Just curious about everyone's thoughts on what adding a big-name star would have done for the numbers
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Jessica Simpson could have played River.
... maybe in Bizarro World!
Joss knows how make a box office smash, he's done it before. He also seems to hate it. Alien Ressurection, which cost $60M and returned $160M, a film which I quite enjoyed, Joss couldn't stand. He ranted about how much he hated the compromises, and the stupitidy of the mass market production. If he wanted to be a whore, he could, and he'd make a lot of money making a mediocre product. I gather that it's much more important to him that Serenity place on IMDb's top 250 than that it make a profit.
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I don't think any fans of the show would have wanted it, but if there were a big name star like say Jennifer Aniston, or Nicole Kidman as the operative, it would have added about $25 million to the numbers. Just an estimate, but it really would have brought in the "normal" movie going crowd. I explained to the middle aged couple ahead of me in line what it was, and the lady wrinkled her nose at me and said it didn't sound good at all. Then she asked me who was in it, and all I could tell her was a bunch of tv actors.
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Firefly has been about being uncompromising to the idea, the creation, that Joss gave birth to. For example...when Joss originally pitched the idea to Fox, they said that they did not want Wash and Zoe to be married. They would have rather had the angsty, troubled path toward falling in love that we see in so many other shows today (those that aren't reality television, anyway). Joss told them that they shouldn't pick up the show then. He didn't want to compromise the vision to please the few.
I would have been supremely disappointed if they had given in and brought in a big-named actor. It would have ruined the movie, detracted from it, for reasons that others have already brought up.
Firefly, Serenity, Joss, and browncoats everywhere...this movie and this vision is going to succeed based on its own merit, not on some cheap stunt to wrangle in an unenlightened fanbase.
We do not lower our standards to better our average...
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I'd compromise my own principles to see nicole kidman as an assassin.
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People worship celebrities, it's sad but it's true. People want to know what celebrities eat, what they do for fun, what they like, what they don't like. Entertainment shows and magazines used to be more about tv shows and movies, now they're all about celebrities. Serenity isn't the only movie that didn't need a big star in it, probably 90% of movies that had big stars in them didn't need them.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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I personally think it would have been a distraction, and would have drawn all the glory from the BDH's to the "big star." I do agree strongly with the response above that the marketing strategy of "go see the movie based on the TV show you never saw that got cancelled mid-season!" was a bad idea. Those who never saw Firefly would assume that the reason the show got cancelled was becuase it sucked, and therefore not see the movie. Who decided on that marketing idea? They should be fired.
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We will have a big name star in it, don't forget Nathan Fillion is going to become huge. :) Now if that would happen, I think a sequel would be much eaiser to make. So everyone needs to go see Slither when it comes out!
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I dont think it would have made much difference.
I mean Sereintiy is out there as a concept ( which is why Firefly has followers as fanatical as the Operative) - space cowboys, cannibals and a black Sumarai.
Even pretty mainstream films with big names bomb, If we had a big name on board it would detract from the greatness of the current cast.
No I blame the PR campign, it could have added a big of umph.
Picture posters around town each with a diffent character.
One could have Mal, brown coat willowing in the wind hero like. Gun out and ready.
Captions -
Captain Mal Reynolds
Captain of the Serentiy
Smuggler
Thief
Plans to misbehave
Or another one of the Operative, sword out walking towards the viewer
Captions -
Operative
Agent of the Alliance
Force of Nature
True belivier
Little things like that...
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Terrible idea. No big name star has the acting chops to cut it with this cast.
Anyway, they'd just be...there. No reason for them to do anything, but Great Maker help us if they had the urge to do their trademark schtick.
Or worse still, their PA draws a scriptwriter aside for a quiet word -
"Ms Lopez thinks she could have more lines in the next scene, and she has has a few ideas about the dialogue. This cowboy-speak doesn't...etc"
Mr Fishburne would be especially unsuitable, what with his marital situation and all. Much uncomfortableness, I hazard...
Then there's the height thing. (Judge Dredd, anyone?) Maybe not a problem. Tom could find loads of crates in the hold to stand on.
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Anybody else think Adam Baldwin would have been a natural for Joe Dredd? And that he would have had the class to keep his hat on for the whole movie?
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Originally posted by OPPYH:
Then she asked me who was in it, and all I could tell her was a bunch of tv actors.
You should of said that the guy that played Pvt. Ryan in Saving Private Ryan was starring in it...
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