Eliza Dushku gets Wet

Eliza Dushku is enjoying the relative success of the small screen being the only Whedon show since Buffy/Angel to get a second season, but she is also showing some range in her sexy badassery with Dollhouse having to play a new person each episode.

Well on the side she lent her toughgirl voice to the video game WET which ambiguously plays on the lead role of a sexy gun for hire… with swords. Well now Eliza dropped a hint suggesting it could be a movie.

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Eliza Dushku mentioned that the current video game WET, in which she plays a sexy leather-clad action heroine, is something that might become a feature film for her to topline. The game isn’t terribly good, which doesn’t matter in the deal, but seems unlikely to become any sort of breakout success, which might matter. I’d bet on Dollhouse getting a third season first. Dusku’s exact quote (in which, yes, she vaguely refers to herself in the third person, which rules) reads like this:

This video game ‘Wet’ I just did, she’s got a working class Lara Croft thing going on, and she’s pretty kick ass. She travels the globe, she’s in Hong Kong and she’s in the UK and she’s a gun for hire and she’s got two samurai swords. She’s pretty vicious. So that’s been something that maybe could turn into a live-action Dushku vehicle.

Now that isn’t to say there is a WET movie already happening, or that a deal is signed but it is something that could happen.

As a rule, video game movies suck but what if the video game itself sucks? Does that change the equation? Makes you think huh?

I would love to see Dushku in any role that has her kicking ass and taking names. And a gun toting sword wielding girl-deadpool would be hot.

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13 thoughts on “Eliza Dushku gets Wet

  1. Everyone keeps mentioning the demo… But has anyone actually played the game? It was surprisingly fun and avoided the one-trick gaming style a lot of 3rd person shooters portray (at one point you’re falling from a plane and shooting people in mid-air). A few disappointing moments aside – I really liked it.

    LordthyBob is pretty much right. I thought of Kill Bill the whole time I played it… But I wouldn’t mind seeing a similarly themed movie hit the big screen.

  2. Ugh, I’m certain she is talking out of her arse here.

    Sorry, but I do believe she is one of the worst things about Dollhouse, and absolutely the wrong actor to cast as one that is supposed to play an array of different characters. She is shown up in the acting department by most of her Doll co-stars on the show.

    That she tries to act like she is a bad-ass in real life in interviews and such is a bit embarrassing really.

  3. ‘The only Whedon show since Buffy/Angel to get second season’?

    You make it sound like Whedon regularly makes shows that don’t make it past season one. In reality, Firefly has so far been his one and only show that didn’t get season two.

  4. I like the premise of Dollhouse, as I do watch it every week. However, I am not fan of her acting abilities. Not really sure what it is, though. She is a sight to see none the less, and wouldn’t mind seeing her in an action packed movie like Wet. I played the demo of the game and had enough fun with it, but it just seamed like a game that would probably beat in one sitting and never played again.

  5. The game is influenced from the old grindhouse style films. It just seems kind of ass backwards to me to make a movie based off a game heavily influenced by movies.

  6. Maybe since the game doesn’t sound too good, that would mean that movie makers would take more liberties with it to make a good action flick without regard to game fans. That could help.

    Or maybe crappy source material=crappy movie.

    Personally I am more inclined to believe the latter.

    On a separate note, I still want more firefly.

  7. I think this game (even though I didn’t like the demo) could make a good movie. In fact it was pretty much already made by Tarrantino and he called it Kill Bill.

    The game just makes it more western in setting, but rips off the Tarrantino film style completely, IMO.

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