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...ходят слухи, что Энвер Джокай, возможно, станет исполнителем роли одного из новых персонажей – агента ЦРУ Рекса Мэтисона (Rex Matheson) – в четвертом сезоне сериала "Торчвуд: Новый мир" (Torchwood: The New World).
...и возблагодарим Господа за языковый пруд, к которому мы все спускаемся, чтобы напиться.
Чак против Саммер Глау и Роберта Инглунда
Chuck продолжает пользоваться запрещенными приемами и приглашать в гости культовых звезд телевидения и кинематографа. Лишь недавно вышла премьера сезона с Линдой Хэмилтон и Дольфом Лундгреном, а нас снова радуют новостями кастинга – в четвертом сезоне появятся Саммер Глау (Firefly, Terminator) и Роберт Инглунд.
На сей раз Саммер выступит в уже знакомом ей амплуа боевой девушки. В восьмой серии она сыграет очередного агента, засланного под прикрытием в Бай Мор. Ингланд появится в шестом эпизоде, который будет приурочен к Хэллоуину. Актер, сыгравший изначального Фрэдди Крюгера, получил роль злого ученого, который может превратить вашу жизнь в ночной кошмар.
...и возблагодарим Господа за языковый пруд, к которому мы все спускаемся, чтобы напиться.
Продюсеры комедии The Big Bang Theory продолжают радовать поклонников фантастических сериалов. Вслед за Кэти Сакхофф из Battlestar Galactica и Саммер Глау, знакомой по Firefly и Terminator, в ситкоме появится Элайза Душку.
Актриса получила приглашенную роль в сериале, где она сыграет агента ФБР, которая будет допрашивать друзей Уолловица, чтобы тот смог получить необходимый доступ к закрытой информации. Появление Душку намечено в седьмом эпизоде, то есть где-то в ноябре.
...стартовал и более чем успешно: озвучка – не дубляж, голоса приятные и даже перевод вполне адекватный. Так что – ура! Начинаем пересмотр в сообществе
И так как по телевидению сериал идет впервые, правила о спойлерах прежние: все – под кат.
Они будут тем, кем вы захотите и сделают то, что вам нужно. Они говорят на всех языках и обладают всеми навыками сразу. Они живут в месте, где стираются сожаления, боль, воспоминания и говорят, что они пришли туда добровольно. Но…так ли это?
Девушка по имени Эко живет в таинственном «Кукольном доме» и является членом незаконной и подпольной группы людей, чья индивидуальность была стерта. Она – Кукла. Но однажды память Эко будто просыпается от тяжелого сна, и она начинает медленно, по кусочкам собирать свое таинственное прошлое…
К ожидаемому в начале октября DVD и Blu-ray релизу второго сезона сериала, будет прикреплён выпущенный ограниченным тиражом комикс «Кукольный дом. Эпитафия». Номер был написан самим Джоссем, а также Маурисcой Танчароэн, которая в настоящее время корпит над сценарием «Спартака: Месть» (Starz). Художником создавшим иллюстрации для выпуска, стал небезызвестный для поклонников серии «Баффи - Истерибительница вампиров. Восьмой сезон» Клифф Ричардс. Сюжет комикса будет повествовать о события произошедших после «Эпитафии» первого и второго сезона, когда технология Тофера вырвалась из под контроля «Кукольного Дома», а также о том, как персонажам оригинального сериала удалось выжить в этом ужасном мире. Ну, а пока небольшая дразнилка - обложка номера:
У Элайзы Душку появился племянник, которого назвали Элайджа (Elijah)! Элайза опубликовала его фото на твиттере. Cousin Elijah! Welcome to da world, chief! Parents Seth & Nicki~ u guys rock! Поздравляем Элайзу и её семью с прибавлением!
...и возблагодарим Господа за языковый пруд, к которому мы все спускаемся, чтобы напиться.
Саммер Глау получила главную роль в драматическом пилоте NBC «The Cape».
Главный герой нового проекта – бывший полицейский (Дэвид Лайонс), на которого после подставы завели дело. Чтобы очистить свое имя и воссоединиться с сыном, он становится героем, скрывающим свое лицо за маской.
Глау сыграет Орвелл, милую и бесстрашную блоггершу, которая смело вылавливает коррумпированных полицейских и злодеев в костюмах. Разумеется, мы уже знаем, что у Саммер есть все необходимые навыки, чтобы любому надрать задницу.
...и возблагодарим Господа за языковый пруд, к которому мы все спускаемся, чтобы напиться.
Алан Тьюдик в The Rockford Files
Алан Тьюдик получил роль в драматическом пилоте NBC «The Rockford Files», современной версии популярного сериала 70-х годов. Главную роль в ремейке, сценарий к которому написал создатель «Хауса» Девид Шор, исполняет Дермот Малруни. Он играет Джима Рокфорда, который работает частным детективом и берется за такие опасные дела, от которых отказываются остальные.
Тьюдик сыграет сыграет детектива Денниса Беккера, друга Рокфорда. Он немного стесняется их дружбы, поскольку остальные копы ненавидят Рокфорда.
...и возблагодарим Господа за языковый пруд, к которому мы все спускаемся, чтобы напиться.
Все пять эфирных каналов (и несколько кабельных) официально присоединились к MTV Networks, который организовал программу «Hope for Haiti» в поддержку кампании по сбору средств жертвам землетрясения на Гаити. Программа выйдет в эфир 22 января, в пятницу, и будет идти два часа в прямом эфире и без рекламы.
В связи с изменением расписания, ранее запланированные на этот день новые эпизоды сериалов Dollhouse (финал сериала), Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Law & Order и Smallville будут перенесены на другой день.
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Спасибо Ghost2004 за уточнение. Перенесен на неделю, 29-ое января.
