ITS TIME! Post How much you would personally give to Joss Whedon & Co. to get our Ship in the air AGAIN!
POSTED BY: TheAntiReaver
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 15:19
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I had never heard of the series until i saw the movie. It was awesome. Then i watched the series and fell even more with love (esp w kaylee) and i'll do anything to bring it back. I've never loved a show more than firefly. So i'm up for $500 if it'll bring the show back.
Also plan on buying as many dvds as i can afford come dec 20th. DVD sales would probably be the biggest message to the studios that something needs to be done to bring this show back.
keep up the good work all
lets bring this back
ange7dust
Mal: "You are not the man i married a year ago"
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My first time posting. I have no idea what I'm doing. Anyway...
I don't understand all these people blathering on about how much they've already spent on Firefly. You wanted it, you paid for it. What's the big? No-one likes a whiner.
As for my contribution, I have no idea what the exchange rate for the Australian dollar is at the moment (probably pretty crappy) but I could probably do $100 a season. No worries.
"Now somethin' about that is just downright unsettlin'."
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Originally posted by TheAntiReaver:
1.) I was toying with the idea of just propping the money to Whedon and universal to make a mini series for SciFi's syndication, but the initial idea was that We would finance the pilot for a second season, and whedon would pitch it. If it was another 3 hour long pilot, like serenity was, that may work out well, if a bunch of small networks globally pitch in to the production fund for free syndication later, plus our cash, plus angel cash, plus maybe what universal was already willing to foot for this, we will more than likely have a 2nd series with legs.
2.)You are absolutely right. That was where my first ? was in setting this up. When I can afford to put a lawyer to this, I will.
3.) I have the lawyer , I just need to scrape his fees together. The idea was that in donating people would be signing on to a contract that they did so with the idea that the money was let to me in trust to insure it was put to use doing....(ie Joss Whedon has complete creative control, all characters return are cast as seen in the origenal show...etc. etc... ) what needs to be done in order to insure the pilot of a new series or, depending on the cash gathered, a new season, or a set of mini movies, or what have you.... That way everyone gets what they want within reason, and the cash is given with an outline of what is expected in return.
By the time the cash gets to a studio, We would need to have whedon on board for this with project proposals, then we give them a neat little package, they mull it over, and when I get the green light from Whedon &Co. that the criteria is satisfied, I fork over the cash...if that is not the case, and it looks like it will not be the case, I refund.
This will be done professionally. I have taken and will take many more, great pains to make sure of such...
The two biggest obstacles to this, for me, right now are, getting proof from the fans that this may work so my lawyer and web designer can work in good faith of payment, and then taking the time to figure out how the hell I am going to pay them after their work is done.
So yeah, that's where I am at right now.
Excellent Plan! This Corporate Alliance will only let us fly into the black again if we can find some way to attract their attention to the finest show ever aired without scaring them away like bunnies ala Enterprise and thats through contractural indemnity from any potential lawsuits and enough money to make those suits sing. By the by, what is the state of the copyright landscape? I understood that Joss grabbed the rights way back when to see if one of the other networks would bite. My understanding was that Joss had the rights to the rebirth of the series and FOX could only claim ownership over their sad sorry little piece of our sky. (the gorram fools!) Do you know - for sure, mind - if Joss or Universal holds the rights and if not if they can cut a deal with FOX Productions to make the question of copyrights a question of sematics?
As to the aforementioned contribution, I just graduated with my MSEE and once I lineup my first real job (hopefully in a few weeks time) you can have my first gorram paycheck or plastic equivalent if it will really bring Firefly back: cast, crew, Joss et all.
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with Wash hopefully fully alive and kicking since he balanced the rest of the crews tension with really great one-line zingers. Afterall, who amongst us wouldn't whiteWash his death from our collective memories just to get him back. Book's story remains untold, so him too!
I'll just survive on McDonalds or whatever till my second comes along.
Never felt this way about ANY show ever so I guess that says something right there.
Its time to Bring Firefly Back!
Come Let's Journey Once More into the Black...
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nope. you should give me a full number minus one episode so I can correct our total
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Good morning All!
Thus far we have $44 555 give or take with some editing that people are submitting, and that would run us up to about $50 000 including pledges that I have taken from friends and family not posting.
