Lots of nice tidbits in this. It sounds as though Joss got just the right guy to be DP, as he seems to have the perfect background for this.

Lioness | October 30, 10:06 CET

Nice to hear the comment about the crew cracking up.

Shakespeare's "humour" is notoriously hard to pull off.

ZodKneelsFirst | October 30, 11:55 CET

Ooh... prime lenses!

Sorry - got distracted there.

brinderwalt | October 30, 12:18 CET

This is off topic but I clicked the author of the interview's page and it says that he founded the SaveAngel campaign? How come I'm just now hearing about this... I thought it was more of a group collective?

[ edited by eddy on 2011-10-30 13:48 ]

eddy | October 30, 13:48 CET

There was Save Angel and Saving Angel - two separate campaigns.

Simon | October 30, 14:15 CET

Like the JPF and the PFJ?

ZodKneelsFirst | October 30, 14:28 CET

Marvelously enlightening interview. Love getting all the insights about the decision to shoot black and white, hand-held, and with a mix of natural and artificial light.

Candle-lit movie-making! That can make a lot of darkness visible, like The Grapes of Wrath.

Pointy | October 30, 15:39 CET

Oh ok, cool Simon. Learn something new everyday! This was a really good interview. My favorite of the bunch so far. I hope Joss does more projects like this in the future so we could see more content from him. Whats better, waiting a year for a project to get finished or a few weeks? I know what I'd rather have. Yeah theres the TV series option too but unless its cable its canceled pointless.

2012: Year of the Whedon. I need a Cabin in the Woods trailer now.

eddy | October 30, 16:43 CET

I have a sneaking suspicion that if MaaN, after making the Film Fest Circuit, should land a Million Dollar-plus Distribution Deal, then Joss would most likely make sure everyone has more than "Gas Money". Just sayin', is all.

TDBrown | October 30, 21:30 CET

That was a great interview, it gave a lot of insight into the project without spoiling the movie in any way. I cannot wait to get to see MAAN!

embers | October 30, 22:17 CET

Every interview makes me more impatient to see the film!

Pretty off-topic, but the reference to "Vows" made me wonder if we will ever learn the original plan for the post-Epitaph One scenes in Season 2.

alqualond | October 30, 22:22 CET

What I would say to his fans is that the reason he is able to make things like this is because of the fans, the fact that he has so many diehard followers that will seek out his material no matter what. Keep on doing that, and the chances of more things like this happening are a lot more likely.

Well, we're notoriously good networkers too and, we work for cheap!

Tonya J | October 31, 00:23 CET

I missed all of the announcement of this, only seeing it a couple of days after all the twittering and stuff.

Still kind of can't believe that this is happening. Another, fully fledged, Joss Whedon feature film next year. I initially assumed that this would be an Internet only thing, probably just someone filming one of the infamous Shakespeare get togethers at the Whedon homestead. Instead, this looks like they are really wanting to get it playing in various cinemas around the world. Fingers crossed for a nice big distribution deal.

Great interview here, with some interesting little technical titbits. Certainly sounds like the right man for the job was found.

Vandelay | October 31, 01:09 CET

Slightly OT this, but I've always wondered whatever happened to the Serving Girl Project. Joss had composed music for it, Summer Glau was waaay enthusiastic about dancing for Joss, and.... Nada. Asking too much, I know, but I wish they would/could get a chance to finish that.

TDBrown | October 31, 01:24 CET

Maybe he's stealth filming it right now...

Barry Woodward | October 31, 05:48 CET

@TDBrown - As I understand it, that was one of the projects that kept getting pushed back, due to other commitments for Joss (Dollhouse, his little art house picture The Avengers, etc.) and Summer (Terminator, possibly Cape.) Hopefully, with this new studio of his, we can possibly get to see some movement on that too.

Vandelay | October 31, 18:07 CET

Hi, gang, this is the Simon of that other Whedon site (the one with more name changes than P. Diddy.) Was a fun interview, and Jay was pleased to hear you enjoyed reading it. A slight clarification from him that he was joking about "basically doing it for gas money and lunch." Apparently they got enough for gas, lunch and a nice dinner, too. Says he, "My point was more that we all get paid very good money normally and everyone gladly took a huge pay cut to be involved in the project."

Also, an exclusive filmgeek bit for you all, something I didn't get to include in the original interview: the equipment used on the shoot were two Red Epic with Panavision lenses for the A & B cameras, and for certain special shots, a Canon 7D. The Epic is the new, portable 5k "hybrid" camera introduced last year by Red, and the one used to shoot The Hobbit and upcoming Spider-Man reboot. (see: http://www.red.com/products/epic)

Whedonage | November 01, 00:17 CET

Thank you for the tech info, Whedonage. I always love knowing this stuff.

sumogrip | November 01, 00:21 CET

That's pretty much what we're hoping to shoot Lust for Love with, Whedonage.

gossi | November 01, 00:26 CET