VasquezE(09/07/04 12:05:41)
Новости с кинофронта:
Съемки "Венецианской жары" отодвигаются на конец октября. Это отрывок из письма продюсера фильма одной из членов форума Marsters Mobsters
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The true status is that we are in the closing process on the finance. All is in place and it’s just a question of jumping through the legal hoops so we can start spending it! The project is definitely NOT abandoned, though I think our shoot date is now more likely to be end October.
Thanks for getting in touch – please look out for an official announcement in the next couple of weeks.
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Слэшеры намекают, что в конце сентября как раз будет конценция, на коротой встретятся ДМ и ДБ. Мол, пусть они вместе прямо оттуда едут на съемочную площадку и играют любовников... Хотя, памятуя о том, что ДБ стеснялся даже за руки браться, можно предположить, что он не согласится.
А это - отрывки из интервью в последнем номере "Ангела". Уворовано с BAPS, каковым большое спасибо!
Anyway here are the Spike/James bits. I think I've got them all but I may
have missed a few.
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David Boreanaz interview (by Tara O'Shea):
"[Spike and Angel]are just the saddest [duo]," continues David, referring to
the fan-favourite character who died in the Buffy finale but was ressurected
to join the Angel cast for their final season. "They try so hard, and they
can't quite grasp it. But they're so macho and cool. I would really loved to
have seen more development towards that [relationship] this season. I had
this one episode that I pitched which would have been really funny, and it's
almost the kind of 'Some Like it Hot' thing, where James and I had to
actually dress up as women. It would have been cool. I can walk in a pair of
heels!"
Amy Acker interview (by Abbie Bernstein)
Working with ghostly Spike in the early Season Five episodes presented somem
challenges Amy notes: "The did it all with [James Marsters] in the room.
They had to lock off the cameras - the camera can't move on his coverage
when he's fading, but he's actually there the whole time, so I don't get to
see the visual effects. When I watched ['Hell Bound'] I was going, 'Oh, I
didn't realise he would be that invisible there!'"
Of the changes in format for Season Five, Amy says, "It's been really fun.
It seems like it's been this way for a long time now - it's hard to remember
that this is the first year that it's been like this," she laughs. "Having
James there is great. He just was so excited. It was sad not having Charisma
[Carpenter, Cordelia] and Vincent [Kartheiser, Connor] there, but Charisma
came back [for 'You're Welcome'] - it was just like she hadn't been gone, so
it was fun."
J August Richards interview (by Abbie Bernstein)
Gunn has warmed up to Spike somewhat J notes. "My character is not as
vampire-phobic as he used to be, but because Spike doesn't like Angel, I
don't like him. But now that I understand that dynamic better, I accept him
into the fold. He saved my life once, so that also helps matters. I've
really had so few scenes with James - which sucks for me, because I love to
work with him."
Joss Whedon interview about "Conviction" (by Abbie Bernstein)
Actually, Joss says, moving Angel and co. to Wolfram & Hart was a creative
decision, not a financial one. "I came up with this idea long before I found
out we'd almost got canceled [at the end of Season Four]. One day, I just
went, as I usually do in the middle of the season, 'Oh, I know what next
season is - how does this sound?' No, it just felt so right. It wasn't
about, 'Oh, we need to change.' And [Fox and The WB] never said 'Change your
paradigm.' They said, 'We'd like things to be a little more stand-alone,
because we want to bring in new viewers.' That was the one thing we got from
The WB. All the changed that we made were mine."
The WB was very happy to add Spike to Angel's fifth season, but Joss says
actor James Marsters would not have joined the cast if Joss hadn't wanted
him there in the first place. Going into discussing Season Five with The WB,
"There were all sorts of deal-breakers. It was a tough negotiation. And
that's between The WB and Fox, mostly. I was just, 'You know, let me know.
We all want to do it.' I love Marsters. If they asked me to do something
that was against the nature of the show, of what I have to say, I wouldn't
do it. Like I said, we don't have to. We do it because we love it.
