16
May
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Joss Whedon talks about Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
And the Internet musical you’ve been doing?
Eventually. At first I was just really working the problem because the strike was a very serious issue and one that I don’t feel we resolved adequately. I reached out to the people in Silicon Valley, like everyone else, and said, if you will finance something, I will put it together. I will shoot it tomorrow. I will make something so low-budget that will look so good. That deal still isn’t made. It took so long. But I wanted to get out there and create jobs and tell stories, and really explaining to people that there really is another way. Well, I found out that wasn’t it. And that ate up a lot of my time. So I thought maybe something smaller. “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” was something I’d thought of before to do as an audio podcast so I could write some songs. I thought it would make a nice little piece — three 10-minute segments. Maybe find a way to monetize it. And I got my brothers involved. So we all wrote it together, the four of us, and then Neil Patrick Harris, who is a buddy, agreed to star in it. And that was our dream because he’s got the greatest singing voice and he’s a brilliant actor. And Nathan Fillion agreed to star in it as the villain. And Felicia Day agreed to star in it. And when we came back, Fox said instead of 3 1/2 months to write a script and a few months of prep time, we’re shooting [”Dollhouse”] in two months. And we hadn’t even fully broken an episode.
And I had “Dr. Horrible” to shoot two weeks from then and no line producer for that. It was a time of work. The thing is, I wasn’t going to abandon or short-shrift either project. You just can’t. You can’t put something out there with your name on it that isn’t the most wonderful you can make it. I also had the comic books that I should have written during the strike, but I didn’t. Apart from being sick, I really have no excuse, and they all hate me now. And they should.
When will “Dr. Horrible” launch?
We’re dropping in the last effects and color-timing it right after upfronts, and then I’ll be talking to people about how we can put it out. I would like to monetize it so I can not only say, ‘Look, I can tell stories,’ but people can be paid.
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11
May
Full Interview link below
TruckerMovie.net: Is there anything you can share with us at this point about the Doctor Horrible series?
NF: It’s gonna rock. It’s gonna rock. For something that looked…I mean kinda felt… I mean, Joss called me up and said “Hey, me and my brothers and one of my brothers’ fiancé, we wrote this thing, a musical, we’re going to put it on do you want to do it?” Sure! Six days of filming, this incredible music that we were singing, these incredible lyrics, these wonderful songs, it’s just… it sounds kinda hokey but in six days all these people pulling together… I saw a rough cut of this thing and it’s frickin’ great. It’s changed my opinion as to how things are going to work in the future as far as taking the producers out of the equation and the internet is now your distribution. I think everything’s going to change and I think this is certainly my first experience in the direction things are going.
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06
May
Felicia Day talks about Doctor Horrible with “Name of the Wind” author Patrick Rothfuss in a recent blog interview:
I can tell you that it’s going to be make a lot of people want to sing after hearing the music. Joss and his brothers Zack and Jed and Jed’s fiance Maurissa wrote the show together to go on the internet in three parts. Joss had seen The Guild and had been percolating the idea of an internet musical for a while, and he said that watching the Guild was a part of the inspiration to get it done; that and the strike.
…I worked with him on Buffy a few years ago and was crazy lucky enough for him to hire me for the part of Penny. I can’t tell you what a fabulous experience it was working on it, the script and songs are fantastic! For someone in Joss’ position to do something this experimental is great because not only is it going to be a huge success, it’s going to make people look at internet content in a new way. I can’t wait for it to be released!
…I believe [Joss] said it will be released on the internet before Comicon.
30
Apr
Entertainment Weekly interviews Neil Patrick Harris. They discuss how Doctor Horrible came about and mention Joss Whedon is working on extras for the DVD release. While filming is wrapped and a rough cut put together it is still unknown how Doctor Horrible will be released on the web .
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