I would love for Wonder Man to make it to the screen. One of the things I have never gotten is why is ok for an actor of color to take the role of a white character but not the other way around? How much backlash would there have been had say Ryan Gosling had been cast as T'Challa? There was such an uproar when Tilda Swenson was cast as the Ancient One, there was even one when Finn Jones was cast as Iron Fist...and that character is white.
My issue with racebending characters to actors is this...let's say an african american boy watches Wonder Man and wants to know more about him because he loves the character so his mom takes him to a comic book store and he starts looking through back issues....but there's no black Wonder Man. He just finds a white guy. Is he going to buy that book? Not likely. Is he going to get invested in any other comic book characters? Possibly not.
I remember reading something (somewhere) about when Ryan Reynolds was cast as Hal Jordan. More than a few people were pissed that they were putting out a Green Lantern movie with a white actor because as they saw it, Green Lantern was a black character--their only relation with the character was from the animated Justice League series. Granted the GL movie was a bust, but at the least there are characters of color within the GL ranks. With Disney and Marvel's desire for synchronicity across their mediums, how is this reflecting that or even the character who appears in comics?
Maybe the show will be excellent. I hope it is actually. But it's not going to be the character I have wanted to see on the screen.