Though not entirely, because it did make such a splash. So by the time we put it out, the point was perhaps lost. But then the strike ended before we started shooting. Joss Whedon: Well, it wasn’t a side project in the sense that it was - I was doing it as part of the strike to prove that we could make things without the studios. Originally, it was just a side project during the writers’ strike to keep your friends occupied, right? Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog has been around for 10 years, and that means it’s been 10 years since the writers’ strike. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog hit the internet. In our conversation below, Whedon discusses the huge changes in online video content and the pop culture status of superheroes in the decade since Dr.
Horrible and Captain Hammer, is on shelves now. Horrible: Best Friends Forever, a one-shot story from Dark Horse Comics featuring Dr. That success wasn’t just about compensation, but also proving that successful, professional productions were within the reach of artists even without studio support - a vital message in the midst of the 2008 WGA Strike.ĭr.
The three 14-minute episodes, released over the course of a week, won the series critical acclaim, a broad fan community, and enough profits to pay everyone who’d worked on it. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) in his pursuit of Penny (Felicia Day), a kind and unsuspecting woman, and in his enmity with Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), a shallow and egotistical superhero. The comedic musical followed also-ran supervillain Dr. Horrible from a script he wrote with Zack Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. Horrible reunion panel, and to announce that he’d return to the setting in a totally new comic.Ī refresher: In July 2008, Whedon directed Dr.
Whedon was at San Diego Comic-Con for a Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, one of the first purely online, TV-like phenomena to make it big. This summer, Polygon sat down with writer-director Joss Whedon for a singular occasion: the 10-year anniversary of Dr.
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