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While we won't see the live-action Wonder Woman movie any time soon, fans of the Amazon Princess have something else to look forward to, and it'll probably end up being the better movie anyway. A Wonder Woman animated movie was announced last year as one of the possible projects DC and WB are taking on, but now with the cast announcement, it looks like it's moving on the fast track.

Ever since the stellar Justice League Unlimited went off the air, the Warner Bros. animation team that gave us Batman: TAS, Batman Beyond, Superman: TAS and others have turned their sights on a series of PG-13 Direct-to-Video feature movies based on popular DC Comics storylines, aimed at a more adult crowd than their TV shows (even though those were already pushing it).

The first of them was the middling Superman: Doomsday (to be fair, a big part of the fault was that it was based on the awful Death of Superman comic). Later this month at Wondercon we'll see the world premiere of their second, Justice League: The New Frontier. They're now working on Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, based on a popular Teen Titans story that was already adapted once in the unrelated Cartoon Network show, but this time these guys are doing it more faithfully with a PG-13 rating. After Titans, they'll begin work on a still untitled Wonder Woman movie that will tell her origins story.

The plot will center around the meeting of Princess Diana and her love interest Steve Trevor, an army pilot who crashed into the Amazons' home island Themyscira. As Diana escorts Trevor back to civilization, the God of War Ares escapes imprisonment and uses an ancient artifact to raise an army of the undead, intent of starting a World War that would last centuries and wipe out the population of Earth. It's up to Diana to step up into her role as Wonder Woman and stop him.

Waitress co-stars Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion have signed on to voice Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, respectively (that would be weird if it was the other way around). Fillion is no stranger to the DC Comics animated world, since he was a semi-regular guest on Justice League Unlimited as the B-list League member Vigilante. Ironically, he's best known for his roles in Firefly and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, both created by Joss Whedon, who was supposed to write and direct the live action Wonder Woman but had to drop out because of creative differences. Had Whedon stayed and the movie was actually made, maybe we could've seen Fillion play Trevor also?

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