?

**Producer Guy:** Chris Maple?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Wrong tree.

**Producer Guy:** Chris… Anthemum?

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's a flower.

**Producer Guy:** Chris Pine?

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's the one!

**Producer Guy:** Oh, yeah, I could get Chris Pine. We're actually good friends.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well great, so anyway this guy's being chased by some Germans.

**Producer Guy:** Uh-oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then Steve tells them about World War I.

**Producer Guy:** They don't know about World War I?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Apparently not.

**Producer Guy:** Isn't it their sacred duty to protect mankind? You'd think they'd stay up-to-date with like weapons and world conflicts.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You'd think so, but it seems like they were more focused on doing like… backflips and stuff.

**Producer Guy:** Fair enough, backflips are tight.

**Screenwriter Guy:** They're really good at backflips.

**Producer Guy:** Well that's great.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So Steve also tells them about these two bad guys, Ludendorff and Doctor Poison, who made some really deadly gas.

**Producer Guy:** What's their backstory?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They're evil!

**Producer Guy:** Ooh, that's good.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So Diana decides that Ares is causing World War I and she wants to go with Steve to end it.

**Producer Guy:** I have to say it's pretty cool to have a man land on an island where it's all women and not fall into the territory of like, immature sex jokes and-

**Screenwriter Guy:** And before they leave, she's gonna see his penis!

**Producer Guy:** Ah, okay, right. There it is.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And she's never seen one before, so it's funny!

**Producer Guy:** *[pushing past the joke]* Yeah, I got it. So Steve must be like losing his mind finding out that gods are real.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Not really, he's kinda like "Huh, that's neat".

**Producer Guy:** Well he's not wrong.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So they're gonna go to London together to tell Steve's bosses about the gas.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, I mean I guess there's no time to waste.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, there's not. But we are gonna have a fun little shopping montage where she tries on some dresses.

**Producer Guy:** Ah, shopping montages are fun! Are some of the dresses gonna be silly?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Some of them are gonna be silly!

**Producer Guy:** That is fresh!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also some German spies are gonna try to kill Steve!

**Producer Guy:** Uh-oh!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, but Steve and Diana are gonna knock them all unconscious except for one.

**Producer Guy:** What happens to him?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well Wonder Woman tries to question him but he kills himself with cyanide.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, well there are other guys that are just unconscious so she can question them, right?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I guess so. But she's not gonna do that.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then Diana and Steve present their information to the government people, and they're like "We have to do something" and the government people are like "Meh".

**Producer Guy:** So are they gonna take matters into their own hands?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They're gonna take matters into their own hands!

**Producer Guy:** Taking matters into your own hands is tight!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah so Steve's gonna assemble a crack team of soldiers and what's interesting about them is that… none of them have character arcs.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, what do you mean?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well for example, one of them's gonna have PTSD and not be able to fire a shot.

**Producer Guy:** And we're not gonna pay that off in the end by having him overcome it and take an important shot?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nope.

**Producer Guy:** Interesting choice.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then they're gonna go to no man's land.

**Producer Guy:** What's that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It's a place where soldiers haven't been able to gain an inch of ground because there're a bunch of Germans with machine guns.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So Wonder Woman steps out and they all start shooting at her.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So Steve is like "She's taking all the fire, let's go!"

**Producer Guy:** Won't the Germans just start shooting at other people too?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They will not. They're very focused at pointing all their firepower at this half-naked woman.

**Producer Guy:** Oh. And do any of the bullets hit her?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Not one. They all seem to shoot at her at shoulder-levels, so it's easy to block.

**Producer Guy:** What a weird strategy.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then her and Steve are gonna save a small town together.

**Producer Guy:** I gotta say, it's refreshing to have a man and a woman working together in this movie without all the romantic stuff you usually see and-

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then her and Steve are gonna bone!

**Producer Guy:** Oh they are.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah. And from there, everything's gonna get reeeeeal silly.

**Producer Guy:** How so?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well like they find out that Ludendorff is throwing a big party, right?

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And Steve gets in by speaking English with a German accent and pretending like he lost his invitation.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, that is silly.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Well I mean there *is* this thing in movies called the translation convention where foreign characters speak to each other in English just as kind of a way to avoid subtitles.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, I mean that'd be okay, but we are gonna have subtitles in other parts of the movie.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, and German soldiers are gonna yell at each other in German, so- so it's a thing.

**Producer Guy:** So Steve is really just using the fact that the German high-commands speak English to each other as a way to move the plot forward?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right. And so then Wonder Woman is also gonna sneak into the party after forcibly undressing a woman and leaving her in the woods. And she's not even gonna try to do an accent.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, does she get caught?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, she's gonna slow-dance with Ludendorff and unprompted he's gonna start talking about Greek gods.

**Producer Guy:** Why would he do that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, it's super unnatural, but I want the audience to think he's Ares.

**Producer Guy:** Ah.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So then Ludendorff is gonna gas the small town from earlier and Wonder Woman's gonna get mad.

**Producer Guy:** Not very nice of him.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then she's gonna kill him and be kind of devastated that the whole war doesn't just come to an end after he dies.

**Producer Guy:** Oh that's actually good, we'll have her realize that not all men are good, and everyone's to blame in war, and that-

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then the real Ares is gonna show up!

**Producer Guy:** Oh, it seemed like you had a really cool message going.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, but then I didn't.

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so it turns out that this whole time, Ares was this mustache government guy Sir Patrick.

**Producer Guy:** Wow, well what happens next?

**Screenwriter Guy:** They're gonna have a huge fight and use crazy powers and throw stuff at each other and *pew pew pew* and lights and *pew*!

**Producer Guy:** But what are Diana's powers exactly?

**Screenwriter Guy:** We're gonna keep it really vague so anytime she does something, people'll be like "Oh, I guess she can do that".

**Producer Guy:** Smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then Steve Rogers is gonna sacrifice himself in an airplane.

**Producer Guy:** Did you say "Steve Rogers"?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nope, and so then Wonder Woman levels up thanks to the power of love.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And Ares is gonna be like "I will destroy yoooooou!"

**Producer Guy:** I mean you're gonna come up with a better line than that, right?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[nervous]* Uh-huh. Yep. I will.

**Producer Guy:** And then what happens?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well then she's gonna kill Ares and the whole war is gonna stop.

**Producer Guy:** So it really was all the fault of Ares.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Mm-hmm.

**Producer Guy:** Doesn't that kinda trivialize the significance of World War I?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Pff. Maybe.

**Producer Guy:** And how does it end?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Diana's gonna fly away, it's gonna be really nice.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, she can fly now.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Sure, why not?

**Producer Guy:** Very cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So what do you think?

**Producer Guy:** Well I feel like it's really significant that we're doing a female led superhero film, you know?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, we're making big strides.

**Producer Guy:** Exactly! It's about time that women get equal treatment in Hollywood and it starts with us!

*[cut to headline: **Sharknado 5 Star Was Paid More Than Wonder Woman's Gal Gadot**]*

*[cut back to Producer Guy's office, Producer Guy is texting when Screenwriter Guy comes back into his office]*

**Screenwriter Guy:** Hey.

**Producer Guy:** Hey. Dj- Dj- Djah forget something?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Uh, yeah. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** What?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I was getting in my car and I just had this huge urge that I should come back and say that to you.

**Producer Guy:** What does it mean though?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I don't know, I just felt like people would get mad if I didn't say that.

**Producer Guy:** What people?

**Screenwriter Guy:** I don't know!