Whedon calls it quits on Wonder Woman

...and I, for one, am relieved. I can't say I was ever enthusiastic about the subject matter, and development was taking so long that one could detect the faint whiff of failure around the project. Looks like all parties involved felt that way:

We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that's never gonna work. Non-sympatico. It happens all the time. I don't think any of us expected it to this time, but it did. Everybody knows how long I was taking, what a struggle that script was, and though I felt good about what I was coming up with, it was never gonna be a simple slam-dunk. I like to think it rolled around the rim a little bit, but others may have differing views.

Read the rest of Whedon's statement at Whedonesque.