What now?

POSTED BY: FeeNiX
UPDATED: Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:41
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LJC

Wednesday, April 9, 2003 4:41 AM

Oh, I'm all aware of that. It's only that so far as I knew, Nathan's the only one with a potentially long-term secure gig that would make it extra hard for a MOW that I knew of thus far. I mean, Alan's movie will shoot for weeks or months, but even with "I, Robot" he could consciveably make room in his schedule for a 3-4 week MOW shoot... And until we hear about the rest fo the cast, Nate was the only stumbling block that I really saw... Even so, if it were to shoot in the spring/pilot season or even in the summer, when series go on hiatus, then it would be mroe likely to round folks up, if that makes sense...

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, April 9, 2003 7:35 PM

I think it is safe to assume that the future of Firefly is going to rely on many factors:

-Joss. Will he have the time and drive to dedicate to a reborn Firefly? From what we have all read, I would say w/ his obvious love for the show and cast, he would make the time. He has the drive.

-cast. Will the original cast be available? Will current commitments or near future commitments keep them from picking up their roles? Will some even be interested after the hiatus? Some, like Adam, Nathan and Gina seem to be eager to pick up where they left off, what of the others?

-venue. How will Joss get it back to the public. Pitch it as a mini series? Made for TV movie? Reruns of original season to see how ratings turn out?

-DVD sales. I think that if the DVD sales do well, then those numbers may convince potential sponsors to back the show, perhaps even a network.

Look at Sci Fi lately. They seem to pick up all the Fox cancelled series, though it takes them years to do so. They ran Space Above and Beyond for awhile. Now they are running Roar. Could be that Firefly winds up there as reruns, though I would say it will be several years before that happens.

I would like to see Firefly back on TV, but I think it will take a monumental effort at this point.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

SELNYC

Thursday, April 10, 2003 5:09 AM

As far as rebroadcasting episodes or releasing season runs on video/DVD, Firefly has some similarities to Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner.

Designed as a limited-run series (a mini-series before we had a name for it), The Prisoner runs for 17 episodes, with a clearly defined beginning and ending. In point of fact, McGoohan, it's creator, producer and oftentimes writer and director, had originally envisioned a series of only 8 episodes; Sir Lew Grade, his distributor, did not feel that he could sell such a short run and insisted on (I think) 25 episodes. They compromised on 17, though hard-core fans can point out the 8 primary episodes for you.

To date, The Prisoner has been shown on the BBC, CBS, PBS and the SciFi Network -- and those are just the channels I can think of off the top of my head. It has also been released in several limited runs in video (Beta & VHS) and laserdisk formats.

Recently, the entire run was released by A & E on DVD; I am the proud owner of just this set and yes, it rocks. It rocks HARD!!!!.

The kicker is The Prisoner was first shown in 1967 and we're still watching and talking about it today -- and people are still making money off of it.

Firefly, though cancelled, will live on through such venues as the SciFi Network -- maybe even PBS -- and through the DVDs we so eagerly await.

The everyone will realize that the little space western thingie we kept bending their ears over in 2002 is pretty damn incredible!!!!

FEENIX

Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:41 PM

So when you talk about the dvds are you just refering to the DVD of the episodes already made, or has much weight been given to the "direct to DVD" idea that people were kicking around a while ago?

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