{"id":447,"date":"2009-04-20T02:56:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-04-19T03:05:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T07:05:35","slug":"house-spoiler-kutner-may-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"House spoiler: Kutner may return&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WARNING: HOUSE SPOILERS BELOW!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NO FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT SECRETS REVEALED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kal Penn regrets his decision leaving House, and now wants his character, who committed suicide a few episodes ago, to return to the series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be difficult,&#8221; Penn stated.\u00a0 &#8220;House is a brilliant doctor.\u00a0 He could easily find a way to bring Kutner back to life.\u00a0 Or if Kutner just came back to life spontaneously, it would give House and the other characters a really fun case to solve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Kutner and House\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wizardwalk.com\/images\/housekutner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>Penn also expressed interest in having Kutner be the patient for every episode of the next season.\u00a0 &#8220;It would be a great story arc,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;Having the same patient for every episode for an entire season would be really innovative, and I am prepared to take on the challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But series producer David Shore is not comfortable with Penn&#8217;s request.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ve outraged fans enough,&#8221; Shore said.\u00a0 &#8220;The best thing we can do for now is to keep the dead characters dead.&#8221;\u00a0 Shore also said he isn&#8217;t ready to turn House into a fantasy series just yet.\u00a0 &#8220;Maybe by season nine or ten we will start to see some magic,&#8221; Shore said, &#8220;but for now we are going to see how many more truthful hardcore scientifically-accurate episodes we can produce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other actors on the set also expressed disinterest in having Penn return.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve gotten so used to him being gone,&#8221; Hugh Laurie said.\u00a0 &#8220;It would be weird having him back again.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t know what to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean all doors are closed for Penn.\u00a0 A dead character named Amber will soon make a few appearances as Dr. House&#8217;s hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Kal would like to play a hallucination or a dream memory, we could probably work him in,&#8221; Shore said.<\/p>\n<p>But Penn doesn&#8217;t like the idea of being &#8220;just a character in another character&#8217;s head.&#8221;\u00a0 He said, &#8220;if I can&#8217;t come back to life, then I&#8217;d at least like to play a ghost.\u00a0 That way, I could help House solve some cases, and I would never be able to kill myself again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Penn also suggested he could come on as Kutner&#8217;s long lost identical twin brother doctor.\u00a0 &#8220;Or Fox could just give me a spin-off series about when Kutner was younger and was going to med school,&#8221; Penn said.\u00a0 &#8220;I imagine him as a very House-like character, so Fox would probably really like it.\u00a0 It would be just like House but with different characters, and it would be called Kutner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, David Shore has stated he never wants to see or talk to Kal Penn again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will sneak on set and play corpses in the morgue if I have to,&#8221; Penn said.\u00a0 &#8220;I just have to get back on Fox somehow.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize how much I really loved being on Fox.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARNING: HOUSE SPOILERS BELOW!! READ NO FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT SECRETS REVEALED Kal Penn regrets his decision leaving House, and now wants his character, who committed suicide a few episodes ago, to return to the series. &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be difficult,&#8221; Penn stated.\u00a0 &#8220;House is a brilliant doctor.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[73],"tags":[74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-7d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}