The Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 15

Editor: Endorill

A message from MaidenGreen:

Well, Angel fans...

Let me ask you these questions - Do you want an Angel Feature Film? Is
this something you would go to the theaters to see? Is this something
you are willing to put some effort into making happen?

We here at saveangel.org are not asking for a day, we're not asking
for an afternoon, we're not even asking for an hour...

We're asking for 5 minutes out of your week to download a colorful
picture, adhere it to a postcard, and send it to the current Film
Campaign target.

And just as those who weren't Faith fans supported the Faith Spin-off
Campaign, and those who weren't Firefly fans hopefully supported
Serenity by going to the theater, and those who aren't Spike fans will
support the upcoming Spike movie campaign, we're asking all Whedon
fans to throw your time and support behind the Angel Feature Film
Campaign!

We all want more Whedon in some form or other. Supporting the Angel
Feature Film Campaign will reunite the ATS S5 Fang Gang on the big
screen. In case you've forgotten, this includes: Angel, Wesley, Gunn,
Lorne, Illyria, and Spike! This film might also include some BTVS
alum. It will have something for everybody!

So is 5 minutes really too much to ask to see these great characters
reunited on the big screen? Lets unite together as Angel fans and show
how much we want this film to happen. We Will Not Be Forgotten!

Our Next Studio Target is:

Michael Lynton, Chairman-COO
Amy Pascal, ViceChairman - Motion Picture Group
Sony Pictures
10202 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA. 90232

If you'd like to send a Fax, here's the number:
310-244-2626

Go to the graphics section on this site, choose your favorite Angel
Movie picture, download it and send it! Or just take your favorite
notecard, write a little something, and send that! Write something on
a napkins, for gods sake!:0) Just send something! We can do this!


Action Alert:

Joss Whedon guest-starred on the November 11th episode of Veronica
Mars. Let's let UPN know how much we enjoyed seeing him on that
episode and how much more we would enjoy seeing him produce an
Angel/Buffy spin-off series on UPN. Go to www.upn.com and click on
"Contact Us" to send an e-mail to UPN. It's that easy.


Take A Letter Cordelia:

A message from Gman:

Ever since Angel was cancelled and fans began campaigning, I've been
amazed how many good ideas and strategies have been suggested by fans
of the Whedonverse. Soon it will be two years since that awful
announcement was made by the WB and and our members are still being
creative with their wonderful suggestions. It's important that the
ideas never stop coming.

It's also important that people participate when a campaign strategy
is decided upon. Good ideas alone are not going to help bring our
favorite characters back. When there's a call to action, please
remember that it's not meant for someone else. If we want to be heard,
we're going to have to be loud. We can only be loud if many of us
participate. Let's give it our best shot.

Wesley's Archives


News Of The Whedonverse inThe Media

Buffy voted third greatest fantasy hero of all time
From Scotsman.com - By Webmaster - 2005-10-31

Potter is the ultimate fantasy hero.

Harry Potter has been voted the greatest fantasy hero of all time.

The schoolboy wizard, whose latest film Harry Potter And The Goblet of
Fire has its world premiere this Sunday, was the runaway favourite in
a poll of film fans.

Darth Vader was named the greatest villain.

The Sci Fi channel asked 1,500 moviegoers to name the best fantasy and
sci-fi heroes.

The cyborg star of Terminator 2, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, came
second. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was third, followed by Spiderman.
Doctor Who, the big winner at last week's National Television Awards,
came fifth.

Star Wars characters Han Solo and Yoda made the top 10 - but there was
no place for Luke Skywalker.

Neo from The Matrix, Star Trek's Commander Spock and Batman completed
the list.

In the villains poll, Darth Vader came top followed by the monster
from the Alien films and The Borg from Star Trek. The Daleks were
fourth, ahead of The Joker from the Batman films and Arnie's first
outing as the Terminator.

The Sci Fi channel commissioned the poll to mark its 10th birthday on
Tuesday.

A spokesman said: "It's great that a home-grown icon has been voted
the greatest hero. To give film fans their ultimate showdown, JK
Rowling needs to pit her boy wizard against Darth Vader."


