Alan Tudyk Talks About His Role On ‘Dollhouse’

Actor Alan Tudyk is no stranger to working with Joss Whedon. Tudyk starred as Wash on “Firefly” and later the big-screen “Serenity.” Last Friday, Tudyk turned up in a pivotal guest role on Whedon’s current series, “Dollhouse.”

If you haven’t seen last Friday’s episode, you will definitely want to stop reading now. We’re about to give away some huge SPOILERS for the episode, which will definitely ruin the fun.

In the episode, Tudyk helped Agent Paul Ballard break into the “Dollhouse.” Tudyk’s character was supposed to be an environmental engineer who helped design the Dollhouse in order to keep it off the grid. However, in the final segment, it was revealed that Tudyk wasn’t playing the engineer–instead, he was the mysterious and dangerous Alpha. Alpha then uploaded a new personality to Echo and left the building with her, setting up things for this week’s first-season finale.

“We take it on the road,” Tudyk told SciFi Wire. “There may be a kidnapping or two in the episode, but for Alpha it’s about fulfilling his plan, which is just the last step. Getting Echo was the second-to-the-last step of his ultimate plan. He’s got one more thing in place before they can really go on their worldwide-domination killing spree, ruling-the-world spree. It’s about making her in his own image, really, as far as he’s a god. In his mind, he’s a god, and he wants to bring her up to his level of multiple personalities.”

Tudyk was asked if he though Alpha envisioned a scenario with he and Echo riding off into the sunset and living happily ever after.

“I think that’s Alpha’s plan, sure,” said Tukyk. “You know, everything that Alpha’s done has been to get Echo. Whenever you see Alpha, he’s screwing with the Dollhouse, and it’s always around Echo and his obsession with Echo. It was his plan all along to come get Echo, and that’s what it was all about. Now he has her, and he gets to fulfill his plan now, which is to make her like him. What Alpha is is this composite of people. We understand that he’s a bunch of people crammed into one. He’s 43 people in one, and he’s ascended in his mind to a godlike place.”

As for what the finale holds and if Alpha might be back should FOX give the show a second season, Tudyk was tight-lipped.

“I can’t say, because Alpha may not make it through the next episode. He does have Echo, and Alpha is a formidable person to deal with, but he has Echo, and that’s playing with fire. It could blow up in his face,” he said.

Fans can tune into the season finale of “Dollhouse” this Friday at 9 p.m. EST on Fox.

Joss Whedon Talks About Dollhouse’s Possible Future

Joss Whedon, creator of Fox’s sci-fi series Dollhouse, told reporters that there is still a chance that Fox will pick the show up for a second season, provided the remaining four episodes do well—especially with a new lead-in, Prison Break, which replaces Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles in the timeslot before, starting April 24.

"The question is, with a different lead-in, will anything change?" Whedon said in a group interview Wednesday in Hollywood before appearing on a Paley Festival panel about the show. "Will Prison Break be a worse match for us because it’s such a different show? Or will it be better because more people watch it? Do more people watch it? I don’t know what the numbers on Prison Break are. So there are a lot of X factors."

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Fox Schedules Full Run Of “Dollhouse” – First Season

So, keep watching and maybe we’ll get that second season….

Nathan Fillion Talks About A Possible ‘Dr. Horrible’ Sequel

Nathan Fillion, who played Captain Hammer in Joss Whedon’s online musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, told reporters that the seeds of a proposed sequel were planted in the original’s DVD. Whedon previously told SCI FI Wire that he is considering a sequel and will explore new forms of media with it.

“There is talk about a Dr. Horrible sequel,” Fillion said in a group interview last week in Universal City, Calif., where he was promoting his upcoming ABC series Castle. “It’s actually in one of the songs on the Dr. Horrible DVD commentary music.” The recently released home-video version of Dr. Horrible featured a musical commentary track.

But Fillion said a sequel won’t happen right away. Fillion is starting a new TV series, and Whedon is working on his own show, Fox’s upcoming SF series Dollhouse. “He’s busy with Dollhouse right now, and I’m a little bit busy with Castle right now, so not in the near future, no,” Fillion said.

Nevertheless, Fillion said he’s eager to do the sequel, as Dr. Horrible was such a positive experience. “What we did was that we all own a piece of it,” he said. “It’s this wonderful, new kind of idea where there are no producers involved, deciding who gets what and taking a huge chunk for themselves. We all own a piece. The contract was half a page, and it’s the sweetest contract I’ve ever signed. I finally get a piece of one of his musicals. They call them ‘Whedonverse trifectas.’ If you’ve done three projects with Joss Whedon, you’re a trifecta. Well, I was up to four, and my musical was the only one I had left. I had wanted to do that musical, and that was my chance.”

As fans know, Fillion starred in Whedon’s Firefly and its movie spinoff, Serenity. He also played a villain in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Firefly/Serenity fans, who call themselves Browncoats, still clamor for more. “[They come up to me] constantly,” Fillion said. “I loved it. It’s the best job I’ve ever had. It was fantastic. But nothing is on the horizon. Not yet.”

