The story of Wonder Woman's creator comes to the screen. Here's our review of Professor Marston And The Wonder Women...
Hot on the heels on Patty Jenkins’ box office smashing Wonder Woman comes the biopic of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston and the two women who inspired him to create the comic book hero.
The central story follows Marston and his wife’s unconventional relationship with Olive Byrne. Byrne started as a teaching assistant for the Marstons and became the third person in their marriage. The film explores the themes that became key in the Wonder Woman comics - empowered women, truth and the trio’s penchant for a bit of bondage.
Rebecca Hall is incredibly watchable as Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Luke Evans (who was very generously cast, just wait for the pictures at the end) is a bit dull, Bella Heathcote looks distractingly like Heather Graham...
Hot on the heels on Patty Jenkins’ box office smashing Wonder Woman comes the biopic of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston and the two women who inspired him to create the comic book hero.
The central story follows Marston and his wife’s unconventional relationship with Olive Byrne. Byrne started as a teaching assistant for the Marstons and became the third person in their marriage. The film explores the themes that became key in the Wonder Woman comics - empowered women, truth and the trio’s penchant for a bit of bondage.
Rebecca Hall is incredibly watchable as Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Luke Evans (who was very generously cast, just wait for the pictures at the end) is a bit dull, Bella Heathcote looks distractingly like Heather Graham...
- 11/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Writer-director Angela Robinson's film Professor Marston & the Wonder Women tells the story of the relationship between Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and grad student Olive Byrne. It's been well established that William had an extramarital relationship with Byrne, but as Robinson got into researching the story, she found evidence that all three had a relationship. While a number of Wonder Woman scholars have also agreed with this point, the Marston's granddaughter Christie Marston has publicly disputed the idea that Elizabeth Marston and Byrne had a romantic relationship (you can read her thoughts <a...
- 10/20/2017
- by Angela Robinson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This weekend, Wonder Woman is back in the spotlight thanks to Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, a new film that traces the surprising origins of the beloved character.
The true-life tale behind the Amazon warrior’s controversial creator has remained shrouded in mystery for decades.
William Moulton Marston, who published his first Wonder Woman strip in 1941, led a double life not unlike the superheroes he wrote about. Working to uncover his secret identity like a real-life Lois Lane, New Yorker writer Jill Lepore pieced together the complicated life of the scholar, writer and inventor in 2014 with her book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
The true-life tale behind the Amazon warrior’s controversial creator has remained shrouded in mystery for decades.
William Moulton Marston, who published his first Wonder Woman strip in 1941, led a double life not unlike the superheroes he wrote about. Working to uncover his secret identity like a real-life Lois Lane, New Yorker writer Jill Lepore pieced together the complicated life of the scholar, writer and inventor in 2014 with her book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
- 10/13/2017
- by Michael Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Hold off on revisiting or streaming the summer's monster hit, Wonder Woman, until you lay eyes on this stranger-and kinkier-than-fiction look at the man who created the world's most famous female superhero. That would be Harvard-educated William Moulton Marston (Beauty and the Beast's Luke Evans), a psychology professor at Radcliffe with a wife, Elizabeth Holloway (Rebecca Hall), who's more than his intellectual equal. She shares his not entirely scientific taste for dominance and submission, and the prof, frustrated by drag-ass 1920's protocols, is eager to experiment further. The catalyst...
- 10/12/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Angela Robinson’s new film Professor Marston And The Wonder Women explores the real-life inspirations for the superhero, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne; their polyamorous relationship with creator William Moulton Marston; and the comic’s depiction of kink. In the video above, Bella Heathcote, who plays…
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- 10/9/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin
- avclub.com
Angela Robinson’s new film, Professor Marston And The Wonder Women, explores the real-life inspirations for Wonder Woman, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne, their polyamorous relationship with creator William Moulton Marston, and the birth of a feminist icon. In the video above, Luke Evans, who plays William…
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- 10/9/2017
- by Baraka Kaseko and Marah Eakin
- avclub.com
Were Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne lovers? Angela Robinson thinks it’s open to interpretation.
