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Alan Tudyk - "Tucker and Dale Vs Evil" Movie - Trailer - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2009-11-02T21:02:55Z

Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby take this opportunity to present my belief that Alan Tudyk is one of the most under-used actors of his generation. I'm not sure where I first saw him but it was Joss Whedon's Firefly that really sold me on Tudyk and his skills, that show alone placing incredible demands on him to run the gamut from serious drama to comedy to action and Tudyk handled it all flawlessly. I became a fan and expected great things but ... well ... he's keeping busy enough not to have to worry about paying the rent but not nearly as busy in or as high profile as he deserves to be.

Enter Tucker And Dale Versus Evil, in which Tudyk plays Tucker, one half of a goofy but friendly and incredibly well meaning pair of hillbillies who are about to be plunged into a mess of misconceptions, carnage and widespread bloodshed thanks to a group of college teens who a) believe that Tucker and Dale are evil, and b) are hopelessly inept when it comes to eliminating said evil.

This. Looks. Fantastic. When horror comedies fail its because they either miss on the character work or never quite find the appropriate balance between horror and comedy. All good on all fronts here. The characters are all solid and believable, the riffing on stereotype spot on, the level of blood and gore is impressive and - most importantly - the jokes are funny.

Sales agents Voltage Pictures have released their sales promo for this into the public leading up to the American Film Market. And, despite the temp sound and effects and the rough edges left in, this was one very smart move. Because if this movie comes close to living up to the promo they're going to have buyers beating down their door.

Alan Tudyk - "An Evening Without Monty Python" Play - Nypost.com Review

Webmaster — 2009-10-09T20:18:04Z


Alan Tudyk will tackle many famous Monty Python skits at Town Hall.

MEET Monty Python's red-headed stepchild : Alan Tudyk.

The beloved character actor, most recognized from Joss Whedon's critically acclaimed space-Western “Firefly,” somehow landed the role of his dreams in “Spamalot” a few years ago and is now taking on Python's famous Dead Parrot sketch.

“Originally I didn't want to do it,” says Tudyk, 38. “It's the iconic sketch, it's the one that most people know and the one that people have opinions on. It's held in this place of reverence, and I honestly didn't want to step on people's memories of it — now it's something I can't wait to do.”

Tudyk will get six shots at it starting next Tuesday when he joins Jeff B. Davis, Rick Holmes, Jane Leeves and Jim Piddock onstage at Town Hall through Oct. 10 in “An Evening Without Monty Python,” a 40th-anniversary tribute to the iconic UK comedy troupe.

The four will reprise the roles made famous by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin in about a dozen sketches and songs, directed by former Python, Idle and B.T. McNicholl.

“It's such a simple sketch,” he says of the classic bit in which an angry patron attempts to return a dead parrot to the shopkeeper who sold it to him. He bought it in the first place when the salesmen explains that the bird was motionless because, “He was shagged out after a long squawk.”

Tudyk is no stranger to the Broadway. Besides his 2005 six-month stint in “Spamalot” as Sir Lancelot, he most recently appeared in the revival of “Prelude to a Kiss.”

He found out about the weeklong Monty Python tribute about a year ago, when he was a guest at a dinner party thrown by Idle.

He was dumbfounded and grateful for the offer. Idle, in fact, was a major influence on Tudyk, who re-enacted Python sketches with his friends in high school.

When Idle finally called to tell him he had landed the part in “Spamalot,” Tudyk saved the message on his answering machine for years — until someone erased it.

“I still have the machine, though,” he jokes.

The key to performing Python, he says, is not to do an impression of any of the original cast members. “You can't throw it out completely ; they wrote the sketches a certain way. But you have to infuse each one with yourself, you have to honor the writing and bring yourself into the character.”

A tricky task when the material is so beloved that most of the audience is sitting in the dark mouthing the lines along with the actors.

“It's like any good writing,” he says. “There are plenty of plays that were written a long time ago that can be given life again.”

