Joss Whedon Makes a Musical with Nathon Fillion and NPH!?
Filed under: Music & Musicals, Casting, RumorMonger, Home Entertainment
So ... during a recent chat with AICN, Neil Patrick Harris said: "I'm doing a web short film that Joss Whedon is directing and wrote called DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-A-LONG BLOG. That's a musical about super villains and crossing my fingers for the next round of Dancing With The Stars. (long pause) No ..." This, of course, led to a flurry of comments over at Whedonesque, and Joss himself finally weighed in, giving us another reason to love the Internet.Joss says: "The bag is catless. During the strike I started writing a musical intended as a limited internet series, 3 episodes of approximately 10 minutes each." He managed to get interest in the project, and this week, they started shooting. As Whedon describes it: "It's the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he's too shy to talk to." I'm getting flashbacks to The Venture Brothers and 40 Days and 40 Nights, but I don't care!
Just to make it even better -- NPH is Dr. Horrible, who I presume is the super-villain, Nathan Fillion is Captain Hammer (mean ol' superhero?), and Felicia Day is Penny. Day, by the way, was the young newbie slayer Vi on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Now if only Joss could give us more, regular, moving media work.
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3-18-2008 @ 2:33PM
TheMatt said...
Also, don't forget that Felicia is currently starring in the quite funny web series, "The Guild":
http://www.youtube.com/user/watchtheguild
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3-18-2008 @ 2:41PM
Tigerlily said...
My ears always perk up at the sound of Joss Whedon. The plot sounds really funny.
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3-19-2008 @ 1:56PM
AJ Wiley said...
Being a member of Whedonesque (UnpluggedCrazy), I heard about this the other day when it broke...
I've only got two words:
"Hell" and "yes."
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3-22-2008 @ 2:18AM
spinninnzen said...
And they said God doesnt exist...pfsh if this aint proof I dont know what is. Joss Whendon with a side order of Nathan and Felicia Im soooooooo there!
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