Dollhouse: 22 Juli 2009

Heute dürften die Dreharbeiten zur zweiten Staffel Dollhouse begonnen haben. Merkwürdig daran ist nur, dass die Comic Con dieses Wochenende stattfindet, und sehr viele Leute (inklusive Joss und Eliza) dort sein werden, die eigentlich drehen sollten. Aber wird schon hinhauen, schätze ich mal.

ETA: Maurissa bestätigt.

wiesengrund - 22. Juli, 11:09

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Jane Espenson im Interview

Sie redet über "The Plan", Caprica und auch Dollhouse:

CU: After a bit of a slow start, Dollhouse has turned out to be a very good show and I’m glad its coming back. Can you tell us about some of the changes that were made during the season to improve the show or take it in a different direction?

JE: My impression — and this really is just my impression — was that the show got closer and closer to Joss’s original vision for the show. As the show progressed, Joss was able to get deeper into the mythology and meaning of the show, which was all the stuff that fascinated me so much. I love the show and loved working there.

CU: Will you be writing more episodes of Dollhouse next season or taking a more active producing role on the show?

JE: I wish I could. Caprica has me too busy to take on anything outside of that.

CU: What do you think the reduced budget will do to the show next season? Will it have an impact of the kids of stories that can be told?

JE: Budgets are smaller all over. This limits the number of sets you can have, the number of speaking roles and extras, number of special effects, and it can cut the number of shooting days which can lead to fewer locations used in each episode. This will favor stories that take place on the standing sets, using only the regular characters.

It moves the action off-screen (you’ll tend to hear about the big riot rather than seeing it). There’s a lot of elasticity in story-telling and you can do a lot of this without it showing too badly — sometimes you even are forced into creative solutions. But you can only go so far and then it’s a show about sock puppets. Budgets are getting awfully small.

CU: Was it always the plan to have Echo realize she was a Doll or, at the very least, that something was “wrong” during the first season?

JE: My understanding was yes, that was the plan.

CU: Was Ballard always supposed to be a main character on Dollhouse and discover its secrets? It seemed his role was amplified during the first few episodes to become more of a main character?

JE: I certainly believed that he was always intended as a main character.

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Hier also die offizielle Bestätigung, dass sie in Season 2 nicht dabei sein wird.

wiesengrund - 22. Juli, 09:54

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Der Pool

Ken Levine (Comedy-writer) hat einen Pool. Und der Pool, der wäre fast in Dollhouse gewesen, damals, als die Show Locations für "Echo" gesucht hat. Lest selbst, was für eine tolle Geschichte Ken zu erzählen hat, bezüglich der Gründe, warum sein Pool nicht der Dollhouse-Pool geworden ist:

One day last year we get a knock on our front door. My wife answers to find the location manager for a new pilot called DOLLHOUSE. It was a Joss Whedon production. She was aware of the name. He was my marching buddy one day on the strike line. Anyway, they were interested in using our pool for the pilot. They had been scanning GoogleMaps and from 300,000 feet our pool seemed to be the right shape and color.

He took pictures, said ours was one of a number they were considering, and gave her his number if we had any questions.

I came home that night and was not enthused. The thought of a film crew – sixty guys named Dave – trampling through my house and yard did not excite me. They always say they’ll leave the house exactly as they found it but do they really? What if they break my priceless bowling trophy? Plus, it’s just an invasion of privacy. I don’t want to be sunbathing nude while Dave, Dave, Dave, and Dave drag cables across the patio.

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wiesengrund - 22. Juli, 09:35

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