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Special Hell => TV Talk => Shows by Joss => Topic started by: TinkTanker on August 28, 2012, 07:21:08 PM

Title: You know how Joss said he was through with TV? Yeah, about that...
Post by: TinkTanker on August 28, 2012, 07:21:08 PM
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has ordered a pilot for S.H.I.E.L.D, a live-action series from The Avengers writer-director Joss Whedon, Marvel TV and ABC Studios. The project is based on Marvel's peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D (which stands for Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate) found in both the Marvel comic book and feature film universes, including the blockbuster 2012 movie The Avengers, in which S.H.I.E.L.D director Nick Fury, recruits Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor to stop Thor's adoptive brother Loki from subjugating Earth.

S.H.I.E.L.D. will be written by Whedon, his bother Jed Whedon and  Maurissa Tancharoen. Joss Whedon also is set to direct the pilot, schedule permitting. Production on the pilot, which marks the first live-action Marvel TV project to get a green light, will start immediately. Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Tancharoen executive produce with Jeffrey Bell and Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb.

The project had been in the works at Marvel TV and ABC Studios for some time. Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that it had signed an exclusive film and TV deal with Joss Whedon, which included him writing and directing The Avengers sequel and develop a live-action series for Marvel TV and ABC, both owned by Disney.

This marks a return to series television for Joss Whedon, creator of cult favorites Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dollhouse. Married couple Tancharoen and Jed Whedon co-wrote with Joss Whedon Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and have also worked as writer-producers on Dollhouse and Spartacus.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/abc-greenlights-s-h-i-e-l-d-marvel-pilot-joss-whedon-to-co-write-possibly-direct/ (http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/abc-greenlights-s-h-i-e-l-d-marvel-pilot-joss-whedon-to-co-write-possibly-direct/)
Title: Re: You know how Joss said he was through with TV? Yeah, about that...
Post by: Spooky on August 28, 2012, 09:40:52 PM
A genre TV show with an ensemble cast. Who'd have guessed?

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Title: Re: You know how Joss said he was through with TV? Yeah, about that...
Post by: AdmiralDigby on August 29, 2012, 05:29:50 AM
 :jumpjoy
Title: Re: You know how Joss said he was through with TV? Yeah, about that...
Post by: TinkTanker on August 29, 2012, 10:14:05 AM
From the Fark thread:
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