Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:45:08
Maybe, kinda a sort-of return for Serenity?
Joss is all over the road with these statements lately.
“A sequel’s unlikely,” Whedon told Empire with a note of clear regret, “but it’s amazing what permutations of something can happen.” But if not a theatrical encore, that leaves… yes, you guessed it, a possible return to the smaller screen. “As long as I was able to service the characters with integrity and had enough money so that I wasn’t hampered, then I would love to return Serenity to TV. I love that universe; it continues and those characters live on. There could be a series, there could be a miniseries, there could be all sorts of things. I’m not ruling anything out. I’ll let it simmer for a while and see if anyone calls.”
Note: Serenity, not Firefly. This means that the developments in the film, which I was most unhappy with, will go forward if a project were to come to fruition.
Lame.
As I said in my review of Serenity...I wasn’t happy when I compared it directly to the TV show. In my perfect world, Joss gets a 5-year deal from Sci-Fi to continue Firefly from the last episode and ignores the film completely, thereby resurrecting a certain someone.
As for why the film failed to rake in the cash despite uniformly glowing reviews, according to Whedon it’s all in the presentation. “It’s a question of marketing ultimately. The fact that I like to dance around genres with gay abandon has worked to my disadvantage. Nobody knows exactly how to market anything I do because it usually has so much in it. It has a diffuseness because of it’s origin that keeps it from being the easy sell. Some people also said that you can’t call an action movie ‘Serenity’ but I think that’s still okay. What was I going to call it? ‘Big Smash Bang With Boobies’? Which was, of course my second choice.”
1. I would absolutely pay money to see a movie called “Big Smash Bang With Boobies!” Who wouldn’t?
2. Yeah...Joss is understating the truth here. It may have been a little difficult to market, but then, you’d have to actually try to market it to find out. Since that never happened, we’ll never know.
You know what? I’ll take a Serenity TV show even though I am sorta-kinda against the idea. It would probably be leaps and bounds better than 90% of the garbage that clutters the 87 million channels I get now.
Posted by JimK at 02:45 PM on January 10, 2006
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#2 Posted by acapella 
on 01/10 at 07:04 PM -
Based on the tripe scattered around the dial nowadays, I’d pay extra to have a channel that played Firefly/Serenity 24/7, along with continuing new episodes, interviews, etc.
And I’m a 42 year old businessman with very little TV time available. Frankly, outside of the occasional Saturday or Sunday football game, I rarely turn on the tube any more. So much of it is just pathetic.
Where’d all the creative TV and Movie people go? Did they just die out like the dinosaurs and we didn’t notice?
#3 Posted by acapella on 01/10 at 07:05 PM -
Oh, and “Big Smash Bang with Boobies” would be a giant international success. It would dwarf Star Wars.
#4 Posted by wallywest80 on 01/10 at 08:32 PM -
I never understood why they didn’t call the movie firefly like the series, i mean did star trek change names with the jump to films? i think not!
#5 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 01/10 at 10:15 PM -
Maybe they were trying to escape Fox’s clammy hands of death. “‘Firefly’? Didn’t that series get cancelled really quick? It must have been awful!”
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I still don’t get your huge hate-on for the movie. It wasn’t perfect, but expecting perfection from movies just means you get disappointed every time.
Personally, I think Wash was one of the only characters that could have died and it not only mean something, but the show continue on. Wash was a great character, but he was basically there for the occasional one-liner, he was background setting… he was GOOD background setting, but that’s what he was. Your idea of Jayne dying because “Everyone expected him to live to see the big fight” was kind of silly, really… for one thing, if anyone is LIKELY to die, it’s Jayne, because he pisses the most people off and goes into the most danger. For another, if he died, well, no one on the crew would really cry for him. It’d be a tombstone, a sigh, and oh well, guess we need another tough guy, no possibility of any character development or lasting sentiment. For thirds, it would remove that element of danger and such from within the crew itself… no CREDIBLE threat to Mal’s authority ever came from Wash or Simon or anyone else, remove Jayne and you’ve got this nice, obedient little crew who you highly doubt would ever have the gumption to do more than pose a mild inconvenience to the smooth runnings aboard. Jayne is there to keep Mal on his toes. “You wanna run this boat?!” “YES.” “… Well… y’can’t.” Jayne’s the only one that would WANT to run Serenity without Mal, and thus keeps Mal, er… well, I’d say “honest”, but…