"[James and I] talked about it when we realized tehre wasn't going to be
another spin-off," Joss continues, "and then The WB came in and said 'We
love that idea.' I wanted to stagger [Spike's return] and do it a little bit
later in the season, to make it more of a surprise, because what I didn't
want was to announce he was going to be on the show before I killed him on
the other show. It kind of took the mystery out of it for some people. But I
knew that James was coming back in one incarnation or another. It was during
the second episode of Season Seven of Buffy when James said, 'I know you've
got this beautiful death planned for me, but I really like working and this
character. Can I come back? And I said, 'Okay.'"
Victor Raider-Wexler (Hainsley from Just Rewards) interview (by Tara
DiLullo)
As Magnus Hainsley, Victor was a tricky first adversary for Angel and his
new ghostly sidekick, Spike. Victor remembers it was interesting not only
for him to get accustomed to the set, but also to watch his fellow leads,
David Boreanaz and James Marsters, do the same with one another. "They work
very differently and [James] was worried if he was going to be able to put
himself in the Angel culture having come from Buffy. I found Angel to be a
very friendly set, with a very nice crew and cast," he offers.
<cut to later in the article>
"They wanted him to be more overtly demonically evil than my choices," he
continues. "But I had admired Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector and he is
an example of a bad guy in great control, and it seemed to me Hainsley went
that way. Once they made it clear to me, who the man was, they didn't
interfere with me in how I presented him. There was also a lot of support
both from James and David and the stuntmen around for the fight scenes."
Simon Templeman (Pavayne from Hell Bound) interview (by Tara DiLullo)
Pavayne spends just about the entire episode torturing Spike, so obviously
Simon got to work closely with James Martsers for the shoot duration. "I had
seen James before and I'd just thought, 'Oh, it's another Brit in town.' It
was only when I met him that it turned out he's from California! I was so
impressed. I was imagining he was from the north of London and I couldn't
figure out why I hadn't come across him in the casting corridor," he shares.
"Maybe my ear is going but if somebody is doing an English accent, often
it's quite easy to spot it. It's something about the manner so I guess James
is just very English."
The intensity of "Hell Bound" was so strong that the episode ran with
parental disclaimers before it aired in the States - a first for the series.
Many scenes centered on the disturbing images and ghosts brought forth by
Pavayne to torture Spike, making for some powerful moments for the actors.
"I hadn't wokred with [James] before so it was nice to watch him work and
see how he prepares. It was harder for James because there were so many
changes. It was all broken up but it's played as one scene. His togs would
come off and then he would be called to do something else, back and forth to
his trailer. But James comes ready. He doesn't warm up slowly and get into
it - he's just ready to go."
<snip to part of interview talking about the fight scene at the end of the
episode>
"James is very good too," he continues. "It took me by surprise because he
is really sharp on that stuff. You can tell he has done a lot of it. He is
very proficient and very safe too. He got me through it, actually. I screwed
my back up the week before [the shoot] and I thought 'This is all I need'
but I didn't get hurt thankfully."
Interview with Steven De Knight and Drew Goddard about 'Damage' (by Tara
DiLullo)
The idea for the episode came straight from Joss' braom. "Ever since the
series finale of Buffy, Joss had always talked about a psycho slayer story -
about a girl who was mentally unstable and suddenly got these slayer
powers," Steve reveals. "It was always something in the back of his mind,
and then he decided this would be a great time to do it because he also
wanted to explore the different ways in which Angel and Spike feel about
their past. Where Spike is very cavalier about what he has done, which is
his coping mechanism, Angel is much more brooding about it." A dark episode
all round, Steve even admits there was some trepidation in taking the
powerful and positive nature of Buffy's gift at the end of 'Chosen' and
twisting it in such a disturbing light. "There was a lot of concern about
whether Buffy was culpable for this, and if it was her fault. My opinion,
which was shared by other writers, was that she saved the world by doing
this. Honestly, she wouldn't want anyone to be hurt, but if that happened I
think she would consider it acceptable at that point. In saving the world,
Anya and Spike died so there were people being sacrificed already."
