Recently named writer and director of the long-in-development Wonder Woman, Joss Whedon (Toy Story, Titan AE, Atlantis: The Lost Empire) plans to take the superhero back to her roots, according to MTV.com. “I think she sort of sprang out fully formed, much like Athena herself. And, you know, it’s a question of really getting behind that… In the ’40s, when it was first done, she came to the world from Paradise Island and then went about her business, and so that experience, which is really a rite of passage, which is the same as any hero has to go through, has never really been investigated the way I want to. So, to take it back to the beginning and really say, ‘Well, really, what was it like for an Amazon princess to come amongst us?'” Though not previously a fan of Wonder Woman specifically, Whedon’s comic book and “superhero familiarity, however, should instill some hope in loyalists”. He also promised he was “not going to do anything silly”.