Fillion says big screen 'Firefly' looking positive

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I've never heard of a cancelled show moving right to the big screen

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um... star trek? took a few years, but star trek got reborn on the big screen. relaunched a franchise that's still with us today. and between you and me, which is better? silly old shatner and dumb star trek or super cool Fillion and Wonderful, great, and Shiny Firefly? i rest my case.

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wow, I never knew that Star Trek got cancelled. I agree that Firefly has more potential, Star Trek is a dying franchise.

Mike

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star trek was cancelled twice! it was saved once by a fan letter writing campaign(one of the first of it's kind). and later revived by rodenberry as a movie.
and, sure, Star Trek is a dying franchise. almost 40 years since it's first airing! Firefly should be so lucky!

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Yeah, Star Trek is the first save such and such show campaign I ever heard of. It only lasted one season though. I think you guys really have to take Star Trek as, well, Star Trek. If you cant laugh so hard you cry at Shatner pause acting (admittedly it does get old, so take it in small quantities few and far between), then it's not for you.

What they need to do to save start trek is to look at the two tribbles episodes, and try you reflect them without doing cheep self rip-offs.

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I'm a little skeptical about this Firefly movie. I'll believe it when I see it. Unless Whedon has his own production company we don't know about, he's going to have to get someone to buy Firefly. What exactly is the sell going to be? "It was cancelled after less then half a season so let’s all spend 100 million to make a movie." (?)

I'm not so sure about this, but I like that Whedon seems to have balls. He's clearly not afraid to put 110% behind a project to make it work. The current season is only now over and Whedon has already got re-runs in the UK and a DVD coming out. By comparison, Cameron's Dark Angel, which faired much better, has no re-runs at all and it took a whole season to get a DVD.

My point is that regardless of the likelihood of a production company actually buying Firefly for big screen production, I'm willing to put my support behind Whedon if he's willing to put his support behind the show. And in the end, there's no way to measure moxie, so maybe he can do it.

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Ok, I am just going to say this. We the current Firefly fans will more then likely HATE a big screen movie.

1. They will have to begin, well at the beginning. That means alot of screen time on stuff we know and dialogue we have heard.

2. They may not get the same cast AAAAUUGHHH!!
Vin Diesil as Jayne (kill me now)


3. They may even change characters around, add new ones delete others. May change Characters back grounds. Inara more like Saffron- River maybe sane (WAIT.. wait, that is crazy talk)


I hate to be the Kassandra but the movie would not be made for the fans. Let's face it the fans will get taken for granted because we are already going, our 10 bucks is spent. Joss will need to create a larger fan base to bring it back to tv or a "Firefly 2 Back in the Black". The fan base he had (as pretty as we all are) was not enough to maintain it.


All that being said (and please don't pelt me with tiny large nose penguins for saying it)

I will be there opening day.

I hope it rocks and Fox eats a huge plateful of crow.

I hope Serenity flys again. Just not sure a movie is right for it (us).

I feel better now....... had to share the pain.









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I'm quite confident based on what I've seen that the characters will either be there with the same actors or they'll make new characters. Dont' worry about them hiring other actors to replace them, they wouldn't do that.

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