Salon.com > Buffy the Vampire Slayer http://www.salon.com Mon, 28 May 2012 00:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Joss Whedon takes on Shakespeare http://www.salon.com/2011/10/25/joss_whedon_takes_on_shakespeare/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/25/joss_whedon_takes_on_shakespeare/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10144208 Maybe it's atonement for "The Avengers." On Sunday night, actors Nathan Fillion and Sean Maher, along with costume designer Shawna Trpcic, cryptically tweeted a link to a Web page featuring a photo of Fillion toting a martini glass, somewhere in the middle of a lake. The image announced the completion of a new movie from Joss Whedon, the genius whose "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," "Firefly" and, to a lesser extent, "Dollhouse" are the very definition of awesome to nerds everywhere. According to the clues, the film stars a veritable who's who of Whedon alums. And it's "based on a play." A Shakespeare play. Oh God. Ohmigod. Then on Monday, Bellwether Pictures officially announced Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing." That thud you heard was everybody in America with a liberal arts degree fainting dead in excitement.

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