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
VIEWED: 93184
PAGE 27 of 33
At least $100 per season. Though it's easy to see how one could get creative with this idea.
o Big spenders get to meet the cast/crew
o Be an extra/small part in an episode
o Hell just having my name on the DVD box with a hundred other browncoats would be pretty damn shiny. 
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
$100 from me, per season.
Can't speak for the missus, but I'd guess at least half that from her as well.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Count me in for $50.00 (USD).
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
It appears that practicaly EVERYONE who gets a chance to see FF, or gets tied to a chair and made to watch an episode or two, falls in love with it. So far, I know of noone who has watched it that didn't like it. I'm sure there are plenty out there who won't. I just havn't met em yet.
We need some better method(s) of advertising it to the masses, who for the most part, seem to have never heard of it in the first place. I know. Hard to imagin what with FOX's stellar advertising of the original series and all.
My sisters both LOVE this kind of show and neither one had ever herd of it before I showed them the DVDs. I vaguely remember seeing an add or two back when the show first aired but it looked dumb and not worth the effort to record it on vhs (all I had at the time to record with) as I work evenings. Since Sci-Fi is now re-airing them and I have a ReplayTV (like tivo), I finaly got to see an episode and was instantly hooked.
I think the best way to get more FF made is to get more fans. I been bugging guys at work and put a FF wallpaper up on my work PC. 
It generates questions and I even got one guy to watch the pilot episode (loaned him the DVD) and told him to check it out on Sci-Fi.
Anyway, shear numbers of people waving wallets is the only sure way to get the studios attention unless you happen to have one or two people with really, really big wallets.
Take a page out of Mel Gibsons book (passion). He couldn't get any studio to touch the project with a ten foot pole. Every one of them thought it would be a massive looser. So he funded it himself and made a fortune from it. Showed all those studio execs Just what A**holes they were for turning him down.
Find some really rich people and convert them to fans. Get them to finance it. But you STILL need to show them a large enough fan base to convince them they will make a return on their investment.
One sound buisness proposal to the right person may be worth much more in terms of getting this project off the ground than any number of fans waving dollars at a studio that has demonstrated complete disreguard for their fans so many, many times...
Look what happend recently with the Sony virus.. *cough* Er... The Sony Digital Rights Management software... Hehe. If enough people want something to happen. It CAN be accomplished. I believe that any TRUE buisnessman knows that it's the CUSTOMER that is always right.
It's been pointed out that many Sci-Fi shows have been killed, never to be revived... What about Star Trek? The original shows first season was treated almost as badly as Firefly has been. If not for the MASSIVE letter writing campaign by the fans, it would have never been heard from again.
It's astonishing how much money that franchise has generated for the studios involved and who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into putting Star Trek back on the air after it was cancelled.
If we could figure a way to generate enough fans and then convince them to stop watching any FOX station or licenced FOX show on ANY OTHER station (EG: buffy on UPN, etc...) AND make sure FOX knows this. We'd have new FF episdes within a few months. I absolutely guarantee it. The INSTATNT they become aware that NOT making new FF episodes will affect their bottom line, they will be all smiles for Joss and the gang and the Red carpet will roll out. But NOT ONE SECOND SOONER.
Say! One more though. Find a company or 20 willing to pledge advertising buys but ONY during _N_E_W_ FF episodes. If you can get enough of them that FOX would be able to show a profit on airing episodes (even buys at UPN/Sci-Fi for the same conditions) but they get nothing if they don't. The chances probably go up exponentially of getting a new season.
Just have to put toghether a solid package of info on the deomgraphics of FF fans and find those companies who would really want to reach US! Given that sort of situation, I'm sure thos companies would be well rewarded by the fans.
This idea takes a page out of the Rush Limbaugh radio s
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I just saw the Firefly DVD. I would never have watched it but I kind of got tied to a chair.
I hate Sci-Fi....
16 hours later and I've finished the DVD including "special footage" extras and crew interviews.
I can't believe how engaging this show was! The characters are well portrayed, the banter is witty, and the storylines are believable.
This isnt your momma's star-trek!
I'm an official convert is what I guess I'm trying to say. Put me down for $2500 USD per episode, and money well spent.
If Mr. Whedon decides to take up an actual collection, feel free to pass along my contact information.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
100 to 200 a season for sure. you know if the right for firefly are for sale we could give joss the money to buy them and then finance whatever we want to finance as long as he is willing to make it. I posted on another thread that there are enough crazy fans that we could pull off something like the star wars fan movie if joss was involved, people would be sure to lend any skill they could to the overall production, probably for no pay, or little pay.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I'm down for $50 per season easily.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I'd pledge 500 euro for a season. It would easily be worth it for the season and the sense of accomplishment for getting it back on the air and sticking it to FOX.
-------------------------------------------------
"Time for some thrilling heroics!"
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Put be down for $50 per season.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Its Time to Fly again! Bump!
Long Live the Empire!
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME