Indeed!
From a piece in Variety...
Our sources say the new take on the comic book crime fighter is being written by Allan Heinberg (Grey's Anatomy, The O.C.) under the working title Amazon.
Unlike past TV incarnations, it will focus on Wonder Woman as a young,
budding superhero, rather than a fully formed defender of liberty.
(Think Smallville, but instead of a "no tights, no flights"
rule, this show might have a "no bracelets, no crown" mandate.) Heinberg
seems a logical candidate for the job: His resume includes work on the
kinds of soapy dramas the CW favors as well as comic-geek street cred
(he wrote the Young Avengers comic book series back in 2005).
It should be noted that CW is only developing a script at this
point; no pilot production has been greenlit or even contractually
guaranteed. (The network, along with WBTV and D.C., declined comment)
But if a pilot is filmed, and a show gets ordered, it will be a major
accomplishment for WBTV and D.C., since rebooting WW (outside of
animation) has proven challenging in the three decades since the campy Wonder Woman
TV series wrapped its three-year run on ABC and CBS in 1979. Most
recently, there was the aforementioned Kelley take. It was pitched to
various networks in the fall of 2010, apparently rejected by
broadcasters, but then picked up by NBC in early 2011. After Kelley
turned in his pilot, however, the Peacock made the decision to not move
forward with a series. Likewise, Joss Whedon had long been attached to a
film take on Wonder Woman. That never came to fruition, either, and
Whedon is now busy with another comic franchise these days.
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