Joss Whedon to direct episode of THE OFFICE

POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Thursday, January 18, 2007 16:08
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HEIXING

Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:30 AM

Well in fact Jenna Fischer does have a connection in that she's married to screenwriter/director James Gunn who wrote some episodes of Buffy and is a good friend of Joss. He also wrote and directed Slither which may be how Nathan Fillion got his lead.

If fact if you watch "done the impossible" you will see Jenna Fischer briefly. She doesn't say anything. She just stands next to James as he talks about how Nathan is the worst person to work with (he eats babies and such). lol

How's that for a slice of FRIED GOLD!

VERTEBREAKER

Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:18 AM

That's amazing. As a massive The Office fan, and an even bigger Firefly fan, I'd love to see a melding of the two.

It would definitely be a Dwight-centric episode, which is not a bad thing at all.

Very cool!

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REGINAROADIE

Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:02 AM

I'm not sure about Dwight, but I am certain that he'd fit Roy in. I was just looking around imdb, to see if there are any more Joss/OFFICE connections. And while the character of Gunn was named after James Gunn, James never wrote an ep of BUFFY or ANGEL. James is from the Lloyd Kaufman camp, not the Whedon camp.

But Joss has in fact worked with David Denham, aka Roy before. Before he was famous as the fat, unappreciative fiancee of Pam, his most famous role was none other than Skip on ANGEL. This pretty much blew my mind. Of course, when you're covered in make-up from head to toe, it's easy to dissappear within a character. But still, even without the make-up and prosthetics, Skip is a complete 180 from Roy.

I guess that's why it's called acting.

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CORNBREAD

Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:56 AM

Precedence for renowned directors doing an episode or two of an established show has often been magical. I would like to mention the time Quentin Tarantino directed an episode of Alias. It was liquid gold. Er ... platinum. Shiny.

GRRARGG

Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:02 AM

I think as a director, you have a certain "toolkit" you can call upon to make just about any genre work -- particularly in episodic television. If you're interested in the material and know the framework you have to work in, then it's more or less a matter of people chemestry with cast and crew and trust in the groundwork laid before you came along.

Blue Sun used to be Capri Sun back on Earth That Was. Honest. Heard it from a Blue Handed feller.

VERTEBREAKER

Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:20 AM

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Originally posted by Cornbread:
Precedence for renowned directors doing an episode or two of an established show has often been magical. I would like to mention the time Quentin Tarantino directed an episode of Alias. It was liquid gold. Er ... platinum. Shiny.

That was a VERY shiny episode. Quentin not only directed, but starred in the episode as McKenas Cole.

Best part of the episode? Cole torturing Sloane.

Great episode.

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BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:01 PM

I love "The Office". My wife and I watch it every week. I have been wanting to get the seasons on dvd, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Now if Joss directs an episode that would be shiny as the special hell.

Here's hoping he does.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:57 PM

Interesting. So the Americanised version actually works? Queer As Folk certainly didn't.

Not seen it, of course, but I would have thought the cringeyness and especially the Tim and Dawn (almost) romance played best in British. If it's stuffy reserve you want, this is the place to come.

We also do deep embarrassment. Certainly, I always wanted the ground to swallow me up whenever Brent did anything.

Good joke (can't remember who it was. Ben Elton?) about an unattended rucksack on a London Subway train. Everyone sitting there waiting for it to explode, and save them the embarrassment of speaking up and asking if it belonged to anyone...

ZEEK

Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:02 PM

Be sure to put up a BDPost when this is about to air. I'm not impressed by the office. Its humor just isn't all that funny to me. My brother really tried to get me into it with the season 1 dvds. It's just not my thing.

Still anything Joss is on my shiny list. So, I'll watch an episode for him.

REGINAROADIE

Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:08 PM

In a vain attempt to keep things going on this thread, what are some other interesting FIREFLY/OFFICE parallels you've noticed.

For some reason, I keep thinking of Stanley as sort of a stand-in for Book, even thugh they are opposite characters. Like I imagine if Stanley were a Shepherd, and he ended up on SERENITY, for the most part he's have a grumpy look on his face and during the gunfights or whatever he'd be off to the side doing a crossword puzzle. And it would only be when they're shipping pretzels that he's show any kind of excitement.

And would Pam be either Inara or Kaylee? The former because of the unrequited love bit, but seeing Pam cry is even more heartbreaking than Kaylee. Maybe Kaylee and Kelly would make a better match, although I think Kelly would trump Kaylee in the "happy, bubbily personality department". Kaylee has soemthing of a normal voice, while Kelly has that perpetually high cartoon voice.

As per Michael, should probably keep him away from the ships controls. Probably crasha ship in the first ten minutes of operating it.

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