Turned in the completed script for the Spike one-shot today. Just did an out-loud reading of it for Kathleen and Ariel, to make sure all the dialogue and voices sounded okay. It’s not as if they’re the most unbiased audience in the world, but they liked it a lot. My goal–which, of course, I’ll probably never know if I achieved–is to have Whedon read it and think, “Okay, why the hëll didn’t we hire this guy to write for us?” Of course, he could just as easily think, “Thank God we never hired him to write for us.” But I think it’s got enough twists and turns to live up to his sense of the perverse.
If nothing else, it should please the Buffy fans since it definitively establishes that Cecily and Hallie were the same person and shows what happened at the party after William fled into the night to meet his vampiric fate.
The artist has already started work based on early pages I turned in. We’ll probably have sample artwork and the cover to put up here on Monday, although naturally it will still be pending approvals from Fox and shouldn’t be considered necessarily the final versions.
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Well, I’m interested to hear about this comic.
Too bad that it’ll be past Spike. I much prefer to see Spike’s future.
(Unless the comic contains part of the Buffy/Spike romance, always want to see more of my fave Buffyverse couple together)
I guess I will stay hopeful, as long as this is ‘good’-Spike. Spike pre-S5 of Buffy was just so much less interesting than the one who fell in love with Buffy. The guy gained so much depth and strength since then.
Evil Spike might have been cool, but post-chip Spike was the most human, most loveable character on both Buffy and Angel, he’s basically the linchpin of the Buffyverse where I’m concerned. I don’t think I’d ever have cared as much about any of the other characters, if they weren’t the people that Spike interacted with.
I would love to see you snag George Perez for more than just covers. But, than again, he IS my favorite artist of all time.
Well, crap. I did NOT mean to post that in this thread. NM.
I read in TV Guide that there may be a Spike movie for the WB. Do you know if that movie affected or will affect your current script?