Создатель «Кукольного дома» Джосс Уидон в своем посте на сайте Whedonesque.com написал свои мысли по поводу закрытия его сериала:
«У меня не так много слов», – написал Уидон. «Я очень горжусь людьми, с которыми работал: наша звезда (Душку), актерский состав, съемочная команда, персонал. Я чувствую, что шоу становится с каждой серией все лучше и лучше. Думаю, что в скором времени вы со мной согласитесь. Я признателен, что нам дали такую возможность, причем дважды».
Уидон также поделился своими планами: «Я теперь могу заняться своими рискованными интернет-проектами/литрболом. Либо тем методом релаксации, о котором так много читал. Когда выйдут последние эпизоды, вы узнаете какой у меня следующий проект. Однако сейчас нужно сделать еще очень много работы».
«Спасибо за вашу поддержку и терпение. Еще увидимся», – сказал Уидон в завершение.
...вчера представители канала FOX сделали официальное заявление о том, что планируют выпустить в эфир все 13-ть ранее заявленных эпизодов второго сезона "Кукольного домика". Подробности на английском читать здесь >>>
Учитывая все обстоятельства, по-моему, новости хорошие. Будем надеяться, что канал решение свое не изменит.
"Dollhouse’s" second season hits the airwaves this Friday, and to get you ready we’ve got the transcript from last week’s Joss Whedon conference-call interview. Check it out below to find out Joss’ tentative plans for the “Epitaph One” timeline, how Eliza Dushku helped create the concept for her character and the show, and how The Attic resembles an episode of Small Wonder. By David Wharton
How will Echo, and of course the many other characters she is flashing to, come into her own this season? Basically, through force of will. She did have all those personalities dumped into her at once, and as we pick up, we’re going to find out that that’s starting to affect her. Rather than be at sea in between engagements, she’s much more directed and driven, and even in her Doll state is growing and learning and starting to try to access these personalities to see what they can help her with, because she has a mission that she understands now, which is to get back to her personality and get everybody back to theirs.
How many seasons do you see Dollhouse going for? Dollhouse, the premise is limited, and I think by season 17, you’re really going to see us repeating ourselves.
Last season you began with a number of restating pilot episodes where you wanted to make sure that you could bring in new viewers. This season doesn’t begin with that sort of episode. Could you talk about how you approached the idea of new viewers following the show? Well, we always try to make, especially in the first episode of the season, we try and make the premise clear enough so that if you haven’t been watching it, you don’t have to do a huge amount of math. There’s a lot of exposition in the first pilot, in the first episode of the season, to help that. But at the end of the day, you do have to go, “Well, if they don’t get the premise…” We’ve even rejiggered the opening credits to make it clearer. They’ll either become involved in these peoples’ stories or they won’t. You have to move slow enough so people can grab a hold and jump on with you, but you have to keep moving.
Do you have a pitch to new viewers on how to reintegrate themselves, or is the answer as simple as, “Watch the DVD?” No, I think the answer would be more like, “Buy the DVD, and buy some for your friends.” Then have discussion groups where you buy more. Was there too much integrity in that response?
Can you tell us what Ray Wise is going to be playing and when we might see him first? Ray Wise, I believe, will be appearing in episode six, and he’s going to be playing the head of another house, so he’s going to interact with young Olivia [Williams], and it should be very exciting.
My follow-up is actually for Dr. Horrible. That started as a homegrown effort for you guys, and has it stayed that way moving forward with all of the acclaim and success you’ve had? The acclaim and success is not a problem for us. We’re totally comfortable with it. We are working on a follow-up. The question of whether it stays homegrown or whether it outgrows that is one that we ask ourselves. It doesn’t affect the storytelling. The story we want to tell is about the people, whether we do that on a shoestring, the way we did it for before, whether we do something bigger and invite other people into the process.
Is there a difference between having Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas [Both former writers for The CW’s Reaper – Ed.] on this season, as opposed to Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft? There is enough of a difference in sensibilities to make it interesting, but not so much of a difference in quality as to make it problematic. They really are similar in that they are rock solid, very story driven, really good producers, and delightful to be around. But then, they have different obsessions, and they come up with things differently. I love and miss Liz and Sarah, but Tara and Michele have really brought a fresh eye to it.
How arced is the show going to be this season? The show is going to be pretty arc-y. Clearly, what people responded to was the workings of the Dollhouse and the progression of the characters in it, and we’re going to honor that. At the same time, I’m very much of the mind that you do need to resolve something in an episode. You can’t just create a series of twists and turns. You need an episode to have a sense of completion, so there will still be engagements, or at least problems that need to be dealt with, but they will feed into the main arc as well.
Obviously, you can’t give too much away, but is any of [the storyline from unaired episode “Epitaph One”] going to factor in to Dollhouse, or are you just totally throwing it out? No, no, we’re absolutely not throwing it out. It had originally been my intention to start in that era and then come back, but I just had too much information in my first episode. What we’re talking about doing is perhaps revisiting that timeline towards the end of the 13 in a similar fashion, but we’re also looking at the show through the lens of that episode and saying, “Well, this is taking us to a more global concept of how this power is used and abused.” That’s a lot of what informs the season. You don’t have to have seen it to understand that, but it helps if you do. I think it adds a layer.
Every television show should have an episode like that. I think so. I want to know what post-apocalyptic future was caused by Two and a Half Men.
There were a lot of people who were worried that you might be cancelled after your first season. What do you think it was that convinced FOX to sign you on for another round, and hopefully longer? I think it’s the nature of the business and the nature of the fan base. The nature of the fan base is, they’re in it for the long haul, and they’re nurturing, and they’re intense about it, and they will see it through. They will stick with it, and that means years after it’s cancelled. Firefly still sells, Buffy still sells, and that’s also a business thing for the studio. They’re in it for the long haul, because they know the long haul is how my work pays off. I don’t make hit shows. I make shows that stick around, that people come to long after they would have stopped generating revenue in the old system.
With the advent of DVD and the eventual monetization of online, there’s a market there that exists beyond your Nielsen numbers, and the fans showing up and DVRing, and buying a DVD, and proving on all my other projects that they don’t do these things lightly, that it runs deep in them, means that the base doesn’t have to be as broad for the studio to think it’s worth it to try and eke out another season.
