Having inspired people everywhere as the fictional Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot is now trading in the superhero spandex to play a real life Wonder Woman.
According to Deadline, Gal will be starring and executive producing a limited TV series for Showtime about 1930s Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr, who was an acclaimed actress during the day and an inventor in her down time.
So how important was Hedy’s work? Well her acting has been forgotten a little these days but her inventions are some of the most important things ever made. Her work on radio guidance systems and frequency-hopping technology ultimately led to the creation of your wifi and the Bluetooth in your headphones.
A real life Wonder Woman indeed.
The still-untitled limited series will be written by Sarah Treem (The Affair) and reportedly focus on Hedy’s life when she immigrated from Europe to the U.S. in 1938, her acting career during which she became Hollywood royalty and was bestowed the title of ‘The Most Beautiful Woman In The World’, and her time as an inventor during WWII when she helped invent technology that helped the U.S. army decode enemy messages.
According to Showtime:
“[The] series will explore the rise and fall of feminism in the American landscape during Golden Age of Hollywood and World War II, aiming to find, in Lamarr’s life and legacy, clues for who we are now.”
As for when we’ll see this amazing sounding TV series on our screens, no window has been announced but it’ll likely be a while before we hear anything because Gal has got a bunch of other projects in the pipeline, including a big budget action thriller alongside The Rock and Deadpool.
But hey, if we were willing to wait three years for a new Wonder Woman movie, we can definitely wait as long as needed in order to see Gal Gadot play a real life Wonder Woman.