I am not sure whether Joss Whedon is trolling the crap out of me or not, but supposedly he assembled a terrific cast of Whedon regulars and filmed an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing on the sly: http://muchadothemovie.com/ Nathan Fillion and Sean Maher are tweeting about it, and insisting it’s not a joke.
Opinions? Is this for real? I sure hope so, because I will watch the shit out of it.
The one and only question anyone ever needs to ask about any version of Much Ado about Nothing is, who’s playing Beatrice and Benedick? If the two leads have good chemistry, it’ll work well, and if they don’t, it won’t, regardless of anything else about the production.
Given that Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof have top billing, I think they are a safe assumption.
Assumption? It explicitly says who’s play whom in the press release.
The press release is a recent addition. For most of the day, there was nothing there but the initial image listing participants.
Please be true. Please.
I’m intrigued.
Ah. Sorry. Only saw this thread just a few minutes ago.
Ooh, that could really work. Much Ado is easily the best Shakespeare comedy to film, and some of the humour is actually pretty Whedonesque. And it has Nathan Fillion. I hope it is real.
Actually, I just read the press release. Nathan Fillion as Dogberry? Uh, now I hope it’s not real. That’d be terrible.
(and sorry for starting a duplicate thread).
Are you kidding? Fillion as Dogberry is going to be amazing!
Though not as amazing as Wesley and Fred… err, I mean, Denisof and Acker… as Benedick and Beatrice.
Bonus: the guys from the fantastic web comedy duo BriTANick are going to be in it as well!
I guess that after six months of shooting massive action set pieces, Joss felt the need to work on something cheap and dialog-oriented. Perfectly understandable.
Dogberry’s an idiot who loses completely. I don’t fancy seeing Fillion in that role, or seeing them change it so much that he’s a hero.
Not that I have any actual knowledge or anything, but I doubt they’re going to change much of anything. It’s been known for years that Whedon loves his Shakespeare and hosts informal readings for his actors regularly. My guess is that they’re be using the Bard’s original words (although perhaps abridged for length).
“An idiot who loses completely” is a pretty good description of Captain Hammer.
I can no longer see Denisof in any role other than Sander Rivers from “How I Met Your Mother”.
Fillion is twittering the crap out of it. Looks like it will be fun, especially with the grinding marathon shooting schedule they kept!
In the nicest possible way, cite? I’d love to read an interview or whatever where he talks about this.
I casually searched and found this referenced. Uh, it has some Angel spoilers, so I’ll spoiler box it.
Anything that gets Alexis Denisof out of the house, I’m watching!