I have read a couple of interviews with Eliza Dushku in which she talks about how she had a hand in developing her character. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about some of the ways in which she helped shape who Echo has become and will become. Well, she really wants to dance burlesque. We keep forgetting to put that in. Eliza has specific things she’s interested in, specific things she feels comfortable with. Sometimes I like to go to that place, because I know that she can knock it out of the park, and sometimes I like to go in the opposite direction to take her out of her comfort zone, because that’s the best thing you can do with an actor.
The fact is, she shapes it because she is very specific as a person. She’s very specific in the way she presents, and even though there are many different aspects to that, people don’t usually get to see how funny she can be, how elegant. She doesn’t always have to play the tough girl, but she really just presents. It was a conversation about all of the different things she was supposed to be, or had been, or was trying to be, or trying to get away from that led to the creation of the show. It made me think, “Wait a minute. That’s what the show should be about.” So it wasn’t so much that she said, “I’d like to be the following things,” although we talked about what the characters are, it’s just that she is so many people that we pluck from them. She did go bow hunting. I understand, however, that she herself was not hunted.
Dollhouse deals with people manipulating emotions, and your upcoming film, Cabin in the Woods, it deals with people that deal with fears. Is there something about these themes that really sparks you? The two pieces were written, or conceived, very far apart and then they ended up at the same time, which is awkward for me because it does seem like, “Well, he does like to do that.” But the fact of the matter is, I am obsessed with it. People are constantly being manipulated, and controlled, and conditioned, and lied to. I feel like it’s a valid thing to discuss and to use. “There is an evil corporation that is controlling your every thought as a concept,” [that] is something that is so not that far removed from how we live our lives in terms of socialization, and advertising, and our society. I can’t seem to get past it, because it does fascinate me. How do we create ourselves when society is telling us who to be?
Do you think there will be another one-off episode that will be exclusive to the season-two DVD of Dollhouse? I don’t think we’ll have a DVD exclusive, because I don’t think anybody’s going to pony up the dough for it. But I do think we will be revisiting the world of “Epitaph One.”
You guys haven’t even probably thought far enough for the DVD, but what kinds of things can we expect as far as visiting the “Epitaph One” world? We’re so fascinated by that world and really in love with the actors in it, and we also want to answer some of the questions we asked about. Where is everybody, come the future? Who’s doing fine and who didn’t make it? So, we keep trying to go back to the future and then realizing, no, it’s not time yet. It’s going to be towards the end of the season that we’ll be able to do that.
I’d like to know a little bit more about the relationships that are coming up this season – what it’s going to be like with Echo and Paul, and even among the Dolls this year? Victor and Sierra just can’t keep their hands off each other. They’re like monkeys, and it’s something that we’re going to be treating, they’re going to be seeing through for a while. It makes some people very uncomfortable and sometimes it’s just extremely sweet. Sometimes it’s just funny.
But Echo is very much building herself, and she sees it as an indication that they’re ready to be pushed to a level like hers. She’s looking for allies, and Paul is the first person she’s going to turn to for that. A lot of the season is going to be her attempt to put together some kind of team, even though she has trouble articulating it at first. She’s looking for the sense of family that I think the audience was looking for last season. So, we’re going to be seeing who’s on her side and who, not so much.
I was really impressed with what Amy did in this premiere. Is Dr. Saunders going to factor in a little more in the season? Dr. Saunders would factor in much more in the season had we not lost her to another show. She will factor in as much as we are allowed to factor her in, which is exactly three episodes worth. They will, however, be three extraordinarily memorable episodes.
Amy Acker is ridiculously talented, and the character’s dilemma is fascinating to us. We grit our teeth that we didn’t have the funds, or the support, or the success, to just make her a regular, and now we’re paying for it. It means that every time we have her on screen, we’ll squeeze every drop out of her that we can. We’re seizing the day. We just don’t get to seize as many of them as we’d like.
The guest-star lineup looks really impressive this season. You had Alan [Tudyk] on last season and Summer [Glau] this season. Are there plans to get the rest of Firefly on here at some point? It’s a death match between Firefly and Battlestar and which of them is going to get all their people. The fact of the matter is, they’re people I admire and they’re people I know I love to work with, and this season I’m a lot less concerned with how the cast is perceived. Last season, we felt like we wanted to make sure that this was new territory and that people didn’t think of it as just, “Oh, it’s just these faces and he’s doing his old thing.” Now I’m like, “I know these people can act,” and honestly, the people that are watching it are fans anyway. If they know who these people are, they’ll be thrilled. If they don’t, they’ll see good acting, so it doesn’t matter to me as much. So yes, I have no fear of throwing anybody that I have worked with or just want to work with in anytime I can.
What ways are you going to stretch the parameters of the tech this season? We’re going to stretch the tech fairly heftily. I actually can’t answer the question directly, because a lot of it has to do with the different ways in which this tech can be manipulated, and we’re going to see that it’s not all the simple chair treatments. There’s more that can be done, and the excitement and the danger of that is a large part of this season.
Can you talk about the casting of Summer and also what’s in store for her character? The casting of Summer was based on the knowledge that Summer existed, and the character was created with the hopes that she would play it, which she is right on stage right now doing. She’s playing the programmer of another Dollhouse. It’s a somewhat eccentric part, but hopefully different than what we’ve seen her do before. The most useful part of that is that the writers work twice as hard to make sure that the character really pops and pays off, because they know it’s going to be played by somebody extraordinary.
Is it safe to assume that Summer’s character works at the same Dollhouse that Ray Wise runs? I think that would be safe.
And is it safe to assume that that makes it a super-cool Dollhouse? I would say much cooler than this lame one that I’m in.