Yet the parrot remains quite dead, but there's some comfort in that.

“It's so absurd,” says Tudyk. “I mean, it's just nailed to its perch.”

Alan Tudyk - "An Evening Without Monty Python" Play - Ifmagazine.com Review

Webmaster — 2009-09-25T13:35:13Z

Stage Review : AN EVENING WITHOUT MONTY PYTHON

Eric Idle co-directs a 40th Anniversary tribute of the British sketch troupe's most infamous bits including the Dead Parrot Sketch, the Lumberjack song and The Spanish Inquisition

Grade : A

Stars : Jeff B. Davis, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes, Jim Piddock Director : Eric Idle, BT McNicholl

For those of us too young to be able to enjoy an actual “live” evening with the Monty Python troupe (those PBS re-runs of MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS had to do), Eric Idle has decided to celebrate the 40th Anniversary with AN EVENING WITHOUT MONTY PYTHON.

Hence, no John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Idle himself nor Graham Chapman (whose still dead) — just a bunch of other actors filling in (quite nicely at that) with a comprehensive production featuring the best silly bits, musical numbers and of course the “Dead Parrot” sketch which feel as fresh and original as the day the dropped on the BBC.

The Los Angeles run (which began last night) runs until October 4th at the Montalban Theatre and then it moves to New York at the Town Hall from October 6th through the 10th.

Jane Leeves introduces the show asking “Who is Monty Python and why hasn't he gone away ?”

After a little under an hour and half, the reason is clear why these comedy genises refuse to fade – Monty Python was simply one of the funniest sketch comedy troupes ever conceived. And even with Leeves, Jeff B. Davis, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock serving as stand-ins for the real deal, these adept performers manage to catch every nuance, every tic, every crazy word puzzle with precision and still have you clamoring for more.

Idle (who also brought MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL to the stage as SPAMALOT) co-directs this with BT McNicholl and it's a blast to watch these sketches resuscitated back to life. The free form, non-sequiter approach that benefited the TV series so well is re-assembled in similar fashion stage. Sketches randomly end for no apparent reason and some bleed into the next with no rhyme or reason.

Idle has also updated some of the sketches with a few new pop cultural references (such as Dyson Vacuums and a nod to Neil Patrick Harris), while regional in-jokes regarding Burbank, West Hollywood and screenwriters are tossed in for a few hearty laughs as well.

But more important is the selection of the sketches. In addition to the aforementioned “Dead Parrot” sketch, Idle makes sure he hits all the greatest hits. From “The Ministry of Silly Walks,” “The Spanish Inquisition,” the Spam chant and of course “The Lumberjack Song.” There are also a few obscure bits peppered in as well making the night a full course meal.

While some of the actors do have the occasional physical resemblance to the various Python members – Tudyk as Chapman, Davis as Cleese, Holmes as Palin, and Paddock as both Idle and Jones – the sketches vary who plays what from the original incarnations, allowing the new actors to make each sketch their own.

It's a hard act to follow, but these actors are phenomenal and the fact that it works so well is a testament to how bloody talented they are. A lot of hard work went into bringing their own energy to such tried and true (and overly familiar sketches).

Of the stand-out moments, Holmes gets to re-enact the “Travel Agent” sketch from the show and goes off on a long involved tangent that never quite stops. Tudyk (a Joss Whedon regular on FIREFLY and DOLLHOUSE) gets to showcase what a truly underrated performer he is. He's flawless throughout the show and if you didn't know any better, you'd think he was British. He is given the Cleese part in the Parrot sketch, but takes it into surprisingly darker and more intense territories. It's a signature moment for him and he delivers it with zeal.

I think it was also a stroke of genius to bring Leeves into the fold – assuming both male and female parts throughout. She also has Python ties, having had an early role in MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE. A sketch in this revue even reminds the audience of that. Leeves (best known for her role on FRASIER) has such an amazing comedic presence (and her singing is superb) that AN EVENING WITH MONTY PYTHON is reminder of why she should be working more consistently.

