If you’re going to get into the Evil League of Evil, you have to have a memorable laugh. What, do you think Bad Horse didn’t work on his whinny? His terrible, death whinny?
Doctor Horrible
It’s not about making money, it’s about taking money. Destroying the status quo. Because the status, is not quo.
Doctor Horrible
I also need to be a little bit more careful about what I say on this blog. Apparently, the LAPD and Captain Hammer are among our viewers.
Doctor Horrible
We do the weird stuff!
Las groupies de Captian Hammer
Penny: I’ll be interested to know what you think of him [Captain Hammer]. He said he might stop by. Billy: Stop by here? Penny: Yeah. Billy: (checks wrist for watch, but he is not wearing one) Oh, goodness, look at my wrist. I gotta go. Penny: But what about your clothes? Billy: (checks contents of washer) I don’t love these. See ya!
Vale, lo reconozco, me estoy pasando mucho con una miniserie que todavía no he visto ni un solo minuto de la misma. Pero es que necesito mi dosis de algo nuevo de Joss Whedon, y Dollhouse no empieza hasta el año que viene.
Pues a lo que iba, montones de entrevistas y críticas sobre la serie circulan por internet. Como esta de Gawker
Q. Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris in an Internet musical in which the lovable loser baddy is kind of the good guy, and the good guy is kind of a dick—and it’s a musical?! Um, how? Wha? How on earth did this develop?
A. Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary. But I know that people who grow up identifying with outsiders are the people I are. Plus singing is the universal language, along with being on fire.
“The basic plotline is that it’s about this wannabe mad scientist character [Harris], and he’s really just a lovable guy who is in love with the Penny [Day] character, and it’s about him wanting to do more and be more and change the world, but of course, you get Joss’ great spin on things, where he’s actually trying to get into this Evil League and then there’s a hero [Fillion] who everyone loves who …” Boretz hesitates on the description. “He always reminds me of Gaston from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.”
Joss Whedon says Dr. Horrible’s budget is “in the low six figures.” Though many favours were called in, Whedon adds that there was no financial corner-cutting in trying to get around the various unions that represent him, his fellow writers, the actors and the technicians. As a supporter of the WGA strike, Whedon stresses that he felt it was particularly important to follow union rules. “You don’t make a statement about what we [in the film and television business] have to do as a community by screwing people over.”
It wasn’t hard for Whedon to persuade the actors to sign on. “Any time Joss calls you, it’s going to be something cool,” says Fillion.
I know. It’s not much of a tease, but you’d be tight-lipped too if you’d been at last night’s premiere screening for the cast and crew, where Joss asked us reporter types to defy our natural busybody tendencies and help protect the story of the show. (Seriously, can anyone say no to Joss?)
So what I can tell you is that Dr. Horrible is an hour-and-fifteen-minute-long show shot specifically for the Web, and it will make you want to jump through the screen and hand Neil, Joss and Nathan a lifetime supply of Emmys, Webbies, Grammys or whatever it is you give to guys who like to sing about being superheroes and supervillains. I totally loved it.
Recordar, hoy ya podéis ver el primer capítulo en drhorrible.com. Estarán disponibles de forma gratuita hasta el día 20.
Prodigeek - How did you kind of come to this idea of an internet musical about a superhero?
Whedon - I had come up with the concept and the title originally as an audio podcast. I wanted to write a song. I was tired of not writing songs and I wanted a structure to write from. And I though this guy would have a blog and sing about what’s going on with him. It would be a fun thing to do. Then, during the strike, when everyone was looking to create internet content, I thought of it as a limited series. Then when I decided to do it myself, I thought of it as an even more limited series. It played itself out pretty simply. I brought writers in; we knew from the start exactly what we wanted to do. I had written the songs for it a while ago. The first song was called “My Freeze Ray.” I played that for the other writers. We got sort of an idea of sound, and then we started breaking a story. We broke it into three acts, a mini-series event, and then hopefully to make it a downloadable commodity. In addition to creating something out of love of musicals and love of the fans, I also wanted to create something where we could make money doing our own thing, outside the system. I also want to, in a perfect dream world, pay my crew.
El martes comienza a emitirse en internet, aquí tenéis el trailer para refrescar la memoria
The Guild es esa genial historia sobre unas personas adictas a un juego muy parecido a WoW, y ahora está disponible en DVD, aunque podéis ver todos los capítulos en youtube
Pero hoy ya hay más noticias. De entrada, la página web oficial: drhorrible.com, donde se publicarán los capítulos, que ya tienen fecha
Parte 1 - Martes 15 de Julio
Parte 2 - Jueves 17 de Julio
Parte 3 - Sábado 19 de Julio
Pero hay que darse prisa en verlos, los capítulos solamente estarán disponibles hasta el 20 de Julio, después habrá que pagar para verlos y más adelantes estarán disponibles a la venta en DVD.
El New York Times publica un interesante artículo alrededor de Russel T. Davies y su reencarnación del Doctor Who. Esta especialmente centrado en la forma en la que presenta personajes gays
“I often get asked to write dramas or films about a man coming out of the closet to his wife, or a man coming out of the closet to his children, or a man who’s beaten up because he’s secretly gay,” Mr. Davies said. “I always refuse if it’s a negative take on homosexuality — if the only aspect being portrayed is the trouble, the tears and the angst.”
He continued: “There’s enough of that out there. Why bother? Drama is easy when it’s tragedy. Anyone could write a scene of a man crying in the rain saying, ‘I’m sorry.’ But actually it’s much more fun to see a man in a bar trying to pick up another man. That’s tense. There’s a whole minefield of emotions there.”
John Barrowman, que interpreta al Capitán Jack en Torchwood nos da un par de noticias en una entrevista a la prensa canadiense. La tercera temporada de Torchwood solamente tendrá 5 capítulos y se emitirán en la BBC1. El año que viene es malo para los fans de esta saga, tanto Doctor Who como Torchwood en versión reducida. Mientras tanto la cuarta temporada, si son renovados después de la tercera, volverá a tener la misma longitud que la primera y segunda temporadas.
Que Firefly es una de mis series favoritas no es ningún secreto para quien lleve leyendo este blog desde hace algunos años. A través de Microsiervos descubro esta página: Firefly Timeline, una completa recopilación en orden cronológico de todo más o menos relevante que ocurre en la serie de televisión (tal vez le sobre un poco sobre la historia de la independencia de Estados Unidos, pero que le vamos hacer).
