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Motherlode of Spoilers For Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

spoilers5.jpgThis morning's trundling spoiler-bot is carrying the first images of the Adipose, the monsters in the Doctor Who season premiere, plus a mixture of rock-solid info and daft rumors about Who season four. There's also an early review of the World War Z movie script, and some new details about the filming of an upcoming Lost episode. And a hint about X-Files 2. Most of all, we've stumbled on a huge trove of leaks/rumors about Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse. Click through for ultimate spoilers!

X-Files 2

Mulder and Scully's baby William "will not go unconsidered" in X-Files 2, says director Chris Carter. [IF Magazine]

World War Z

Ain't It Cool News has a review of J. Michael Straczynski's movie script adapting Max Brooks' book zombie-battle book World War Z. It's a Children of Men-esque look at the ruined post-zombie world, as Gerry takes an assignment to travel around and document what went wrong in the zombie outbreaks. We see how difficult travel has become, including strip-searches and blood tests, and Gerry travels to China to talk to Dr. Tsai about an encounter with zombies at New Dachang. We learn that a mixture of bureaucracy and flawed military strategy made the situation worse. As Gerry interviews more survivors, we realize that people are starting to question whether just having survived is any kind of victory. There's also a brutal subplot about black-market organs. [Ain't It Cool]

Dollhouse

Here's a ton of leaked spoilers/rumors about Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse, starring Eliza Dushku: The Dollhouse, home of the amnesiac "dolls" who can be anyone or anything, is in Los Angeles. There are two types of "dolls," Actives and Inactives. Dushku's character, Echo, is an Inactive.

In one scene, Adelle, the "ice queen" who runs the Dollhouse, meets with a Senator who's considering "buying" an Active doll to use as an "escort." She convinces the Senator the Active will be better than any human escort, because the emotions will be real to the "doll" and she'll be programmed to want it as much as he does.

The geek who programs the dolls, Topher, calls Echo's "handler" Boyd, because he's noticed that a group of the mind-wiped dolls has sat together at lunch at the same table for the third time within a week. Dushku's character, Echo, seems to be initiating this clique, which means she may be evolving beyond her mind wipes. There is definitely something unusual about Echo, compared to the other "dolls." If Adelle the boss finds out, she'll have Echo killed.

Topher the geek and Boyd the handler have differing opinions about their work. Topher believes it's purely programming and sort of morally wrong (even though he enjoys doing it.) But Boyd thinks it's healthy for the "dolls" to get to experience every possible human emotion through their programmed personalities. [Blank_Dolls community]

Doctor Who

Some new bits of info have leaked out about Doctor Who season four. The Agatha Christie episode attempts to explore the real-life mystery of Christie's two-week disappearance.

Meanwhile, Steven Moffat's two-parter set in the giant deserted library features "data ghosts," plus a menacing entity called the Suit Creature, which may be sort of like Moffat's "Empty Child" from back in season one. Also, the library's air swarms with flesh-melting piranha called the Vashta Nerada, and the library is full of dead bodies. ER's Alex Kingston plays an Indiana Jones-esque archeologist.

And there are more rumors that Dalek creator Davros will be back. Also, completely iffy rumors that the prehistoric Sea Devils, the Axons and jolly rogue Sabalom Glitz will put in appearances. [TeleWatcher]

Meanwhile, in "Planet of the Ood," we learn what drove the Ood to become a servant race. And in "The Sontaran Strategem," the cloned warrior Sontarans show up on Earth looking for their longtime enemies the Rutans. And then, supposedly, the Sontarans use mind-control on some soldiers from the alien-fighting organization UNIT, and they take the Doctor's friend Martha Jones away to be cloned. But then more UNIT soldiers show up to rescue her. [DoctorWhoForum]

Here's a source claiming that Davros doesn't show up at all. Instead, we get John Simm's version of the Master back again, in a "botched regeneration. [Stuff On TV]

And remember the Adipose? Those weird aliens in the season opener, who use diet pills to turn fat people into alien babies? Well, here are early special effects shots of them. (Not entirely sure what's happening to the woman whose cleavage we see in one shot.) Stephen Regelous, who developed the Massive FX technology used to create crowd scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies, used it to create these swarms of Adipose. [SFX]

Lost

Lost is filming some scenes at the "Santa Rosa Mental Institute" where Future Hurley is a patient, and Matthew Fox and Jorge Garcia were both there, along with Jack's truck. Since we recently had a casting call for a doctor appearing in episode 10, these scenes could be from that episode... but it was rumored to be a Kate-centric outing. So it's possible this episode will feature all of the Oceanic 6. [Spoilers Lost]

6:00 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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  • I'm not sure how I feel about the script for World War Z. I love Straczynski but in the book most of the people that were interviewed were hopeful for the future after having survived near annihilation. There were regrets about the way many people reacted to the outbreak but overall there was a message that the human race had survived near extinction and were looking to make a better world. Anyway, it should be fun to see it adapted to the big screen.

  • Oh if Elliot Spitzer had access to the DollHouse then he'd still be NY Gov.

    This TV show just looks dumber every time you add the spoilers.

  • Those aren't spoilers for Dollhouse. That is just info gleaned from the casting sides which may or may not have anything to do with the actual storyline of the show.

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    ISEB has another take on the script review for World War Z, please check it out.

  • Sabalom Glitz was fun. Tony Selby who portrayed him is 70 now according to imdb so the space pirate beard and codpiece might have to be worn by another, I'm thinking.

    The Axons rumour is a strange one and seems to have been around for a while. They were mooted as possibly being in the Xmas 07 special. The Christmas issue of the BBC's Radio Times listings magazine, which ought to know better, explicitly said that they were. Might just be a function of the fan speculation echo chamber.

    However if, as seems possible, we really do get the Sea Devils this series I will forgive Who pretty much anything. Even the new old companions and killer tic-tacs.

  • he's noticed that a group of the mind-wiped dolls has sat together at lunch at the same table for the third time within a week

    Yeah, gotta nip that problem in the bud before they start wearing the same clothes and cutting themselves. (I could've gone the "cheerleader clique" route with this comment, but I thought goth/cutter was more appropriate)

    re Doctor Who: They could always up the game and have both Botched Regeneration Johm Simm Master AND Davros. That gives the Master a second appearance in a season finale (if RTD really is following a pattern, in which he uses the same villain twice for a finale, but adds another villain to make it bigger and badder than ever *cough*Dalek-Cybermenteamupwhat?*cough*). I think that solution would require too much explanation that the writers wouldn't want to spend the time to provide an adequate answer for....

    John Simm's Master: COOL Master, but I totally couldn't buy into the show's explanation that the Time Lords gave him more regenerations.

  • DollHouse sounds a lot like another show, anyone remember Dark Angel?

  • I love the way Tennant says "Ood", so yay.

    Also John Simm rocks.

  • @tlac: Actually, we ran the casting sides a while back, and they were different. Unless this is another batch of casting sides I don't know about.

  • @Charlie Jane Anders: They are from another bunch of casting sides that leaked out after the initial ones.

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