- 10/8/2017
- by Abraham Riesman
- Vulture
Coming October 27, on the heels of the smash worldwide success of Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman, comes the bio pic about her creator, William Moulton Marston. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women explores the unusual relationship between professor Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and his student-turned-secretary Olive Byrne. Previously known to few beyond comic book scholars, the story finally gained mainstream attention in Jill Lepore’s excellent The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940’s. While Marston’s feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her ‘sexual perversity’, he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston’s muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women who...
In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940’s. While Marston’s feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her ‘sexual perversity’, he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston’s muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women who...
- 7/18/2017
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
So this is cool! Apparently they're doing a biopic about the creator of Wonder Woman - a one Dr. William Moulton Marston (played by Luke Evans) - who was quite the interesting character. Not only was he a psychologist who invented Wonder Woman and the polygraph lie detector test, but was also in a polyamorous relationship with his brilliant wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston (Rebecca Hall) and another woman... Read More...
- 7/18/2017
- by Damion Damaske
- JoBlo.com
Given the buzz surrounding Wonder Woman, it’s only appropriate that a smaller project would want to capitalize on renewed interest in Diana Prince. So Annapurna has released a brief and mostly obscure look at Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, the movie about Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, played here by Luke Evans. While there isn’t really much footage, the teaser features William being interrogated by the voice of Connie Britton as psychologist Josette Frank. It doesn’t really even touch on the polyamorous relationship between Marston and the two women of the title—his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston (Rebecca Hall) and Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote). They get a bit more attention in the accompanying website, which shows all of them drawn as comic book characters. Elizabeth holds a lasso-like rope around Olive’s wrist, an allusion to bondage, a topic that will certainly come up ...
- 6/5/2017
- by Esther Zuckerman
- avclub.com
Sneak Peek more action figures from director Patty Jenkin's upcoming $120 million budgeted "Wonder Woman" solo feature, starring Gal Gadot as 'Diana Prince'/'Wonder Woman', based on the DC Comics character:
"Wonder Woman" is intended to be the fourth installment in the 'DC Extended Universe'...
...written by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, from a story by Heinberg and Zack Snyder, also starring Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen...
...Robin Wright, Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui and David Thewlis.
"..in the early 20th century, the 'Amazon' princess 'Diana', living on the island of 'Themyscira', meets American military pilot 'Steve Trevor', washed ashore after his plane crashes.
"After learning from him about the ongoing events of 'World War I', she leaves her home to bring an early end to the war..."
The comic book character "Wonder Woman" was created by American psychologist/writer William Moulton Marston.
"Wonder Woman" is intended to be the fourth installment in the 'DC Extended Universe'...
...written by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, from a story by Heinberg and Zack Snyder, also starring Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen...
...Robin Wright, Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui and David Thewlis.
"..in the early 20th century, the 'Amazon' princess 'Diana', living on the island of 'Themyscira', meets American military pilot 'Steve Trevor', washed ashore after his plane crashes.
"After learning from him about the ongoing events of 'World War I', she leaves her home to bring an early end to the war..."
The comic book character "Wonder Woman" was created by American psychologist/writer William Moulton Marston.
- 3/28/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Sneak Peek the best new action figures from director Patty Jenkin's upcoming $120 million budgeted "Wonder Woman" solo feature, starring Gal Gadot as 'Diana Prince'/'Wonder Woman', based on the DC Comics character:
"Wonder Woman" is intended to be the fourth installment in the 'DC Extended Universe'...
...written by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, from a story by Heinberg and Zack Snyder, also starring Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen...
...Robin Wright, Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui and David Thewlis.
"..in the early 20th century, the 'Amazon' princess 'Diana', living on the island of 'Themyscira', meets American military pilot 'Steve Trevor', washed ashore after his plane crashes.
"After learning from him about the ongoing events of 'World War I', she leaves her home to bring an early end to the war..."
The comic book character "Wonder Woman" was created by American psychologist/writer William Moulton Marston.
"Wonder Woman" is intended to be the fourth installment in the 'DC Extended Universe'...
...written by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, from a story by Heinberg and Zack Snyder, also starring Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen...
...Robin Wright, Lucy Davis, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui and David Thewlis.
"..in the early 20th century, the 'Amazon' princess 'Diana', living on the island of 'Themyscira', meets American military pilot 'Steve Trevor', washed ashore after his plane crashes.
"After learning from him about the ongoing events of 'World War I', she leaves her home to bring an early end to the war..."
