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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 .
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What's the premise? Someone keeps moving his chair?
bunnies...
bunnies...
BUNNIES!
(or maybe midgets)
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.
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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.
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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!
I'm just surprised he and Whedon are still talking after Firefly...
Why would you say that? It's not like Whedon one day simply decided "screw this show, let's fire everybody." It was FOX who cancelled Firefly in a fit of pure stupidity or malice (not sure) and it had been hard on everyone involved. I don't recall hearing of bad blood between Whedon and Fillion, so seriously, what do you mean?
And which parallel universe did you crawl out of?
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I'm kind of surprised that Joss Whedon didn't do something along those lines, actually. NPH is homosexual, after all, and Joss Whedon enjoys breaking gender and sexual-preference stereotypes. I guess he wanted this to be more mainstream. *shrug*
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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
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:
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It can be watched from outside the US now as well: http://doctorhorrible.net/now-available-outisde-usa/105/
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Uh, he starred in Serenity the movie which was after Firefly.
He starred in Drive, by Joss Whedon.
He knows it's the shithead Fox execs that are the problem, not Joss.
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Who would have thunk it! Next thing you'll tell me is that Star Trek isn't based on solid science!
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.
Couldn't let this "informative" comment get by with such an inaccuracy.
Drive was actually by Tim Minear, the executive producer of Firefly. Who also keeps getting shows canceled by Fox. (I really wanted to see what happened in that race.)
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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
Because, as Joss put it, "it's your typical Internet musical about a super villain who's trying to make his bones in the super villain community and get some respect, and maybe even work up the nerve to talk to the girl at the Laundromat."
Thoroughly mainstream.