After making one of our favourite films of last year, Serenity, when Joss Whedon came to town recently we took the opportunity to ask him about his upcoming plans for the Buffyverse and his other creations.
First of all, can we hope for more Serenity? “You know, we didn’t exactly set the box office aflame,” admitted Whedon. “The DVD is doing quite well. Nobody’s said anything. I don’t rule it out, I’d love to do it, but I’m focusing on whatever’s next, as are my actors. If anybody ever calls for us to come back together, that would be a great joy, but the fact that we got to make this film is, in itself, a bit of a miracle, so you don’t ask for another one for a while.”
So what could he tell us about Goners and Wonder Woman? “Not a whole lot. I am still writing Wonder Woman. It is very awesome but incredibly unfinished, but I should be finishing that in a little while and then I’ll have a better idea of which film is actually going into production. But I can tell you that the film will be about introducing you to Wonder Woman. She'll be wearing the outfit and there will be the bracelets, the golden lasso and Greek gods. She comes from a civilisation where she's rather perfect, so she's the opposite to Buffy in many ways, but she's going through an adolescent rite of passage because she's new to the world.”
And is there any life in the Buffyverse? “We are trying to put together a Spike movie – I don’t know if it’s financially feasible. That’s what I’ve been working towards for the past several months, and I should know fairly soon whether or not something’s going to happen with that.”
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Fingers crossed, people, fingers crossed. Read the full interview with Joss here, and our webchat with all the Serenity crowd here.