Joss Whedon's extracurricular Much Ado About Nothing gets a release date

That Shakespeare movie that Joss Whedon shot in 12 days (during some spare time while shooting The Avengers) has gotten an official theatrical release date: June 7, 2013. Filmed in glorious black and white, Much Ado About Nothing features several Whedon favorites, like Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods) as Claudio, Alexis Denisof (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Benedick, Amy Acker (also Buffy) as Beatrice, and Clark Gregg (The Avengers) as Leonato. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions stepped up to give this movie a chance in theaters so people could actually see it, because poor Joss Whedon is going seriously unrecognized for his cinematic efforts these days. (photo via Ginsberg Libby)

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Amy Acker was in Angel, Dollhouse and Cabin in the Woods; not Buffy.
- Coderjoe
  
  Angel is usually considered part of the “Buffyverse”, though.
  - http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
    
    Of course its the Buffyverse, but she was not (ever) in Buffy. Although there were a few episodes where her character was on the opposite end of a phone line.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I saw a trailer for this in the theater. I can’t remember what film it ran before.

But I could have sworn it was in color.
- http://twitter.com/anonotwit anonotwit
  
  Black and white. I saw it at TIFF and if I remember correctly Whedon said that his rationale for using black and white was so that he didn’t have to worry about the white balance.
  
  I liked the Branagh version better but I enjoyed this one. It’s one of my favorite Shakespeare plays.
  - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
    
    Thanks! I wonder if I saw a “making of” type trailer . . . or just filled in the color in my memories.
ohbejoyful

Yay! Cannot wait.
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I will always think of that character as Benethingy, thanks to some indiscriminate forum censoring software.