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Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch
Ololiuhqui writes "During the writer's strike, Joss Whedon came up with a musical idea. Now his diabolical plan is about to be unleashed in the form of a streaming-only release, with a DVD shortly to follow. The three-part Doctor Horrible series stars Neil Patrick Harris as the eponymous doctor, Felicia Day as the woman of his dreams, and Nathan Fillion as the doctor's nemesis, Captain Hammer. Reportedly made for 'less than six figures,' the series has already received rave reviews and will no doubt showcase Whedon's musical facility, as well as his proven ability to squeeze the most out of a budget."
Not surprising, really, if you remember Once More, with Feeling .
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
What's the premise? Someone keeps moving his chair?
Does anyone else feel this is a little bit like a professional baseball player showing up to pitch at a little league game? Sure, he gets a lot of outs, but what did you expect?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Didn't he die in "Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay."
Personally, I think he's one of the greatest actors out there today. It's a shame to see someone so underrated, when they clearly have so much potential. I quite often think to myself while watching a tv/movie "you can clearly tell they're acting" etc. However, with Fillion (in Firefly, especially), I've never thought that - I'm always too busy being enthralled by the excellently portrayed character.
Just my 2 cents.
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BUNNIES!
(or maybe midgets)
The three-part Doctor Horrible series stars Neil Patrick Harris as the eponymous doctor[...] and Nathan Fillion as the doctor's nemesis, Captain Hammer, the man of his dreams.
Fixed.
WTF? US viewers only?
It's called the WORLD wide web, not the fucking US-wide web.
What possible reason could there be for not showing it elsewhere? What evil could I possibly get up to with a (free to watch) movie clip?
Ridiculous.
I am a leaf on the wind
Since it's hosted by Hulu, they won't stream to a computer outside the U.S. I never thought I'd have a motive to pirate a free internet video.
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" -- Calvin
I just finished watching it and I've gotta' say, extremely well written. The whole cast turns out to be fantastic singers, which is a hilarious change of pace for those of you who know Nathan Fillion from Firefly. You'll love his "A Man's Gotta' Do! Next installments are on Thursday and Saturday. I'll be watchin' at midnight!
And he is... DOCTOR WHO!
IP address discrimination. Irksome. Yes, I know, licensing, yada yada yada....
All these problems would go away if the internet was declared its own country.
Again with earlier comments on not being able to view it, being from the vast wasteland that is not-America.
I suppose this means we have to pirate something which Joss has made to distribute for free...not a common situation. Still, it shouldn't be long until it pops up as a torrent...
Between the falling angel and the rising ape
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BALLS!
Money is the root of all evil?
Neil Patrick Harris vs Captain Hammer?
In a musical?
JW fanboys in da house, snap.
And he is... MR HORRIBLE!
Although someone keeps moving his chair.
I just watched the first episode. Its actually pretty good. Funny too.
I couldn't get the actual download to work yet, but you can buy a season pass (iTunes link) for all three acts - just $4!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
apparantly
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
Its becoming a standing point with me to not even bother to look at anything produced in the US anymore. Not because I don't think I'll like it. Not because I have anything against the US. This was special though, this was Joss and I love his stuff. But... because the US won't share with the rest of the world, I can't see it. I see all the CSI on TV, I hear all the latest songs on the radio.... but on the Internet I look elsewhere for content, too many times I get "only avalaible in the US". Wake up before you lose your audiences forever, you have a medium expanding daily in the 100's of million eyeballs and your audience is shrinking daily because of outdated, and frankly stupid rules regarding distribution. Sorry Joss, but if this ever becomes available outside the States I simply won't be bothered to go look. cheers obi
As of right now (12:49 AM Central), it is viewable in Canada, direct from the Dr. Horrible site, via Hulu. Hooray!
I watched the first episode. It was mildly amusing, especially for free, but the long-term goal is to make you buy it on DVD or paid download - it's only free for a week, and there's no way this is worth money.
The parent is not off-topic, you insensitive mod!
It's $4 for a season pass on iTunes. No way, is the amusement value of even the first episode alone not worth $4.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If you see a girl between the ages of, oh, twelve and twenty-five in any of his shows, and she is looking harmless and is coming towards you, just save everybody some needless exertion and kill yourself.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Don't forget to also check out the others Joss' current works:
This guy is feminist, pro-gay and atheist: he should run for POTUS!
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it's lacy, gently wafting curtains for you, anonymous troll coward!
its title reminded me of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Terrible's_House_of_Horrible
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So, he was writing during the writers' strike...and nobody in the writers' guild is pissed?
It can be watched from outside the US now as well: http://doctorhorrible.net/now-available-outisde-usa/105/
The free world saves the day again (or something).
Won't it be Dr. Doogie Horrible, then? :-)
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There's no captioning available to understand the dialog.
Some of us are hearing impaired.
But of course, as usual, you don't care.
I'll be interested in seeing (after previewing the sing-along-blog) - but it feels like he watched the first 2 seasons of Venture Brothers and decided to try that too.
meh
Evil minions are interfering with the reporting of the saga. In English, the site is slashdotted already. Sigh.
