Firefly Revival?
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Don't raise my hopes even for a secnd with such a thread title. 
Loved the show but seems unlikely. Although i keep hoping for another movie. Holywood keeps going back to familiar stories which already have some fan base. I'm not sure about a reboot the actors still seem usable. But it's probably going to remain a brief but memorable piece of sci fi television history which hopefully will serve as a warning to prematurely cancelling shows.
Loved the show but seems unlikely. Although i keep hoping for another movie. Holywood keeps going back to familiar stories which already have some fan base. I'm not sure about a reboot the actors still seem usable. But it's probably going to remain a brief but memorable piece of sci fi television history which hopefully will serve as a warning to prematurely cancelling shows.
Give me a continuation featuring Captain Jeremiah Reynolds, son of Mal and Inara. Still flying the same old Firefly, even closer to the junkyard.
In my youth, I fancied myself a Science Fiction writer and spent time writing a bible for a universe that would have a ship like Serenity. It struck me how similar some of the concepts were. I guess great minds think alike.
Weird, ain't it? When I was in high school (early 1970s) I tried to write a sci fi story using WWII air war tropes, of which I was a huge fan. Nobody had done a space film with fighters and such. Two years after I graduated, Star Wars came out. I guess I didn't have my alpha wave helmet on to block the signals.
Since Nathan Fillion is locked down with his own show Castle for the next few years and the other cast members have projects of their own it is highly unlikely ever to be picked up again.
All we can get are comic books, maybe some novels and such but Firefly is dead.. the same dead as Babylon 5 and similar shows who had their high during its run and a few years later until even the most hardcore fans have mellowed out a bit and accepted the show's fate.
All we can get are comic books, maybe some novels and such but Firefly is dead.. the same dead as Babylon 5 and similar shows who had their high during its run and a few years later until even the most hardcore fans have mellowed out a bit and accepted the show's fate.
Nope.
For those who are unaware of it, there was a Firefly movie released last year. Though it was a fan film, it did feature appearances by several of the cast, reprising their characters (both on screen and via voice overs).
It's called Browncoats: Redemption, and was shown at Dragon*Con, among other places.
It will only be available on DVD through August - that's the deal they made with Fox and Universal ... They can sell the dvd, but 100% of the money coming in goes to Equality Now, Joss Whedon's charity.
http://browncoatsmovie.com/
There is talk already of a second movie featuring this cast, and rumor has it Captain Tightpants wants to be part of it.
It's called Browncoats: Redemption, and was shown at Dragon*Con, among other places.
It will only be available on DVD through August - that's the deal they made with Fox and Universal ... They can sell the dvd, but 100% of the money coming in goes to Equality Now, Joss Whedon's charity.
http://browncoatsmovie.com/
There is talk already of a second movie featuring this cast, and rumor has it Captain Tightpants wants to be part of it.
I bought a copy of Browncoats: Redemption at DragonCon last year and I have to say, for a low budget amateur flick, it wasn't terrible. (It was actually kind of neat.)
This is my take too.
Thanks for beating me to it, RoJo my friend!
Although I DO think it would be nice if there were Firefly novels. Not that I ever expect that to happen, but it would be nice.
I've accepted the idea that there won't be a Firefly resurrection, and it's actually the one case where I don't wish there were novels. The on-screen chemistry between the cast was so great (and the style of dialogue so unique) that I don't think novels could match how good the series was. At least, the majority of comic books (and short stories in Still Flying) haven't been nearly as good as the filmed material.
Nope. Tried that, then I get "Well how can you know you don't like it if you don't watch every episode ever made and listen to Joss Whedon talk about how brilliant it is?? What's wrong with you????"
A valid question, but frankly not worth the effort of exploring at this late date. I think the show's merits speak for themselves and will certainly suggest it to anyone who is asking for TV advice; but as my girlfriend's obsession with Keeping Up With The Shpoonheadsh shows, not everyone is going to have the same tastes.
I'm not a Firefly fan, but even if I were I'd face reality by this point that a dozen episodes from almost a decade ago, and a movie that might have been well received but didn't set the world on fire box office wise aren't really conducive to a revival.
