Whedon off wonder woman, good for buffyverse?

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2007-02-05 04:37pm

Is the fact that Joss is no loger writing the new wonder woman movie mean that there is a chance those buffyverse TV movies might resurface?

His lack of time due to the wonder woman project must have been a big factor in them falling a part in the first place.

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2007-02-05 04:39pm

What? He's off the project? When'd that happen?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-02-05 04:42pm

Like just now:

[quote=IMDB]Whedon Quits Wonder Woman Movie

Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has quit as writer and director of the forthcoming Wonder Woman movie over "creative differences." Whedon signed up to adapt the popular comic book and 1970s TV show for the big screen in May, but has severed ties with the project after failing to agree to a script with the film's producers. He writes on his website, "You (hopefully) heard it here first: I'm no longer slated to make Wonder Woman...I had a take on the film that, well, nobody liked. Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that's never gonna work. It happens all the time. I don't think any of us expected it to this time, but it did." [/quote]

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2007-02-05/#celeb6

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2007-02-05 04:42pm

I first saw it reported yesterday. dont know how long it had been around for before that

Linky

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-02-05 04:42pm

Fuck, looks like the BBCode bit us both in the ass...

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2007-02-05 04:42pm

Hades wrote:I first saw it reported yesterday. dont know how long it had been around for before that

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.ph ... 0&id=39992

Erik von Nein · Post by **Erik von Nein** » 2007-02-05 04:48pm

Oh, wow. Funny that. Guess I can see where he's coming from. Oh, well, I wasn't too terrbily excited by it.

Anyhow, if Whedon really starts pushing the idea to various companies he may get himself a Buffy movie made, though it'd most likely go to made-for-TV. How well Serenity did will probably be the determining factor, even if he can point to the larger popularity of BtVS. Now that he has more time to do it, it could happen. I wouldn't hold my breath over it, though.

Not that I really see a reason or a need for a Buffy movie. I think the series doesn't really need any more expanding, even if it could be expanded. It's had a good enough run already. No need to turn it into a Star Trek-esque parade of infinite sequels.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-02-05 05:10pm

Erik von Nein wrote:Oh, wow. Funny that. Guess I can see where he's coming from. Oh, well, I wasn't too terrbily excited by it.

Anyhow, if Whedon really starts pushing the idea to various companies he may get himself a Buffy movie made, though it'd most likely go to made-for-TV. How well Serenity did will probably be the determining factor, even if he can point to the larger popularity of BtVS. Now that he has more time to do it, it could happen. I wouldn't hold my breath over it, though.

Not that I really see a reason or a need for a Buffy movie. I think the series doesn't really need any more expanding, even if it could be expanded. It's had a good enough run already. No need to turn it into a Star Trek-esque parade of infinite sequels.

Good luck convincing SMG to do a Buffy movie. And technically Buffy already had a big screen movie. What do you think the series was based on?

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2007-02-05 05:35pm

He's currently working on an original project, I can't remember what it was called, it was a one-word titled horror film with a female protagonist (a streatch, I know)--Oh, I remember now, "Goners"!

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2007-02-05 05:42pm

I am not surprised that Whedon had quit since reading last week that WB had bought some other script. Their "reason" for doing so was for litigious reasons.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-02-06 12:18am

Whedon is continuing the Buffy storyline in a comic book miniseries that he's writing. It is coming out in a few months from Dark Horse, IIRC.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2007-02-06 04:03pm

FUCK.

I was really, really looking forward to this movie...I mean, given Whedon's love of strong female characters, he seemed the best possible man to work on a Wonder Woman project.

Maybe he'll do a movie adaptation of Fray? Or at least continue the comic?

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2007-02-06 06:25pm

I give a WW movie set in the 1940's a much higher chance of 'suck', since it'll have to have a lot of "Oh, she's a woman... AND she fights crime!"

Bring back Joss!

