Joss Whedon's Reasons Behind Wonder Woman Departure

Joss Whedon has revealed that he was kept in the dark by Warner Bros when he worked on ideas for a Wonder Woman movie.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer was brought onto the project in 2005 to write and direct the project, but because he was shooting Serenity at the time he did not begin work on the script until late 2005.

But in February 2007 Whedon left the project citing script differences with the studio.

In an interview with Maxim he said: "I have no idea the status of the movie and, honestly, I never did," he said. "I was told they were very anxious to make it. I wrote a script.

"I rewrote the story. And by the time I'd written the second script, they asked me... not to."

"They didn't tell me to leave, but they showed me the door and how pretty it was. Would I like to touch the knob and maybe make it swing?".

"I was dealing with them through Joel Silver who couldn't tell me what they wanted or anything else.

"I was completely in the dark. So I didn't know what it was that I wasn't giving them. I've moved on."