Joss Whedon returns to series television
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Joss Whedon has snagged a seven-episode order for a very cool sci-fi series on Fox, called Dollhouse.
The Hollywood Reporter says the show stars Dushku stars “as Echo, a member of a
group of men and women who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. In between tasks they are mind-wiped, living like children in Dollhouse, a futuristic dorm/lab. They have no memories of their previous lives, until Echo begins to try to find out who she was.”
This is Whedon’s first new series since Firefly in 2002, and surprisingly, he’s back at Fox. Fox came under fire from fans—and Whedon—for running some Firefly episodes out of sequence and killing it before it really had a chance to catch on. They did manage to get a feature film, Serenity, out of the deceased series.
Whedon told James Hibberd over at TV Week that he has new faith in the network:
It’s a brand new day over there. It’s a completely new bunch of people and they seem really intelligent and supportive. Walking back into the building was a little strange. But no. It was absolutely the last thing I saw coming, but absolutely the right thing to do. It’s like one of those movies where you keep waiting for somebody to fall in love with the hot girl. It was sort of meant to be.
The idea came out of a lunch date with Dushku, who was looking for a new project. She got her big break on Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have remained friends.
In the middle of the conversation, I went, ‘Oh, God. I thought of
the show,’ and I had the title.
2005 Associated Press photo by Mark J. Terrill
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