JOSS AND ELIZA TO REUNITE FOR NEW FOX SHOW!!!!!!!!

[akka]

omg this is going to be sooooo ****ing fantastic, i'm so excited about this!!!!

[asho902]

The more I read about this show, the better it sounds. Eliza's perfect for the role, it just sounds exactly like her. I hate that we have to wait for it, that really sucks.

[ThisYearsGuy]

Yo! I dunno if anyone is interested but I have spent the evening making this wallpaper inspired by Dollhouse! Its a bit freaky but that's partly the idea since its a freaky show concept lol.



Comments welcome - hope you all like it!

P.S. I plan to try an animated version where she blinks and her eyes open as normal so it reflects the character change that the premise suggests!

[Nobel_Son]

I like it! But yeah, Eliza looks freaky! lol

I like the Britney song there too lol

[ThisYearsGuy]

Originally Posted by Nobel_Son

I like the Britney song there too lol

Hehe, snap, you caught me! It's a great song - I'm hooked - and it just seemed to make sense for this!

[andrew r]

I have to agree with asho's comments on the first page. I do hope that the shows given a chance, as you know what Joss can show when he is given a chance to develop a show. Plus it's great to see the two of them on a completely different project that's non-Buffy related.

[Tru Faith In Eliza]

Goodness sakes, I take a few days away from the board, and see what happens? Mass hysteria!

Seriously, this is (to quote someone we all know), "wicked" good news!

I just got done reading over 40 articles that hit my Google Alerts about this new show and I can tell you I'm very hopeful for this show. The part I love is Eliza takes Joss to lunch and ends up with him writing, Tim Minnear involved, and her as a producer:

"Shortly after she signed a development deal with Fox in August, "I called the one man that I knew I wanted to do [a series] with and had to have [in order to] to have the best show possible" and invited him to lunch, she says. "And he was seduced!"
Dushku said of her role: "She's fierce and she's hot, but she's also so complex, and she's going to be so tripped out because she's in this world, which I can identify with, where there are people who can click a button and succeed in making you be what they want you to be. It's this whole mind trip of objectification.

"It's going to have sex and heartbreak and violence and hilarity. That, to me, is a hot show."

She also spoke of her joy to work with Whedon again, adding: "I've always said from the Buffy days, 'I'll follow that guy anywhere'. I just had to find him and pluck him out of his supposed retirement from television."

Actually, hypnotized, Whedon counters. "Eliza was wearing a hat with a big spiraling wheel on it, and she kept saying, 'Look into the wheel. You want to make television. You want it to be about me….' It sounds hokey, but it really worked." Whedon ranks the character as one of his best, saying "she's absolutely the essence of strength boiled down. She's at her strongest when she's at her least powerful. She has an extraordinary tenacity. "

And the other line I liked is Eliza's description of her character:
"I even love my character's name, Echo. And I'm starting my training, so I can get into that 'Dark Angel'-on-crack shape where I can do everything."

Now, if only FOX isn't messing with our minds, this could have a lot of potential, and coupled with the upcoming movie releases, could be great for Eliza's future.

Here's a couple of decent images I found among the articles, they might be recent?

[Tru Faith In Eliza]

Fan website for "Dollhouse"
http://www.dollhouse-tv.net/

[akka]

http://www.dollverse.com/ thats another one

[Tru Faith In Eliza]

Hey, mods...why don't we rename this thread to Dollhouse?

[Tash the Vampire Slayer]

Tru Faith the first pic is new, the second pic is from around the Tru era cause of the blonde streaks

[ThisYearsGuy]

I love the fact that fansites opened within like 48 hours of the show being announced...or even less! I have joined Dollverse - it's all so exciting lol!

[Tru Faith In Eliza]

Originally Posted by Tash the Vampire Slayer

Tru Faith the first pic is new, the second pic is from around the Tru era cause of the blonde streaks

Thanks, Tash, the second one did look familiar. But that first one looks as if it was done about the time our title page banner pic was done. Methinks it might have been part of a package Eliza's publicists may have put together to present her to Fox and other media; it would have been in the right timeframe because we started seeing it about the press stories came out about a "possible Fox project".

