Ripper TV Movie!

[Bre]

The most exciting news of all this 2007 Comic Con :

Ripper is in effect !

Ripper is the long-discussed story of Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) pre-Buffy.

Who knows whether or not this plot will stay the same, but Head is on board as is the BBC, which is planning to film the story as one 90 minute TV movie.

Source: Whedon.info

Am so excited! I hope to hell it's true because I don't want to get my hopes up. How awesome!

[Allan]

I've been following the Comic Con news, and this hasn't been posted on the sites I check.

If it's pre-Buffy, it would be a different story, wouldn't it? Originally the show was supposed to be set after Giles went back to England, I thought.

Anyway, a Google search brought up this Article which has a bit of other Joss news. Sames to be the same text, though.

[shred]

I just got this news in my mail and I'm so excited about it! Finally it's happening. Just hope it sticks this time.

[Dana]

YEAYNESS! If you guys has confirmed it from other sources than whedon.info (which is a bunch of stealing liers) then I believe it! ;D

It's about time! Next up: Faith the series!

[Mooshi]

Awesomeness!! I'm not going to get my hopes up though. I mean all the movies they had planned on making never made it. But anyways, if they do make the movie, the plot is probably going to be huge. And the Faith series would be a great idea. That 'Go Ask Malice' book was really good. It explained much of her life before she met Buffy and co.

[Deleted]

Like you guys, I'm not getting my hopes up, but I'm very excited that the idea hasn't been totally abandoned. Hopefully we'll have that Ripper story after all.

I don't know what any of the original ideas for Ripper were, but I'd prefer to see something of Giles before BtVS. That's the part of his character that always interested me the most, because everything we saw in the show was a result of that. Of course, I'm sure I'll be giddily happy with whatever they give us.

[Bre]

I'm assuming it's going to be a story of Giles before he moved to Sunnydale. But who knows? Tony Head is going to be older so it might look funny if he's playing a younger Giles.

[Dana]

When there was talk a few years ago about a Ripper movie the idea was to explain some of how Giles became Ripper and who that person was. So I think it would be set pre-Sunnydale.

But then again, there was also talk about Giles' life after he left Sunnydale in season 6. That we would get an inside to his life when he returned back to england, etc..

The age wouldn't matter much since most people would know that this production would be made more than 10 years since the show began so it would be rather normal for ASH to have aged. If people can't see past that then that's their loss (not saying you can't, I just mean people in general).

I agree with you Mooshi, The Faith series would have been great and had it not been for Tru Calling we probably would have gotten it years ago. Go Ask Malice did explain a lot but I would have loved seeing her on screen, post-sunnydale with flashes back to pre-sunnydale. If I remember it right Spike was supposed to have gone with Faith had the show been made, and that's the basic reason behind the scene with Faith and Spike in the basement in "Dirty Girls", to lay out some ground for the two of them... too bad it never happened and sadly I don't think it will.. unless Nurses goes caploey and everyone suddenly decides that NOW'S THE TIME for the return of the verse with full power - The Ripper Movie, followed by Faith the series! *goes off to dream* ;D

[Beck]

This has been thrown around too much for me to get too excited yet. If it starts filming, THEN I will jump around I don't care when its set, Giles story = wants

[Allan]

To quote a slightly more reliable source about this:

Additionally, while Whedon couldn't say anything for certain, he did say there's a good possibility that next year there would be some movement on his long-in-limbo film project �Ripper.� The deal is not yet set, but there's a good chance it will take the form of a 90-minute BBC project.

The article has quite a few other cool tidbits from him as well. Worth reading.