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Titolo: Joss, WW e il film di Buffy...

..sarebbe bello!
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1551720
http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=20654
From Vh1.com - By Webmaster - 2007-02-6
Joss Whedon - "Buffy" Has A Big-Screen Chance - Mtv.com Interview
Joss Whedon as writer, producer, director & composer on Buffy, Angel &
Firefly
To be a diehard Joss Whedon fan is to suffer a death worthy of one of his
indelible characters. With news recently breaking that Warner Bros. has
gone in another direction for the much anticipated "Wonder Woman" movie.
"Joss Whedon Won’t Write, Direct ’Wonder Woman’ - Despite Doing ’A Lot Of
Legwork’ "), Whedon and his admirers were dealt another blow - perhaps not
as painful as the end of "Buffy," but it still stings.
On the eve of his exit from the high-profile comic book movie, the creator
of "Buffy" and "Firefly" spoke to MTV News about the continuing adventures
of his favorite vampire slayer - on the page and in film (see "Re-Buffed:
New Comic Book Series Resurrects Vampire Slayer") - his take on recent
big-screen comic adventures, and yes, what that "Wonder Woman" movie was
going to be like.
MTV: Where do you begin with a project like "Wonder Woman"? Do you start
with the famous bracelets or the lasso or the invisible jet?
Joss Whedon: That was absolutely the stuff that came first. Why the
bracelets? Why the lasso? Why the invisible jet? The bracelets and the
lasso are so much a part of who she is and the journey she goes through.
They’re not just cute and they’re definitely not silly. She’s not going to
spin to change her clothes.
MTV: Would you put her in modern times?
Whedon: That’s pretty much what the story is about, her inability to deal
with modern times. She’s a fish out of water. It’s basically "Splash." I
just took the script from "Splash" and changed some of the names. Not all
the names; I like some of the names.
MTV: You could’ve just used a script from Buffy for "Wonder Woman" ...
Whedon: There’s definitely a connection. There’s a reason why they called
me to write "Wonder Woman." As someone said, I basically have two things on
my résumé, wonder and women, so I might as well. But she’s actually very
different than characters I’m used to writing. Diana is someone seeking out
greatness. She’s already awesome. She’s the most beautiful. She’s the
strongest. She’s morally not remotely complex. She’s completely righteous,
so needless to say, she’s in for a lot of trouble.
MTV: Who is your villain?
Whedon: No villains, there won’t be conflict of any kind. She’s just trying
on clothes. I’ve created a new villain.
MTV: Buffy has been rumored to come back in every conceivable form before,
including TV movies and theatrically released films. How did the comic come
together?
Whedon: I was trying to put together TV movies and different venues to use
characters I loved writing and then the comic thing happened almost
accidentally. Dark Horse was interested in reviving the comic, and I
started thinking about it. I had sort of lost my other avenues of
storytelling. I thought, "There’s no reason why I can’t continue the story
here." And then my brain exploded. I started having all these ideas and
grand plans and no free time whatsoever.
MTV: Is "Buffy" as a comic going to be bigger and more epic than ever
before?
Whedon: The show was very mundane, deliberately mundane. There were many
things we couldn’t afford to do, but there were also certain things we
wouldn’t do, whereas a comic has got to work on a grander scale. We really
can take the characters wherever we want - and of course that means I can
kill them.
MTV: And you like killing your characters.
Whedon: I do. I likes me a kill. I don’t like people, and I think if there
were fewer of them, it’d be better.
MTV: But people are never quite dead in the Buffyverse, are they?
Whedon: Yeah, I know. I talk a good fight but the fact of the matter is,
most of the people who die work more on the show after they die than
before. So I should probably stop complimenting myself for that. If we have
a story idea and we need someone who’s died, we’ll just dance around that
in a heartbeat, because a good story idea is something you never turn your
back on. Those are hard to come by.
MTV: Is there ever a danger in creating these new storylines that you paint
yourself into a corner if or when you do a "Buffy" movie?
Whedon: At some point you have to let go of that fear. The movie audience
is going to be different. In terms of a Buffy movie, both David [Boreanaz]
and Sarah [Michelle Gellar] have pretty much got swinging careers and have
never really wanted to revisit the characters anyway. It’s doubtful that
would happen. I never say never, and it would be fun to do it with them. I
would be willing to overlook certain discrepancies. Ultimately, a movie
would have to pick them up later in their lives anyway. I would have to
fudge it with David, like "He got his mortality back for five years and
then he lost it again," or something like that. I don’t think anybody’s
going to mind that much if they get a movie.
MTV: Comic book movies have never been hotter in Hollywood. What recent
book-to-film adaptations have excited or disappointed you?
Whedon: I still would love to see a little bit more visual panache that
matched the power that the great comic book artists bring. And some of the
storytelling. It’s hard. I think they did a great job for the most part
with "Batman Begins." But with Batman, that’s an easy world to get right,
because it’s so visceral and gothic and exciting. I’m a purist about
Daredevil, and actually am a fan of that [movie]. I realize I have friends
who are right now falling over and clutching their hearts, but it’s got
some good classic storytelling in that movie. Some doesn’t work, but it’s
underrated.
MTV: What can you say about "Goners," another one of your upcoming
directing efforts?
Whedon: You’re not going to understand where this is coming from, but there
may be a young woman who gains some powers - not something I’ve written
about before, but I’m excited to try some new territory. Got to stretch.
It’s a horror fantasy. It’s a little darker than I’m used to. "Goners" is a
very personal thing about human connection and questioning whether there is
such a thing at all. It’s very dark emotionally as well as just creepy as I
can make it, reclaiming some of that horror [from "Buffy"] without going
into the torture-horror-porn fad that’s ruling nowadays.
MTV: You’ve been attached to so many high-profile genre projects over the
years. One wonders what you would have done with the third "X-Men" movie.
Whedon: One’s always curious. Their mandate in "X-Men" was, "Let’s have a
lot of new characters." But you already have four movie stars. I was like,
"Can we go backwards instead?" And that really isn’t what they wanted. They
wanted to show off Beast and Angel, and I get that. Ultimately, I was not
the best guy for that. But still, one fantasizes ...
MTV: What if it were a junior "X-Men" movie? You could focus on Kitty Pryde.
Whedon: I’d love to do a Kitty Pryde movie. That would be cool, and Ellen
Page is so good. We should just do that!
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Saluti,
Dott. Piergiorgio.