Firefly hits number #1... on DVD in Australia
From Jbhifionline.com.au - By Webmaster - 2005-10-31

Top Selling DVD Home

1. Firefly (Season 1) (Box Set)
2. Batman Begins (Exclusive Slipcase)
3. The Longest Yard
4. Team America: World Police (Special Ed)
5. Dirty Dancing (15th Anniversary Ed)
6. Ghostbusters (Ultimate Coll Pack)
7. Kingdom of Heaven (Deluxe Ed)
8. Scrubs (Season 2) (Box Set)
9. Finding Nemo
10. Back To the Future

This Just In:
Sci Fi Wire Polls

Question: Aside from James Marsters as Spike, who(from the Jossverse)
would
you like to see in their own DVD?

Answers:
David Boreanaz as Angel 21%
Nicholas Brendon as Xander 7%
Alyson Hannigan as Willow 22%
Eliza Dushku as Faith 32%
Anthony Head as Giles 18%

Total votes: 1,278

Geez, we have more peole than that on just our roster! We need advance
notice of these polls!

Breaking News:

tv.guide.com poll asked:

"Now thw the series Firefly has hit the big screen with "SERENITY", we
asked you which series should become a movie next. In order here are
your picks.

1 Alias
2 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
3 Angel

It is apparent to Endorill that not only can't you stop the signal,
you better not flaunt the fans! We are loyal and the messages about
the Jossverse ARE getting out there.


Lorne's Lounge
Actors in Other Roles

What stars of the Buffy/Angelverse are you currently enjoying in other
roles? Joss Whedon was a guest star on the November 11 episode of
VERONICA MARS. David Boreanaz returned in BONES on November 1. Fox has
only broadcast two episodes before the League Championship Series and
World Series interfered.) Are you watching BONES or VERONICA MARS?

David Boreanaz - No Bones about it: this show's clicking.
From Canada.com - By Alex Strachan - 2005-10-31

Emily Deschanel stars as Dr. Temperance Brennan in Bones, the new
crime drama on Global and FOX.

Bones returns on Fox and Global Tuesday at 8 p.m. Check local listings
for times and availability.

"Writers lives are not that interesting," Hart Hanson says, though
judging from all the evidence, the Parksville, B.C.-born TV writer and
executive producer is leading an all-too-interesting life these days.

His new series, Bones, based on the novels of Quebec forensic
anthropologist and bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns Tuesday to
the Fox network (Global in Canada), after a brief hiatus caused by the
baseball playoffs.

When it does, the forensic thriller featuring Emily Deschanel as a
headstrong anthropologist and David Boreanaz as her equally headstrong
partner-in-crime-solving, will resume its position as one of the fall
season's early success stories with an average 8 million viewers a
week, a full-season order of episodes and, unusually for a first-year
series, audience growth in its third week over the first two.

The numbers, while gratifying, are not what drives Hanson.

The one-time staff writer for Joan of Arcadia and Judging Amy who once
peddled stories to the University of Victoria's Malahat Review —
Hanson's 1988 novel, The Last Gypsy Summer, won the National Norma
Epstein Award — is having one of those click moments, when everything
seems to be coming together.

Hanson initially shied away from Bones — the last thing he wanted, he
told his producer partner Barry Josephson, was to write a procedural
thriller — but it soon became evident that this was going to be more
of a character study than a straight howdunit.

It's about looking at what the case means to the people who are
working on it, and not just how the case is going to unfold and how
they're going to catch the bad guy," Hanson said. "I told them. 'You
don't want me to do a forensic show, because I have no interest in
those straight procedural shows.' I told them I wanted it to have a
certain level of humour. It has to be funny once in a while. And they
said, 'No, no, we know your work, we want to incorporate that.'

"And I kept waiting for them to have lied — right up until the point
where we were shooting the third episode. I kept waiting for them to
say, 'No, no, you have to do it like CSI,' and that moment never came."

"My feeling is that, in grossly simplistic terms, if it's not a third
to a half about the character, then I'm going to get bored and I'm no
longer going to do it. So far, luckily — and largely thanks to House —
that idea has been embraced."

Bones's cast — Deschanel, Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin and Eric Millegan
— gelled mere days into production. And the stories, with their
emphasis on bone fragments and forensic anthropology, are sufficiently
unique to separate Bones from the horde of similarly themed crime series.

Reichs, who divides her time between writing novels and her dual
duties for North Carolina's medical examiner's office and Montreal's
Laboratoire des Sciences Judicaires et de Medecine Legale (she is also
a professor of anthropology at the University of North
Carolina-Charlotte) has given Bones — and Hanson — her seal of
approval, and is now acting in a consulting role.

