Wonder Woman heads to TV with Ally McBeal creator

A live-action version of Wonder Woman could be headed for the small screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

David E. Kelly, creator of The Practice and Ally McBeal, has signed a deal with Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment to write and produce the series.

The series will be a contemporary take on Wonder Woman, the superhero who made her debut in DC Comics in 1941, fighting the Axis war machine.

No further details were released, including whether the contemporary Wonder Woman is to have indestructible bracelets or a Lasso of Truth in keeping with the comic character.

This will be the first live-action TV incarnation of the superheroine since The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, which aired from 1975 through 1979. A 2005 proposal for Joss Whedon to create a Wonder Woman film never came to fruition, but there was an animated film in 2009.

The still-popular comic character got a tough, modern makeover earlier this year, ditching her stars and stripes costume.

Kelly has won multiple Emmys as writer and creator of series such as Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, Boston Public and Boston Legal. But he is sure to be a controversial choice to create a series based on Wonder Woman, considered a feminist breakthrough.

His most famous female character, Ally McBeal, was both hailed as a strong female character for being headstrong and opinionated or criticized as setting back the cause of feminism because of her emotional instability.