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Grant Morrison's Wonder Woman Movie Pitch Had Orgasm Guns

Grant Morrison writes a new Substack about Wonder Woman Earth One Volume Two which had used movie pitches for the opening.

Grant Morrison writes a new Substack about Wonder Woman Earth One Volume Two, drawn by Yanick Paquette and published by DC Comics in 2018. Grant Morrison had previously talked about some of the comics that had used the movie pitches Grant had been employed to write for Warner Bros. and the opening of this chapter was straight from one of those Wonder Woman movie pitches.

"The tone changed here. If Volume 1 showed the Amazons under pressure, this second volume would lead with a scene of them at their finest – Hippolyta and her sisters being cool and kicking Nazi ass! The cinematic cold open flashback was written at the same time as the introductory Hercules scene in Book 1 and was derived from a flashback scene I'd included in my initial movie pitch. The scene seemed to compose itself, with the clipped combative dialogue between Hippolyta and the Nazi superwoman Paula Von Gunther driving and escalating the conflict until suddenly the boastful, indomitable Nazis are overwhelmed by weapons of love and Paula is broken by Amazon psychology and mind control tech!"

That's right folks, the Amazonians using orgasm guns against the Nazi invading hordes.

"Instead of a typical action scene where swords and shields overcome the invasion, we show how the superior 'love tech' of the Amazons renders the conflict quickly one-sided. The Nazi invasion of Paradise Island is defeated by weapons that cause the Wehrmacht soldiers to orgasm uncontrollably! Funnily enough, some readers seemed to feel that the Amazon love guns were much more offensive than guns that fire bullets and kill people, or swords that maim! Is experiencing a non-consenting orgasm mid-battle truly a worse prospect for some than experiencing a non-consenting bullet through the face?"

Grant Morrison talks at length about the book and other matters in the Xanaduum Substack newsletter. Grant also takes the blame for Maxwell Lord appearing in the Wonder Woman 1984 movie…

"It was my idea to use Maxwell Lord as the villain in a Wonder Woman movie and that's why he's ended up being swallowed into her rogue's gallery! It's all my fault, sorry! When I was consulting at Warners, one of Diana's biggest comic book moments had recently occurred when she snapped Max Lord's neck in the pages of Countdown to Infinite Crisis. I thought it would be interesting to revisit this pivotal moment in the movie story, even though Lord was never a traditional WW villain (and not even necessarily a villain in the comics). So, he went in the movie pitch, then ported over to Earth One and now he's everywhere!"

So if you didn't like Maxwell Lord in that movie, now you have someone else to hold accountable…

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