Name other shows that had such a short run and came back later, and it's a very short list. The new version of The Prisoner (17 episodes in the original run) comes close, and that wasn't a revival. And it tanked anyway. Had Serenity been a giant hit and spawned a sequel, the story might be different. It was a noble effort and while I don't consider it a bomb, it clearly didn't succeed as a "let's keep it going" initiative, even if it succeeded as a film.
If they did a revival, odds are it wouldn't be with the same cast members anyway as everyone's moved on, most key being Nathan Fillion whose show Castle is doing quite well. And Summer Glau has a real shot at movie stardom with the gaming film that's coming out (Lords of Badass or whatever). Morena Baccarin is free with V being cancelled, but I can't see her being unemployed for long. And I understand a fondly regarded character bit the biscuit in the movie which pissed some people off.
My opinion as someone who would give a pint of blood to see Wonderfalls, The Tick (live action), Spy Game, The Cape, V 2009, Bionic Woman, Otherworld, Picket Fences, Threshold, Sarah Connor Chronicles and about 50 other "cancelled too soon" series come back, even as made for DVD one-off movies, is that fans would be better off pushing for novels and comics to continue the Firefly franchise. Or, start sending e-mails to companies like Big Finish in the UK about making audio dramas (and Big Finish isn't a silly suggestion since they produce audios based on Highlander, Stargate SG-1, Sapphire and Steel and others, not just Doctor Who). As DW fans will tell you, that's one way to get original cast members involved without having to work through the logistics of filming (and aging).
Alex
Name other shows that had such a short run and came back later, and it's a very short list. The new version of The Prisoner (17 episodes in the original run) comes close, and that wasn't a revival. And it tanked anyway. Had Serenity been a giant hit and spawned a sequel, the story might be different. It was a noble effort and while I don't consider it a bomb, it clearly didn't succeed as a "let's keep it going" initiative, even if it succeeded as a film.
If they did a revival, odds are it wouldn't be with the same cast members anyway as everyone's moved on, most key being Nathan Fillion whose show Castle is doing quite well. And Summer Glau has a real shot at movie stardom with the gaming film that's coming out (Lords of Badass or whatever). Morena Baccarin is free with V being cancelled, but I can't see her being unemployed for long. And I understand a fondly regarded character bit the biscuit in the movie which pissed some people off.
My opinion as someone who would give a pint of blood to see Wonderfalls, The Tick (live action), Spy Game, The Cape, V 2009, Bionic Woman, Otherworld, Picket Fences, Threshold, Sarah Connor Chronicles and about 50 other "cancelled too soon" series come back, even as made for DVD one-off movies, is that fans would be better off pushing for novels and comics to continue the Firefly franchise. Or, start sending e-mails to companies like Big Finish in the UK about making audio dramas (and Big Finish isn't a silly suggestion since they produce audios based on Highlander, Stargate SG-1, Sapphire and Steel and others, not just Doctor Who). As DW fans will tell you, that's one way to get original cast members involved without having to work through the logistics of filming (and aging).
Alex
FF was one of those little slices of heaven that I was fortunate enough to enjoy during its brief run. The fact that Serenity was made in the first place was nothing short of astonishing.
That's enough for me.
That's enough for me.
Maybe wait a week and ask the question again?
Whedon will likely resurrect his career this weekend. (If he doesn't kill it in a fiery death.)
One suspects that if CA/Avengers do well, that he'll have a significant amount of decision power.
However, in the perception to those that matter, Firefly isn't nearly as prominent in the annals of pop culture significance as Buffy and said "those that matter" might want and get him attached to the Kuzui plot. I also would suspect he has a lot of other projects he'd like to do.
Whedon will likely resurrect his career this weekend. (If he doesn't kill it in a fiery death.)
One suspects that if CA/Avengers do well, that he'll have a significant amount of decision power.
However, in the perception to those that matter, Firefly isn't nearly as prominent in the annals of pop culture significance as Buffy and said "those that matter" might want and get him attached to the Kuzui plot. I also would suspect he has a lot of other projects he'd like to do.
In ten years, some young network exec will come up with the idea of rebooting Firefly with plans to reinvent it and make it more contemporary to a new audience (the reworked theme song will have a new synth-metal-hop beat track).
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I agree cast chemistry surpassed the story (as good as it was) to make me want to watch the show.
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