Universal to make 'Firefly' movie?

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SERGEANTX

Friday, May 2, 2003 3:39 AM

Some kind of prequel might be the best. Introduce the characters while still giving us Browncoats something to chew on.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

NIGHTTRAIN

Friday, May 2, 2003 4:18 AM

I don't think I would be into a prequel as much. Firefly has such a great storyline going and i would hate to see it put on the backburner while a prequel is made. I gotta know what the alliance did to River, why they did it, who those blue hand guys are, what's Book's real story, and a million other questions that I think us fans deserve to have answered. I think the best way to go would be to start out with the war and a little backstory and then go on to show what we've seen so far and then continue the story and bring it to a good stopping point instead of leaving us hanging like we are right now. It will be hard to cram all episodes so far into about an hour or so but it can work. I think the prequels can wait right now. The story that needs to be told is the story of the crew of Serenity. The history of the crew of Serenity, in my opinion, can wait.

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STRINGSLINGER

Friday, May 2, 2003 5:24 AM

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I gotta know what the alliance did to River, why they did it, who those blue hand guys are, what's Book's real story, and a million other questions that I think us fans deserve to have answered.

Careful what you wish for. I would much rather be kept in the dark about all of these things than find out that midichlorians are somehow involved.

I do agree with you that the movie (if it ever happens) should be a continuation of the story of Serenity. I'm not sure an entire 15 episodes worth of exposition will be needed to set the plot up for new viewers, though.

SERGEANTX

Friday, May 2, 2003 5:41 AM

Quote:
I don't think I would be into a prequel as much. Firefly has such a great storyline going and i would hate to see it put on the backburner while a prequel is made. I gotta know what the alliance did to River, why they did it, who those blue hand guys are, what's Book's real story, and a million other questions that I think us fans deserve to have answered.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I want to find out all that stuff too, but I guess we're looking at it with different expectations. See, I want the story to truly go on. I wouldn't want to see the movie as somehow wrapping things up. I guess in my heart of hearts I'm hoping it will be a vehicle to jump-start the series again. I'm not sure I'd be happy with a quick and dirty wrap up of everything and I just don't see how all those wonderful story lines could be justly handled in a two hour movie. So that's why I was thinking a prequel, save the grand story arcs for the medium they were intended - a long running series. Too optimistic I guess....

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

SUCCATASH

Friday, May 2, 2003 6:11 AM

"So that's why I was thinking a prequel"

I think you make a good point. It almost seems impossible to continue the intricate story and have a box office success in only two hours.

A prequel sounds like a likely candidate to me.

Here's how it goes... The movie is a smashingly successful prequel. Then, everyone goes out and buys the TV DVD's, and then the NEXT movie picks up where the episodes leave off....

DUTCH

Friday, May 2, 2003 6:21 AM

I figure a movie would need about 20 minutes to get the new viewers uptodate, which leaves the rest of the 5 hours for some shiny Joss Whedon storytelling

Don't think 5 hours is too long for a movie, right?

I'd sell my soul to see this movie... sell it twice even.

SWITCHY

Friday, May 2, 2003 8:43 AM

I've thought about it and I think I know how Joss could go about it. This idea may be met with resistance but here goes. It needs to be a compelling plot right from the top to catch new interest so we could begin with the back story of Simon and River. Her at the academy and the subsequent rescue. Plenty of action and intrigue abeit limited intitially to the two characters. They appear to be safe, but not by much, by the time they meet up with Serenity. At this point, as hard as it is to imagine, we could leap forward past the show and pick up a year later with River and Simon having stayed aboard serenity as their best way to avoid capture. At this point we could begin to catch up with the others and resume life on serenity. I know many would say there's to much story arc missing from this approach but remember that most of the beauty in this show is in the characters relationships and how the stories unfold. There would be plenty of room to have many of the developements from the show revealed, a couple of episodic digressions, discover what the sinister plot behind River's abduction was, Deal out some FF brand justice and still be back on Serenity by dinner. Boy do I hope there is really going to be a movie

SERGEANTX

Friday, May 2, 2003 3:25 PM

Wow... I like it. No resistance here.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

INVISIBLEGREEN

Friday, May 2, 2003 5:28 PM

I just found this @ about.com. It's from a Nathan Fillion interview with the horrible Fred Topel:

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How do you feel about how Firefly ended? I wish I knew what went wrong there. I’m still crossing my fingers for the movie. I still hope we make a movie. I’ll do it. If someone will let me, I’ll do it.

Theatrical movie or TV movie? Oh, movie movie. Big old silver screen.

http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa050103.htm

HAPLO721

Friday, May 2, 2003 6:28 PM

I'd want the FF game to be kinda like Freelancer, where you get to explore cities between missions, listen to gossip, and get job offers. However, instead of a flight sim, it'd be a third-person shooter with heavy plot-driven elements-- missions are along the lines of "find the Counselor and get him out of the detainment center" instead of the boring "find the red key, find the green key, find the blue key" or even "activate the fuel cells, activate the O2 tanks, activate the generator", which is pretty much the same thing when you think about it.

Early: You ever been raped, Kaylee?
Kaylee: You know, it's funny you should mention that... ever heard of the Fox network?

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