Why Stunt Casting Does Not Work Wonders!

Hi everybody!
It is easy to overstuff an entertainment with big stars who are given nothing of consequence to do. My goal in the WONDER WOMAN movie is to keep each star important; nobody is being cast just to provide a cameo.
When you see Charlize Theron as Antiope in WONDER WOMAN ARRIVES and Debra Winger as Donna Troy in WONDER WOMAN: AT LAST, these stars are there to advance the WONDER WOMAN narrative and to deepen the movie experience for all of us.
Comic book characters are not known for their fully dimensional characterizations, and WONDER WOMAN is no exception. The correct casting can gloss over gross lapses in the plot in a good way!
For example, Alfred Hitchcock found his perfect Ice Queen in Grace Kelly. After casting her opposite Ray Milland in DIAL "M" FOR MURDER, and then James Stewart in REAR WINDOW, he gave Kelly her best showcase in TO CATCH A THIEF. We don't care about how much older Cary Grant is than she, or much care how ridiculous a notion that Grant is ambulatory enough to be a cat burgler. We just want to see Kelly scoop up Grant in the hotel lobby and drive him off in her sportscar on the winding mountain roads at breakneck speed while he sweats bullets in the passenger seat. We want to see Kelly dish out the best picnic basket since Joanne Woodward's in THE LONG, HOT SUMMER, and to better purpose, yet. We want to see Kelly lure Grant with her fake diamond necklace while the sky literally lights up with fireworks. It is the perfect casting of these two actors that make TO CATCH A THIEF such a treat.
Conversely, I don't think that an entertainment can be completely created in a computer. With all due respect to Skywalker Ranch, sometimes a CGI is just a CGI.
The reason why the car chase scene in BULLITT remains the best ever is because of the drivers. Sure, it begins with the audacious obstacle course of the winding streets of San Francisco, but it does not remain in our memory because of the hairpin turns and the precipitous descent down the stairs. We've seen that a thousand times since, with diminishing returns. It is when both cars open up the throttle in the wide open spaces that the chase is truly on. The scene has no dialogue, but we can read these drivers' thoughts as their grips tighten on the steering wheels. After they try to bump each other off of the road, and glance at each other in their respective rearview mirrors? After they lose sight of each other behind an embankment, then realize that it was only for a moment? It then becomes a test of their driving skill, of their racing along at twice the safe speed limit, of their matchless daring and their incredible luck. We see their eyes darting between the road, the other random cars, the road, their odometers, we see them put the lead out and then slam onto the brakes. The physics of the chase makes sense, it has stops and starts, accelerations and hesitations. It all feels possible when it is all impossible! When one car speeds out of control and explodes at a lonely gas station, we realize that we never wanted this car chase to end. Because it was never about the cars, it was always about the bloody chase!
So my WONDER WOMAN movie is not about the hardware or the CGI, it is about people living larger-than-life lives, and for that we need stars who burn brighter than the ordinary actor. Stars who can work with each other and who enhance the others' strengths. Stars who know when to whisper, when to strut and when to let the camera do all the talking. Oscar caliber actors who can bring a 4 color comic book to thrilling life.
Tomorrow, more goodies! Be good!
Brad