Time to rally the Browncoats! Hold the line a bit longer!
POSTED BY: reaverchow
UPDATED: Friday, January 13, 2006 23:34
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As noted in another threads, on this board & others, the following articles have or will appear this week in various publications, quoting Joss. To re-cap:
In EW (#855 12/23/05) titled "Adios, 'Firefly'":
"Alas, Whedon's fond memories are also tainted by Serenity's status
as a franchise nonstarter, despite Universal's best marketing efforts,
the film only mustered $25 million. "In the end, it was what it was: a
tough sell," says Whedon, adding that it appears the Firefly saga has
reached its conclusion. He has no regrets - and he's moving on....As
for Serenity, "I have closure," he says. "And now, I can have it in my
home - which means that I can actually stop working on it."
and:
But there is this seemingly contradictory piece frm TVGuide.com from 2
days or so ago from Joss:
" Are you considering any future installments of the Serenity/Firefly
franchise? Whedon: It's hard to say. I think the DVD sales will have a
lot to say about that. Are there more stories to tell? You bet. Would
I love to tell them and work with everyone again? The answer is also
yup. Now, the movie did not get a huge amount of people out to see it.
We'll need the DVD to make the money back. But I rule out nothing. I
think it's the type of movie that can be discovered on DVD. It has
definitely affected the people who have seen it."
Course, then there is this:
from ComingSoon.com
"What's going to happen with the "Serenity" franchise now? Are you
just going to put it on the backburner?
Whedon: Yeah, you know, that's pretty much it. It was hard to make
and I'm very tired. I need some sleep, and then we'll see if people
are interested in more, than I have more say."
Joss sounds VERY tired and discouraged. Understandably.
I say it *ISN'T* time to quit, but time to rally the Browncoat community - to let Joss know we still care. It may encourage him, and if it doesn't, at least it will be a final thank you to him for the joy he's brought us!
I have already confered with the AZ_Browncoats@yahoogroups.com, and the Florida group (and will hit the Illinois group later tonight) and
suggested that we get EVERY Browncoat available to write *personally*
to Joss - email *&* snailmail and tell him how much we apperciate
Firefly/Serenity, and we know he is tired but please not to give up
just yet - to hold the line a little longer.
So far, I've had a lot of takers, but this needs to be more than a
single state effort. We need We need to let Joss know we care.
Here are the addesses I have so far:
Joss Whedon
C/O Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
417 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Joss Whedon's Serenity Comics
c/o Dark Horse Comics
10956 SE Main Street
Milwaukie, OR
97222
Hold the line a little longer! *Joss* TAUGHT me to never give up on my hopes and dreams - time to return the favor. He made me a part of a shared family. The Browncoats. (The only other group I felt at how with since I left the University - and atheists and Buddhists there.) Firefly taught me the value of family, and fighting for that family - well, he rekindled it at a time where I am battling for custody with an ex wife who left me after numerious once night stands and cheating, and was on the verge of giving up. He (Joss) gave me hope in family again. I was gonna give up, but Firefly/Serenity made me see that would be wrong. Way wrong.
- bryce
"It ain't all books and charts you know little albatros. You know the secret of flying? ... Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home." - Mal, Serenity.
(Apply this to *family*, it means the same.)
"I don't care what you believe in - just believe in it!"
- Shepard Book, Serenity
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Yeah. "despite Universal's best marketing efforts" my shiny monkey butt. The movie was released on less then half the screens that the Blair Witch Project opened with, even though we had more than 4 times the online furvor. Uni humped us on this one folks. I know if my town, the one theater that had one copy on one screen was sold out each show for over a week. Fact of the matter is that people just couldn't get in to watch it. I have little doubt that Joss and Universal wanted the online masses to flood the theaters, and we did. They wanted us to tell people, and we did. We were expected to bring the unwashed masses in for a little Koolaid drinking party, and we did. But when you don't bring enough cups and the sugary powder runs low, you can't get them a tall refreshing glass of Serenity. I guess they expected Joss to walk out, pray, and the copies of the film would multiply like a jewish guy did with loves and fishes a few years back. But that ain't real folks. I'm torn between wether that film should have even been made, but then I suppose it is better to have loved and lost, eh? I think we can see Universal's idea of marketing everywhere, even on the DVD cover art, which reflects nothing but the actors that were in the movie, and I can only imagine what they'll botch on the disk itself. Folks, we've been humped on this one. A chance to redeem Hollywoods great decay with a Franchise for the ages, but now we're stuck with reruns of a cancelled gem, and the movie that was spawned from it.
This isn't the first franchise that Universal jumped the shark with, and I doubt its the last. But hey, at least we have Bloodrayne, Poseidon (at least the TV version had Baldwin), and the Pink Panther. Remake, remake, remake. And don't forget the remake of Serenity coming in 2025, staring Ashton Kutcher's Kid as Mal!
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Originally posted by cinemafreak:
-snip-
Ladies and gentlemen, you remember the recent discussions about trolls?
(The other post from this fellow is also quite amusing)
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I live in Kentucky and will send Joss a letter...I am not even close to giving up yet!!
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Originally posted by CBY:Quote:
Originally posted by cinemafreak:
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Ladies and gentlemen, you remember the recent discussions about trolls?
Oh, now sir. I'm not a troll, I just speak out when I see something of interest. I know my two posts are negatively based, but those are the only two things that I felt that hadn't been said already. that can be the trouble with central communities. So many people are there, and invariably 95 percent of posts just repeat what someone else has said, typically further up on that thread. Now, calling someone out is generally considered rude where I come from, and I would ask that if you disagree with my opinions, which is your right, then back it up with facts. Mine is easily done. Just compare the amount of screens Serenity was released on in comparison to any movie. Just pick a Martin Lawrence movie for example, and compare to our numbers.
EDIT: Now that I've looked up what you would consider a troll to be, I should think that the essay written in your profile would be rife with material for a FanFic troll of the year award, sir. I AM a fan of teh Verse with 15 conversions under my belt, 4 DVD sets purchased by those converters, an RPG book by one of them, as well as having seen the movie 3 times in the theater. Now be nice for gorram sake, or Santa Badger won't bring you any fruit.
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Originally posted by cinemafreak:
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Fascinating (No, I won't burn my braincells to fight with you - I got better things to do).
EDIT: Ah, the next one who takes it on a personal level. Go ahead. If you can't read don't look at my logs. I didn't call you a troll, I merely asked the others to decide.
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Not looking for a fight. After all, everyone has seen the poster showing why arguing on the internet is like winning the Gold medal in the Special Olympics. Just watch what you call folks, is all. Politeness should abound on the interweb. Bring on the DVD!
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It's for the others to decide which one of us that is.
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Right.
So, is there any word on other fan content (aside from bad fanfic, or course - CBY) that people dig? Aside from Firefly Talk and the Signal, of course? If Joss, and rightfully so, doesn't wish to carry on the legacy, that leaves us fans to do so. US BROWNCOATS.
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Originally posted by cinemafreak:
Right.
So, is there any word on other fan content (aside from bad fanfic, or course - CBY) that people dig? Aside from Firefly Talk and the Signal, of course?
Do me one favour: Please actually READ that log entry. Thank you
It has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion here.
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