New York Magazine article that talks about a new revolution in TV... discusses the posibility of resurrecting Firefly
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UPDATED: Monday, November 21, 2005 20:05
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OK
So. I am going to set up a seperate thread. It will list instructions for the 'pledge' What the jist of it will be is;
If you are a willing person with some cash, write down your first and last name, and your email, with the amount you are willing to personally give to joss if we can set up a safe medium of collection on this site, for him to assemble his crew and put us back on the air.
If we get to a significant amount, I will personally track down Jewel Strait (She lives in my home town of glorious van.) Or anyone else I can get my gorram hands on and pitch them this idea. with the numbers tallied and all.
I am not going to be psychotic about this, but I certainly wouldn't mind extending myself to lift up these 'pledges' to someone, perhaps whedon himself. I will do all the bitch work too, (maybe with some help from Local Canadian Browncoats) so lazy netters won't have to much responsibility.
I will set'em up, you people just advertise, blog, post, and scream loud enough to have enough people come in and post.
here goes nuthin
-K
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It begins...
"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."
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Responses are starting to come in over at the official site.
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=for
um.viewtopic&p=444913#444913
Know of any other big forums to post on?
-e
"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."
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Quote:
Originally posted by Stoney3K:
I do have my doubts about this.
Although we Browncoats are a fanatic breed, and Joss also would like to see his universe worked out, we have a huge precedent we have to deal with... it's called Star Trek: Enterprise.
From the start of Enterprise, fans made efforts to keep it on the air. The totals at the end of season 4 went up to over 3 million dollars. But still UPN (the network that was airing the show) kept stiff and said the show was over. Even to the disappointment of the cast and most of the production crew, as the show was finally catching on in its fourth season.
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I don't think it's fair to Firefly to compare it to ST:Enterprise. It is more similar to the Trek of the Original Series, which was new (at the time!), original, exciting - and bungled by its network . . .
Vs. Enterprise, at the tail end of many years, many episodes, many movies, searching for new stories, and devolving into the war-based story arcs that Gene Roddenberry fought, tooth and nail, to avoid.
The original Trek was the fresh, vigorous new blood. As is Firefly, now.
And Trek *did* come back from the dead . . . and
without the benefit of the internet.
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"Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity."
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Quote:
Originally posted by ImperialKnight:
Joss forms a corporation whose purpose is to buy Firefly’s way back into existence as a series. This corporation like all corporations will have shares so we browncoats can in essence buy ownership and share a stake in Firefly’s success. . . .
To paraphrase Wash, ‘Let’s cut out the middleman, and give [the power] directly to the people. The pay’s better and we make sure help gets to where it needs to go’. Any more ideas?
Long Live the Empire!
I like it!!! It is one more idea, one more model to consider . . .
Who knows exactly what model the end result will use - if we muddle ahead, we should be able to find some logical solution!
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"Wacky fun."
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Quote:
Originally posted by TheAntiReaver:
OK
here goes nuthin
-K
DUDE!!
Count me in . . . Don't much care exactly what the model is if'n it moves us forward. If nothing else, it will be another show of support and will give us more numbers to crunch - grist for the mill . . .
Bless you for the "bitchwork."
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"The Dude abides."
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count me in for $50
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I'd play with the numbers a little in relation with the poll. I calculated with average numbers and theoretically we already have neraly $5000 from contribution. :) If one episode preparing cost is $ 2 million, and one episode is 40 minutes, that means, 1 minutes cost is $ 50000. :) So we already sponsored 6 seconds from the new season! (Don't curse me...it's just a funny play with the numbers).
Rather....carry on and let's reach the $ 40 million goal!
"I wish all of you hundred of fat childrens"
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This is all amazing in theory, But we need someone to contact a FFN moderator and get a database running of Names, and promised contribution amounts.
To verify that the donations are real, we'd have to give our credit card no's in advance and sign something like "blah blah blah we won't charge untill we get word from Joss/Fox/Powers that be"
Not sure if FFN has that kind of programming available.
The other idea would be a fundraising drive. Some of the more prominant fan fic authors (ScrewtheAlliance comes to mind) could ok a printing of their works. They could be cheaply printed,some good fan artist could even illlustrate, and given out as a "thanks" for a contribution of $40.00 to the "Resurrect Firefly" fund. I am sure someone, SOMEWHERE has access to a printing company. We'd have to check into copyright law, but I am sure if no one was making money off of it, it would be okay. And if the show failed to get off the ground, we could vote on a charity to donate to.
I know I would gladly give $40.00 at the possibility of a firefly season. We just have to convince someone with the rsources to get it started!!!
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If you know how much money you have to spend for the season, you could outline a season's worth of scripts and see which ones would be the most costly. You can also cut corners by pulling a LOST IN SPACE example and crash land on one planet for multiple episodes at a time, thus keeping your set and shooting costs to a minimum, and if you could write some sotryline that would be plausible, and make sense, you could save money by shooting withing the ship's interiors as well (assuming you'll have that set throughout the series once it's rebuilt).
Minimal use of CGI and special effects (or be cheap and try to reuse anything you've already got) can also help. Alan Spencer decided that when he was doing the second season of Sledge Hammer! that he would do several shows within the police station that kept the costs down so that he could use the extra money he'd been given for those episodes on other episodes that required more money. It worked, and the 2nd season of Sledge is just as good as the first, IMHO.
Just my 2 cents on the matter.
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Zoë: Shepard, isn't the Bible kind of specific about killing?
Book: Very specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzy around the area of kneecaps.
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