Perhaps the true success of the show is how the audience was clamoring for more by show's end. Concluding with an encore consisting of “The Lumberjack Song,” the audience kept clapping (and stayed in their seats for an unusually long period of time) hoping another encore would manifest.

It never did, but when you leave an audience wanting more, it proves how superbly paced and structured your show is.

AN EVENING WITH MONTY PYTHON didn't have to do something completely different to be a success and it's nice that Idle remembered that. Like the Beatles are to rock music, Monty Python is to comed - and that's the beauty of seeing this timeless, wonderful material revived 40 years later in the theatrical arena which still feels as fresh as the day it was first conceived. Here's hoping the genius of Monty Python is still around for another 40 years and we're still asking then why "he" hasn't gone away.

Alan Tudyk- "Carl Hobbs : Punting Coach" Video - Watch The Clip

Webmaster — 2009-09-14T13:56:32Z

Alan Tudyk - The Ballad of G.I. Joe - Watch The Video

Webmaster — 2009-08-11T13:55:30Z

Alan Tudyk - "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil" Movie - Horror At The Ranch

Webmaster — 2009-07-08T09:43:35Z

Sally Field drops in to watch son direct a bloody offbeat satire near Calgary

It's nearing dusk in the mosquito-infested Alberta woods and Eli Craig is fussing over how to choreograph some intense violence.

The climactic scenes scheduled for tonight's shoot of the comedy-horror film Tucker&Dale vs. Evil involve, in no particular order, an exploding cabin, a hatchet attack by a baby-faced psychopath, 30 Rock's scantily clad Katrina Bowden being violently knocked to the ground and someone catching on fire. Judging by the splashes of movie blood drying on co-stars Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine's overalls and faces, the violence isn't reserved for just the climax, either. In fact, one crew member for the low-budget Alberta-shot film has calculated that someone dies every eight minutes in Craig's gory directorial debut.

All in all, these aren't the sort of scenes you want to be shooting in front of your visiting mother —even if she is two-time Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field.

"Does this remind you of Brothers and Sisters a little bit ?" Craig quips to his mom, referring to Field's TV show about the WASPish trials and tribulations of the upper-class Walker family on ABC.

"The dining room scenes," Field answers, without missing a beat.

Field does not appear in her son's debut film, although she did offer. And, obviously, Tucker& Dale vs. Evil has nothing to do with Brothers&Sisters or anything else Field has done in the past. Like many offspring of famous Hollywood types, the 37-year-old Craig has been intent on forging his own path.

"It's a little weird," Craig admits. "I've never had her on a set before. . . . To me it's really important to define my career on my own and always have."

"I can honestly say, so far in my life, she's only been an excellent mentor and excellent guide, but not someone who has been able to get me work. But it's a fantastic resource to say, 'Hey mom, I got a question about working with actors.' "

The film—which producers hope to release theatrically sometime in 2010—is in the middle of a 25-day Alberta shoot. Areas of Bragg Creek, Bowness and Cochrane have been used as settings. But on this day, the spooky woods behind the Bow River Ranch west of Calgary are subbing in for the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, offering an appropriately gothic backdrop for the film's gory finale.

At first glance, Tucker&Dale vs. Evil certainly seems to have the potential to launch Craig into a directing career. It's nothing if not unique. Craig spent 10 years toiling in the industry, initially as an actor before directing shorts and music videos.

It took him three years to put the pieces together for his debut, which he co-wrote with Morgan Jurgenson. It's genre-bending premise is a satire of the old "college-kids-lost-in-the-woods-versus-hillbillies" cliche. Bowden plays a lovely college student who is saved by two good oil' boys, including the thick-skulled Dale (Labine) and the slightly more intelligent Tucker (Tudyk). A series of misunderstandings and gory accidents pit the gormless heroes against some college kids who think the backwoods pair is up to no good. Much mayhem ensues. In fact, the unofficial tag line for the film is : "A perfect love story, except for the minor woodchipper incident."