Joss Whedon cannot be mentioned without a plug to bring back firefly! :)
-MelRom
... although the iTunes download link is U.S only.
I just want to know how NPH got his hands on one of the new 3G iPhones early enough that they could use one in the filming? Reminds me of another movie, "It's good to be the king!"
Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day make a powerful cast, I just hope they posts the other 2 videos.
I loved Firefly, but man, there is no question that the worst part of that show is the theme song. I make sure to skip it if I'm introducing someone to Firefly, so they don't think the rest of the show is as painfully bad as that song. So forgive me if I'm skeptical of a series based on a musical idea from Joss Whedon.
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I guess there are worse ways to prevent being typecast
it is so awesome it broke my awsome-meter.
Who would have thunk it! Next thing you'll tell me is that Star Trek isn't based on solid science!
NPH, Nathan Fillon, and Felicia Day? Well, NPH because geeks watched Doogie growing up. Fillon for Firefly. Felecia for... her internet stardom? She's not really an actor... or is she? I thought she was a vblogger or something. I mean, her little skits are funny, but there isn't much range to the humor, and after watching a few I realized I wasn't watching because her antics were entertaining me, but because she's cute, with her cute face and her cute little funny nervous geek girl expressions, and I almost think "hey, she's got an email address... maybe I could dialogue her," but then I remember Rule 30, and you should do well to remember that rule too.
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For the longest time, I wanted you to do the relaunch of the Thunder Agents.
After watching the first episode of the Dr. Horrible series, I know now you are just the man to write it.
Have your people call their people.
(Seriously. The guy who Exec Produces the Batman movies gave up on the property.)
his proven ability to squeeze the most out of a budget.
If you read the scripts Whedon wrote for Buffy, they're full of in jokes about his budget woes. One constant complaint: Buffy's house supposedly had three bedrooms, but he didn't have the budget to show all three of them in one episode. Another one has a long description of the hell-factory in the third-season premiere; he talks about huge vats of boiling stuff and strutting hordes of evil demons, and winds up by mentioning (by name) one of his producers, who's standing in a corner tearing his hair out, because Whedon has just blown the season's entire effects budget in one episode.
The fact that you say this on a US web site is problematic for your credibility.
Any connection to Mr Horrible?
That seems like a really sneaky site. Almost no information. Who are they? Why are they doing this? The dubious way of labeling it "free to download" (of course it is) usually means "but to use it you'll have to pay a fortune".
Is it the RIAA snooping on all your credit card details and passwords?
Much more information is clearly needed there.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Pirate Bay to the rescue! (yet again!) (Although it's in a very inconvenient .flv format, but I'm sure there will be a better torrent later.)
meh
What about those of us who know him from both "Two Guys and a Girl" and "Drive" (before it was killed off), but didn't watch Firefly?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
The Masterplan website is dead.
I was wondering how he planned to serve up a video to a million people in one evening when he already said he had no budget.
Though, being Joss, (ie, a genius), he certainly recognized this would happen and that it would create ground-swell interest. (That which you want but can't have, you REALLY REALLY want.)
I love the man's work, but I must say that I do NOT like being manipulated outside of the story. It's impolite. Buffy didn't need marketing. It sold itself because it was good. Firefly was the same way, (it's problem wasn't a lack of viewer support but a lack of executive support. Market to those goons). The fans didn't need selling, and they don't need it here either.
But I do tend to take a strong position against being psychologically manipulated. I dislike it more, it seems, than the average websurfer. But whatever the case, I'm sure this will be a big hit and I look forward to downloading it from some fan-driven initiative, (like Pirate Bay), in a few days time. Good luck, Joss!
-FL
What's this cheery singing all about?
All together now.
It's a 40 minute TV show, that's worth $2 not $4.
But it's not a TV show at all. It's something in-between a movie and a TV show.
Would you buy cheese or meat only considering pure price per pound?
No, you'd often buy something that costs a little more because the quality is higher. And in this case, payment is as much a vote of support for the concept than anything else. You are paying $4 to ensure that other interesting projects may come from this channel, instead of filtered through traditional media channels.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Thanks for fixing it.
"I only speak the truth"
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Count on the ACs. We're the only ones left on /. who know what's going on.
P.S. The song is "Mr. Horrible", not "Dr. Horrible".
Hey, the song was released like 18 years ago. Mr. Horrible went to med school since then...
Bow-ties are cool.
What happens when it goes away? Does it go to a happy farm for always like Fluffy did when mommy was crying and the neighbor kept washing his fender?
No, Dr horrible will live on. We intend to make it available for download soon after it's published. This would be for a nominal fee, which we're hoping people will embrace instead of getting all piratey. We have big dreams, people, and one of them is paying our crew.
Well what I would have to say is that if you support this latest exploit, buy a t-shirt or something. At least you have a good idea where the money is going. (... unless it's not the official merch... I have no idea myself)
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Has anyone else noticed that Joss Whedon can turn any actor into one of his archetypes? The girl in this one clearly has the Willow/Kaylee vibe, and NPH comes off exactly like a guy from Buffy (or Wash... RIP.) I don't think he's a tyrant while directing, but he seems to be able to get incredibly specific performances.
... also, I can kill you with my brain.