"She's off being a very best-selling author," Hanson said, laughing.
"I gather she's doing less and less forensic work, and she's becoming
quite the media figure. She's a good storyteller. Her books are doing
very, very well. We all have time-management issues. Which one are you
going to pick — poking around dead bodies or writing books? She does
read the scripts, and offers comments as much as she can at the time.
She's not uninvolved in the show; she's just not here with us, on the
lot, in the offices."

Hanson remains proud of Traders, the homegrown drama he helped produce
for several years in Toronto before trying his hand in Hollywood.

"At first blush, so many ideas are bad, and then they go on forever,"
Hanson said. "Traders was just a real challenge. To make a financial
institution interesting from week to week, without turning it into
straight soap opera, is a challenge, and I don't care what anyone
says. It's a challenge."

Hanson is aware of the irony of two Canadians — and two former
producers of Traders — holding down the fort for the Fox network on
Tuesday nights.

David Shore, a close friend of Hanson's from Toronto, created House
and is that program's executive producer and head writer.

"I said to David, thank you for getting us on the schedule. Because
his show proved you can mix procedural and character, which is what
mine is. He got that genre up on the screen, and then made it a hit.
I've never been so happy to see anyone get an Emmy in my life. He's
worked so very hard, and he's the heart and soul of that show. It is
funny, though. All the Canadians down here tend to know who we are."

New books:

Nancy Holder, a recent Chat Guest on saveangel.org, has a new
anthology out that she edited along with Nancy Kilpatrick. It is
entitled Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From The Edge. My copy hasn't
arrived yet, so I can't give you my review yet. But I promise, it will
follow. Here is a description from Amazon.com:

"In this knockout anthology, today's most important writers of
speculative fiction cruise the abnormal elements of society and find a
new wave of underground disorder, poignant horror, dirty kisses, and
necessary anarchy.

Including never-before published stories by:

Neil Gaiman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kathe Koja, David J. Schow, Bentley
Little, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Melanie Tem,
Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Lea Silhol, Freda Warrington,
Elizabeth Massie, Brett Alexander Savory, Katherine Ramsland, Yvonne
Navarro, Thomas S. Roche, Michael Marano, John Shirley, Brian Hodge,
and Elizabeth Engstrom

...all at their most brilliant and most outrageous.

Here are dangerous games between lovers, howls from the dark, voyeurs
and their victims, disturbed wishes and bitter dreams. Unflinching,
uncommon, and underground, these tales vibrate with new life."

Says Nancy on Outsiders, "I hope that you will all enjoy the
anthology. We worked hard to get the cream of the crop and we
certainly did. We're grateful to all our wonderful authors, who gave
us their best."

Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With A Soul (edited by Stacey Abbott).
This book is a collection of essays about Angel. From the back cover:
"Reading Angel looks at the cinematic aesthetics of Angel, it's music,
editing and mise-en-scene. It investigates the show's shifting
portrayal of masculinity, its strong noir Los Angeles setting, and its
demonization of racial difference. It examines the impact and
influence of comedy, the superhero and horror on Angel, and would not
be complete without considering corporate and global evil in the form
of Wolfram & Hart. These themes and more are addressed in this
critical tribute to Angel for its followers and fans, by writers who
are drawn together by their fascination with the vampire with a soul. "

This book is bigger than Five Seasons of Angel and according to Gman,
is similar in tone to the Buffy books edited by Rhonda Wilcox and
David Lavery. Speaking of which...

Rhonda Wilcox's Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
has just been published.

Here is a description from Amazon.com: "Rhonda Wilcox is the world's
foremost authority on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its characters, and
its themes. Wilcox argues that Buffy is enduring as art by exploring
its excellence in both long-term story arc construction and in
producing individual episodes that are powerful on their own. She
examines the larger patterns that extend through all seven seasons:
the hero myth, imagery of light, naming symbolism, Buffy's
relationship with Spike, sex, and redemption. Wilcox also focuses on
acclaimed and noteworthy episodes, including the musical "Once More,
with Feeling," the largely silent and wordless "Hush," and the dream
episode "Restless." She examines Buffy's literary narrative,
symbolism, visual imagery, and sound. Combining great intelligence and
wit, written for fans, this is the worthy companion to the show that
has claimed and kept the minds and hearts of watchers worldwide."