If you think about it, the proposed "Faith" series could have logically morphed into Dollhouse's "Echo". Faith was still in trouble with the law, and if she was trying to redeem herself, it's possible she may have returned to prison and been recruited by a government operation to volunteer to have her slate and her memory wiped clean. How they would handle the slayer powers, I don't know, but it's a just an idea I've been kicking around....

[Keri]

I agree TruFaith, surely not a coincidence the character name is Echo.

An article today in the UK newspaper The Sunday Times sheds a little more light

From The Sunday Times
November 4, 2007

Players turn slayers as movie strike bites

Hollywood is braced as key writers down pens to bring the TV and film industry to a standstill

John Harlow in Los Angeles

HALLOWEEN was a bittersweet festival in Los Angeles last week for fans of Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and other toothsome television delights.

As dusk settled and hordes of American children ventured abroad in search of trick or treat, Whedon, the godfather of the supernatural genre that dominates American television schedules, announced on his website that after a five-year break he was returning to television with Dollhouse, a thriller starring the lithesome Buffy sidekick Eliza Dushku.

And, at the same time, the usually cheery son and grandson of Hollywood writing royalty, the ultimate industry insider who cut his teeth spinning gags for Toy Story and Roseanne, a bellwether for the mood of the industry, announced that he was downing his pencils indefinitely.

The 43-year-old writer vowed that, despite already having outlined the first seven episodes of Dollhouse and, like the geek he is, designed the poster too, he would not put down another word until the looming conflict between Hollywood’s artists and executive “suits” was settled.

And that, both sides now fear, could be months away.

Existing contracts between the 12,000-strong Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Hollywood’s “big six” film and television studios (Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros) represented by the Motion Picture Association of America, lapsed at midnight last Wednesday.

There was no rush to arms, no bonfires of scripts in the streets or Armani-clad executives stepping off ledges – although a few might have been pushed by their assistants at big talent agencies which had already ordered deep pay cuts in advance of the strike.

Instead, like the outbreak of the second world war, there was a hush as both sides, and federal negotiator Juan Carlos Gonzalez – dispatched from Washington to protect the £30 billion a year business from itself – took a deep breath and surveyed the dread landscape in front of them.

The next night, 3,000 writers, normally not the most sociable group, gathered in LA’s nocturnally deserted downtown to work out the ground rules.

Can they finish commissioned scripts? No. Can they write for British TV? Unclear. Hey, asked one WGA wag, does anyone want to buy a barely used PC? Not right now.

What most insiders are predicting is that, barring any last-minute compromises or legal technicalities, the WGA will issue war orders tomorrow.

Then sympathetic unions such as the Teamsters (which represents film-location scouts as well as lorry drivers) will instruct their union brothers not to cross picket lines and the klieg lights will start going off all over Holly-woodland.

The nub of the dispute is royalties from new distribution platforms, not just DVDs which account for as much revenue as the traditional box-office, but also movies downloaded at home or clips watched on such devices as iPhones.

The studios, saying they cannot predict how much this market will be worth over the next five years, want a “universal rights” deal to cover all new technologies, including some that will flare and flame out expensively – as did the citizen-band radio or eight-track tapes in the 1970s.

They want simplicity – and compensation for the risks they, not the writers, are taking in investing in the new technologies such as Hulu, the video-on-demand service launched as a test product by NBC-Universal and Fox last week. Its costs are unknown, but Providence Equity Partners reportedly paid $100m (£48m) for a 10% share, so it’s not cheap.

The unions want a percentage cut from revenues made by such ventures and some catchup compensation for the DVD boom; today a writer earns about 4 cents royalty for every $20 DVD sold, while the person who manufactures the box earns 50 cents.

More ambitiously, they also want transparency in the accounting system; past court cases have proved that Hollywood is a master of voodoo bookkeeping, ensuring that even the most magnificent block-buster can appear to have run up a loss when it comes to sharing out the profits to the writers, directors and other freelancers.

To complicate matters, and explain why the WGA leaders won a 90% mandate to strike from their normally happy-to-be-employed members, there is a palpable sense of a grudge lingering in the air.

