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This Sunday’s Los Angeles Times has an interesting piece by Kate Aurthur on Joss Whedon, in anticipation of the March 14 launch of Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” “season eight” comic. We offer some excerpts. Whedon on what happened with the post-“Angel” Buffiverse TV-movies the fans were so craving:

… "It was a pipe dream ultimately, because I think the studio thought they could do this for no money — that everybody would show up because we're all buddies," Whedon said. "But I don't think they noticed that everybody seems to have careers. It was an unrealistic business model.” …

On what happened with the “Wonder Woman” feature he wrote and intended to direct:

… "I cannot tell you what they wanted. Because they never told me what they wanted. When I asked them, 'Well, what is it that you want?' They said, 'We cannot tell you.'” …

On “Goners,” the next movie he intends to write and direct for Universal:

… "a ghastly tale of female empowerment — something new for me!" …

On a post-“Firefly” return to television:

… “because of the new media, because of DVDs, because of the Internet, there are so many new avenues that basically I feel like I can go back to TV when I have the power to set up a paradigm wherein I know I can complete a story." …

Read all of the Times’ interview with Whedon here.

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