Making a Firefly episode ourselves
POSTED BY: Firestalker
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 09:22
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Wow!!! my first Double post ever!! I feel special.
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That sounds pretty good.
So, let's set up a chat on the yahoo site. I'll go through this thread and find all the people interested in writing, and send them to the yahoo site. There we can set up a chat, maybe sometime later this week? In the chat, we can toss around ideas, create characters, figure out what kind of pilot we should make to introduce them all and also have all the great elements of stand-alone story-telling (you know, so we can make one episode that we can expand on and make more episodes, but if we only work on filming one, that's fine.) Then, when we have the basic idea for the pilot, we can choose someone to write the script. I think it should be someone who has the best grip on the way the characters should talk (all westerny and such) and more importantly, the time and dedication to write the whole thing out, and the ability to write it in a way everyone else can easily understand. That person can send updates to the base site (the yahoo one so far) and the rest of the writers can work in their opinions and suggestions.
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My thought is that we agree on a background and characters. Then everyone writes 2 or 3 plot ideas which we then cull (reject those we cant film, amalgamate two or three if that works) Then we commision 3 scripts and pair off writers to work on them. We pick the best and tune it, keep the other two in case we need a followon
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Firestalker, i agree. Having one script will be more organized, and save any confusion. Do you have the basic story\characters penned out?
Also, Great plan NOTABUS. We do need to get a chat time sorted out.
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Firefly\Serenity
Farscape
Andromeda (Early Seasons)
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Oh and we cant start out with a pre-existing Firefly script and adapt it, not if we want to make the characters interesting on their own.
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Sounds interesting.
My $0.02 ...
-- To the writers putting together scripts: May I recommend the Serenity RPG? (see: http://www.serenityrpg.com) It gives a whole host of character notions and plot devices. Also makes a good tech Bible for folks sorting out what's what in the lockers of the 'verse.
-- Doing a Firefly set might be a touch difficult without a LOT of building. Some people have already touched on the difficulties. Perhaps our BDH might be crew of a different kind of ship... still a tramp frieghter, or the like, but with a cargo bay that might be easier to film (dress out a warehouse somewhere? You'll need a space to film interior sets anywhoo...)
This looks *shiny*. I'll be following with some interest -- and might could be I can lend a hand, if it's anywhere near where I live.
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Okay, I'm going to put my ideas out there:
First, what I think is concrete so far-
The story is about the former crew of the Serenity.
Everyone seems to be agreeing that it will take place right after the civil war, but I think it would be more interesting if it took place before the war started. The ship was sitting in the junkyard for a long time before Mal saw it. It sat there, unwanted, for years. Then one day, he looked up and fell in love.
And then, we can incorporate the scientist who worked on Miranda better, because that whole thing happened, what, like ten years before the time period in Serenity. The war ended 7 years before Serenity. My question: How long was the war? A year, two, three? Ten? I doubt that. It doesn't seem like it was an incredibly long war, but definitely some years on it. I think I need to research more into the already extablished Firefly 'Verse.
Themes important to the script:
Secrets and Destiny.
I think keeping that in my mind will help fuel us along.
NOW, on to my ideas:
It's before the Alliance/Independent war. A used Firefly class ship, slightly beat up, but only a few years old. Fireflies are great smuggler ships, and this particular one is bought by some. Smugglers, that is.
Who are these smugglers? Let's see, what's necessary in a crew to fly a ship:
The captain - the person who bought the ship. Maybe someone who was raised in core planets, but for some reason has runaway to the border planets because they long for adventure.
The pilot - Maybe in our crew, the pilot can be the one who's friends with the captain before they buy the ship. Whoever the captain is, they have this friend who is trained in aviation, which gives the captain the idea to become a smuggler and have a ship in the first place.
The mechanic - This is the person the captain and the pilot had to search for and convince to be on their ship before they ever first got it off the ground. Once they found the mechanic, they accepted jobs and started flying around the 'Verse.
I think the original crew should stay at these three, a skeleton crew trying to eke a living with little experience in smuggling but plenty of connections on the "street." The pilot that we are working on will start after they've gotten together and start getting involved in capers, meeting people who reluctantly come onto their ship in need of sanctuary or something. I'm only going off on this smuggling thing because it's been stated that Fireflies are perfect for smuggling. But we can go off another direction. Maybe it was used purely as a transport ship. The crew of the ship is honest and hardworking, and having to cow-tow to their shady boarders.
I think a setting we should defintely use is Haven, since it was so wonderfully introduced to us in Serenity.
I also think we should meet a young Zoe, because I have a 20 year old friend who is practically the spitting image of Gina Torres.
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I have compiled a list of 16 people on this thread interested in being part of the writing crew (correct me if I'm wrong):
NOTABUS
FIRESTALKER
BROWNTROUSERS
CORNCOBB
BROWNCOATMACHINA
MUSTHAVEMOREFIREFLY
FLETCH2
PSYCHOTICBRIDE
20THCENTFOXHATER
RACOONBOY
SERENYTY
HAZE
MILT
STUPIDERLIKEAFOX
SHINYTALENT
PHOEBE
I will be sending messages to the people on this list, and others on my other list for those interested in being crew.
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Ok, Notabus. Im tossing a few idea's around myself, and would be interested in sharing them.
-------Huge Fan of:---------
Firefly\Serenity
Farscape
Andromeda (Early Seasons)
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