I have been away for a day or two because I have a ton of semester projects due soon (Class ends Dec 13) and finals to study for.
Updates of Note:
I have been bopping around on the phone lines and I think I may be able to swing a showing of The BC Workless's party's Flagship movie "Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams" (The director Ben West is a student activist aquaintance of mine) in a double feature showing Serenity. It will take some time to fully arrange, and I make no promises, but Alarm clocks kill dreams sold out in the Vancouver indy theater it was shown, and the Work less party has a pretty big following in Vancouver. A 50/50 charity showing half to them, half to us, for a weekend, will help us and them a lot if it can be done.
I was hotboxing with a few other friends and one of them was telling me that he is a member of this uber large pay to join academic forum online. He said that a whole damn bunch of them are huge firefly flanatics, and have cash to burn. He is willing to drop a small pile of cash to pay for a click banner site leading people to this thread to post. We have been talking about design, and maybe sitting down and working on a seperate webpage for the mock pledge that will mean I don't have to total and it's a lot more stream lined. we are meeting tonight or on weds.
and once again, to the ever pleasant Xero Gravity;
I DONT CARE ABOUT THE GORRAM NETWORKS.
WE DONT NEED THEM
If we raise enough cash from fundraiser events, sponsors, private citizens with piles of dough, private citizens with small piles of dough, etc... Mutant enemy can make a series and simply put it online for download.
Then buy an assload of banner ads on all kinds of sites and search engines, and poof, there is our syndication.
What universal does with their movies or Whedon does with the networks is up to them.
It would be fabulous if we could work out a contract clause that if the new series goes to TV syndication we (as in the private donators) get shares of cash....but I am not holding my breath. I just want another season, ready to go.
that is the simple answer, and there are a lot more complex ways to go, but I am not ABSOLUTELY not, interested in some halfwit with money's "kill order." That only means what you let it mean.
If you lived by an ocean and all of a sudden you weren't allowed to buy or use salt, would you just sit there and watch the tide?
I am sure that when you begin to breed you will fill the world with many outstanding pod people specimens...or vogons.
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I'm in for at least $100.
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Already shelled out $40.00 for the DVD set and am willing to shell out addition $40.00 per season.
p.s. will also be buying the movie DVD for x-mas presents this year.
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Ahh Antireaver... I have something you lack. The benefit of experience.
I've been active in previous attempts to get cancelled SciFi revived. I've been through the letter-writing campaigns, the petitions, the "let's pool our money together and bring it back ourselves" movements, the "let's get our cause all kinds of press" schemes, etc.
Been there, done that. Always the same thing. Always the same enthusiam from the brokenhearted and helpless fans. We are a marketing demographic for the next show that is equally doomed to die like this. And we'll restart the hopeless resurrection campaign again and again. History repeats itself. Scifi fans are the Helots of hollywood. A dependable source of milk.
I wish FF were coming back. I would gladly pour my own cash into the cause if it were even remotely possible, but, I am uniquely aware of how it's going to turn out. Same as it ever was (Talking Heads).
SciFi chan is now showing reruns of FF to help promote the movie. Funny, I seem to recall Whedon shopped the idea with them but Frau Bonnie Hammer (and crew) shot it down. Hammer is Universal's Bobblehead Barbie postergirl for the blackhole graveyard of science fiction, SciFi channel.
And now they fund the movie production. But they won't bring back the show. Why would the contractual master's of the show not sell the rights back to the people making the movie?
I got off this YoYo rollercoaster already. But all of you keep pledging your meager tithes to Monopolis. It's worth it's weight in diamonds when it comes time to spend those DVD marketing dollars. Yet another "cult" show with fans who swore they'd bring it back from their own shallow pockets. The road to cancellation-hell is paved with SciFi fan's good inentions.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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I would give $ 100. And maybe more. No problemo.
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I'd give a hundred dollars I guess. I'm pretty broke (recent college grad) but it would be so worth it! I think I'd have to wait to buy it until it came out on DVD though because I wouldn't be able to afford the cable service after my $100 donation. But hopefully I could watch at someone else's house, eh? Here's to crossed fingers...
Amylisai
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