Lynda Carter replaces Gal Gadot as the DCEU’s Wonder Woman in an awesome new deepfake video. Long before Gadot embodied DC superhero Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman on the big screen, Carter gave the character the small screen treatment in a TV series that ran for four seasons and 59 episodes in the 1970s.
Though the original Wonder Woman show now looks cheesy in a lot of ways, Carter’s performance as Wonder Woman is still considered iconic by many fans. That’s why so many people were thrilled to see Carter finally arrive in the DCEU in Wonder Woman 1984, playing the character Asteria in a brief mid-credits scene. Of course, Carter previously appeared in another modern day DC TV adaptation, playing President Olivia Marsdin on Supergirl.
Given the special place Carter still holds in the hearts of many Wonder Woman fans, it’s too bad she never got a chance to play her most famous character on the big screen. But now thanks to deepfake technology, Carter has received her opportunity to join the DCEU as Wonder Woman, replacing Gadot in a rousing new clip from DeepFaker. See the video in the space below:
Using footage from the first Wonder Woman movie, DeepFaker employs deepfake technology to seamlessly replace Gadot’s face with Carter’s. The clip does not bother tackling any dialog scenes however, instead using music to convey the excitement of Carter’s “performance” as Wonder Woman in scenes from Patty Jenkins’ movie. As it happens, Carter arriving in the DCEU returns the favor on a previous deepfake video, also by DeepFaker, that put Gadot into the 1970s Wonder Woman TV show.
The fact that Carter and Gadot can so easily swap places between the new movies and the original TV show just proves how set-in-stone the Wonder Woman character has become in terms of look and feel. Of course, the new movies are much more visually impressive than the show, which was made on a modest 1970s network TV budget and could only do so much in terms of effects. But in spirit, the movies and the show are in fact not that different, and indeed Wonder Woman 1984 in many ways returned to the tone of the TV show, at least for some of its more light-hearted scenes (other scenes of course took things in a heavier direction). The above deepfake seems to prove that had the timing been right for Carter to play Wonder Woman in a big-budget adaptation of the comic books, she would have had no problem whatsoever in bringing the character to life on the big screen for DC fans.
Source: DeepFaker/YouTube
