Can't Stop the Signal

Joss Whedon's latest interview, with In Focus magazine, has been linked to all over the web. If you've somehow missed it, it's well worth a read.

Given that you’ve described your experience on Alien: Resurrection as something of a personal Vietnam, is there irony to the fact that your feature directorial debut also centers on a crew of in-over-their-heads space-criminals?
Somebody pointed that out to me, the similarity between Serenity and the Betty [Alien Resurrection's spaceship], and it just stopped me in my tracks. I was like, "Yes, my pony did its trick again!" I really never thought of it until somebody pointed it out to me. But the irony goes further than I could have imagined because we shot it on the same stages at Fox where they shot Alien: Resurrection. In fact, Serenity was built over the pit that they dug for Alien: Resurrection for the underwater sequence.

The interview spends much more time on Whedon's big-screen career – the script-doctoring, Serenity, the forthcoming Wonder Woman – than on his TV work, which makes a refreshing change. Not that there's anything wrong with reading Whedon talking about Buffy and Angel, but it's good fun to read his comments on some of the film projects he worked on.

[Via Bookish]