Fillion also recorded the voice of Steve Trevor in an animated Wonder Woman movie, part of Warner Brothers Animation’s DC comics series, out on DVD March 3. “They’re actually couriering the DVD to me today, as we speak,” Fillion said. “It might even be on my porch right now, so I can tell you more after today. I had a good time. I’ve done some voice work with those people before. They’re very, very friendly and very, very kind, and it was another opportunity to, although not work alongside Keri Russell [as the voice of Wonder Woman], but work on the same project as Keri Russell.” (Fillion co-starred with Russell in the independent movie Waitress.)

Source: Scifi Wire

Joss Whedon speaks about Dollhouse and has a message for haters.

Joss Whedon, creator of Fox’s upcoming sci-fi drama Dollhouse, has a message for the haters out there: Give the show a frakkin’ chance!

Responding to my questions for the first time about the swirl of buzz surrounding the much-anticipated show, Whedon said in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, Dec. 6, that the show’s found its groove, that he’s very happy with the way it’s going and that he’s confident viewers will like it.

But with characteristic candor, Whedon also admits that the negative buzz—based in part on reports of reshoots, a scrapped pilot, production halts and a Friday night “death slot”—weighs on him and that he also struggled to find the show’s voice during a lengthy development process.

“You do [think about it],” Whedon said in Los Angeles during a Fox press day. “I mean, you notice things. The fact is, it’s not a seamless birthing process. But … it seldom is. For me, never. And the only difference is now everybody in the world knows everything about everything. But that doesn’t really change what’s going on. And it’s been hard, and I’ve had despair, and I’ve had joy and excitement, and, … ultimately, it has nothing to do with whether or not you will respond to the TV show.” And he has more to say. Read more

Video – New ‘Dollhouse’ Clip

Entertainment Weekly has a new video clip from the February 13th premiere of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse.

In the clip, we see “the first time we see Echo (Eliza Dushku) wake up after having her memories wiped in the special memory-flushing chair” which “leads into a discussion between lab tech Topher (Fran Kranz) and Echo’s handler Boyd (Harry Lennix) about her last “date,” delving into just what being a doll/active means.”

I’m still not excited for this show, as much as I would like to be. What do you guys think? Read more

New Trailer For Joss Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’ Is Here

Fox has released a new trailer for Joss Whedon’s upcoming SF series Dollhouse, starring Eliza Dushku.

The series–which has undergone an overhaul, including the scrapping of its original pilot–

comes from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly.

Dushku (Buffy’s Faith) plays Echo, an “Active,” or member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected, the Actives don’t just perform their hired roles, they wholly become them–with mind, personality and physiology–to do whatever a client wants or needs. Whether imprinted to be a lover, an assassin, a corporate negotiator or a best friend, the Actives know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time.

Confined between missions to a secret facility known as the “Dollhouse,” Echo and the other Actives–including Sierra (Dichen Lachman) and Victor (Enver Gjokaj)–are assigned engagements by Adelle (Olivia Williams), one of the Dollhouse leaders. After each scenario, Echo, always under the watchful eye of her handler Boyd (Harry Lennix), returns to the mysterious Dollhouse where her thoughts, feelings, experiences and knowledge are erased by Topher (Fran Kranz), the Dollhouse’s genius programmer. But is Echo acquiring a memory of her own? Dollhouse is slated to air in January. Read more

Summer Glau Teams With Joss Whedon Again For Short Film

Summer Glau is to reunite with Joss Whedon for a short film entitled The Serving Girl.

The actress and ballerina worked with director Whedon in Angel, Firefly, and Serenity.

He has since been working on a short film which can show off the dancing ability of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles star, reports MTV.

Production is on hold until both can find a suitable gap in their schedules.

“We’ve both very dedicated to the concept, and it is the next kind of dream for something to do, but it’s like working with any other artist. If they’re good, they’re very often busy, and you gotta wait,” Whedon said.

“We’ve been waiting to do this for years,” Glau added. “But when you’re on a series, you live there, and that’s all we do. So we’re going to have to wait until the next hiatus, but that’s not even that far away, so keep your fingers crossed.”

Source: Digital Spy

Jonatha Brooke & Eric Bazilian Finishing Up ‘Dollhouse’ Theme Song

Scifi Wire reports that folksinger Jonatha Brooke announced on her Web site that she and songwriter Eric Bazilian have composed the theme song to Joss Whedon’s upcoming Fox SF series Dollhouse, which hits the airwaves in January.

The show follows an organization that employs mind-wiped DNA-altered humans known as Dolls who are implanted with false memories and skills for various missions and tasks. When they are not ‘at work’ they are living in a real life Dollhouse which gives the show the name. Read more

Joss Whedon & His Web-Based Musical

Joss Whedon is exploiting the new media that Hollywood writers and actors are so worried about with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a three-act musical that will premiere on the Web. The first act of the new musical will debut today (Tuesday, July 15th) with Act 2 due on Thursday followed by the third act on July 19th. All three acts will remain on line until July20th. Read more

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