We’ve got some glimpses at the back-story of some of the other characters like Sierra and Victor, but still a lot to fill in. Will we be delving into that more as the season progresses? Yes, we will. We know how extraordinary those two performers are, and we are very curious about their stories, as much as we are about Caroline’s. So yes, we will definitely be seeing some episodes that highlight them and their pasts and where they’re heading.
Lastly, can you hint at all, we know that November/Mellie will be returning, but how she will return, since for her, it would seem that her time with the Dollhouse is over? It would, wouldn’t it? I can’t tell you exactly how. I can tell you that she’ll be back early on and that we’re definitely not done with the character, and that probably means there’s going to be some pain involved. More than that, you’re going to have to wait for it.
You have a number of interesting guest stars in the new edition of the season, in addition to Summer. Can you tell me a little bit about Jamie Bamber’s character and a little bit about Alexis [Denisof] as a senator? I think I read he’s trying to shut down the Dollhouse. Yes, he’s got his own crusade going. He’s a very different person than Paul, but he’s in a similar position except that he’s gone public with it. How much the Dollhouse loves a senator who has gone public with an attack on them, we will find out in later episodes. But he’s not the Paul of the season, because he’s going to have a different set of problems thrown at him, but he has a similar vibe, in terms of he’s very tenacious and righteous. Then, I forget what the other part was?
Jamie Bamber, I read that Bamber marries Echo early on in the season. If you were those two, wouldn’t you get married? They’re so cute. He came in as the guest star in the first episode, which was just – besides a geek dream for me – an extraordinary experience, because he’s not just very professional and precise and talented, but he fleshed out a character that could have been a little bit of a cardboard cutout. He has such sincerity and gravitas that you feel terrible. He makes you feel you’ve betrayed him, even if he’s completely in the wrong. It’s something that he shares with Adelle. Maybe it’s a British thing; I don’t know.
I read an interview with Eliza where she said that you’re shooting in HD this year. How is that affecting the style of the show, the shooting of the show? How the show is going to match up to how it appeared last year? We’re keeping a lot of things basically the same, but we are trying to free up the camera and to create more depth and emotion with the lighting and the camera work. The HD packet is smaller. It takes less time to light. The lighting is more environmental. We get more time for the actors. We get more opportunities to do different angles. Something that still has some of the elegance of the first season but is also a little more visceral.
It also means that, occasionally, we finish our days extremely early, and nobody’s hating that. Our DP, Lisa Wiegand, has done a lot of independent features, and so she’s got some really interesting ideas and she can give us classical-looking television. It looks, I think, very beautiful, but at the same time we can tweak it a little bit more, or we can take it a little bit farther and do that faster.
In the EPK, you hinted that The Attic is heinous, and it’s an episode of Small Wonder that you can’t escape. I was wondering if you were being figurative or literal? I’ve never even seen Small Wonder. I am a bully who picks on people who aren’t my type. It is going to be creepy, but I think, ultimately, what it’s going to be like, it’s going to be something that we’re going to hold onto pretty tightly. I don’t want to say, but it ain’t pretty.
Is the set a designer’s dream? It depends on the set designer. It might be a dream where he’s screaming.
With Amy Acker gone, are we going to get a new doctor character to tend to the wounded? We haven’t featured the doctor. We see somebody in the background. We will be seeing Dr. Saunders again, and the stories just haven’t lent themselves to bringing in another person in that capacity. So if we need to, yes, but not so far.
A big thing that people discussed in the first season is, “Who’s the Doll?” Who is secretly a Doll? But now that we know that people can be remotely programmed in a flash, without necessarily being dolls to begin with, is that still a meaningful question? No, that’s the case in the far future. It’s not the case right now. I’ll tell you right now, everybody is not a Doll, because it would be very easy for us to pull that trick over and over and ultimately shoot ourselves in the foot, because you would find that nothing was at stake and that everybody would see the plot coming. We’ve actually grounded the show fairly heavily. People who are Dolls are Dolls, and the other people…every now and then, I’m not saying never. I’m not saying we won’t question reality every now and then, but basically, we’re taking the people we have and we’re pushing them around as much as possible.
We’re trying to keep it grounded so that people know that there is something at stake, and if somebody did have their personality altered or taken away, that that would be a huge deal. That’s like The Attic; that’s like death. That’s like the worst thing that can happen to a character, so we want to make sure that the characters are grounded enough that people feel those stakes. If we just make people Dolls willy-nilly, then it’s the rabbit hole and none of it really connects or means anything.
Dollhouse premieres Friday, September 25th at 9 p.m. ET on FOX.
...телевизионный критик и обозреватель Майкл Озиэлло с EW.com сообщает, что к звездному составу приглашенных актеров второго сезона "Домика" присоединился... (кастинг-спойлер под катом) Рэй Уайз, известный всем поклонникам линчевского "Твин Пикса" (Twin Peaks) по роли отца Лоры Палмер, а также любителям сериала "Жнец" (Reaper) по роли самого Дьявола.
Оригинал статьи с ausiellofiles.ew.com:
It’s not James Marsters but this will do nicely…
Dollhouse has tapped spooky-cool Ray Wise to join the cast in the potentially recurring role of Howard, an intelligent higher-up in the Dollhouse who has huge presence and humor.
Wise is coming off of a two-year stint as Lucifer on The CW’s Reaper. Of course, to me, he’ll forever be the dude who offed Laura Palmer.
Dollhouse, which kicks off season 2 a week from Friday, is amassing quite the impressive talent roster this season. In addition to Wise, upcoming guest stars include Jamie Bamber, Keith Carradine, Alexis Denisoff, and Summer Glau.
Заметка на английском. Спойлеры!September 13, 2009 - We all know Summer Glau is coming to Dollhouse and that she'll play a Dollhouse employee of some sort – but now a FOX-related source has given me a bit more information on her character.
Joss Whedon has said he would not cast Glau as a Doll, due to her playing similar roles of that sort in the past – and indeed, he's gone the opposite route. Rather than playing a Doll, Glau is playing one of the people who makes the Dolls what they are. Yes, Glau's character, Bennett, is the equivalent of Topher - a Programmer. Bennett works in a Dollhouse that is new to the series, located in Washington, DC.
