Fain, Craft Talk Dollhouse

DollhouseTV.net was fortunate enough to attend a Q&A session with Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft last night in their hometown of Kansas City. Most of the discussion centered around their work on Angel, The Shield, Women’s Murder Club, and their young adult books – Bass Akwards & Belly Up, and the forthcoming sequel, Footfree & Fancyloose. However, we did get a chance to ask them a couple of questions about Dollhouse as well.

When asked about being there at the beginning of a show, helping to launch rather than coming after the series was well on its way (they joined Angel and The Shield during each show’s fourth season), they expressed excitement about being involved in everything from casting to gathering the production crew to envisioning the sets.

“Joss [Whedon] has an amazing vision for the sets in The Dollhouse,” said Fain.

We also learned that production on the pilot episode begins April 23 in Los Angeles, and that the recent script pages released for casting earlier this week were written solely by Joss. Fain and Craft will return to work on the show Monday.

Ausiello Scoops Dollhouse

Question: I’m dying for more Dollhouse scoop! BTW, I loved the story you and Ben Katner did pitching actors for the show.— Kacey
Ausiello: I’ll be curious to see if Joss takes any of our suggestions. I’m sure it’s a long shot, especially in light of what he told me back in November when Dollhouse was just announced. “My first instinct is to probably [cast] new people [in Dollhouse], because I’m already reuniting with Eliza and I don’t want it to seem like a house party,” he said. “I want to make sure people get a fresh feeling from it. But behind the scenes, I will be chasing many writers that I have worked with before because they’re the people I trust.” Hence Whedon’s decision to snap up former Angel scribes Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain the moment they parted ways with Women’s Murder Club.

Source: TV Guide

Joss Brings ‘Angel’ Writers On Board

When ABC let Sarah Fain and Liz Craft go from their showrunner duties for Women’s Murder Club, it didn’t take long for Joss to call his former colleagues and offer them a job on Dollhouse. Fain and Craft previously wrote for Angel, so when Joss heard they were available, he jumped at the chance to grab them.

“Joss emailed and said ‘I’m really sorry — and is it too soon to ask you to work on “Dollhouse”?’ ” said Fain.

Joss Whedon, as I need not explain to fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” or “Firefly,” is the beloved creator of those two shows and the mind behind television’s most anticipated new series. “Dollhouse” has a seven-episode order from Fox, will star Eliza Dushku, who used to be on “Buffy,” and will go into production in about six weeks. They are his first two staff writers.

“It was all very quick,” Fain said.

Craft added, “That was literally as we got home from cleaning out our offices. It cushioned the blow.”

Next Thursday, March 6, at the Kansas City Public Library’s downtown branch, I’ll be holding a public Q-and-A with Craft and Fain, who’ve spent the past decade writing scripts and novels together. Needless to say, the library had to make a quick edit to the promotional postcard it was mailing out; they still get a creators’ credit for “Murder Club,” but the words “executive producers” had to go.

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