"People get killed in some pretty gruesome ways, but there's a lot of comedy in it too," says Bowden, on a break from shooting. "It's hard to explain because getting killed by a woodchipper is never funny. But somehow we've kind of made it funny."

Bowden is perhaps best known for her role as Tina Fey's alluringly attired assistant Cerie Xerox in 30 Rock. Craig seems to have caught her as her star is on the rise, not unlike Tudyk and Labine's. The Juilliard-trained Tudyk played Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball : a True Underdog Story, recently had a dark recurring role in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and will next appear in the TV remake of the 1980s sci-fi show V. Labine spent two seasons playing the wisecracking sidekick Bert in the sci-fishow Reaper and has been cast in the lead of the new Fox sitcom Sons of Tuscon, which will premiere in January after The Simpsons.

Tucker&Dale vs. Evil gave the Vancouver actor the chance to star in a horror film—and potentially a cult film. Both of which are on his to-do list as an actor.

"It was a really fun departure for me," says Labine, about playing the dull-witted Dale. "It is comedy, which is kind of my roots. But the hillbilly aspect of it really appealed to me because I've never really played a really base, stupid hillbilly. Which is tricky for me, because my instinct as a comedy actor is to improv all the time. With this one, you can't really do it. The character doesn't allow it. He's just too f---ing stupid. He has nothing witty to say."

Tudyk says the comedy in the film comes directly from Craig and Jurgenson's inventive script, which spared the stars from engaging in a transparent shtick to get laughs.

"It's an outrageous situation, people are dying all over the place and they are accidentally dying," Tudyk says. "It's a misunderstanding between two camps. It's so funny how long Eli can maintain both worlds, both viewpoints. The things we do are constantly reaffirming in their eyes their viewpoints of us. And the things they're doing are showing us that they are completely insane."

As for Field, she says she has not offered any tips to her son about directing, nor did she encourage or discourage him from entering the business. But she will go out on a limb to say she thinks his script is a winner.

"It's hilariously funny," she says. "It's very, very funny. And the world needs to laugh right now. . . . I kept saying, 'Isn't there a role for me ?' "

Alan Tudyk - "Dollhouse" & "V" Tv Series - Blast.com Interview

Webmaster — 2009-06-04T15:47:14Z

Blast recently got the chance to speak with the always charming Alan Tudyk, also known as the beloved Wash from the critically-acclaimed series “Firefly” and as (spoiler !) Alpha from Joss Whedon's latest series “Dollhouse.”

Tudyk also has a new series due out this fall from ABC called “V.”

Our conversation touched on such various subjects as a possible future for “Firefly” (”I've been telling Joss to do a whole TV series on Wash”), his thoughts on a Twitter war with former co-star Nathan Fillion (”I do not want to play that game with Nathan Fillion”), and his love for the new Star Trek film, capped off with a bit of exciting news for “Dollhouse”s next season.

BLAST : Tell me what it was like working with Joss again on “Dollhouse.”

ALAN TUDYK : It was really great, you know, I didn't work with him in a directing capacity, Joss Path, he was around, doing the extras for the DVD so I definitely ran into him. It was really great.

BLAST : What is it about Joss Whedon that makes these group of actors follow him around ?

AT : Um, he has dirt on all of us. Really embarrassing stuff. It's blackmail, really, I mean I'll call it what is. That, I guess, and you know in his shows — the two I've been on — there's a way that you can have really high-stakes, dramatic situations taking place right next to very funny, and wry, sarcastic commentary. Which is hard to pull off and nobody does it better than him. So you get the opportunity to do something that's rare.

BLAST : I caught that sneak mention of Firefly. You know there are always rumors of “Serenity 2″ flying around, and Joss does have a history of bringing back characters from the beyond. Would you do another one ?

AT : Oh yeah, I've been telling Joss to do a whole TV series on Wash. Forget about it, that's what I want !

