Firefly and Buffy creator Joss Whedon has a new series coming up…on Fox. (The same network that crapped all over Firefly, moving the time slot and running episodes out of order.) Called “Dollhouse,” the new series stars Eliza Dushku as a mind-wiped assassin slave who can be imprinted with various personalities and skills to perform missions whatever.
From Fox’s series description:
Echo (Eliza Dushku) [is] a young woman who is literally everybody’s fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language–even muscle memory–for different assignments. The assignments can be romantic, adventurous, outlandish, uplifting, sexual and/or very illegal. When not imprinted with a personality package, Echo and the others are basically mind-wiped, living like children in a futuristic dorm/lab dubbed the Dollhouse, with no memory of their assignments–or of much else. The show revolves around the childlike Echo’s burgeoning self-awareness, and her desire to know who she was before, a desire that begins to seep into her various imprinted personalities and puts her in danger both in the field and in the closely monitored confines of the Dollhouse.
E! Online has an interview with Whedon and Dushku. Give this one a chance, Fox!
Best News Ever! Joss Whedon Spills Exclusive Deets on His New Series [EOnline.com]
I guess Whedon decided to give FOX the quality they deserve. This sounds boring AND Dushku was one of the least interesting actors on Buffy/Angel. I don’t think she can carry a series, regardless how bad the idea is.
Oh hooray. I have the theme from “Joe 90″ going through my head now.
River lite?
I know a paycheck is a payheck but after fox NoSpinZoned FF Jos had better have Kevlar undergarments on at all time.
-tonhiggins
Dushku’s tolerability is directly proportional to the ratio of high-energy ass-kicking to talking/emoting she does. She’s like a marginally more talented Jessica Alba or a marginally less talented female Keanu Reeves.
And surprise, surprise. A Joss Whedon series featuring an hot young supergirl with angst.
I only feel a *little* guilty knowing I will be automatically setting the season pass on the TiVo.
The one potential this has, as I see it, is the inherent ability within the premise to contain a good deal of independent ‘non-major-arc’ action, which can carry the load as little bits of info from the big picture are dished out. Think of the best years of X-Files.
They should just bring back Firefly. Stupid Fox.
This made BoingBoing gadgets??? It’s awesome news, but not very gadget like. And if you read the article FOX gave them a 7 episode deal not just a pilot deal so we’ll at least get 7 episodes. Also Joss isn’t hog tied into a development deal so they might be more inclinded to keep him working on one show.
Also, the fact that FOX pulled the non-theatrical license for the Buffy Musical was more Boing Boing like news and I am still shocked nobody has mentioned it. Maybe Joss is writing/playing nice with FOX is good news.
Or what about the WGA strike will delay Dollhouse and is tied directly to New Media? Just to let you know – if anybody reads this.
You mean “Pretender” only it’s with a woman now. Talk about recycling ideas. The Networks are going green
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…a recycled idea from Neuromancer, is the big idea from the Saviour of Geeks? I sure hope that Joe Sweden has a few other irons in the fire.
Everything in tv and film these days is recylced and regurgitated over and over. Its all about trying to make whats old fresh again.
Jc
…a copy of the charater Cammy from streetfight, who was a “doll” assasin who gained self-awareness from Dalsiam.
then again, firefly was a copy of cowboy bebop, Joss knows what he’s doing, I’m looking forward to it.
What’s the music playing in this new preview for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse?