Joss Whedon's online musical "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" not only broke new ground for Internet media, it also landed an Emmy in the short-format, live-action category of the annual awards.
So, it was probably no surprise that the series already had a sequel in the works long before all the award talk began. MTV News had the chance to speak with "Castle" and "Firefly" star Nathan Fillion, who gave an update on the anticipated sequel.
Sounds like things are picking up for the sequel and it will be great if the whole Wehdon creative team returns for the project (Besides Joss, the Whedonverse includes Joss' brothers Zack Whedon, Jed Whedon and Jed's wife, Maurissa Tancharoen).
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: MTV News
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
'Dr. Horrible' Emmy Video Skit
The evil Dr. Horrible actually interrupted the Primetime Emmy Awards. I am sad that I missed it (yeah, didn't watch it), but with the power of the Internet I was able to see it. After all, television is dead.
The "Dr. Horrible" skit had the ensemble of the cast from the popular web series which included Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felica Day and Simon Helberg.
For those who haven’t seen the web series, "Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" is about Dr. Horrible, who is a wannabe bad guy. He’s not a real bad guy - he just can’t quite seem to get bad right. It is worth watching if you have never seen it before. Click here to see it! Do it now!
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: Screen Rant
The "Dr. Horrible" skit had the ensemble of the cast from the popular web series which included Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felica Day and Simon Helberg.
For those who haven’t seen the web series, "Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" is about Dr. Horrible, who is a wannabe bad guy. He’s not a real bad guy - he just can’t quite seem to get bad right. It is worth watching if you have never seen it before. Click here to see it! Do it now!
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Source: Screen Rant
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Movie News Mash 24
AWAKEN THE DRAGON
A few years ago, it was announced that Warner Brothers was remaking "Enter the Dragon." This updated version, being directed by "The Shield" producer Kurt Sutter, will be called Awaken the Dragon and is be a contemporized drama about a lone FBI agent who pursues a rogue Shaolin monk into the bloody world of underground martial arts fight clubs. Sutter has been looking an established American actor to play the FBI agent and to discover a "fight star" for the role of the monk. Well, according to Latino Review, they've found their monk - Rain - the Korean pop star and actor who stars in "Speed Racer" and "Ninja Assassin."
"I'm a huge noir fan, and this plot lends itself to the film I want to make," Sutter said of 'Awaken the Dragon.'"I wanted to set it in these underground fight clubs where the action is really raw and expose the brutality of Shaolin kung fu. This will be more 'Raging Bull' than 'Crouching Tiger' in its viciousness."
With Rain doing awesome martial arts for "Ninja Assassin" (watch the training video), I think he can do great in this remake as well.
(First Showing)
THE RAVEN
Slash Film spoke with "Ninja Assassin" director James McTeigue and learned his next project a period thriller titled "The Raven" written by Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston described as a fictionalized account of the final five "mysterious" days of Edgar Allan Poe's life. The story will follow the famous writer as he joins the hunt for a serial killer whose murders are inspired by his stories. "It's like the poem, 'The Raven,' itself, crossed with 'Se7en.' It should be pretty cool. The script is really good and everyone responds to it really well. I'm in the middle of casting," the director said.
Poe's death is also mysterious, as he was found on the streets of Baltimore in need of "immediate assistance." He was wearing another person's clothes and repeating the name "Reynolds." He died shortly after in hospital, never able to explain what happened.
To be brief, something like this can actually turn out to be really cool and creepy at the same time.
(First Showing, Screen Rant)
DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG
Joss Whedon's musical miniseries "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" broke new ground with filmmaking for online audiences and earned Whedon and his cast a lot of new fans, but with any success story like "Dr. Horrible," the question now becomes: what's next?
MTV News recently caught up with Whedon and posed that question. It sounds like there could not only be more "Dr. Horrible" on the way, but they already have a story in mind for the sequel.
"We're in there plugging. The writers are trying to put something together," Whedon said. "We haven't even decided on a venue. We have a story and we're working that. We're just starting with that."
While he couldn't share any details about the story for the sequel, how it will relate to the first miniseries or who will be returning (though I'm hoping for Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris to reprise their roles), Whedon indicated that the lack of information was more due to the early stage of development than anything else.
"Doesn't matter if it's big or small, [we're just] just figuring out the story," he explained. "We're really excited about what it is. More, I cannot say."
With both Fillion and Harris juggling lead roles in television series ("Castle" and "How I Met Your Mother," respectively), the duo will likely have to make room in busy schedules for a "Dr. Horrible" sequel -- but it's a good bet they'll find some time. There's also the lingering question about what form the next installment of "Dr. Horrible" will take, as Whedon has said in the past that he's not sure whether the multi-episode miniseries format is best for online audiences, or if a one-shot movie is the way to go.
