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Titolo: Firefly: nuovo telefilm per Joss!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/television/index.jsp?ee
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/va/20011219/100876663600.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011219/en/television-whedon_1.html
Da Variety:
*'Buffy' Creator Fires Up Sci-Fi Drama for Fox
By Josef Adalian
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Locking in a key piece of its 2002-03 development
picture, Fox Broadcasting Co. is finalizing a big-bucks deal with ``Buffy
the Vampire Slayer (news - Y! TV)'' creator Joss Whedon for a new sci-fi
adventure drama.
Tentatively titled ``Firefly,'' the new ensemble series takes place 500
years in the future and revolves around the crew of a ''small, incredibly
mobile spaceship whose aft end lights up,'' Whedon said -- hence the name.
He will write, executive produce and direct what's expected to be a two-hour
pilot for the series, which is being targeted for a fall premiere.
Whedon said he's been ``kicking around the idea for a couple of years,'' and
that the concept fully came together for him after reading an account of the
Battle of Gettysburg and the Reconstruction era. He came up with a concept
that's part Western, part space drama.
``I wanted to make something that's about a guy who fought for the South,
lost and doesn't like anybody anymore,'' Whedon said. ``This show isn't
about the people who made history; it's about the people history stepped on.
It's about their lives and their struggles to keep their ship alive -- as
well as the search for meaning in a very dark place.''
Whedon said ``Firefly'' would in some ways be a sort of ''anti-'Star Trek'''
with no regular aliens or other monstrous creatures.
``There'll be scary-ass humans,'' he said. ``I can make people that are
scarier than anything you can put in latex.''
Ultimately, Whedon said, the new show will have the same moral center as
``Buffy'' and its ``Angel'' spin-off: ``Life is hard. People are good when
they want to be. And the universe is a big, scary place just like high
school.''
Fox has committed to 13 episodes, and will likely end up paying a premium
license fee of around $1.3 million per episode when a final deal is signed.
The show is the first to be produced by Whedon's Mutant Enemy Prods. and
20th Century Fox Television under terms of Whedon's recently inked overall
deal with Fox.
It's possible ``Firefly'' could end up having a dual window on a cable
channel as well. Sci Fi Channel has indicated its interest in running
same-week repeats of the show. Fox would need to get affiliates to sign up
for such a plan.
And while no decision has been made on whether Fox's signature sci-fi drama
``The X-Files (news - Y! TV)'' will return next fall, the Whedon commitment
helps ensure the network has another high-profile sci-fi tentpole ready
should ``X'' not come back.
``It's wicked Joss-like,'' Fox Entertainment president Gail Berman said of
Whedon's latest concept. ``It's not like any show set in space that I've
ever seen.''
In addition to creating ``Buffy'' and co-creating spin-off ''Angel,'' Whedon
snagged an Oscar nomination for best screenplay on ``Toy Story.'' He also
worked on the screenplays for ``Speed'' and ``Twister.''*
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Da Hollowood reporter:
This article also mentions Joss Whedon's new show as a possible replacement
for TXF:
*Fox, Whedon light way to fall with 'Firefly'
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Fox Broadcasting Co. has given a
13-episode commitment to "Firefly," a sci-fi action-drama from "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer (news - Y! TV)" creator/executive producer Joss Whedon.
The series will be produced by Whedon's Mutant Enemy Prods. in association
with 20th Century Fox Television, where Whedon has an overall deal. Whedon
will executive produce "Firefly," which is eyed for a fall 2002 debut and
marks Fox's first series commitment for next fall.
The series will launch with a two-hour pilot episode, which Whedon is
writing and will direct.
Set 400-500 years in the future in a newly established Union of Planets,
"Firefly" centers on the crew of Serenity, a small transport spaceship of
class firefly who will take any job -- legal or not -- to stay afloat and
put bread on the table.
The project reunites Whedon and Fox entertainment president Gail Berman. As
head of Sandollar Television and an independent producer, Berman shepherded
the development of "Buffy" as well as the series' spinoff "Angel," which
Whedon co-created and is executive producing.
"I personally couldn't be happier to be back in business with Joss, and on
the whole, FBC is tremendously excited that we have the opportunity to
finally get him working for us," Berman said.
There is speculation that the drama might get "The X-Files (news - Y! TV)' "
Sunday 9 p.m. slot, but Berman said no decision has been made on the
scheduling of "Firefly." "We hold out hope that we wouldn't have to fill
that time period with anything else, but if we did, this would certainly be
something that we would consider," she said.
20th TV president Dana Walden said she and 20th TV president Gary Newman
"were extremely excited to hear that Joss would be ready, willing and able
to create something for fall. The guy is an extraordinary visionary who year
in and year out creates some of the most compelling, entertaining television
out there."
To do a science fiction project has been a longtime dream for Whedon, a big
sci-fi fan. "It's a great way to tell stories because you can tell very cool
human stories, but they all have a grandness to them that science fiction
brings," he said.
Whedon got the idea for "Firefly" while reading an account of the battle of
Gettysburg. The time period in the series is a version of the Reconstruction
era, Whedon said. The captain of Serenity is a war veteran of a big war to
unite the planets.
"('Firefly') is kind of a Western in the sense that they ride to the border
towns -- these planets that are barely inhabited -- because they want to
stay away from the big government, the big radar," he said.
As for the trademark latex masks of sci-fi stalwart "Star Trek," "I've been
determined to make a show with no latex before I die," Whedon said. Unlike
"Buffy" and "Angel," " 'Firefly' will have some extraordinarily scary people
in it, but no monsters," he said.
It will be a busy fall for Whedon, who is on track to run three series with
the launch of "Firefly." As part of 20th TV's deal with UPN, "Buffy" is set
to return for at least another season, and "Angel" is expected to stay on
the air -- either on the WB Network or on UPN, if the WB chooses to drop it.
Whedon received an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the Walt Disney
Co.'s "Toy Story" and an Emmy nomination for penning an episode of "Buffy."
His feature credits include the feature "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and
"Alien Resurrection." He also has worked on the screenplays for "Speed" and
"Twister." Whedon's TV writing credits also include "Parenthood" and
"Roseanne."
Whedon is repped by UTA and attorney Sam Fischer.*
--
Laz ______________________________
We'll see it through,
it's what we're always here to do.