Bennett comes into play as Alexis Denisof's new character Daniel Perrin (briefly introduced in the season premiere) has his role and storyline elevated. Perrin is a US senator, so it seems a trip to Washington, DC is likely in store for the Dollhouse crew.
...сайт Dollverseпишет, что ФОКСы официально подтвердили информацию о появлении... спойлер!Саммер Глоу во втором сезоне "Домика". Причем, по предварительным данным, актриса подписала контракт на участие как минимум в двух эпизодах сериала.
...во время панели "Домика" на Комик-Коне Джосс Уэдон сообщил фанатам, что... Осторожно, кастинг-спойлеры под катом!что хочет пригласить на съемки в нескольких сериях второго сезона Алексиса Денисофа (Alexis Denisof), сыгравшего одну из главных ролей в другом сериале "Великого и Ужасного" – "Ангел" (Angel); и еще возможно появление Саммер Глоу (Summer Glau), также уже снимавшейся у Уэдона, в сериале "Светлячок" (Firefly) и фильме "Серенити" (Serenity).
Кроме того, по слухам, после Комик-Кона подтвержденным известным телекритиком Майклом Озиэлло (Michael Ausiello), в премьерном эпизоде второго сезона одну из второстепенных ролей сыграет Джейми Бэмбер (Jamie Bamber), знакомый зрителям по роли Ли Адамы в сериале "Звездный крейсер "Галактика" (Battlestar Galactica).
...Вчера начались съемки второго сезона, и TVGuidemagazine.com взял у Джосса Уэдона интервью о его планах на будущее.
A Guided Tour of Dollhouse Season 2 by Ileane Rudolph (July 22, 2009)
Внимание! Статья на английском и содержит небольшие спойлеры по второму сезону.Friday night sci-fi fans may have lost The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Battlestar Galactica, but Dollhouse is back for a second season (beginning September 25, 9/8c, Fox). The show’s creator Joss Whedon talked to TV Guide Magazine about what’s up with Echo (Eliza Dushku) and Paul Ballard (Tamoh Penikett) and the rest of the gang, as well as the possibility of a second edition of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
Congratulations on Dollhouse’s renewal. Did Fox ask you to change the show in any significant way in an effort to get bigger ratings? No, they really didn’t actually. The show as it came to be at the end of last season, pleased them very much. They pretty much just said, “Can you make it for less?”
So did you have to fire half your cast? No, we didn’t have to do that, amazing enough. They cut the budget nominally. I respond very well to that kind of challenge. In fact, it’s made our stories bigger instead of smaller, now that we don’t have to spend our time thinking about little things like, ‘What’s this show?” “What’s it about?” and all those things that I was given last year. We can just concentrate on getting this done and getting it done right.
Will there still be the weekly story with the Dolls going out on assignment? Yes, we’ll still walk the line between standalone engagements and more arcing stories. The Actives will go out on different engagements every week and take on different personalities and be in different situations. But at the same time, we’ll be ramping up the stuff that we were getting into towards the end about what the Dollhouse is for, and what it means. So it will have a healthy dose of personal relationships and conspiracy and all the stuff behind the engagements as well as a bunch of fun engagements.
What’s your answer to those who are queasy with the idea that the Actives are basically prostitutes since they have no power over who they sleep with? I never thought of that! No, I did. I think it’s a little more complicated than that. But there is that element of they have sex with people sometimes. We always deal with what it does to them psychologically. What good can come of it and what terrible can come of it and how are the people who are manipulating them feeling about what they’re doing. You get into the area of sex at all in America and it’s a touchy subject. Our response is to come at it head on and so we’ll see a lot of the consequences of what’s been going on with the Dolls over the next 13 episodes.
Who feels the consequences? The Actives aren’t self-aware. Well, Echo has been reaching toward a kind of awareness and we’re going to be sending her further along that journey. She’ll start to form her own ideas about what’s going on.
Will she hide that from her handlers? She sure will!
So what will happen as Echo starts to get her identity back? That’s just going to make her life harder. We’ll also get to see more of Victor and Sierra and where they came from. And we’ll discover what got everybody there. We know Boyd is a moral guy; he was a cop so his presence here is a little incongruous. We want to tease that for a while and then actually explain it.
What is the former Fed Paul Ballard up to signing on to the Dollhouse? He was a good guy last season. He’s going to definitely be more intimately connected to the house but that doesn’t mean that he’s completely lost his way. Yet.
Are you implying that he’ll be so deep underground that he’ll start to identify with what he’s enmeshed in? Umm-hmm.
Is Paul working with any entity or agency this season? At the beginning he’s solo, but he’ll form an alliance inside the Dollhouse—with whom I’m not saying.
Will Echo get enough self awareness that she could be Ballard’s in-house ally. She m-i-ight. [Laughs.]
Why did Paul demand November’s freedom rather than Echo’s, since Echo, aka Carolyn, is his obsessive reason for bringing the Dollhouse down? That is an essential question that comes up as well. Was November the girl he wanted to free because he had had a relationship with her and he felt worse for her? Or was he just getting rid of her because her being there would make him feel guilty for his obsession with Echo? It’s either the noblest thing he’s ever done or it’s the other thing. That question will come up early on.
What’s happening with the resolutely amoral Topher? We’re going to put him through the wringer a little bit. Take a few swings at him. He’s going to be knocked off balance.
Among the several big shockers last season: Amy Acker’s character is not a Dollhouse doctor, she’s a Doll. Acker’s in a new show [ABC’s Happy Town]. Is she back at all? Even though Happy Town only has a seven-episode order, we could only get her for three episodes. Networks cooperating with each other is not how that works. We do have some things in store to shake up her world a little bit. The question will come up, how do you live your life once you find out that’s who you are. It might make you a little bit nuts.
