Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 40 minute, 3 part musical produced
for the internet, telling the story of a low-rent supervillain [Neil
Patrick Harris: How I Met Your Mother], the hero [Nathan Fillion: Firefly/Serenity, Desperate Housewives] who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl [Felicia Day: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Guild] from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to. The movie was written by Joss Whedon [Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Toy Story] and his brothers Zack Whedon, Jed Whedon and Jed's fiancée, Maruissa Tancharoen.
The episodes will air on the website http://www.drhorrible.com as follows:
Part 1 - Tuesday July 15
Part 2 - Thursday July 17
Part 3 - Saturday July 19
These episodes will “air” online only until July 20. Following that
they will be made available for download at a “nominal fee” and in the
near future available to buy on a very special DVD “with the finest and
bravest extras in all the land”.
In explaining how the musical came out of the WGA Strike, Joss Whedon says:
Quote:
Once upon a time, all the writers in the forest got very mad with the
Forest Kings and declared a work-stoppage. The forest creatures were
all sad; the mushrooms did not dance, the elderberries gave no juice
for the festival wines, and the Teamsters were kinda pissed. (They were
very polite about it, though.)
During this work-stoppage, many writers tried to form partnerships for
outside funding to create new work that circumvented the Forest King
system. Frustrated with the lack of movement on that front, I finally
decided to do something very ambitious, very exciting, very
mid-life-crisisy. Aided only by everyone I had worked with, was related
to or had ever met, I single-handedly created this unique little epic.
A supervillain musical, of which, as we all know, there are far too
few.
The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To
turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment
specifically for the internet.
To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world
there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys)
something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly
jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.
– Joss Whedon |
* Digg This
* Joss Whedon Post on Whedonesque
* The Official Website & “Air” Location
* The Official Fan Website with lots of info
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