Dollhouse

“Dollhouse” went off the air in January, but like most television projects created by Joss Whedon, the series just won’t die. Witness the official music video recently released for the song “Remains,” which was created for the final episode of the show’s first season (“Epitaph One”).

Joss Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’ resurrected thanks to ‘Remains’ music video

“Dollhouse” went off the air in January, but like most television projects created by Joss Whedon, the series just won’t die. Witness the official music video recently released for the song “Remains,” which was created for the final episode of the show’s first season (“Epitaph One”).

The video is directed by Anton King and stars Fran Kranz and Maurissa Tancharoen Whedon, who, respectively, played Topher and Kilo on the show. The song was written and performed by Tancharoen Whedon, a writer on the series who was once in a singing group called Pretty in Pink, and Jed Whedon, her husband (who also is Joss Whedon’s brother).

King said he was happy to collaborate with the duo on the video, which was created to coincide with the “Dollhouse” second-season DVD, out Tuesday, though it does not appear on the DVD release.

“I tried to [do] something that would match the sadness and the beauty of the song,” King said. “Maurissa wanted to do something to celebrate the release of the second-season DVD and it sounded like a great idea. I did love the show, and the opportunity to work with Jed and Maurissa … I don’t know who would pass that up!”

In the video, Kranz plays a man who orders a mechanical mate (Tancharoen Whedon), much like clients ordered “dolls” in the series.

“I’d been slowly developing another android movie that I wanted to make sometime down the tracks, and this was an opportunity to play with some of those ideas,” King added. “Thematically, of course, androids fit well with ‘Dollhouse.’”

A five-person cast and crew, including “Dollhouse’s” Dichen Lachman and actor Les Chantery, worked on the video, which, coupled with the news this summer of an in-the-works comic book based on the series, should help sate the appetites of “Dollhouse” fans eager for more stories about Echo, Sierra, DeWitt and the Rossum Corporation.