And will your old buddy Alan Tudyk, who plays psycho killer Alpha, return? We have plans to bring him back but not right away. We like Alpha as a looming presence. We’re going to be introducing a different kind of problem into the characters’ lives, but Alpha’s always on the periphery. We want to keep him alive and use him when we can but not to much that he loses his power.
Will Reed Diamond be back or is his character Dominic staying in the “attic”? We’re committed to seeing him again, but we’re not going to pull him out of the attic right away. As is the case with a lot of other actors, they’re either busy or we can’t afford to have them as much as want. And we have a large cast to service anyway. So it won’t be right away.
Will we get to see that damned attic? We may just have a visit.
What or who is this year’s evil presence? I can’t explain too much other than that Paul’s agenda in finding out what the Dollhouse really is starts affecting everybody’s agenda a little bit because there is more at stake than just the lives of the people there. So we’re going to sort bring it into the larger world and we’re going to be dealing with some of the stuff that happens in Episode 13, the infamous unaired episode without making it impossible to watch for people who haven’t seen it. [Editor’s note: “Epitaph One,” the unaired episode, will be on the Dollhouse Season 1 DVD, on sale July 28. ]
Will you be going beyond this particular Dollhouse? Yes, the picture is going to get bigger. It’s going to be less about the single lives and more about the whole workings of the place. Ulterior motives and ultimate goals will start to rear their ugly heads.
World domination! Can you give me a little more? It’s pretty much a grab bag and world domination is probably on the list.
Are there characters that we’ve seen who will turn out to be running the whole organization? There’s a couple of characters that we’ve seen who will be coming back who are part of this.
A conspiracy? A conspiracy, yes.
Adele doesn’t run everything, does she? She may not be the boss of everyone but she’s definitely the scariest person in the room. And we get to see some of that Everybody else in the House is afraid of Adele. There’s a reason for that.
Is she a Doll? I ain’t saying.
Are there new characters coming in either regulars or recurring? There will be some recurring characters as we learn more about the Dollhouse world. And somebody will sort of take Paul’s place as the fly in the Dollhouse’s ointment.
What’s your frank opinion of the first season, since it was a pretty difficult season for you? I feel like we were trying to get to the show we wanted to make and while we were trying to figure it out we made a bunch of episodes that were diverting but not ultimately fulfilling for me. And then about halfway through, I felt that we found our footing and it felt like the network felt the same way and we all got on the same page. After that the show started to really excite me and we all started to have fun. You could feel it in the episodes. So that’s where we are now. The writers’ room has never been happier.
What do you think about being on Friday night? We don’t have the burden of being a hit. We’re not being overly scrutinized. There’s no fear that our numbers will go down because they physically can’t. This is where I like to make TV. I like to be off the radar. So we’re all very comfortable with that time.
Will you be making interesting announcements at Comic-Con? Yes, but mostly about my sexuality. [Laughs.] There’s no judging in the Dollhouse. We are going to be showing the lost 13th episode at the panel. That’s going to be a big thing. I have a few things to say about upcoming stuff.
Like what? I’ll talk about my film, “The Cabin in the Woods, “ which we just wrapped, the Buffy comics, and whatever else I’m doing by the time the Con hits. There’s also something.
How about a musical episode of Dollhouse? It worked so well on Buffy It’s crossed my mind. Eliza has a beautiful voice. And if I had that kind of money to spend, I’d know what world I’d live in, but we haven’t quite got there yet.
John Barrowman of Torchwood, who also has a fabulous voice, he told me that the worlds of sci-fi and musicals are not that different. Both genres are larger than life. Do you agree? He’s absolutely right. They’re both that one step removed that allows you to get funky. That’s why I did Doctor Horrible, it’s those worlds.
Will there be more Doctor Horrible? I believe, there will. Yes.
Anything we can announce? Hmm, not yet, no. sadly. We have to make sure we writers have all ducks in a row, before we start quacking.
Поздравляем с возобновлением "Доллхауса". "Фокс" попросил вас каким-то существенным образом изменить шоу, чтобы получить более высокие рейтинги? Вообще-то, совсем нет. Сериал, в том виде, каким он был в конце сезона, им очень нравился. В основном, они сказали: "Сможете делать то же самое дешевле?"
Так что вам пришлось уволить половину актеров? Нет, этого нам делать не пришлось, как это ни удивительно. Они урезали бюджет номинально. На такую стратегию я реагирую очень хорошо. И вообще, из-за этого наши истории стали лучше, а не хуже, потому что теперь нам не надо тратить время на раздумья типа: "Что это за шоу?", "О чем оно?" и все остальное, с чем мне приходилось заморачиваться в прошлом году. Теперь мы можем просто сконцентрироваться на процессе и результате.
Мы все еще будем получать еженедельные истории о куклах на заданиях? Да, мы будем продолжать ходить по грани между одиночными миссиями и более сквозными историями. Каждую неделю Активы будут выполнять задания, получать новые личности и попадать в различные ситуации. Но в то же время, мы углубимся в то, чем начали заниматься ближе к концу первого сезона - для чего существует Доллхаус и что его существование значит. Поэтому нас ждет здоровая доза межличностных отношений, заговоров и прочей закулисной возни наряду с интересными миссиями.
Как вы отвечаете тем, кто кривится при мысли о том, что Активы - это практически проститутки, т.к. они не сами решают, с кем они спят? Мне такое и в голову не приходило! Конечно, приходило. Я думаю, все немного более сложно, чем это. Но аспект секса все-таки существует. Мы всегда обсуждаем то, как это влияет на них психологически. Какая от этого польза и какой вред, и как люди, манипулирующие ими, чувствуют себя по этому поводу. В Америки, если вы заговорили о сексе - это сразу становится рискованной темой. Наш ответ:заняться этим вопросом по полной программе, и в следующих 13 эпизодах мы увидим много последствий происходящих с куклами событий.
