Joss Whedon

IESB caught up with Joss Whedon right on the picket line this week where he briefly discussed his upcoming dance project with Summer Glau.

“There’s a few things I’m trying to do without the studios,” said Whedon, “either for the internet or shorts and there’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time which is a ballet with Summer Glau. We’ve been talking about it for years and I’ve been doing most of the talking and none of the doing. I finally finished the score and we have a choreographer working with us. We’re hoping that sometime in the late spring/early summer we will actually get to shoot it.”

Though most of his time these days is going towards the picket line, Joss Whedon’s art is hitting in so many forms that a ballet isn’t even a surprise. Shortly before the strike he announced a new TV series, Dollhouse to star Buffy veteran Eliza Dushku. (“Yeah, I did,” Whedon joked about his unfortunate timing, “That was a little awkward.”) Lately, he’s been writing Runaways for Marvel and he’s been both continuing the Buffy series in comic form for Dark Horse as well as authoring their Myspace web-comic Sugarshock!

Unfortunately, the strike has made things even busier for Whedon and some projects have fallen a little behind schedule.

“They will come out!” he promised his fans, “Don’t hate me!”