<snip>
As for any favourite moments from the script, Steve offers, "In my section
of the script, I enjoyed being able to write Andrew [Tom Lenk] again." Drew
concurs adding, "He's like a Shakespearean clown just not written nearly as
well! He is the fool that nobody listens to but is usually right." Steve
continues, "On Drew's side of the script, I loved the final talk that Angel
and Spike have in the hospital room, The 'Once Upon a Time' of it was just
great, and Drew and I were both elated when Joss came in and said, 'I think
she should chop off Spike's arms.' It was great! We did have a lot of talks
about if we could do something like chopping arms off and have it
believable, but the Wolfram & Hart situation made it a lot easier. Plus
[special effects house] Zoic did a great effect with Spike's arms."
The last we saw of Dana, she was being taken to England, but Steve reveals
they planned to bring her back. "We were definitely talking about bringing
Dana back in future seasons with Buffy and the Slayerettes trying to
rehabilitate her. Her story fits right in with Angel and Spike."
Eyal Podell (Lawson in 'Why We Fight') interview (by Tara DiLullo)
"I had also never worked with prosthetics before," he continues. "It was
great to get the opportunity to transform yourself in a mirror. I got to see
James [Marsters] in his vamp make-up and some of the other characters, so I
was excited about it. It makes you look mean and gives you a certain snarl."
Cooped up in that sub with David Boreanaz and James Marsters, Eyal relveals
he had a great time picking their brains about the show. "Mostly, I talked
to them about the mythology. All the questions I had about the script, like
how do you vamp or can vampires breathe under water? I wanted to have a full
understanding of what the episode was about, so if I saw any place I could
play something up then I had the knowledge to do it." He continues, "They
were both a blast. They were very professional at first but once we had been
working together for a while there was a good camaraderie and a great sense
of humor and pranking. Watching James singing 'God Save the Queen' with a
British accent or hearing David say his German line, which always cracked us
up for some reason. They do their jobs well but like to have fun, which
helped in those close quarters."
Drew Goddard interview (by Matt Partney)
Does the Prince of Lies have any specific significance? "The Prince of Lies
was my brainchild!" Drew Goddard exclaims. "The origin of the name goes back
to a Buffy episode I wrote [called 'Lies My Parents Told Me']. Drusilla is
suggesting nicknames for a newly sired Spike [one of them being] Lucien,
Prince of Lies. But David Fury, who directed the episode m cut it out. He
cut out my Prince of Lies joke! It was all Fury's fault!"
Ben Edlund and Drew Massey (the designer of puppet Angel) on Smile Time (by
Matt Partney)
Speaking of flying puppets, the Spike/Puppet Angel fight had to be the
highlight of the episode.
BEN: Oh that was cool. I think that's like the nitrous oxide boost in the
episode. I think it goes fine up to that point, it works, but we don't
really harvest the full-on energy of this joke until Puppet Angel starts
kicking Spike's ass.
[James Marsters] was rolling around on the floor. That was a big rug-burn
day, I'm just assuming, for Mr Marsters. He threw himself into it. Y'know he
was puppetting the puppet for a large part of that fight.
DREW: I have to say I was really impressed the way James Marsters wrestled
with the stunt Angel puppet. I gotta give him props. Usually when you give a
rag doll to an actor, you thinkm 'Oh this is going to look horrible.' He
totally sold that thing.
BEN: For me, the most successful sht in the show is the one where Spike
throws Puppet Angel up and he lands on his feet in the foreground, because
that's puppet magic, baby! That was one gaga I made up and the rest is
[Angel stunt coordinator] Mike Massa. Like all the cool fighting at the end
wouldn't be anywhere near what it is without Massa.
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