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Titolo: Joss, torna a casa!

http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=2036
Joss, Come Home
Author: Scott Nance
Date: 09-19-2005
Source: SyFy Portal
Okay, so you're a big-time movie star now.
You're justifiably eager in awaiting the premiere of your major motion
picture, "Serenity" at the end of the month, and you're talking about how
hot you are to make the Wonder Woman film.
And maybe it's hip to be that famous Hollywood guy who writes comic books
now.
But it's not enough. Not nearly.
You are a man of television. You got your start way back when writing for
the "Roseanne" sitcom. And it's through the magic of TV -- the intimacy and
familiarity of a weekly series -- by which you turned a crappy movie
(Remember, you said yourself you cried at how bad it was when you first saw
the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie.) and shaped characters we truly cared
about and told stories which really mattered. In the end, you created
what's today regarded as one of the great TV series of all time.
Heck, TV is in literally in your blood. Your granddad wrote for "The Dick
Van Dyke Show," and your father worked on the 1970s sitcom, "Alice."
It's time that you plot your return to the small screen.
No doubt you may still be a little bitter at the way your earlier TV career
ended. No one would blame you. But times change, and the climate would be
more favorable now for your return.
The big broadcast networks are all buying scifi series again.
However, even if the new shows "Invasion," "Surface," and "Threshold" all
were to tank, the success of "Battlestar Galactica," "Stargate Atlantis,"
"The 4400," and the like means there is both the audience for genre series
and the networks out there willing to buy them and support them.
Even the WB is back in the genre game with its new series, "Supernatural,"
starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as brothers seeking answers
behind their mother's strange death and their father's disappearance.
Former WB chief Jordan Levin-- the man who canceled "Angel" -- is gone, and
the suits who took his place have since hinted that they sort of regret
Levin's decision to axe your show.
Maybe you can finally get that Spike-centered TV movie off the ground you
and James Marsters have been talking about for what seems like forever.
But don't rely too heavily on reviving the Buffyverse. The effort to launch
the animated "Buffy" series seems be languishing, and as much as we still
love watching the reruns on FX, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" may be one train
that's left the station; it's day having come and gone.
That's okay. Being Joss Whedon, you must have 1,000 good ideas bumping
around in that head of yours.
Our love for your work is not limited to Buffy. As you know, the very fact
that you were able to sell Universal on "Serenity" is due in no small part
to us fans snapping up so many DVD copies of "Firefly," your short-lived
Fox series. (Hey, if somehow you got a show on the Home and Garden Network,
we'd watch that, too.)
Speaking of FX, the folks who run that cable network have been methodically
building their stable of original series. Maybe they'd be in the market for
a new genre series.
Whether it's at FX or elsewhere, though, the trick is to go somewhere where
you almost couldn't fail. To avoid a repeat of the "Firefly" fiasco, in
which Fox killed that great series after just a handful of episodes, you
need a deal with low expectations, kind of like you had when you first sold
the WB on Buffy.
You'll need the room to fly under the radar and build an audience, which is
the formula that worked so well to ultimately grow "Buffy" into the
phenomenon that it ultimately became.
Where you went wrong is going for the big-time deal with Fox with
"Firefly," where expectations were just too high.
It also means doing it cheap. You'll need a budget closer to the one you
had when you launched "Buffy," not the eye-popping $2 million per episode
you had on "Firefly." Sure, big budgets are great, but the larger the
budget you have, the bigger the bull's eye you'll also have on your back.
And you being Joss Whedon, you wouldn't need to spend big to make a series
that we'll all watch. You just require good stories that need telling, and
good actors to tell them. I know both of those are well within your grasp.
While you're at it, try getting the band back together, to borrow a phrase.
Give David Fury, Jane Espenson, and the rest of your old staff a call. How
great would it be to re-form your old production house, Mutant Enemy?
How sweet would it be to hear a little "Grr Aargh" at the end of the end of
a new Joss Whedon-led production? Just think about it. The fans would go
nuts.
Nobody's saying to give up the moviemaking. I'll be the first one who will
be thrilled to see "Serenity" become such a blockbuster that it will
guarantee a string of sequels long into the future.
But you have proven to be the master of multitasking. Back when you were
simultaneously running "Buffy," "Angel," and "Firefly," you were saying all
over the place how crazy you were to be taking on so much at once.
We all know you were saying it with a little wink and nod. You were clearly
having a blast, you were at the top of your game.
All I'm saying, Joss, is this: We love you. Come home. Please.
-- 
Jolan Tru, Filippo "Hytok" Simone: l'oracolo sampdoriano di Sunnydale
La Casa degli Elfi - 
http://lacasadeglielfi.altervista.org/
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E mi raccomando mentre torni a casa fatti trovare qualche idea 
geniale... come solo tu sai fare :D
-- 
Riccardo
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