BLAST : I don't think you know what you just did. I think the fans will explode.

AT : Well, I've said that to fans before and and they go, (unenthusiastically) “Yeah ! But actually the great thing about “Firefly” was everyone working together…”, and I say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll start with one and go from there !” But yeah, of course I would do it.

BLAST : About Alpha…

AT : Great.

BLAST : What personality of Alpha's — I think, what, 38 of them ? — which was most fun to play ?

AT : Well… I think it's forty–well, I've been saying 42 but I think it's 48. It's tough to know. (laughs) The only one, you know… It's interesting doing episodic television, because you can't peer around the corner. When I was doing the episode of “Briar Rose,” I didn't know where Alpha was going in “Omega.” I knew that I was taking her… but I didn't even know what I was taking her to do. (laughs) I didn't know why I was taking her until the day after we ran “Briar Rose” and I read the script for “Omega.”

BLAST : You kind of had to play it by ear then.

AT : There are a couple of things that happened with the performance. It was like, wow, this guy talks a great deal. He always speaks quickly and he doesn't ever want to stop talking ! There are a lot of lines to learn. But also, I knew that he had 48 people in him, but I didn't realize that it was just a riot of people, of difficult, zany folks. If I had to do it over again I would have brought more personalities out in the first one. (hesitates) Eh, I don't want to say I have regrets, but I — I don't know who all the personalities are. And there's Kepler, you know whoever that is, whatever personality he's using there. But that was kind of, you know, Alpha was doing a little acting, also.

BLAST : The acting part was one of the things fans have kind of been wondering about. To what extent was Alpha in fact Kepler, or was he acting the whole time ?

AT : I think with Alpha, if I, personally, was able to know intimately 48 perspectives, and backgrounds, and upbringings — perspectives, I got it right the first time — 48 different perspectives, If I had the benefit of that, myself, I would be an amazing actor. That's what acting is, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and really trying to get as close to them as possible. So Alpha has the capacity to be the greatest actor. I feel like his Kepler was an amalgam of who he is, he can borrow a great deal from himself. And you know, we get to see Eliza Dushku's character put on all these different roles. So you have to think about all these different pieces of her that she could borrow from. And there are a lot of differences between them.

BLAST : You mentioned one thing I was going to ask you about. If you could have one skill or ability downloaded into your head, what would it be ?

AT : Uh… Inner peace.

BLAST : Is that a skill ?

AT : It's not a skill… but you know, you get these perspectives so you could download anything, like enlightment. Some kind of thought process, not so much a religion. Like the Dalai Lama ! I could download a piece of the Dalai Lama and just chill. (laughs)

BLAST : Are there other characters in the “Jossverse” besides Wash and Alpha that you would like to play ?

AT : Buffy. I would love to play Buffy. I've always felt that Sarah Michelle Gellar did a great job, but there was stuff she missed. (laughs)

BLAST : Hey, you know they are supposedly doing a Buffy movie without any of the actual Buffy characters. So will you throw your hat in the ring ?

AT : (laughs) If I can find time outside of my new TV show “Wash,” sure.

BLAST : Well you do have a new TV show, “V.” Can you tell me about it ?

AT : Sure. It's kind of an “Independence Day” scenario. You know it's based on the original miniseries that came out in the eighties. And, it's aliens, and it's about this alien race…

BLAST : Are you an alien ?

AT : I am not at liberty to say.

BLAST : Oooh. Really ?

AT : Yeah, I can't say one way or the other. It's just about an alien race coming in, and the reaction to having another race of people with alien technology and all that would mean if we actually had spaceships parked over our cities and what that would mean.

BLAST : Is it the sci-fi of it that drew you to it ?

AT : No, it was the script. There was one part in the script, right in the beginning when the Vs first show up and this F-16 falls out of the sky over the streets of New York City and explodes, and it's like, oh man, what's going on ? This is great !

