Joel Silver, erstwhile producer of such blockbuster hits as Weird Science, Predator, Die Hard and The Matrix, has announced that he has persuaded Joss Whedon to sign on as the writer of a forthcoming film version of “Wonder Woman”. Great news, you might think, considering the fact that the best ever episodes of both Buffy and Angel were written by Whedon himself.

But the truth of it is that Whedon’s cinematic ventures have been, well, less than successful with one notable exception. Firstly there was the movie version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer which, to be fair, was nothing like the TV series. The script was allegedly mangled by the studio who didn’t really get what Whedon wanted to do and so you have one of the hammiest and cheesiest films ever. Then there was Alien: Resurrection. The ideas were there but the film was abysmal. (There’s a joke about this in one series of Angel when Fred’s mum tells the gang that Fred’s dad liked all the Alien films …”Except for the last one they made - he dozed off!”) After that was Titan A:E which, frankly, no one saw. Then there was an uncredited script write for X-Men of which they kept one line in, the truly awfully delivered line by Storm to do with toads and lightning.

The only “success” Whedon has had in the cinema is with the screenplay for Toy Story which he and his fellow writers got an Oscar for.

But still, he’s proven his writing credentials with both Buffy and Angel (and allegedly Firefly but I haven’t seen any of that) and the vague similarities between Buffy and Wonder Woman (err… strong, heroic, independent females who save the world. A lot.) explains why Joel Silver hounded him down to do it. That being said, will the world of DC Heroes and Wonder Woman accomodate Whedon’s off hand wit and pop culture references? More importantly, will Lynda Carter be making a cameo appearance? We need answers and we need them now.