I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.