“The fact is, I’m very proud of the ep we shot, and the series is making me crazy with the excitement,” Whedon wrote. “But I tend to come at things sideways, and there were a few clarity issues for some viewers. There were also some slight issues with tone–I was in a dark, noir kind of place (where, as many of you know, I make my home) and didn’t bring the visceral pop the network had expected from the script. The network was cool about it, but not sure how to come out of the gate with the ep.”
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.
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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
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.
Esta claro, los fans de Joss Whedon ya están más que escarmentados. Después de la dolorosa cancelación de Firefly por parte de la Fox no están para nada dispuestos a que lo mismo pase con el nuevo proyecto de Whedon, Dollhouse, la campaña para evitar su cancelación ya ha empezado. La única pega es que la serie no comenzará a emitirse hasta el año que viene. No dice mucho de lo que la gente espera de las políticas de programación de la Fox.
La expectación que está causando la futura serie entre los fans no es poca. Varios sitios se han creado a su alrededor: Dollverse, Dollhouse Forums, una página de facebook… a parte de los típicos sitios seguidores del trabajo de Whedon que ya se están haciendo más que eco de todas estas noticias (yo supongo que me podría incluír entre los mismos).
Y en cosas más interesantes aún, Wired apunta a que, de los siete capítulos inicialmente contratados, ahora ya se han encargado 13. Por el momento las cosas no tienen mala pinta.
Esto es algo que ya comenté con dosamigos. Nos acercamos al final de la temporada televisiva, y mis series favoritas están a punto de terminarse. El problema es que la mayor parte de ellas no volverá hasta el 2009 -supongo que será la oportunidad de empezar a ver todas esas series que siempre me digo que algún día veré.- Y el 2009 cada vez se pone más interesante.
Regresa Joss Whedon a la pequeña pantalla. El creador de Buffy, Angel y la grandiosa Firefly vuelve con Dollhouse. La mala noticia es que ha escogido la Fox como cadena de televisión, y aún me acuerdo que ellos cancelaron Firefly.
Como es típico en Whedon hace uso de viejas caras conocidas. Involucrado tal vez en temas de producción y guiones vuelve Tim Minear, y como actriz principal de la serie ha escogido a Eliza Dushku. La trama es sencilla, un grupo especial de personas que son programadas para realizar una misión específica, después de cada una de estas misiones su memoria es completamente borrada y se le inserta la información necesaria para la siguiente misión.
Aquí tenéis una versión del trailer (no prometo que dure mucho en internet, los andan borrando de todos los lados)