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Se ne sentiva proprio il bisogno? Il mio timore e' che BTVS e ATS perdano la
sua attenzione e qualita', cosi' :-( O che terminino.
--
Hytok
Vice Oracolo Ufficiale di Sunnydale

 sua attenzione e qualita', cosi' :-( O che terminino.
Angel non termina, Buffy potrebbe dopo la settima, ma non e' legato a
questo. Joss ha gia' mollato un po' il controllo ("un po'", non come dice
una masnada di gentaglia "del tutto"), ma sinceramente a me Marti Noxon
piace come gestisce le cose.... ed e' palesemente ovvio che cmq il controllo
finale sia sempre di Joss. E lo sara' ancora, solo non riscrivera' non
accreditato tutti gli episodi come faceva nelle priem stagioni, ma
diciamocelo, allora era ancora in rodaggio, aveva tocchi di genio qua e la'
ma non in tutto quello che faceva :-D
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*'Buffy' Creator Fires Up Sci-Fi Drama for Fox
C'è qualcosa di adorabilmente perfido nell'idea che Whedon faccia una
serie che dovrà prendere il posto dell'X-Files di Chris Carter :D

 serie che dovrà prendere il posto dell'X-Files di Chris Carter :D
Esattamente quello che ho pensato io :-D
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 Esattamente quello che ho pensato io :-D
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, le sottili soddisfazioni della vita, eh ragazzi? ^_____^
--
Shari
"Sleep, my love, and peace attend thee, all through the night.
 Guardian angels God will lend thee, all through the night..."

Speriamo che non si faccia contaminare da quel 'fattone' di Carter
Ma uno che č cosě autoironico da recitare la parodia di The Blair Witch
Project non credo che si possa far contaminare da CC, č troppo
intelligente :)