More Tidbits About ‘Dollhouse’
The latest issue (pdf) of Production Weekly indicates that Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, recently reported as having been brought onto Dollhouse by Joss Whedon, each has been given the title of Producer.
It also gives an “early April” state date for production. In addition, it provides a synopsis of the show’s premise which I believe includes as least one new piece of information.
The drama, stars Dushku as Echo, a member of a group of men and women who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. In between tasks they are mind-wiped, living like children in Dollhouse, a futuristic dorm/lab. A group of people, known as “Actives” (or “Dolls”), have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas and hired out for particular jobs, crimes, fantasies and occasional good deeds. When not imprinted, the Actives live, childlike and unremembering, in a hidden facility nicknamed “The Dollhouse”. Although the Actives are ostensibly volunteers, the operation is highly illegal, and under constant threat from a determined federal agent on one end and an insane rogue Active on the other. The story hinges around a greater and more subtle threat: Echo, a female Active, begins, in her mind-wiped state, to become self-aware.
The mention of one of the threats to the Dollhouse being “an insane rogue Active” is what I believe has not been reported previously. Based upon recent descriptions of the main characters, and the content of the casting sides, it’s not yet clear who that rogue Active would be.
Addendum: I take that last part back. One of the casting sides would appear to make it pretty clear who the rogue Active is, but it doesn’t appear to be someone listed in the character descriptions which Ausiello released.