(MTV News)
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
A few years ago, it was announced that Warner Brothers was remaking "Enter the Dragon." This updated version, being directed by "The Shield" producer Kurt Sutter, will be called Awaken the Dragon and is be a contemporized drama about a lone FBI agent who pursues a rogue Shaolin monk into the bloody world of underground martial arts fight clubs. Sutter has been looking an established American actor to play the FBI agent and to discover a "fight star" for the role of the monk. Well, according to Latino Review, they've found their monk - Rain - the Korean pop star and actor who stars in "Speed Racer" and "Ninja Assassin."
"I'm a huge noir fan, and this plot lends itself to the film I want to make," Sutter said of 'Awaken the Dragon.'"I wanted to set it in these underground fight clubs where the action is really raw and expose the brutality of Shaolin kung fu. This will be more 'Raging Bull' than 'Crouching Tiger' in its viciousness."
With Rain doing awesome martial arts for "Ninja Assassin" (watch the training video), I think he can do great in this remake as well.
(First Showing)
THE RAVEN
Slash Film spoke with "Ninja Assassin" director James McTeigue and learned his next project a period thriller titled "The Raven" written by Hannah Shakespeare and Ben Livingston described as a fictionalized account of the final five "mysterious" days of Edgar Allan Poe's life. The story will follow the famous writer as he joins the hunt for a serial killer whose murders are inspired by his stories. "It's like the poem, 'The Raven,' itself, crossed with 'Se7en.' It should be pretty cool. The script is really good and everyone responds to it really well. I'm in the middle of casting," the director said.
Poe's death is also mysterious, as he was found on the streets of Baltimore in need of "immediate assistance." He was wearing another person's clothes and repeating the name "Reynolds." He died shortly after in hospital, never able to explain what happened.
To be brief, something like this can actually turn out to be really cool and creepy at the same time.
(First Showing, Screen Rant)
DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG
Joss Whedon's musical miniseries "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" broke new ground with filmmaking for online audiences and earned Whedon and his cast a lot of new fans, but with any success story like "Dr. Horrible," the question now becomes: what's next?
MTV News recently caught up with Whedon and posed that question. It sounds like there could not only be more "Dr. Horrible" on the way, but they already have a story in mind for the sequel.
"We're in there plugging. The writers are trying to put something together," Whedon said. "We haven't even decided on a venue. We have a story and we're working that. We're just starting with that."
While he couldn't share any details about the story for the sequel, how it will relate to the first miniseries or who will be returning (though I'm hoping for Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris to reprise their roles), Whedon indicated that the lack of information was more due to the early stage of development than anything else.
"Doesn't matter if it's big or small, [we're just] just figuring out the story," he explained. "We're really excited about what it is. More, I cannot say."
With both Fillion and Harris juggling lead roles in television series ("Castle" and "How I Met Your Mother," respectively), the duo will likely have to make room in busy schedules for a "Dr. Horrible" sequel -- but it's a good bet they'll find some time. There's also the lingering question about what form the next installment of "Dr. Horrible" will take, as Whedon has said in the past that he's not sure whether the multi-episode miniseries format is best for online audiences, or if a one-shot movie is the way to go.
(MTV News)
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Dr. Horrible the Movie?
According to Screen Rant, "Joss Whedon spoke to a group of reporters this week at a Paley Fest Panel and revealed some of the ideas he has for a sequel to 'Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog' as well as well as how we might be seeing it.
For those of you not familiar with Whedon’s successful Internet project, 'Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog' is a 43-minute musical film, separated into three episodes, that was made available for viewing online for free (for a limited time) and later available for purchase through iTunes and on DVD.
The series featured the incredible cast of Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day and Simon Helberg and it earned a huge fan-following, critical acclaim and multiple awards. It even went as far as earning a #15 spot on Time magazine’s top 50 inventions of 2008.
Needless to say, Whedon discovered a new outlet for his creativity and at a perfect time with the issues and uncertainty surrounding his new network television series, 'Dollhouse.' Since 'Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog' debuted online, the fans have been anxiously awaiting for more content in the form of a sequel.
Fortunately enough, the cast members and the Whedon brother creators are interested in a sequel and the Dr. Horrible phenomenon was successful enough that it could gain studio financing for a larger-scale follow-up. However, Whedon’s intentions are to keep the Dr. Horrible show low-key and intimate like the first one.
'Well, we don’t want to be beholden to anybody… We want to do the product the same way we did the first one, which is out of our hearts, and then go to people [and say], ‘OK, if you’re interested in this, this is what it is.’ Besides, it could be something theatrical. It could be something on the Internet again, where it’s done on the fly and it all comes from us. We don’t know how we want that to be. The best thing to do is to write it. Then we can start deciding a business model based on the script.'
A full-length feature film is not out of the realm of possibility, however, as Whedon and co. are considering all opportunities at continuing the Dr. Horrible mythos.
'We’ve talked about doing an actual studio film, and we’ve talked about doing an independent tiny little thing… We’ve talked about everything in between, the bumper sticker, whatever format.'”
Can I say I loved "Dr. Horrible" and would be totally willing to see a movie. I don't often like musicals because they are campy in a bad way. but "Dr. Horrible" is campy in the best way possible!
More news to come! Catch ya' later!
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