The comic book character "Wonder Woman" was created by American psychologist/writer William Moulton Marston.
- 2/13/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Even if there weren’t a highly-anticipated movie on the horizon, we’d be getting a lot of Wonder Woman news this year anyway. 2016 is the 75th anniversary of the character’s first appearance, which was in All Star Comics #8. Since then, the superhero’s gotten her own title, TV show, Ms. magazine cover, and United Nations ambassadorship. She’s also served as a feminist icon, which is what creator Dr. William Moulton Marston had in mind all along. Professor Marston And The Wonder Women, an upcoming biopic starring Luke Evans, will reveal more of Wonder Woman and her creator’s background, including his polyamorous relationship with Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne. The two women inspired the personality and appearance of Diana, who Marston designed to be a modern, liberated woman.
Wonder Woman’s agency and interest in bondage landed Marston in hot water, though, including charges ...
Wonder Woman’s agency and interest in bondage landed Marston in hot water, though, including charges ...
- 11/23/2016
- by Danette Chavez
- avclub.com
On Friday, October 21, 2016, something remarkable happened.
Princess Diana of Themiscrya was appointed an Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls everywhere around the globe by the United Nations in a ceremony led by Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information Christina Gallach. It was attended by the actors Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot. Remarkably, the Princess herself did not appear.
Why is this remarkable?
Princess Diana of Themiscrya is a fictional comic book character co-created 75 years ago by writers William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and artist H.G. Peter. She first appeared to the public in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) and then was given the cover to Sensation Comics #1 (January, 1942). The very first issue of her eponymous book showed up on the newsstands in the summer of that same year.
Don’t recognize the name? Then how about this one…
Wonder Woman.
While DC Entertainment – a.
Princess Diana of Themiscrya was appointed an Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls everywhere around the globe by the United Nations in a ceremony led by Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information Christina Gallach. It was attended by the actors Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot. Remarkably, the Princess herself did not appear.
Why is this remarkable?
Princess Diana of Themiscrya is a fictional comic book character co-created 75 years ago by writers William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and artist H.G. Peter. She first appeared to the public in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941) and then was given the cover to Sensation Comics #1 (January, 1942). The very first issue of her eponymous book showed up on the newsstands in the summer of that same year.
Don’t recognize the name? Then how about this one…
Wonder Woman.
While DC Entertainment – a.
- 10/24/2016
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Wonder Woman herself has a thrilling origin tale, but her creator, Dr. William Moulton Marston, had a pretty interesting backstory as well. Marston—who received a PhD from Harvard in 1921—began his career as a psychologist/carnival barker, inventing (and doing frequent. splashy public demonstrations of) a blood-pressure based lie detector test after observing that his wife Elizabeth’s blood pressure would rise when she was angry. Marston seemed to live his life in thrall to women: A bondage enthusiast—it’s no coincidence that Wonder Woman ties someone up or gets tied up in nearly all of her early adventures—he secretly maintained a long-term relationship with two women, Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (niece of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger), in what nowadays we’d call a polyamorous triad.
Elizabeth and Olive both inspired Marston’s most famous creation, Wonder Woman, designed to be a modern ...
Elizabeth and Olive both inspired Marston’s most famous creation, Wonder Woman, designed to be a modern ...
- 10/10/2016
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
This weekend, Gal Gadot will reintroduce audiences to America's most overlookedsuper heroine, Wonder Woman, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - but the story behind the Amazon warrior's controversial creator has remained shrouded in mystery for decades. William Moulton Marston, who published his first Wonder Woman strip in 1941, led a double life not unlike the superheroes he wrote about. Working to uncover his secret identity like a real-life Lois Lane, New Yorker writer Jill Lepore pieced together the complicated life of the scholar, writer and inventor in 2014 with her book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Like his creation,...
- 3/25/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
This weekend, Gal Gadot will reintroduce audiences to America's most overlookedsuper heroine, Wonder Woman, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - but the story behind the Amazon warrior's controversial creator has remained shrouded in mystery for decades. William Moulton Marston, who published his first Wonder Woman strip in 1941, led a double life not unlike the superheroes he wrote about. Working to uncover his secret identity like a real-life Lois Lane, New Yorker writer Jill Lepore pieced together the complicated life of the scholar, writer and inventor in 2014 with her book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman. Like his creation,...
- 3/25/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
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