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'Wonder Woman' creator getting his biopic

Updated on: 10 October,2016 12:18 PM IST  | 
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Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has secured the worldwide rights for the biopic of William Moulton Marston, the creator of superwoman character Wonder Woman

'Wonder Woman' creator getting his biopic

Los Angeles: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has secured the worldwide rights for the biopic of William Moulton Marston, the creator of superwoman character Wonder Woman.


The film is titled "Professor Marston & the Wonder Women", to be written and directed by Angela Robinson of "Charlie's Angels" and "True Blood" fame.


Actors Luke Evans are Rebecca Hall are set to star as Marston and his wife Elizabeth Marston, reported Deadline.


Sources say that the production on the film has begun. Sony has released a logline, which reads, "In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, this is the true story of 1940s Harvard psychologist Dr William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the lie detector and creator of the iconic Wonder Woman, who defends his feminist superhero against charges of 'sexual perversity' while at the same time maintaining a secret that could have destroyed him."

"Unknown to others, Marston's inspiration for Wonder Woman was his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women in the field of psychology who
defied convention, building a secret life together with Marston that rivaled the greatest of superhero disguises."

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