What you want to see from Joss next

POSTED BY: Zeek
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ZEEK

Monday, October 4, 2010 4:00 PM

Say this in a Dollhouse post and thought it could make for a fun discussion.

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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
Hopefully, Joss's next show (He'll come back around to TV. He always does.) will have more care for the details and story quality (Dedicated viewers tend to pick up on that stuff).

So, what do you hope Joss will do with his next show?

My hope is that he pulls a "Lost" on people. Lost started out with a basic idea that viewers could wrap their heads around. A bunch of people in a plane crash who are stranded on a tropical island. Simple concept. Understandable. Easily marketable. Then they went ape shit crazy and threw in smoke monsters, time travel and polar bears.

Joss really needs to do better at hooking people early. Start the show with something the every man understands. Once you pull them in for the first 3 or 4 episodes you can start to pull the rug out from under them little by little. The strong Joss characters should be enough to keep them grounded.

I think he should start the new show with a big medical emergency. Have a city get quarantined a la Outbreak and begin to build the characters who are afraid of being infected, the support workers, the officials, etc. Then once people are hooked on the character drama you can reveal that the virus is a government conspiracy with aliens to turn all women into super soldiers.

What other ideas does everybody have for Joss's next show?

STORYMARK

Monday, October 4, 2010 8:34 PM

Well, with him steppin' up to the big time with The Avengers, it'll be a couple years before he really even has the time to do much of anything else. And if that movie does well, he'll likely stick with movies for a time.

In which case, I'd be praying for Serenity 2. Barring that, a Buffy movie would be fine by me.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

PENGUIN

Monday, October 4, 2010 9:17 PM

A movie about a spaceship.

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

SISTER

Monday, October 4, 2010 9:19 PM

..yeah, a spaceship with people on it.

TWO

Monday, October 4, 2010 10:30 PM

Mark Zuckerberg offered Joss $100 million for 22 TV episodes, direct to DVD, each a standard 45 minutes long, on whatever subject. That whatever really interested Joss, who responded with, "Now I know what I'll be doing after Avengers." Joss made a counteroffer, "I'll give you 44 episodes, and throw in two made-for-TV movies, for double the money." So the deal was made for two seasons of Whatever, the next Whedon TV/Internet project.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

ZEEK

Monday, October 4, 2010 10:44 PM

That's always made me wonder really. Joss had his whatever with both Serenity the pilot and Serenity the movie pretty much. I didn't think either were the best of the Firefly verse. How much of Fox's toning down actually improved Firefly? I know Fox's mucking around is frowned upon, but the characters all got a little meaner and more detached when Joss was given free reign. I sorta liked the way the crew was friendlier with each other and more of a family.

THEHAPPYTRADER

Monday, October 4, 2010 10:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by two:
Mark Zuckerberg offered Joss $100 million for 22 TV episodes, direct to DVD, each a standard 45 minutes long, on whatever subject. That whatever really interested Joss, who responded with, "Now I know what I'll be doing after Avengers." Joss made a counteroffer, "I'll give you 44 episodes, and throw in two made-for-TV movies, for double the money." So the deal was made for two seasons of Whatever, the next Whedon TV/Internet project.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

That sounds awesome! I'm torn between wanting something entirely new or wanting him to continue firefly. Of course more firefly would be shiney but I worry about what will happen to all my favorite characters. He already killed Wash and Book.

STORYMARK

Monday, October 4, 2010 11:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by two:
Mark Zuckerberg offered Joss $100 million for 22 TV episodes, direct to DVD, each a standard 45 minutes long, on whatever subject. That whatever really interested Joss, who responded with, "Now I know what I'll be doing after Avengers." Joss made a counteroffer, "I'll give you 44 episodes, and throw in two made-for-TV movies, for double the money." So the deal was made for two seasons of Whatever, the next Whedon TV/Internet project.

Can you cite this? I can't find anything that mentions it, and that seems like it'd kinda make the news somewhere.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

MUTT999

Monday, October 4, 2010 11:22 PM

Anything with the words 'Firefly' or 'Serenity' in the title would be most appreciated.

CYBERSNARK

Monday, October 4, 2010 11:23 PM

What I want to see from Joss next. . . Is whatever he wants to do.

And I wish the same for every other artist. Whether I personally like it or not isn't the issue; I guarantee someone will, and that's all that's needed.

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