Dr. Horrible and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Joss Whedon talks about a sequel
By
all_hell,
Posted on: 2011-04-18 24:27 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Since Felicia's character died, I dunno how'd she come back for the sequel.... unless it's flashbacks... or Dr. Horrible finds a way to raise her from the dead.
Quote:
Well of course. It's superheroes and supervillains. Also a mad scientist style supervillain. It'd be more surprising if she DIDN'T come back from the dead.
|
Originally Posted by Inazuma
or Dr. Horrible finds a way to raise her from the dead.
|
Quote:
Oh please. Plot is all powerful and can do anything.
|
Originally Posted by Inazuma
Since Felicia's character died, I dunno how'd she come back for the sequel.... unless it's flashbacks... or Dr. Horrible finds a way to raise her from the dead.
|
Quote:
"Joss'ed" characters tend to stay dead more frequently than others in assorted genres, but I suspect that if Whedon were to bring Day's character back for a sequel, he'd pull a Monkey's Paw-style twist and make the fans wish he hadn't (in the best way).|
Originally Posted by Inazuma
Since Felicia's character died, I dunno how'd she come back for the sequel.... unless it's flashbacks... or Dr. Horrible finds a way to raise her from the dead.
|
That said, I was struck by how much lingering affection Whedon had for this ostensibly one-shot DYI gig, particularly when he'd already done several TV series and a major motion picture and has an even bigger project underway, but it was the first time he'd ever had absolute control over a project. Launching Dr. Horrible in a comparatively untested medium, with only his finances behind it, he must have experienced quite a thrill when it worked.
Quote:
Or the whole thing was in Billy's head.
|
Originally Posted by Inazuma
Since Felicia's character died, I dunno how'd she come back for the sequel.... unless it's flashbacks... or Dr. Horrible finds a way to raise her from the dead.
|
Global name: @k26dp
Or her twin sister
Or she wasn't actually killed at all due to...
Or she is transported from an alternate reality...
Or...
Quote:
Warren Ellis elaborates on his blog:| I was and will continue to work on a very, very different Internet mini-thing that I was writing with Warren Ellis, and I have a lot of ideas for things I want to put up there. I still believe it’s a viable financial model, and a creative playground and I miss it. |
Quote:
| What he’s talking about is WASTELANDERS. The deal is that, basically, whenever he’s ready, I’m ready. We have a ******** of notes, and chunks of script. Although I need to rewrite all of my bits because they’re terrible and I never showed them to him (not least because the poor ******* was busy enough at that point). |
Until they make a sequel there's other ways to get your Dr. Horrible fix!
Craft your inventions in AE!!
Play "Crafter's Cafe" - Arc #487283. A 1 mission, NON-COMBAT AE arc with workable invention tables!
Or she's either Bait or Switch.
Magus Prime- lev 50 kin/ elec defender
Meta-Human- lev 50 fire/ ss tank
Cabal Bravo- lev 50 merc/ ff master mind
Schwarzchild- lev 50 grav/ ff controller
Shanghai Storm- lev 50 ma/invinc scrapper
Nicodemus- lev 50 db/ regen scrapper
Dragonhyde- lev 50 wp/ sm tank
On The Pinnochle server!
Mishap with the freeze ray? Instead of making time stand still, it reverses time and he now has Penny back, but she still likes Captain Hammer and he hasn't made it into the League yet.
I want more Avengers info from Joss
On Justice
Global @Desi Nova Twitter: @desi_nova Steam: Desi_nova. I don't do Xbox or PS3
If the Avengers gets up for a big summer blockbuster and proves to the suits he can play with the big boys, then he'll gain a lot of free rein to do whatever the heck he wants. It's always the way of it; look how Spielberg got to do what he felt like after he proved himself.
S.
