Speak Low If You Speak Love. Or Tweet It. It Is The 21st Century After All. – Joss Whedon Has A Project

No one in this picture looks like a young-ish Ron Howard. No one.

Apparently, it started with something like “Hey, guys! Let’s make a movie!” Twelve days and a whole boot camp of Shakespeare later, Joss Whedon, according to Whedonesque, has completed principal photography on Much Ado About Nothing. Somehow this was doable, despite being ass deep in The Avengers. Why do you only write and direct movies about superheroes, Mr. Whedon? Apparently, at that sort of pace, you may actually be one.

Yup, Much Ado About Nothing.

This is from the press release (Yes. I actually tracked down a whole press release. All official and stuff. Go me.):

Shot in glorious black and white by Jay Hunter (PAPER HEART, “Dollhouse”), the film
stars Amy Acker (CABIN IN THE WOODS, “Alias”) and Alexis Denisof (“How I Met
Your Mother”, “Angel”) as Beatrice and Benedick, the world’s least likely lovers headed
for their inevitable tumble into love. As Joss Whedon puts it: “The text is to me a
deconstruction of the idea of love, which is ironic, since the entire production is a love
letter – to the text, to the cast, even to the house it’s shot in.” The supporting cast
includes Nathan Fillion (“Castle”, WAITRESS) as Dogberry, Clark Gregg (AVENGERS,
IRON MAN) as Leonato, Fran Kranz (CABIN IN THE WOODS, “Dollhouse”) as
Claudio and Reed Diamond (“Franklin & Bash”, MONEYBALL) as Don Pedro.

While there does not seem to be an official listing on IMDB yet, there does appear to be at least one publicity still that has found it’s way onto the Intertrons:

Berry. Dogberry. Night watch.

In fact, let’s leave this with Nathan Fillion, who will be playing Dogberry, explaining why this project will be awesome. Just like he did on Twitter: