"It's Like Buffy, But Scary" Exclusive: Whedon update on Goners
Post Serenity, Joss Whedon is a very busy man. Not only is he currently up to his eyes in the screenplay for Wonder Woman, but he's sold his script for Goners along the way. The problem is, while everybody knows the story of the hotpant-sporting superheroine, no one seems to know owt about Whedon's other project.
"I'm keeping it all pretty close to my chest at the moment," Whedon told Empire. "I'm something of a blabbermouth. What I will say is that it ventures more into the horrific than I normally tend to. I love horror movies but I looked back on Buffy and I was like 'Oh, we forgot to make it scary.' It was occasionally scary but I got so wrapped up in the emotions and people and things that I missed the horror aspect. Goners comes back to that a little bit."
Plot-wise, all Whedon will divulge is that it's about a young woman, and involves heroics. Not a million miles from Buffy, Serenity or even Wonder Woman. So what's with the archetype appeal?
"You know, I don't really know. It's the kind of story I like to tell and I'm going to keep telling it until somebody tells me to stop. I'm not sure what aspect of its appeals to me, it's just something that's in me it's just something I identify with, something I idealise. It's Something that I don't see enough, that I find fascinating and uplifting. Anything that's uplifting and sexy I feel is a good thing."
Wonder Woman is tentatively scheduled for 2007, with Goners slated for later this year but as for which will actually hit our screens first, it's all down to the suits in Hollywood at this point. "I've sold one script and I'm working on the other at the moment. I don't know which will come first, it's really which studio is the most interested in making one of them."
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So the guy has a thing for women who (if they wanted to) could kick his arse. Good for him. Man after my own heart which is good because it gives us Buffy like heroines to drool over. Bring on Wonder woman! Mind you though, no one can replace Buffy or ever will, she's just too special. ... Read More
2"]on can't work with the intellectual properties of other people. Set him any sort of limit, like a pre-established universe for a character and an iron-clad canon, and he comes up with crap. No big loss however.]
Have you ever seen ? ... Read More
"What I like is more of the same!!" you're not in bad hands with Joss 'Girls fight stuff' Whedon...
Hey Joss...any ideas for a new film?... What? A girl fighting stuff...you rock, here is some cash! ... Read More
I don't think that Joss Whedon should really be called 'unoriginal' just because Goners will feature a female hero. If someone directed three films back to back all with male heroes,no-one would bat an eyelid. Whedon is a feminist writer, accusing him of being unoriginal because of that is like saying that Wes Craven shouldn't direct horror, or Paul WS Anderson shouldn't direct shit films. ... Read More
1st up: eirehead - you do know that WW stretches far beyong the lame TV show. I doubt that Whedon/Warner Bros. are going to be looking to the TV show for any reference. You do know that WW is a decades-old comic book character, not just a character created for the TV show. WW is DC's 3rd biggest character behind Supes and Bats. When they announce the Spiderman films were you like "Why are they making a film about this lame 70s TV show!"?. LOL. At the very least go wikipedia, read up. 2... Read More
1st up: eirehead - you do know that WW stretches far beyong the lame TV show. I doubt that Whedon/Warner Bros. are going to be looking to the TV show for any reference. You do know that WW is a decades-old comic book character, not just a character created for the TV show. WW is DC's 3rd biggest character behind Supes and Bats. When they announce the Spiderman films were you like "Why are they making a film about this lame 70s TV show!"?. LOL. At the very least go wikipedia, read up. 2... Read More
"I don't understand why you'd want to do Wonder Woman, Joss, the TV show was so fantastically bad."
- eirehead
Although I agree, the TV series was horrific, think about Buffy the movie. It was just as bad and Joss made a great TV series out of it. Why not go the other way and take a bad TV series and make a great movie out of it? As for a Serenity 2, I don't think we will see one on the big screen since it did so poorly but I hope Sci-Fi or another network will pick up a made for T... Read More
Well, OK, so I'd rather have Serenity 2, or an Buffy film, but Joss has always delivered the goods - Dialogue-free episodes, musical horror...the man's a genius. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this one should seriously rock. Even if I can't for the life of me think why. ... Read More
