WONDER WOMAN: Elizabeth Hurley Cast As Villain In New TV Series


Going up against David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman, played by Adrianne Palicki, will be the beautiful Elizabeth Hurley (High Midnight, Austin Powers). Hurley will play the villainous Veronica Cale, abeautiful, highly educated head of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the country who is afflicted with serious deep-seated Wonder Woman envy” in the reboot’s pilot.

Hurley tweeted this about her casting:

In other Wonder Woman casting news, Tracie Thoms (Harry’s Law, Cold Case) [pictured below] has been cast as Etta, Diana Themyscira’s “always cheerful” personal assistant.

Kelley’s Wonder Woman has been described as “a reinvention of the iconic D.C. Comic, in which Wonder Woman — aka Diana Prince — is a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life.”

[Source] Deadline


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