Step up to the microphone and ask JW your one question.

POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Monday, January 24, 2005 09:15
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ZOID

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:30 PM

BrownCoat1 wrote:

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"If the BDM is the success we all believe it will be, is there any chance for a revival of the series on television?"...

Oh! Oh! I got this one!

No.

For better or worse, JW is strictly a filmmaker now. He dissolved Mutant Enemy and wriggled out of his TV development contract with 20th Century Fox. Part of the stipulation of the contract nullification was that, should JW ever return to television, 20thCF have right of first refusal, meaning he goes back to work for them. That's not gonna happen; because he knows Gail Berman's got it in for her old boss and mentor.

On the other hand, a lot of old ME cohorts are now working on Battlestar Galactica: Zoic (sfx) and former Firefly/Wonderfalls episode directors, et al. So...

Completely fictitious and fanciful conversation, between Joss Whedon and a former Mutant Enemy collaboratrix:

Riiingg!

JOSS: *Urgh...* Um... Hello?

DIRECTOR: Uh, hey, Joss?

JOSS: *clears throat* Yeah. Hey. What's up?

DIRECTOR: Um, it's me, (name withheld to avoid litigation).

JOSS: Oh... Hi, Name Withheld. What time is it?

DIRECTOR: Uh, it's like 3 o'clock...

JOSS: *rubs eyes and looks at alarm clock, which says 3:49 AM* ...Okay. So... *starts snoring softly*

DIRECTOR: Well, I'm sorry if I woke you, but I got your notes and I'm still having a little trouble with -

JOSS (Interrupting): No! Buffy! Don't kill the Cylon! He turns into Angel and saves River! *starts snoring again, more loudly this time*

DIRECTOR: Okay, well I'll call you back after 8...

JOSS: Mmmm, g'night Mommy... *clatters, then hangs up phone*

The moral of this little exercise is to watch Battlefire Galacticfly, SciFi Fridays at 10PM Eastern/9PM Central.

Seriously,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:27 PM

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Originally posted by NeutrinoLad:
Huh...Swo...Wha...?

Ya beat me to it.

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REEQUEEN

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:53 PM

....um....*ahem*....Is this thing on?

....testing....testing....1....2....3....mary had a little lamb.....

squeal of feedback

Oh. I'm sorry. *woah!* ....trips over cord and knocks mike to the floor........boom!

Sorry...sorry....I apologize, unreservedly. There, that's better. Can you hear me?

Hello?

Right. Uh....Yes, uh, Mr. Whedon, sir, if I may ask a question....right. I know that's why I'm here. Sorry.

Um....oh....um....It was right there, I had it, I swear! Shit! Sorry....

....fuck....shit....damn....what was it, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon....

Feelings, nothing more than feelings....Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
Wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.....*ahem*

Sorry.

Y'know, that spotlight is really hard on the eyes, could someone turn it down, or something? Please? Thanks....'preciate it.....

Um. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? It's really important. Thanks.

exit, stage left

Yikes! boom Goddammit, there goes my best pair of purple velvet boots. And my butt hurts....ow, ow, ow, owie, ow, ow, ouch!

Someone really ought to move that stool. Seriously.

(edited)

Um....Can I ask another question? No. Right. Thanks.

"He has a gorm horizon. All gorm that falls past it is lost forever." UserFriendly http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050114

PEDME84

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:34 PM

if i were to ask joss whedon one question it would be:

what fantasy projects does he have that are completely unrelated to anything we've seen so far? related question: is there anyone he'd like to write with/for?

- emily

PIZMOBEACH

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

BrownCoat1 wrote:
Quote:
"If the BDM is the success we all believe it will be, is there any chance for a revival of the series on television?"...

Oh! Oh! I got this one!

No.

I'll stay with Browncoat1 on this and remain positive - regardless of how it looks on paper, the situation is... fluid. Look at what a bunch of ardent, determined browncoats have done already?

I'd like to be king of all Londinum and wear a shiny hat.

RHYMEPHILE

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 8:43 PM

I have two.

1. In your original Firefly pilot script, Kaylee was described as "zaftig" (or was it Rubenesque? Either way, she was supposed to be cute an' chunky). Despite Jewel Staite's obvious talent, why couldn't you have flung off Hollywood's preconceived notions of what makes a woman beautiful and sexy and actually cast the role according to what you had first intentioned? That would have been groundbreaking.

And 2. [in Jimbo's voice] Uhhhh...what is your...um....position...on, uh, lunch?

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"My office! Burgled! Plundered! Purloined! Ha ha ha...loins."

