Leader of le’ Browncoats, Joss Whedon, stopped by TV Guide to talk a little about the muchly-talked-about “Spike” telemovie that’s apparently gaining steam.
You spoke to Tim Minear about writing and directing the Spike movie. Where do things stand?
Things stand that all of the art guys — the people who would be involved artistically — have been trading phone calls going, “Wouldn’t this be cool? Wouldn’t this be cool?” We don’t have a paradigm set up yet. We don’t have anything solid to announce. I’m just making sure that the creative people I need are in place before I set up a whole deal and then James Marsters goes, “Gosh, you know? That’s kind of behind me now.” Or [if] I don’t have a writer I can trust, because I don’t have time to do it all myself; I need one of my peeps. And there’s no greater peep for something like this than Mr. [Tim] Minear. I’m optimistic that I will actually have something to say in the near future, but at this point it’s still me and my buddies going, “Wouldn’t it be cool?”
Have you spoken to David Janollari at WB yet?
I’m not going to go into the deal-making stuff at all.
Can you tell us if you’ve spoken to anyone aside from James about appearing in the movie?
Yes, I have.
Amy Acker?
Yes, I have. Well, you know, I see Amy a lot, I see Allyson [Hannigan] a lot and Alexis [Denisof]. I’ve spoken to a couple of people just because we’re making conversation, and they don’t hate the idea. The worst thing that could happen is that somebody would be too busy because, as we know, all of my alumni are taking over the world.
Do you see Allyson/Willow being a part of it?
You know, if I get a chance to use Allyson, I’ll use Allyson. That’s a given. There’s no maybe about that. The maybe is, does she have time? And if she does have time, shouldn’t she be busy doing Veronica Mars, where we need to know more about her character?
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