BLAST : I asked some Twitter people if they had any questions for you and one question was : why did you leave Juilliard before graduating ?

AT : (laughs) Wow, how to do I answer that ?

BLAST : From aliens to Juilliard, right ?

AT : Yeah, right. Well, (laughs). I was following in a long line of actors who left Juilliard in their third year. Val Kilmer, Robin Williams… Juilliard's fourth year at that time and I think it's still the case, was where you study for three years. You do plays, but it's in conjunction with classes. And then your fourth year becomes solely a performance year. There's a couple of classes that are like, “How to Audition !” and “How to get an Agent !” And I had worked really hard to get an agent before I left Juilliard, I had an agent before my third year. So I didn't feel those classes were necessary and I didn't need a year full of, you know, “18th century Spanish plays that have never before been translated until now !” That's awful. That sounds awful ! I like the people at Juilliard.

BLAST : What fictional character would you most like to play ? Have you ever thought about it ?

AT : Wow. Gosh. You know, I don't know.

BLAST : Maybe another round as Steve the Pirate ?

AT : (laughs) Sure.

BLAST : So we've got Alan the Vampire Slayer, we have Wash the TV show, and a Steve the Pirate movie. I hope you know I'll be holding you to your word.

AT : (laughs) You know I don't know that a Steve the Pirate movie would be very interesting without the rest of the cast. He doesn't say very much… His humor is best in small doses of “Garr !” and “Arrgh !” in the right moment. I would only want to undertake that with Justin Long, and Christine Taylor, Vince Vaughn, Joel, Ben Stiller. We'd need the whole group.

BLAST : (laughs) Fair enough. What is on your iPod ?

AT : What's on my iPod ? I've got a lot on my iPod. I can tell you what I'm listening to right now… My current favorite song is by a band called Band of Skulls, it's called “I Know What I Am.” Great song. And I've got a little throwback to when I was in high school, Anthrax's “I'm the Man,” hysterical song. A hard band but the song is really funny. And the Black Keys' new album is fantastic. There's a song on it called “I Got Mine,” which is kind of that bluesy, ballsy music. The whole album is great. I could go on, and on, and on…

BLAST : You are a regular at fan conventions, so I was wondering : are you a sci-fi fan yourself and will you be at this year's San Diego Comic Con ?

AT : I don't know about San Diego. Am I sci-fi fan, that was the other question ? I liked “Star Trek : The Next Generation” when I was growing up a lot, and the original “Star Trek” when I was a kid, watching re-runs. But “The Next Generation” is the first show that really grabbed me. I loved the characters, I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Then I kind of took a break, well you know, “Star Wars” and all that stuff is great. But I wasn't the biggest sci-fi fan until “Firefly “sort of brought me back in. Yeah, I am a sci-fi fan. The new “Star Trek” movie, best movie I've seen… you know, a lot of people say it's the best movie they've seen since “Iron Man,” but I think it's better than “Iron Man.”

BLAST : “Star Trek” was really good. It was a movie that had so much weighing on it, and managed to appeal both to the masses and the fans. Great movie.

AT : Yeah. I've seen it twice.

BLAST : Me too !

AT : Yeah. It was done, and I was like, let's roll it again ! I'm ready to see it again. Let's go. Like, now. So entertaining, so entertaining. You know, they have something in the “Star Trek” franchise… I definitely haven't seen all of it, but they have something in this one that I've only seen in “Firefly” before. You've got your hero, your Captain Kirk, getting his ass kicked. That first scene when you're meeting him as an adult, he gets his butt whipped in a bar, and it's hysterical. Very Malcolm Reynolds-y. And then also, when he lands in the ice planet before he meets Spock, and he's complaining and trying to cite the rules that have been broken, and he's looking off in the distance, and the the giant behemoth is coming at him. He's running from it, screaming like a girl, (high voice) “No-o ! No-o !” The hero can be very uncool, the hero can be afraid, the hero can be chicken. That was really refreshing. He can make mistakes, and be goofy. That whole scene with him and the doc, and the shots. It's just fun.

