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Titolo: The Story of Ripper

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a75300/cult-spy-the-story-of-buffy-spin-off-ripper-part-one.html
Cult Spy: The story of 'Buffy' spin-off 'Ripper' Part One
Sunday, September 9 2007, 21:15 BST
By Tony Delgado
Cult Spy: The story of 'Buffy' spin-off 'Ripper' Part One
Following on from last week’s look at the various mooted, but never
developed Buffy The Vampire Slayer spin-offs, Cult Spy runs through what we
know about the upcoming Rupert Giles adventure Ripper starring Anthony
Stewart Head. Unlike Slayer School and Faith The Vampire Slayer, this show
is apparently moving fairly close to entering production and hitting our
screens next year.
Named after a title given to Giles during his pre-librarian days as a
Watcher in England, Ripper was discussed as far back as early 2001, when
Head told Dreamwatch magazine that the show would be filmed in the UK and
be pitched as “Cracker with ghosts”. He also stated that Buffy mastermind
Joss Whedon was already underway in writing a pilot episode for the
proposed series.
The following year, Head told Sci Fi Wire that the show would be a BBC
production, but that Whedon’s busy diary was a cause for concern: “The main
difficulty is that [Whedon] has to find someone who can run the show over
here, and basically to do that, he has to find [another] him, and that's
not an easy thing. He would certainly direct one or two of them, but he
wouldn't be able to commit too much of his time. Although he adores
England, he's needed over there [in America]. Now he's got Firefly going
and Buffy still up and running… and Angel. He's got a lot of irons in the
fire.”
Two irons were soon removed for good as Firefly was quickly axed, and
filming finished on Buffy in 2003. Shortly after, Whedon spoke to the SciFi
Channel, saying: “I wanted to do something on the BBC. We talked about a
two-hour pilot… but the one conclusion I've come to, if I do something,
I'll do it not as a setup, so much as a story about Giles.
“I realise that, like Angel, you can use it as a premise, perhaps, to build
something about ghost stories, and that would be fine. What I'm interested
in is the character that Tony [Anthony Stewart Head] plays, not some
mystery he might solve. And that's sort of a paradigm shift in what I might
do with it. But I'm still very invested in the Ripper story."
What Whedon annoyingly failed to address here was whether Ripper would
actually take place in the pre-Buffy days, which would surely mean a fair
bit of hair dye for a certain Head, or follow on from the climactic events
at the end of the Buffy’s seventh and final season.
Be sure to catch next week's concluding part of the Ripper story, as we
chart the progress of the proposed spin-off from early 2004, which saw the
cancellation of Angel still failing to free up enough diary space for
Whedon...
-- 
Jolan Tru, Filippo "Hytok" Simone
L'oracolo sampdoriano di Sunnydale
http://perestroika.altervista.org/
http://lacasadeglielfi.altervista.org/

screens next year.
magari... Slayer School e Faith TVS... peccato per quel Unlike -_-
mi consola quel "potrebbe entrare in produzione e raggiungere i nostri
schermi l'anno prossimo"
quindi, alla fine dice che Ripper potrebbe anche essere un pilot per
qualcosa che riguardi le ghost stories... ho capito bene?
Altra cosa... ma Ripper parla della gioventù di Giles... ma come lo
ringiovaniscono ASH? (Head... non ASH la band irlandese^^)
Cerco su Tv.com... ho trovato questo:
Rupert "Ripper" Giles spent seven years guiding Buffy, the Vampire
Slayer, in her role as the Chosen One. Now his Slayer has changed the
world, and Giles must find a new path. This long-awaited spin-off from
Buffy the Vampire Slayer follows the adventures of Rupert Giles after
the earth-shaking events in Sunnydale.
Quindi Ripper seguirà le avventure di Giles dopo gli eventi di
Sunnydale... allora non avevo capito niente... comunque meglio perchè
così potrebbero entrare altri personaggi tipo Willow e Faith... massì
dai... anche Xander ^^
Leggendo su IMDB nella scheda di ASH, ci sono le domande degli utenti.
Uno chiede: 
Okay.. so is Ripper a tv MOVIE or tv SHOW? 	
Ive heard both. And TV.com is listing it as a tv show
Risposta:
As far as I understood, it will be a mini series, like State Of Play
or so.

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