Thursday, September 10, 2009
If you’ve been watching Entourage this season, you know that Ari is desperate to sign showrunners. In the last episode, the stakes in Ari’s storyline were all about Aaron Sorkin, who was the guest star. Entourage always has cameos for stars. This season they’ve featured Jeffery Tambor, Mark Wahlberg and Jay Leno among many others, […]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Written by has a terrific piece on Joss Whedon. It offers some great insights to the guy behind Buffy and Dr Horrible. Some of his comments about writing are just great:
“I have never written a single thing that wasn’t meant to be read, and that’s part of why I never wrote rough drafts of any […]
Hulu is hosting four more months of Dr Horrible and if the embed below works, I will withdraw my previous objections to them.
Jefferey McManus has an interesting post on the economics of Dr Horrible:
If the show sells 100,000 units on iTunes, he makes $229,840 $87,280; if it sells a million copies, he winds up making more than four million dollars more than $2.6 million on his original “low six-figure” investment. And that’s before the DVD even comes […]
From Whedonesque, a conversation with Joss Whedon about Dollhouse.
A couple of quotes:
The fact is, I’m very proud of the ep we shot and the series is making me crazy with the excitement. But I tend to come at things sideways, and there were a few clarity issues for some viewers. There were also some slight […]
Check out LA Times’ interview with Whedon.
Here’s what he has to say about trying to get an Internet project going during the WGA strike:
At first I was just really working the problem because the strike was a very serious issue and one that I don’t feel we resolved adequately. I reached out to the people […]
Tabitha Smith and Kim of the podcast Joss’d interviewed me recently and that podcast is now online. The introduction to the interview with me startes near the 24 minute mark with the actual interview starting closer to 26:30. We talk about the Dollhouse pilot script, Joss Whedon’s writing and touch on Story2Oh!.
I checked back through Joss Whedon’s body of work. And guess what? The guy always writes in 4 acts, although usually with a teaser up front.
Here are some stats:
Buffy: teaser and 4 acts (pilot and regular episodes)
Angel: teaser and 4 acts (pilot and regular episodes)
Firefly pilot: teaser and 7 acts (2 hours)
Firefly episodes: […]
There’s a comment thread on Whedonesque – the Joss Whedon fan site — about my post about Dollhouse and the fact that the script is written in four acts. I’d leave a comment there but you have to sign on to do so. I tried to join but the site is not accepting […]
Joss Whedon’s pilot script for his new series Dollhouse is fabulous. I can’t wait to see the series and find out what happens next.
I’m not giving anything away — or at least I’m trying not to so I’m sorry if this reads cryptically. Dollhouse is genre — sci fi. As usual Whedon […]
