Firefly Fan Film Official Blog Begins

Friday, January 9, 2004 9:22 PM

I decided to make this my official blog space for the upcoming Firefly Fan Film I am making.

So, my introduction. I am Michael Alessandro, a film maker, actor, writer and director in San Francisco, CA. Currently I have a web series at http://www.fof-films.com called "Smoke & Mirrors:The Magicians", it is updated randomly with new webisodes and is currently drawing some very nice attention.

So, why a Firefly Fan Film? For me, Joss created a universe that I was dying to explore with the crew of Serenity. He had rich characters and a very unique premise. And I miss it. I've watched my dvd set twice through so far, and just can't get enough, but alas...

So, I decided I needed... Yes, I was compelled to do my own "firefly". But since there's the possibility of Mal and the gang rising again (fingers crossed) I thought I would follow an entirely different crew who also happen to be on a "firefly" vessel.

And thus it began. I started with the characters, of which there are 7 main characters on the ship (I will go into details later), and their personalities, their reasons for being who they are and flying on the ship they do.

Then I sat down to write the pilot episode, and it seemed to just flow. I am very excited to lens it.

Now we're in pre-production, putting our ducks as they say...

I have been geenrously supplied with a couple of Serenity models from fellow firelyfans.net users.

My extreme thanks to Biotech!!! His model blows me away. I'm excited to do a test run with it and animate.

Now we're about ready to cast. I have a few actors already lined up, people I have worked wioth before in theater and on my web series, but the rest will be doing an open casting call. I can't wait to see who shows up.

When all is said and done the film(s) will be posted for free downloading over at http://www.fof-films.com. I invite everyone to check out "Smoke & Mirrors" in the meantime. You'll at the very least meet me, Michael, who will be playing the Captain of our intrepid Firefly boat.

I'll leave you only with this today...

"Firefly:Orpheus"

Headed out into the black....

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