BLAST : There's a certain fearlessness with the way Joss treats his characters and I think with the way they handled the characters in “Star Trek.” I think you're quite right about that.

AT : Yeah. Absolutely, definitely.

BLAST : I have maybe one or two questions more, so my next one is : are you on Twitter ?

AT : No, I'm not ! You know…

BLAST : Are you going to get on that ?

AT : Yeah, you know I was hoping it would be gone by now. Is that going to go away any time soon ? (laughs)

BLAST : You know supposedly, the top 10 percent of Twitter users account for 90 percent of the Twitter traffic. So I guess most people's lives really are that boring.

AT : Yeah, I took that stance that I've heard… if I'm writing somebody that I'm standing in the park enjoying the smell of flowers, I'm lying because in fact I'm standing in the park twittering, being distracted from the flowers that I was smelling previously. I just need to live my life, not need to open that window all the time to let everybody know what's going on. But as a social networking tool, you need to be connected to your friends. We all lead such busy lives that it's hard to touch base with so many people. So if you can keep in touch just by a word here or a word there…

BLAST : I guess that's fair.

AT : (laughs) I'm telling you why I'm not on it, and I'm also explaining why I'm going to be on it. When I end up on it, that's my reasoning.

BLAST : (laughs) Everyone succumbs, right ? Well, you know Nathan Fillion is on it so maybe you should get into a Twitter war with him or something.

AT : What the hell is a Twitter war ?

BLAST : I guess it's where you see who can get the most followers the quickest.

AT : I do not want to play that game with Nathan Fillion. (laughs) He's a much more social animal than I am. I concede the fight before it begins !

BLAST : You might be surprised ! Oh, I think our time is up, so thank you for your time.

AT : Brilliant. Thank you. Hey, thanks for that top nine reasons why Dollhouse is back on the air, I appreciate it.

BLAST : Oh, thank you for reading it ! I'm as thrilled as anybody.

AT : (laughs) Cool. Well, I look forward to next season and I hope you like it. I think it'll be fun.

BLAST : Oh–will we see you next season ?

AT : (pause) Yes you will.

BLAST : That is the best answer. Thank you so much.

AT : All right, take care.

Alan Tudyk on stage in LA and New York on September & October, 2009

Webmaster — 2009-05-29T22:20:02Z

An Evening Without Monty Python, with Azaria, Leeves, Tudyk, to Play Hollywood and Manhattan

An evening of Monty Python musical numbers and sketches will be presented in Hollywood and Manhattan this fall.

The Los Angeles Times reports that An Evening Without Monty Python will play Hollywood's Ricardo Montalban Theatre Sept. 23-Oct. 4 and Manhattan's Town Hall Oct. 6-10.

Eric Idle and B.T. McNichol will direct a cast that includes Hank Azaria, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock.

The skits and musical numbers were originally created by Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

The production, according to the L.A. Times, will help promote the new book "Monty Python Live !"

Alan Tudyk in Televisionwithoutpity.com's "Star Trek 2" Movie dream casting

Webmaster — 2009-05-15T14:42:26Z

Star Trek 2 : We Cast the Starlogged Sequel

By now, even jaded, nit-picky Star Trek fans have decided to either like the new movie along with the rest of the world or dislike it just to be contrary. Whichever you've chosen for yourself, congratulations ! You either are or are not, in the Vulcan parlance, a dickhead. Now we can set about the business of figuring out which actors we want to join this merry band in the next installment. There's only a few more crew members left to show, but there are plenty of rogues, aliens and monsters to cast ! Here's who we wanna make a stardate with.

Blake Lively as Nurse Christine Chapel

Dr. McCoy's right-hand woman (originally played by Gene Roddenberry's future wife, Majel Barrett) needs to be tough and blonde, two traits Lively exhibits every week on Gossip Girl. In the original series, she crushed on Mr. Spock ; maybe this time she and Uhura can have an Obsession-style catfight over him ?

