Joss Whedon Describes His Secret Project, Much Ado About Nothing

UPDATE: Joss Whedon has launched a news release that fills inside the blanks on Much Ado About Nothing, the film he shot privately but revealed last evening in the Twitter publish. Listed below are the salient particulars: Bellwether Films, which launched the very first Tweet, can be a micro-studio hatched by Whedon and Kai Cole for creating small, indie tales for individuals media, “embracing a DIY ethos and much more recent technologies for, throughout this case, a somewhat older story.” Whedon’s film can be a black and white-colored contemporized rendering of Shakespeare’s classic comedy, modified and directed by Whedon. This version, shot in 12 days “entirely on location in exotic Santa Monica,” stars Amy Acker (who starred inside the Whedon-scripted Cabin inside the Forest) and Alexis Denisof as Beatrice and Benedick, the earth’s least likely fanatics headed for inevitable tumble into love. “The text is always to us a deconstruction of the idea of love, that's ironic, since the entire production can be a love letter, for the text, for the cast, extending its love to the house it’s shot in,” Whedon produces. Nathan Fillion is Dogberry, Clark Gregg (who’s inside the Whedon-helmed The Avengers) is Leonato, Fran Kranz (Cabin inside the Forest), is Claudio and Reed Diamong is Don Pedro. Whedon needs the film striking the festival circuit next season, “because it's fancy.” It absolutely was also clearly poor, he recommended, explaining the cast was “all dedicated to the notion that this story bears retelling, this dialogue can be as fresh and intoxicating every being written, that the pleasure of concentrating on a pursuit project ornamented by dear pals, respected co-employees plus an atmosphere of unabashed rapture far surpasses their hilariously miniature earnings.” EARLIER, 4:16 AM: This happened when i was asleep, but last evening, Bellwether Pictures tweeted that Joss Whedon has wrapped Much Ado About Nothing, a movie he’d been been filming privately. Whedon, who also easily fit into the Marvel superhero pic The Avengers, features a cast including Reed Gem, Sean Maher, Ashley Manley, Nathan Fillion and Clark Gregg. There’s an image from the guy in snorkel gear chest-deep in water, holding a martini, as well as the one-sheet states the Whedon film is “Based around the play.” Seems like an up to date version of Shakespeare’s work about two pairs of fanatics, one wide-eyed as well as the other cynical, and the way they are changed in manners that test their associations.