Кто испытывает эти последствия? Активы же не осознают себя. Ну, Эхо уже двигалась к самосознанию, и мы собираемся продолжить это ее путешествие. Она начнет формировать свои собственные представления о происходящем.
Она будет скрывать это от Наблюдателей? Конечно!
Так что случится, когда Эхо начнет получать назад свою личность? Жить ей станет намного сложнее. Кроме того, мы будем чаще видеть Виктора и Сиерру и их истории. Мы узнаем, почему они все оказались в Доллхаусе. Мы знаем, что у Бойда есть совесть; он был полицейским какое-то время, поэтому его присутствие там выглядит странно. Мы хотим подразнить зрителей немного, а потом все-таки все объяснить.
Какого черта бывший агент ФБР Пол Баллард присоединился к Доллхаусу? Он же был "хорошим" в прошлом сезоне. Он, ясное дело, будет более тесно связан с Доллхаусом, но это не значит, что он совсем сбился с пути. Пока.
Вы намекаете, что он будет работать так глубоко под прикрытием, что начнет принимать то, во что вмешался? Ммм.
Будет ли Пол сотрудничать с какой-то организацией или агентством в этом сезоне? В начале он будет работать соло, потом он найдет союзников в Доллхаусе - но я не выдам, кого.
Достигнет ли Эхо такого уровня самосознания, что сможет стать союзником Балларда? Моооожет быть. (смеется)
Почему Пол потребовал свободы для Новембер, а не для Эхо? Все-таки Эхо, т.е. Кэролайн, была причиной его мании раскрыть Доллхаус? Это ключевой вопрос, которым мы тоже займемся. Освободил ли он Новембер, потому что он состоял с ней в отношениях и жалел ее больше? Или потому что он хотел избавиться от нее, потому что ее присутствие заставляло бы его чувствовать вину за свою одержимость Эхо? Это был либо самый благородный его поступок, либо наоборот. Этот вопрос возникнет близко к началу сезона.
Что произойдет с решительно аморальным Тофером? Мы собираемся пропустить его через мясорубку, более или менее. Его равновесие будет слегка нарушено.
Среди самых больших сюрпризов прошлого сезона - тот факт, что персонаж Эми Эккер - не врач, а кукла. Сейчас Эккер снимается в новом сериале (Happy Town на канале ABC). Мы ее вообще еще увидим? Хотя пока у Happy Town заказ лишь на 7 эпизодов, мы могли запоуочить ее только на 3 эпизода. Каналы не очень хорошо сотрудничают между собой. У нас, правда, есть в запасе пара идей, как пошатать ей нервы. Будет поставлен вопрос: как продолжать жить после того, как узнаешь, кто ты на самом деле. Не исключено, что вы слегка помешаетесь.
А вернется ли ваш старый приятель Алан Тъюдик, который играет психопата-убийцу Альфу? Мы планируем снова использовать его, но не сразу. Мы бы хотели, чтобы Альфа присутствовал незримо. Мы собираемся ввести новую проблему в жизни наших персонажей, но Альфа всегда будет на периферии. Мы хотим, чтобы он оставался живым и использовать его, но не так часто, чтобы он перестал производить впечатление.
Вернется ли Рид Даймонд, или его персонаж Доминик навсегда останется на "чердаке"? Мы обязательно хотим снова его увидеть, но мы не сразу вытащим его с чердака. С многими актерами получилось так, что они либо заняты, либо мы не можем позволить себе работать с ними так много, как нам бы хотелось. К тому же, у нас и так достаточно большой актерский ансамбль. Так что мы его увидим - но не сразу.
А мы вообще увидим этот проклятый чердак? Возможно, что мы нанесем туда визит.
Что или кто станет главным злом в этом сезоне? Я не могу рассказать слишком много, кроме того, что намерение Пола выяснить, что представляет собой Доллхаус на самом деле, начнет влиять на планы всех остальных, потому что на кону больше, чем только жизни всех задействованный. Мы собираемся вынести проблему в мир и займемся кое-какими проблемами, поднятыми в 13-м эпизоде - злополучном не показанном эпизоде, но не так, что люди, не видевшие его, не смогут разобраться.
Вы собираетесь выйти за пределы данного конкретного Доллхауса? Да, мы будем смотреть на картину в целом. Шоу будет менее о отдельных жизнях, и более о процессах внутри организации. Скрытые мотивы и конечные цели поднимут свои уродливые головы.
Порабощение мира! Можете рассказать побольше? Это будет киндер-сюрприз, но порабощение мира не исключено.
Есть ли среди персонажей, увиденных нами, такие, которые, как окажется, заведуют всей организацией? Есть пара персонажей, которые будут частью всего этого.
Заговор? Да, заговор.
Ведь Адель не заведует всем-всем? Она не обязательно босс всех и вся, но она явственно самая опасная персона. И мы увидим, почему все в Доллхаусе боятся ее. На это есть причина.
Она кукла? Не скажу.
Появятся ли новые персонажи, регулярные или эпизодические? Персонажи будут появляться по мере того, как мы узнаем мир Доллхауса. И еще кое-кто займет место Пола в роли вставлятеля палок в колеса Доллхусу.
Какого ваше искренне мнение о первом сезоне, ведь это был довольно сложный сезон для вас? Я считаю, мы пытались сделать то шоу, которое нам хотелось видеть, и в процессе мы сделали несколько эпизодов, которые были развлекательные, но не пришлись мне по душе.И потом, примерно к середине, мы встали на ноги, и у нас создалось впечатление, что канал тоже это почувствовал, и все пришли к консенсусу. Наконец, шоу начало действительно радовать меня, и мы все начали веселиться. Это можно заметить и в эпизодах. Вот на этой стадии мы и сейчас. Все сценаристы на седьмом небе.
Что вы думаете о слоте вечером в пятницу? На нас не висит бремя хитовости. На нас не сильно строго смотрят. Мы не боимся, что наши рейтинги упадут, потому что это просто невозможно. Вот так я обожаю работать. Мне нравится быть в тени. Так что мы все довольны этим слотом.