Nick Frost as Harry Mudd

The portly, mustachioed con man who sold wives to miners and the Enterprise to a planet of androids, we can think of no one better suited to play the scheming Mudd than Frost, Simon Pegg's hetero life partner and Hot Fuzz co-star. He sported a mustache back when the pair were both on Spaced, and he looked very untrustworthy, indeed.

Laura Vandervoort as Yeoman Janice Rand

While Rand started out as Kirk's aide-de-camp and worked her way up to Communications officer, her job on the show was mainly to stand around and flirt with the Captain, as well as any other young stud who came on board. We could watch Into the Blue 2's Vandervoort stand around all day.

Antonio Banderas as Khan Noonien Singh

Online fans are pushing for Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, but only aging Spanish heartthrob Banderas has the machismo (and accent) to pull off the role. We've seen him go dark before, in Assassins, and before anyone points out that he's now pushing 50, we should remind you that Ricardo Montalban first played the cryogenically frozen super-soldier when he was 47, and reprised the role at the ripe old age of 62. Besides, if you want to cast someone to play a tyrant, why not get the man who played Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ?

Christian Bale as Bele from Cheron

On the planet Cheron, all of the inhabitants have skin that is black on one side and white on the other, but those who are white on the left side fiercely hate those whose white is on the right. Given left-sider Bele's rants (courtesy of actor Frank Gorshin) about how his people are superior, we might need Bale to give Bele one of his patented American Psycho meltdowns.

Hugh Jackman as Q

Although not introduced until The Next Generation, the omnipotent, omnipresent Q Continuum has been around since the Big Bang, so there's no reason they can't pop up on the Enterprise a little earlier than planned. Hmm... who can we get to play the overly theatrical, frequent costume-changing representative of the Q ? While I'm sure John DeLancie would reprise the role in a heartbeat, we're going to aim high for Jackman, as long as he plays it more like the Boy from Oz and less like Logan.

Taraji P. Henson as Guinan

Considering that the Enterprise-D's long-lived bartender was living in San Francisco at the dawn of the 20th century, we'll assume that she had to break into the space-bar-management field sometime, so why not on the original Enterprise ? Henson saw some sci-fi in Benjamin Button — maybe she'd like to see some more ?

Jason Statham as Kor the Klingon

The original series showed us some freaky-looking Klingons with no cranial ridges, but we'd rather just skip that very hard-to-explain period of their history and go full Klingon for their first appearance in this alternate reality. Hopefully, Statham would be willing to put on a big forehead and armor to play a Klingon commander, as long as he was able to take off his shirt and kick some ass at the end. Maybe he could do it in the transporter room. Get it ?

Khloe Kardashian as a Cardassian

We're sure any of the Kardashians could be turned into a Cardassian given enough time, makeup and facial ridges, we just thought Khloe would require the least amount of work.

Alan Tudyk as a Borg

As the voice and face of the robot in I, Robot and the stone-cold killer Alpha on Dollhouse, Tudyk would be a great representative for the Borg, a race of emotionless cyborgs who live in cubes and assimilate ships and their crews. Sure, the TNG crew discovered them, but they've been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and the sooner Kirk and Spock get to fight them, the better.

Paul Giamatti as a Ferengi

We know Giamatti isn't afraid of makeup (see him as an orangutan in the Planet of the Apes remake), so we think he'd be perfect for the race of short, weasely traders. Just imagine him muttering something about "gold-pressed latinum" and tell us he's not Ferengi material.

The Rock as a Gorn

In the original series, Kirk was forced to fight his counterpart from this lizardlike race in hand-to-hand combat, and the Gorn captain was just a guy lumbering around in a rubber suit and a gold mini-dress. We say give Dwayne Johnson some lizard-like scales and eyes, maybe a Voldemort nose, and then turn him loose on Chris Pine. We smell a smackdown !

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