-- Phil Sebben, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law

ZOID

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:42 PM

pizmobeach responded, regarding a possible return of Firefly to television:

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I'll stay with Browncoat1 on this and remain positive - regardless of how it looks on paper, the situation is... fluid. Look at what a bunch of ardent, determined browncoats have done already?

I, too, fantasize over possible scenarios. But I know that I'm just fantasizing. There's optimism, and then there's denial (not just a river in Egypt). The only way JW would return to television is if he fails as a movie maker, which would mean bad news for Serenity.

As I said, JW dissolved Mutant Enemy, his television production company. He also negotiated his release from his development contract with 20th Century Fox (hereafter referred to as 'The Production Company'). If he ever decides to return to televion, JW would have to go back to work for The Production Company. Okay, so why wouldn't he do just that, you might ask?

Before we examine that, let's take a quick look at Gail Berman. According to IMDB, she was the executive producer of BtVS (1997) and Angel (1999), making her a confederate -- if not an employee -- of Joss'. She took over the Entertainment President position at F*x TV (hereafter referred to as F*x) in July 2000. More, momentarily.

While it's certainly true that properties developed for The Production Company get shopped around and may wind up on networks other than F*x, it is also arguable that F*x gets first shot at anything issuing from their sister entity, The Production Company.

So, Gail Berman, Entertainment President, with this 'first selection in the draft' picks up not only Firefly, but also Wonderfalls, keeping other networks from getting them. Then she screws them up in every way she can possibly imagine (y'all know the litany), and then summarily kills them. At the very least, it doesn't particularly sound like she's convinced of Mutant Enemy's -- her former partners -- quality of work, does it? Why didn't she stick with Joss' and Tim's series? Why didn't she do everything in her supreme powers to ensure their success on F*x? It's certainly not like her hands are tied in any way, or like there were any other 'ratings bonanzas' waiting in the wings.

I think there's only one logical reason for her behavior: She's purposely driving Joss -- and anyone who associates with him -- out of television. If Joss comes back to TV, he will have to do so with The Production Company, as stipulated in his release. Any new JW series would then get offered to F*x first, whereupon Ms. Berman would snap it up, mispromote it, move it around the schedule, and then kill it after 7 episodes, saying, "We're sorry this show wasn't a good enough entertainment to find an audience. But the next time Joss creates a show, count on us to kill that one, too. We're committed to (destroying) Joss Whedon."

Joss knows this. That's why he dissolved ME: To let his creative people find work elsewhere. And they did, on SciFi (a Vivendi-Universal company), working on the new Battlefire Galacticfly series.

If you're praying for Firefly's return, better pray for Ms. Berman and all her corporate spawn to drop dead first. I have a fantasy for that one, too: Her corporate jet develops an altimeter malfunction flying out of Eagle, Colorado, an exclusive "Ski Country" airport (a death trap, under the best circumstance). The plane, Ms. Berman and her entire corporate entourage enter a thick bank of 'cumulus granitis', et voilà!, the world is a better place, instantaneously...

Logically,

zoid

P.S.
So what could cause all this cold enmity between Berman and Whedon? Who knows? Maybe she got tipsy and made a pass at him at the Christmas party, whereupon he laughed in her face and called her an ugly bitch. That would do it...

P.P.S.
It so much nicer to have a face to aim one's invective at, don't you think? If Berman's not directly responsible for fragging Firefly and Wonderfalls, she's still culpable. If she had any sense of loyalty -- or even a proper estimation of the

BADGERSHAT

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:18 PM

... ahem...

Mr. Whedon... in your opinion, what is the likelihood that a primitive culture will be able to withstand cultural and societal assimilation, retaining their own intrinsic system of beliefs, values, and societal morays, after being exposed to the influence of a separate culture whose own society and technological progression has advanced to a degree wherein the first culture's reaction to the technology would be akin to that of Midieval Europe's reaction to the presence of what they perceived to be magic?

Barring your ability to answer that question, I submit an alternative:

Can we see Inara and Kaylee get naked?

--Jefé The Hat

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--Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time.
(This is the Truth of Whedoning)

"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

YT

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
being a Farley fan myself

Shouldn't that be "Farey flan"?

EMBERS

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:33 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

If you're praying for Firefly's return, better pray for Ms. Berman and all her corporate spawn to drop dead first.

So what could cause all this cold enmity between Berman and Whedon? Who knows?

maybe she was upset that Joss never let her appear on any of his shows, on screen, as herself like the suck-ups on Malcolm in the Middle did:
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-2596

but actually we don't really need to pray for her death
(altho that is always fun too)
we can simply wait for her inevitable firing...
because NOTHING has a shorter shelf life than a network executive!

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