Ein herzliches, wunderschönes Interview mit dem werten Joss über Stricken und so, in dem sogar Dollhouse vorkommt, das aber an sich höchst lesens-/hörenswert ist:

KW: Looking ahead to Dollhouse, which sort of, from the trailers we've seen, has a bit of a slick look, should crafters be looking forward to any sort of things that will inspire their hands to make something?
JW: Hard to say. The, you know, the operation's very sleek, but at the same time, the world they live in is very spa-like, Eastern, and yoga-matty. So, there may be touches in there. I mean it's a little more wicker than actual loom-work. But we were going for a very natural, earthy environment for them inside of a kind of a laboratory feeling. So it's working across surfaces. The viewer will see a little of them in there. I doubt we'll find anything as iconic as the Jayne hat. I can convince Eliza [Dushku] to do a lot of things but that might not be one of them.

KW: No? But maybe she'll knit or crochet or decoupage in one of the episodes?
JW: Obviously decoupaging is too racy for Fox. So, I mean, they couldn't allow that.

KW: There's whoops and cheers from decoupagers everywhere now.
JW: It's just Standards and Practices, they draw the line at this kind of thing.

Und am Ende wird's dann ganz süß:

KW: Do you have a favourite handmade gift you've either given or received, or both? Not that they would be the same gift.
JW: It wasn't given to me, but when my son was born, actually, Eliza, a few years ago, gave him a Bishop Tutu doll, which she had gotten in South Africa. It's really cool. He has little glasses, and every now and then Bishop Tutu will suddenly show up again, hanging out with whatever they're playing with. So, I thought that was pretty nifty.

KW: That is pretty great. Joss Whedon, thank you so much for talking with us today.
JW: Thank you. Oh!

KW: Yeah?
JW: You know what?

KW: What?
JW: I've got one other. Dichen. Dichen Lachman is Sierra on our show.

KW: Yeah?
JW: On Dollhouse. Her mother sent me—it's not actually very crafty, because it's just a string with a knot in it, but the string was blessed by the Dalai Lama, and one of his monks tied the knot. She sent it to me as a present of good will because I work at Fox—I mean, in Hollywood. It doesn't really qualify as a craft, tying one knot in it, tying it around my wrist to make a bracelet, but I love it [muffled].

Also was für Connections dieses Dollhouse-Set hat! Und man beachte auch, wie crafty das erste Dollhouse-Merchandise ist...

Transkript - Audio - Notes

Eliza-Interview über "Nobel Son", inklusive Dollhouse-Part.

What about Dollhouse, which starts in February?
It's really exciting, I love it. Joss Whedon is my friend and my hero, and we came up with this show together. I'm an executive producer on it, and it's really a he-and-I team love project. We're on episode seven out of thirteen, and I've already played twentysomething different characters, because I play different characters every week since we're imprinted with these disparate personalities. And I ride motorcycles and bow-hunt and river-raft and do all these crazy things every week — it's just awesome.

How much do you get to train for those crazy things?
Maybe an hour. [Laughs] It's like the day before, Joss will say, "I'm going to throw you off a roof," and I say, "Cool, let's do it!"

Die mehrfache Erwähnung lässt übrigens nur darauf schließen, dass sie derzeit tatsächlich Folge sieben drehen. Wie sichd as ausgehen soll, dass sie am 16. Folge 10 angehen wollen, ist mir schleierhaft, aber ich schätze mal, die Intreviews wurde schon vor ein, vielleicht zwei Wochen geführt, und in Wirklichkeit drehen sie gerade Folge 8 oder schon 9.

Außerdem: Eliza ist nicht nur producer, sondern executive producer!

Joss' und Drew Goddards The Cabin in the Woods kommt wohl doch etwas später als erwartet:

Meanwhile, the Joss Whedon-produced, Drew Goddard-directed CABIN IN THE WOODS, of which we really know nothing about (other than, you know, it's probably set in a cabin in the woods) has been pushed all the way from 10/23/09 to 2/5/10. Yikes! This is most likely due to the fact that it was going to square off against SAW VI and for better or worse, you just can't do that. These SAW movies automatically make about $30 mil opening weekend, so it's a wise move for the CABIN to relocate. Still, it's pretty hard to get excited about a movie that's coming out in 2010.

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Produktion soll übrigens nächsten Februar/März anfangen, also quasi lückenlos an Dollhouse anschließen. Außerdem nutze ich die Gelegenheit einfach, um J.J. Abrams nochmal auszulachen, und um auf das großartige It's Own Sub-genre hinzuweisen, wo The One True b!X ungefähr das macht, was ich hier seit März mit Dollhouse betreibe: Ein schier unendlich weit entferntes Whedon-Projekt herbeizubloggen. Noch schlimmer dürfte die Sache wohl nur für What is Mia Made of sein.

Und das alles Dank der The Dan Band!

Und zwar, again, bei Amazon.com. Erscheint schon am 15.12., also wenn man für Porto viel zahlt, schafft es die sogar noch zu Weihnachten rechtzeitig her.