The last big strike in Hollywood was in 1988. It lasted a bruising 22 weeks, cost the studios $500m and both writers and bonus-paid executives ended up selling so many homes it started a property slump.

A flashpoint then was a share of the hot young media: home video.

Most predict that if Gonzalez, at the end of the day a middle-ranking civil servant, fails in his peace mission, the strike will be brutal.

And, to make it more unnerving for the recent wave of Wall Street hedge-fund investors in Hollywood, if a template for future profit-sharing is not agreed the strike will rope in both directors and actors whose industry contracts end early next year. As far as Hollywood is concerned, that is the apocalypse.

Thousands of jobs could vanish before Christmas. Hollywood contributes about 7% to the LA economy, a £15 billion a year multiplier effect rolling over Californian hotels and car dealers, but its withdrawal will be felt on a global scale.

Apart from being the last remaining “happy face” of America, Hollywood is a massive economic engine for smaller cinematic industries, including the beleaguered and confused British film community.

Last week, dozens of British film wheeler-dealers flew to Los Angeles for the American Film Market festival, a low-key rival to Cannes where hard deals are clinched.

Out of about 100 Britons who attended the UK Film Council’s soiree at the recently gentrified Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica, nearly all were gloomy about the knock-on effects of the strike.

“We would love to jump in there, send over all our best writers by the jumbo-load, but we would be penalised when the strike ends. Unions have very long memories,” said one British talent agent in Los Angeles last week. “ I am not sure Liz Hurley ever recovered her Hollywood grace after accidentally stepping overa picket line against advertisers a few years ago, despite her apology. No-one is willing to take that risk.”

There is opportunity, though. The 22nd Bond film is already written, by LA’s Oscar-winner scriptor and Crash director Paul Haggis, while Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat, is a little stalled, say insiders, but will pick up in time to score another hit for Britain.

And smaller films such as the Toronto festival-acclaimed Brick Lane, about Muslim women in Britain, is standing strong against the glut of art-house movies.

The first victims of the strike will be the American nightly chat shows, the Jay Lenos and Jon Stewarts, probably much to the relief of the frequently-satirised Washington elite (a conspiracy theory will follow). After these will go the comedies and long-form dramas: hit science-fiction series Heroes has already cancelled a spin-off due to the strike. And then, finally, the movies.

Hollywood studios have been stockpiling programmes for the past few months – production around Los Angeles hit an all-time record during the summer as actors swopped the beach for the set – but there is six months of “product” stored up, maximum. Then it’s all repeats and game shows.

Right now it’s a phoney war, punches as fake as Keanu Reeves’s accent. However, the longer it drags on, the more likely it will turn into a dirty war.

When the studios start leaking how much they pay writers, or at least the few youngsters who are employed on a regular basis, public sympathy may well evaporate.

American baseball never recovered from the players’ 1994 strike, since eclipsed by basketball.

Already the younger generation prefer not to pay for movies – regarding it, like music, as free from the internet – or watch live television. If anything, they catch up on DVD box sets in mara-thon, advertisment-free weekend binges or play 24 as a video game.

There is a real danger for both sides that, after six months of American Idol and local news about cats stuck up trees, the talent and suits may shake hands in Hollywood and find that nobody is watching any more.

Source

"lithesome Buffy sidekick" *drools*

[Keri]

...and OMG This Years Guy... this news site had used your bloody wallpaper to illustrate their article!

They have taken it from a fansite, I hope you know about this and are getting due credit? Kind of cool though - you're now linked to Eliza's new project!

http://laist.com/2007/11/02/joss_whedon_ret.php

[ThisYearsGuy]

Hehe I know! I was so geekily chuffed when I saw that - and confused at first - it was like 00:30 and I thought I might be hallucinating lol. But they have gived the credit through a link to Dollverse which is where I also posted it so that's all fine with me!

I want Joss to see it lol!

[Keri]

Ha! Just don't forget when you're famous that we voted you our Wallpaper Artist of the Year 2 years ago

[ThisYearsGuy]

Lol slim chances of fame but how could I ever forget - I still splash that around my signature despite it being from 2005 lol!

[andrew r]

Thanks for the info there Keri.

[ThisYearsGuy]

Just out of curiosity, have any of you guys joined Dollverse too?