Part of Sister Flame's Clickey-Clack Posse
Quote:
Should the Avengers be a bigger hit than the Spider-Man and Batman franchises combined, Whedon still will never get as much creative freedom than if he produced another self-financed web-only project. The tradeoff naturally is that he wouldn't get the same access to big budgets or iconic established properties.
|
Originally Posted by SuperOz
If the Avengers gets up for a big summer blockbuster and proves to the suits he can play with the big boys, then he'll gain a lot of free rein to do whatever the heck he wants.
|
Quote:
Exactly. Fox couldn't cancel or meddle with Dr. Horrible. It turned out just how he wanted it, and it was awesome.
|
Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
That said, I was struck by how much lingering affection Whedon had for this ostensibly one-shot DYI gig, particularly when he'd already done several TV series and a major motion picture and has an even bigger project underway, but it was the first time he'd ever had absolute control over a project. Launching Dr. Horrible in a comparatively untested medium, with only his finances behind it, he must have experienced quite a thrill when it worked.
|
Quote:
Or like how Sam Raimi got complete creative freedom over Spider-Man 3...oh, wait...|
Originally Posted by SuperOz
If the Avengers gets up for a big summer blockbuster and proves to the suits he can play with the big boys, then he'll gain a lot of free rein to do whatever the heck he wants. It's always the way of it; look how Spielberg got to do what he felt like after he proved himself.
|
Never underestimate the ability of a studio hack to destroy something good.
Yeah, Spielberg has a lot more freedom, but he had the money to set up his own studio with a couple of partners (Dreamworks). James Cameron and George Lucas are kind of in the same boat, but people like them are few and far between. (In fact, those are the only three I can think of where the studios won't mess with them at all.)
Arc# 92382 -- "The S.P.I.D.E.R. and the Tyrant" -- Ninjas! Robots! Praetorians! It's totally epic! Play it now!
Arc # 316340 -- "Husk" -- Azuria loses something, a young woman harbors a dark secret, and the fate of the world is in your hands.
New York Times arts beat reporter Dave Itzkoff recently interviewed Joss Whedon about his various ongoing projects, which incidentally includes a sequel to Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, the world's first (and thus far only) web-delivered supervillain musical:
A. It means, what the hell have we been doing? Wheres the damn sequel? The shame. Mostly that. And it remains one of the purest experiences of my life. It just makes me happy all the time. It wasnt like anything else. {...}
Q. What about producing it Off Broadway? Or even on Broadway?
A. We have spoken of that much. Especially every time Jed comes back from New York Weve just got to do it! Come on, we just write some more songs to make these longer! Because some of us have sat through Spider-Man.
Q. Does that include you?
A. [after a pause] I neither confirm nor deny. And you kind of go, Hey, lets do something for no money. Which is the same feeling we had about TV and movies when we made Dr. Horrible. But I would say my heart is more in the idea of the sequel. Weve done a lot of work on it.
Q. Really?
A. Oh, yeah. Weve got several songs near completion and weve got a very specific structure. Weve just all got jobs. And its not like Neil, Nathan and Felicia aint busy either. We get together at Christmas and family occasions, and then play each other our partial songs and go, Yup, thats still exactly as it was the last time we played it. Were great. Its bad.
Q. Is there anything you can say yet about what the Dr. Horrible sequel will be?
A. Its going to be Dr. Horrible and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And its going to be just as good as the other one. I dont know why people are upset about that title. And by the way, by the time we finish it, Neil will be just as old. No, Im not saying anything.
Q. Youve had other projects that ended, perhaps, in ways you didnt want them to, or before you wanted them to-
A. Im sure I dont know what you mean.
Q. -so after something like Dr. Horrible, are you ever tempted to chuck it all and only produce things for the Internet?
A. Im more than tempted. Im a little obsessed. And after Dr. Horrible, I thought, well, somebody will come around. I talked at great length and planned at great length the idea of a portal and putting shows together, having an Internet identity and starting my own little micro-studio. Nobody in town was interested, and then by the time they were, Avengers came around. I was and will continue to work on a very, very different Internet mini-thing that I was writing with Warren Ellis, and I have a lot of ideas for things I want to put up there. I still believe its a viable financial model, and a creative playground and I miss it. But in the year that I was supposed to do that, I instead decided to make this little Sundance movie that Im making.
Q. I certainly hope you find distribution for it.
A. You know, Im looking at the Independent Film Channel very closely. Knock wood.