It's rather like a high-stakes game of musical chairs these days around the studio lots, what with numerous behind-the-scenes changes on some of your favorite series.The latest news: Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft, late of ABC's Women's Murder Club (until they were let go just the other day, that is), have already been hired. Their new home? Why, none other than the new drama project, Dollhouse, from Fain and Craft's former boss, Mr. Joss Whedon.
Let's just say it was an offer they couldn't refuse. Craft and Fain, who cut their teeth as story editors on Whedon's Angel, got the gig two days after getting the boot from Women's Murder Club when Whedon offered them staff writer gigs on Dollhouse.
“Joss emailed and said ‘I’m really sorry — and is it too soon to ask you to work on Dollhouse?’” Fain told TV Barn's Aaron Barnhart.
Dollhouse, of course, already has a seven episode order from FOX. It stars another Whedonverse alum, Eliza Dushku, as Echo, a member of an elite team of secret agents, each of whom has the ability to be imprinted with various personalities and abilities; those gifts are cruelly stolen back by the facility--nicknamed the Dollhouse--when they return from their missions.
Echo slowly becomes aware of her situation, causing some massive problems for the overseers of the facility.
Yes, before you ask, I am trying my damnest to get my hands on the treatment Joss wrote and the script... once it's written.
Stay tuned.
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I can't wait to hear what Whedon alum joins next.