Little known actress Adrianne Palicki has landed one of Hollywood's most coveted roles as the new Wonder Woman.
The Friday Night Lights actress has been picked to play Wonder Woman in David E. Kelley's new TV series about the superheroine.
She'll play Diana Prince, a Los Angeles crime fighter who has a double life as a businesswoman.
The series pilot is a reinvention of the iconic DC Comics title in which Wonder Woman – Diana Prince – is a vigilante crime fighter in Los Angeles but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her Kelley and Bill D’Elia (Boston Legal, The Practice) are the executive producers.
The pilot was written by Kelley and will be directed by Jeffrey Reiner
Palicki, who appeared as Tyra Collette in NBC’s acclaimed Friday Night Lights, will star in the upcoming feature-film remake of Red Dawn. She also starred in the horror film Breaking the Girl and in the recent series Lone Star.
Perhaps the most famous actress to take up the mantle of Wonder Woman is Lynda Carter, who portrayed the hero on the small screen for four years in the 1970s.
Beyonce had previously told the Los Angeles Times that she wanted to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.
The singer said: “I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman? It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It’s time for that, right?”

Little known actress Adrianne Palicki has landed one of Hollywood's most coveted roles as the new Wonder Woman.
The Friday Night Lights actress has been picked to play Wonder Woman in David E. Kelley's new TV series about the superheroine.
She'll play Diana Prince, a Los Angeles crime fighter who has a double life as a businesswoman.
The series pilot is a reinvention of the iconic DC Comics title in which Wonder Woman – Diana Prince – is a vigilante crime fighter in Los Angeles but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her Kelley and Bill D’Elia (Boston Legal, The Practice) are the executive producers.
The pilot was written by Kelley and will be directed by Jeffrey Reiner
Palicki, who appeared as Tyra Collette in NBC’s acclaimed Friday Night Lights, will star in the upcoming feature-film remake of Red Dawn. She also starred in the horror film Breaking the Girl and in the recent series Lone Star.
Perhaps the most famous actress to take up the mantle of Wonder Woman is Lynda Carter, who portrayed the hero on the small screen for four years in the 1970s.
Beyonce had previously told the Los Angeles Times that she wanted to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.
The singer said: “I want to do a superhero movie and what would be better than Wonder Woman? It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It’s time for that, right?”

Adrianne Palicki found a cathartic way to get revenge on those responsible for canceling her critically acclaimed series Lone Star earlier this season — by imagining that they were her victims in her turn as a serial killer on Criminal Minds.

"How did you know?" she laughs, jokingly adding, "Those bastards!"

Palicki, the tall beauty best known for her role as tough but heartfelt Tyra on Friday Night Lights, will play what she calls a "psychopath" on tonight's episode of Criminal Minds (9/8c, CBS). "She comes from a very dark past," Palicki explains. "She was abused by her father — sexually and emotionally. She met a person she feels is her equal, and they go on a killing spree. It's kind of like Natural Born Killers."

Still, she adds, "It's one thing to play a killer, but to go into that darkness where she doesn't see what she's doing is wrong — it's scary, but fun."

Less fun was the quick cancellation of Lone Star. "It was a smack in the face," she says. "It's like being with someone who tells you, 'I want to marry you,' and the next day, they're moving out."

Though Tyra left FNL to attend college, Palicki appears in the series' finale, airing this spring on NBC. "It was so therapeutic" to return for the show's conclusion, she says. "I'd already ended the show. I was excited to move on, but when I'd watch it as a fan, it was that feeling you get when you've graduated high school and all your friends are still there: I'm missing out on everything."

Adrianne Palicki found a cathartic way to get revenge on those responsible for canceling her critically acclaimed series Lone Star earlier this season — by imagining that they were her victims in her turn as a serial killer on Criminal Minds.

"How did you know?" she laughs, jokingly adding, "Those bastards!"

Palicki, the tall beauty best known for her role as tough but heartfelt Tyra on Friday Night Lights, will play what she calls a "psychopath" on tonight's episode of Criminal Minds (9/8c, CBS). "She comes from a very dark past," Palicki explains. "She was abused by her father — sexually and emotionally. She met a person she feels is her equal, and they go on a killing spree. It's kind of like Natural Born Killers."

Still, she adds, "It's one thing to play a killer, but to go into that darkness where she doesn't see what she's doing is wrong — it's scary, but fun."

Less fun was the quick cancellation of Lone Star. "It was a smack in the face," she says. "It's like being with someone who tells you, 'I want to marry you,' and the next day, they're moving out."

Though Tyra left FNL to attend college, Palicki appears in the series' finale, airing this spring on NBC. "It was so therapeutic" to return for the show's conclusion, she says. "I'd already ended the show. I was excited to move on, but when I'd watch it as a fan, it was that feeling you get when you've graduated high school and all your friends are still there: I'm missing out on everything."