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I'm sure there's someone around FOX who's floated a Spike spin-off.
Hmm. If there's anyone left in Tinseltown who still thinks they can float a scripted show, do we think there's a chance of someone actually trying this? If--and it's only purely for idle surmising--someone not-ME did obtain permission to use the character and came up with a script for a pilot, would JM want to continue being Spike? If it wasn't an ME enterprise?
I have doubts that JM would want to do it without ME or Joss having any involvement. Can they do that without them, though? I'm not sure if Mutant Enemy has any ownership.
So they need to try a vampire themed reality show. They could have VAMPS - like COPS, they follow around vampires going after people with hand-held cameras at night. Unlike COPS, sometimes the camera men get eaten. Elimi-Stake: One male or female vampire goes on a date with four others - each round, the least desirable one is staked. Extreme Magical Makeover: participants get to be transformed into the mythological being of their choice. They then compete in both beauty and killing pageants.
I'm sure there's someone around FOX who's floated a Spike spin-off.
I think Spike was supposed to be on the Faith spinoff.
Can they do that without them, though?
I remember with the BtVS series, they had to give Joss the option of being involved first. But I think that, had he turned them down, they still could have made the show without him. He sold them the property.
Is is standard to have sold the property? Or do some creators "just" sell the episodes?
Is is standard to have sold the property?
Yep. I can't think of a single example otherwise. Once you sell a script, TV or feature, you lose most of the control. You still get the money but you don't get so much of a say. It's why there can be a DLM without Fuller and a TWW without Sorkin.
After a certain point, I think the rights to Buffy revert back to Joss. But I think that's probably a long way off.
Spike did love Drusilla, but that didn't keep him from killing other people.
It did make him help Buffy stop the world from ending.
It's why there can be a DLM without Fuller and a TWW without Sorkin.
Mmm. Interesting.
Hmm, all this talk of vampires and their need to be sociable has given me a wild hair.
They're all just bits of the Vampire from back in Old Ones' days, yes? Maybe it wants to reunify somehow?
This should tie into the Wolf Ram and Hart somehow...
Isn't it the case that Buffy is owned by 20th's film division, b/c of the movie?