Oddysseus · Post by **Oddysseus** » 2007-02-06 11:57pm

I have to admit that I am happy he is off the movie. He isn't magic to me. I enjoyed Buffy on and off, but it dipped. Angel was good, but varied. Firefly...eh. Serenity...eh.

So no pop culture references, goofy slang, daddy issues. So no Buffy with bracelets, good. And no more talk of Carpenter, Acker, or Bacara as WW. Yeah!

From what I have seen around, the studio bought a pretty interesting script. They probably found it a better fit then whatever Whedon had offered up so for.

Whedon is no God, and the show will go on. I just hope they find a good replacement quick, before this falls in the cracks with the Flash and Green Lantern movies.

SilverWingedSeraph · Post by **SilverWingedSeraph** » 2007-02-15 09:59pm

I dunno if he quit Wonder Woman to work on this, but I do know that Joss is continuing the story of Buffy with an official comic book. It's being called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8" on Wikipedia. Hopefully it won't suck. Personally, I could do without more Buffy. I'm pissed that Angel was cancelled. Season 5 was the best season (in no small part thanks to the interaction between Spike and Angel) of all of Angel, and then they cancelled it, and Joss left us with that ending that didn't end anything! The bastard...

There have been plans for a Spike movie, too, that would have Illyria as one of the main characters, but to the best of my knowledge, that idea is going nowhere, very fast. Sad.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2007-02-23 10:24am

i wouldnt neceserily want a buffy movie but more live action (tv series or one off movies) set in the Buffy universe would be good.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2007-02-23 11:00am

Whedon was forced to quit beating his dead horse a long time ago. That's not a licence for dabbling in necromancy, however. From season 6 and on, Buffy was a mess, both as a series and as a character. Let it lie... please.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2007-02-23 12:53pm

Eleas wrote:Whedon was forced to quit beating his dead horse a long time ago. That's not a licence for dabbling in necromancy, however. From season 6 and on, Buffy was a mess, both as a series and as a character. Let it lie... please.

except he hasnt been forced to quit it. He's continuing the story in a new comic series for dark horse.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2007-02-23 01:45pm

Hades wrote:except he hasnt been forced to quit it. He's continuing the story in a new comic series for dark horse.

Indeed, but something made him pause. Whether it was Firefly or something else, he appears to have briefly toyed with the notion of letting Buffy die a graceful death.

Sadly, there's still money to be made from the concept, apparently.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2007-02-24 01:51am

Fuck Buffy. I am so sick of that spoiled emo brat.

Since Firefly can't get renewed as a TV series, and because Serenity sucked and bombed at the box office, why exactly can't we have a Firefly comic series?

(then again, the Serenity comic series was... less than perfect)

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2007-02-24 01:58am

I'd lean more towards "Utterly pointless" with a dash of "Nothing of value being added to either the mythos or to the character's development".

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2007-02-24 05:32am

Stofsk wrote:... Serenity sucked ...

What movie did you see?

Post by **Steve** » 2007-02-24 07:43am

Stofsk wrote:Fuck Buffy. I am so sick of that spoiled emo brat.

Since Firefly can't get renewed as a TV series, and because Serenity sucked and bombed at the box office, why exactly can't we have a Firefly comic series?

(then again, the Serenity comic series was... less than perfect)

We're getting a new miniseries later this year, set during the show. I read in Wizard that the premise is "a job goes right for a change" and the series is about how they react to such uncommon success.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2007-02-24 10:29am

Steve wrote:
Stofsk wrote:Fuck Buffy. I am so sick of that spoiled emo brat.

Since Firefly can't get renewed as a TV series, and because Serenity sucked and bombed at the box office, why exactly can't we have a Firefly comic series?

(then again, the Serenity comic series was... less than perfect)
We're getting a new miniseries later this year, set during the show. I read in Wizard that the premise is "a job goes right for a change" and the series is about how they react to such uncommon success.

Wait.. what?