Мы собираетесь сделать какие-то интересные заявления на Конвенции? Да, но в основном, о моей сексуальной ориентации. (смеется) В Доллхаусе никого не судят. На нашей конференции мы покажем 13-й эпизод. Это будет большое событие. Плюс я немного расскажу о том, что нам предстоит в будущем.
Например? Я расскажу о моем фильме, "Хижина в лесу", съемки которого мы недавно закончили, о комиксах "Баффи" и вообще о всем, чем я буду занят, когда Конвенция начнется.
Как насчет музыкально эпизода для Доллхауса? В "Баффи" это идея себя показала отлично. Это приходило мне в голову. У Элайзы красивый голос. И если бы у меня было столько денег, я бы знал, что я хотел бы сделать, но бы пока не добрались до такого момента.
Джон Бэрроуман, играюший в "Торчвуде", у которого тоже великолепный голос, сказал мне, что миры научной фантастики и мющиклов не так уж и различаются. Оба жанра выходят за рамки обычной жизни. Вы согласны? Совершенно верно. Оба жанра дают возможность творить всякое. Поэтому и я сделал "Doctor Horrible", это как раз пересечение двух миров.
Будет ли продолжение "Doctor Horrible"? Думаю, да, будет.
Что-нибудь, о чем мы можем официально объявить? Хмм, к сожалению, нет. Мы сначала должны убедиться, что все на мази, прежде чем начнем что-то объявлять.
On the future of Victor Joss Whedon: Spoiler Alert! Victor might get better, quickly.
On where the idea came to cast the hilarious Alan Tyduk as a villain? I’ve met him. He’s an extraordinarily versatile actor and has actually got a fighting streak in him that you won’t see in Wash or in 28 days… no, which is the one without Sandra Bullock?
One what he’s reading for inspiration. Wired Magazine is pretty much all I read and have time for. I’m reading Julie & Julia but haven’t come up with a lot for the show. We’ll save Eliza saying “bon appetite!” for sweeps.
On other writers in the writer’s room coming up with ideas that make you think… I haven’t had a thought in years! The staff are really there as stenographers! This is without a doubt the best first year staff I’ve ever worked with. A room full of brains… floating brains in jars. I really feel like this, more than any other show is a real roundtable. Everyone has made a contribution that I wish I thought of and was grateful not to have to.
On his creative community Sometimes the people you work with actually help inspire. I can’t stress this enough. The way I talk about the writer’s room, being a round table, being a circle, this is how my creative life exists — because of a community. Everything I see from them informs everything I do. The show was created because I knew Eliza [Dusku] can be sophisticated, funny, vulnerable, blind. All these things she’s not going to get to play unless I get to play with her. At the same time, it was Felicia [Day] singing in her little Christmas episode of THE GUILD that made me want her to play penny in DR. HORRIBLE and the idea that had me use her in “Epitaph One” was when Sarah Fain [DOLLHOUSE Executive Producer] brought her up after considering her for a role in WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB. I was so embarrassed we hadn’t thought of it.
On his penchant for hiring familiar faces This year, all bets are off. We had Eliza and Amy [Acker] so last year we didn’t want to seem like we were playing favorites. This year, I don’t care anymore. I do believe that we’ll be seeing a few episodes involving a young ingenue names Alexis Denisof and if the stars align we might also see a little [Summer] Glau.
On his penchant for killing of beloved characters As a storyteller… I hate people… I want them to suffer and die! I kill people for (1) either the story or (2) because contractually I have to. I try to have as much integrity as a storyteller that I can but when somebody is going to disappear sometimes you have to think up something so that you cry when they do.
On the possibility of a second mole inside the dollhouse No one can be trusted. Actually, there is one person who can be trusted, but I’m going to kill them.
On the similarities between musicals and sci fi Sci Fi and musicals have a weird cross section. They’re both a step removed from reality, a little bit bigger than life and do tend to lend themselves to eachother unlike say musicals and I don’t know.. cops shows. Anytime you get some piece of fandom to another experience it’s the best feeling. One of the best things about the BUFFY comic is that a lot of people who weren’t reading comics started because of BUFFY. It was a gateway comic.
On when we’ll see another musical (read: DR. HORRIBLE 2) Well all of the writer’s of DR. HORRIBLE are here today. Sometimes we get together and talk about just that thing. I can’t give you a date or any info at all because I’m me. But it’s very much on our minds. We love it far too much to let it go.
On his creative process Apart from the stealing from friends, writers, artists and William Shakespeare. For a guy who notices very little I see everything. It all filters in. I have these weird genre filters in me and everything comes at me and I can’t stop. I can’t stop thinking of things that I want to say and different ways to say them. They don’t always work, are often re-written and not produced, but they keep coming and thank God they do. I don’t think of it as a creative process, it’s like blinking. It’s just the way I am. I’m not very good with actual people because I’m usually too busy with the little avatar world I live in.
On whether the audience will buy the show’s change in direction I guess there are some shows like LOST that has done some stuff. I’ve never seen it. I’m busy. Okay fine, I’ll watch TV instead of making it for you. I’m such a prick. I do think that as long as we don’t send anyone to Feudal Japan, we’re pretty much okay.
On the similarities between FIREFLY and DOLLHOUSE Told you, no new thoughts! Big evil corporations are my cup of tea in the morning. Yes, there are similarities, I’m not going to lie. But it’s not intentional or a shout out, but yes, this is very awkward.
On his fascination with large corporations and government messing with people’s minds Have you been in America? I like to consider myself the great documentary film maker of our time. The entire structure is designed to mess with your minds, sell you things, entertain you, keep you in line, make you think you need things they want you to need, keep them in power, share none of it. But there are lights in the darkness, the art we get to create because the powerful patrons let us. But sometimes it’s like running the daycare on the death star. There is power and manipulation controlling almost all of our every thought, that is why I love this show so much.