Joss Whedon on 'Dollhouse' -- 'Back with such a vengeance'

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HAKEN

Friday, June 12, 2009 2:24 AM

Joss Whedon is two weeks into breaking stories for Dollhouse's second season, and we're happy to report that he sounds like a happy man even without that season 1 budget. Whedon wrapped his top-secret horror film The Cabin in the Woods on May 29 and hit the Dollhouse writers' room on June 1. "I just wanted to die of tiredness," he tells EW.com exclusively. "About two hours after starting to talk to the writers about story, I was back with such a vengeance, and so energized and so pumped because we really understand the show now. We understand what works, and what didn't work so well or what we weren't so thrilled about. We don't have the onus of trying to be a big hit sitting on our shoulders. We can just be ourselves. And so the stories we're breaking are pure, and exciting, and everybody's on-board in the room, and it's never flowed better."

Read more here:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/06/joss-whedon-buffy-dollhouse-1.
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ANONYMOUS1

Friday, June 12, 2009 3:16 AM

Ohhh, that sounds wonderful! And Fox might just leave them alone because they aren't spending that much money on the budget.

Nathan Fillion's Castle ABC Online http://ABC.com Joss Whedon's Dollhouse http://Fox.com

BIGRICHARD

Friday, June 12, 2009 7:02 AM

I saw this and now I'm just so damn excited (even more so) for season 2! (and to still see the 13th ep of season 1).

I just like that Joss is "really proud of the second half of season 1". Hopefully all the episodes will be like that from now on. Not that I didn't enjoy the first half...it just entered a whole new league during it's second half.

Interesting to hear he's having nothing to do with the Buffy movie. It's in trouble now!

ETA: It's part of the article, so I thought I'd add this here.

JoBlo posted a story about the Buffy reference in that article, and I can't help but agree with the thing...although it uses some stronger words...:

Quote:
When news broke that the director of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
(the Kristy Swanson version) was looking to reboot the franchise with a new film
outside of the Joss Whedon/TV "Buffy" universe, Whedon fans were understandably pissed. Whedon's "Buffy" universe is treated like gospel so why would Buffy fans want to see a movie where his entire universe was thrown out? There was a backlash that was quite vocal and apparently the producers of the reboot heard those voices loud and clear. So they went to Whedon and offered him a role developing the project. His response, in so many words: go fuck yourself.

Whedon tells Entertainment Weekly that the producers approached his agent after the news broke but that he told them, "I think that's something better left untouched by me." In other words, "I spent a lot of time and effort trying to rebuild the universe after the disaster you turned my original script into. Why would I want to help you tear that universe down?" Whedon adds that he politely wished them well and went on his merry way (and by "merry," I mean really pissed off that this reboot could even happen).

Throughout all of this, let's hope the producers get it through their heads that a BUFFY reboot would just be a bad idea. Unless they get JJ Abrams to direct. People love that guy.

Extra Tidbit: I know Whedon is too nice to ever do this but he really should just come out and tell them to fuck off.

http://www.joblo.com/whedon-offered-buffy

I'm not entirely sure what the rule is on swearing around here, so I've just copied this as is, but if anyone gets offended, I apologise, let me know, and I'll edit it out/down/something.