September 10 2013
Joss Whedon rewrote a SHIELD script, according to Defamer.
As of right now it's just an unsourced rumor on a gossip site.
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banner | September 10, 12:41 CET
White Tiger | September 10, 12:44 CET
Xander | September 10, 12:47 CET
Niels van Eekelen | September 10, 12:49 CET
I do love the tag so very much.
[ edited by xostrahovski on 2013-09-10 21:53 ]
xostrahovski | September 10, 12:50 CET
Meanwhile, I'm just going to have to assume that this means SHIELD has already been cancelled, ABC didn't even promote it, they put it on Friday nights, and Coulson is being called a Space Hooker in the promos.
sumogrip | September 10, 12:50 CET
I was digging last night in regards to another matter and found some comments from Tim Minear in regards to Joss' input on Angel which I think may be relevant to this thread.
Ideally, that’s what a writing staff does. They write. And a show runner doesn’t have to go in and fix everything. The Buffy staff was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Each one of them would have been the stand-out on any other writing staff.
By the time Angel came along, he’d sussed out the process pretty damn well. And the man who was with him at the start of Buffy, David Greenwalt, was running the new show. And they had, frankly, me. For whatever reason Joss, David and I clicked right away. We spoke the same language (oddly, we all sort of talk alike now. And I know it’s not just me -- I was told by a company I wrote a movie for that Jeff Bell was in to do a project for them and they were like, “you sound just like Tim Minear!”)
Anyway, speaking as guy who was one of the heavy lifters on Angel, Joss was totally involved. At least from seasons one through four when I was there. (And in his interview, David Fury says Joss actually put in *more* face time in season five, so make of that what you will...) Every single story was broken with Joss. Angel locking the lawyers in the wine cellar? Joss. Angel firing his crew? Joss. The big showdown to hell being a simple elevator ride? Joss. Darla being staked to have her baby? Okay, that we me. Still. I pitched that she *gets* staked, Joss said, “what if she stakes herself?” I think you can see the value of that particular modification.
Thing was, he could spin out some idea and I’d understand in two seconds what he meant and could go do it, and he didn’t have to worry. It was like that with all of us. But the driving force, the guy at the wheel, that was Joss. He’d chart where we needed to go, vet outlines, drafts, and always sit in on a cut after I was done and give notes. He was involved.
Simon | September 10, 12:53 CET
BringItOn5x5 | September 10, 13:14 CET
redders | September 10, 13:18 CET
sumogrip | September 10, 13:21 CET
Kessie | September 10, 13:32 CET
Giles_314 | September 10, 14:03 CET
I can only imagine what this scary world will throw at us next...
brinderwalt | September 10, 14:08 CET
Reddygirl | September 10, 14:13 CET
KingofCretins | September 10, 14:20 CET
How about Woo hoo! Joss is still putting his special Jossy touches on Shield scripts even though he's so busy! Awesome news!
uh, the good kind of touches...
jcs | September 10, 14:48 CET
It's early days, and the best Whedon projects have been the ones with more direct input from the Man, not less.
dottikin | September 10, 15:02 CET
Wow.
hann23 | September 10, 15:07 CET
apollo11 | September 10, 15:36 CET
That Defamer item is just nonsensical. Pfft!
punkinpuss | September 10, 15:37 CET
Kaan | September 10, 15:49 CET
Dana5140 | September 10, 16:01 CET
Also, re: Simon's Minear quote, which I assume was in response to the David Fury interview Blastr dug up yesterday: I've always thought his comments re: Joss being not involved in Angel were misconstrued. In the interview, he's clearly making the statement only in comparison to how hyper-involved Joss was in the early seasons of BTVS, and in reference to missing his physical, every-day presence on set.
Ara | September 10, 17:10 CET
NYPinTA | September 10, 19:33 CET
@theonetruebix | September 10, 21:49 CET
electricspacegirl | September 10, 23:19 CET
@theonetruebix | September 10, 23:25 CET
Shapenew | September 11, 00:44 CET
- It isn't possible to do a page one rewrite of a TV episode in an hour. Hell, it's barely possible to say the words in an hour, let alone think of them.
- Joss is not transitioning the show running to Jed and Maurissa. Jed and Maurissa share the creator credits of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; they have been show running it since day one.
They're a good five+ episodes in script wise and there's a lot of sweet going on.
[ edited by gossi on 2013-09-11 11:18 ]
gossi | September 11, 02:18 CET
Don't think that was the author's intent.
D-e-f- | September 11, 02:41 CET
I can believe he was doing rewrites of an episode right before the reading, but the website's assumption about the script being bad sounds like sensationalist, unfounded gossip. My guess is it being a page-one rewrite was also an exaggeration. But I've read that past episodes he did complete overhauls of were 'Lovers Walk' and 'The Zeppo'. So it's not like I'll dread it.
Bluelark | September 11, 04:12 CET
This is about as alarming as saying "the writers required a lengthy meeting to break the first story arc! They even had to order in Chinese food! Warning: Troubled Production!!!"
AndrewCrossett | September 11, 06:34 CET
If they are doing last minute re-writes, it's not like they are starting with a blank page and no plot. Probably more like Michelangelo sculpting: chipping away small pieces to deal with the elephant in the room (or something like that).
OneTeV | September 11, 10:13 CET
For a show to run smoothly, you want the writer's draft to come in as close to shootable as possible, so that the busy showrunners have less to do on the script. As mentioned in the Minear interview above, it took Joss three seasons to find a Buffy staff who lived up to this standard. If this story is true, then it may be the case that some of the writers are not working out. That doesn't mean the show is doomed, of course.
bonzob | September 11, 11:31 CET