Whedon definitively says 'We'll never make Firefly again'

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UPDATED: Sunday, January 29, 2006 08:28
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RABBITT26

Friday, January 27, 2006 8:53 PM

What they need is some sexual diversity.imagine the show where Mal and Jayne where delivering cattle and the Doc got kidnapped.
( here go's) Maybe they should of done this instead. Mal and Jayne have some sort of tryst and Inora leaves the back of Firefly crying because of what she just seen. then come along
Heath Ledger and Jake Gylynnhall from that Gay cowboyfilm:Broke my back getting butt fucked in the Mountains,I'm sorry Broke back mountain. Come strolling up to the back of serenity asking if Mal could move some horses or something. Now that,That would of got us ratings.

TINUVIEL

Saturday, January 28, 2006 7:04 AM

I agree with you completely. This guy has made fantastic stuff. There's no need to even suggest to bitch slap him.

For me, I just want to watch more of the verse in Whedon's mind. It's a bloody fantastic world and that's good enough for me to see more of it.

WHATABOUTWASHVILLE

Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:32 AM

uh.. maybe it's just me... but this gives me more hope... you'll note that the date for this article is a few days after the aforementioned one...

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=17800

KWICKO

Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:55 AM

He say's "Firefly" is gone - as in THAT show, those 14 episodes that aired (or didn't) on Fox Network, are gone. Done. History. As in, he's not going to remake those episodes again. He says, and has said REPEATEDLY, that he looks forward to working in this 'verse with this cast on future projects. And then he said - right there in the interview you "definitively" quote as your "reason" why a TV series is not a possibility - the following:

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"The best-case scenario is that the DVD is such a spectacular, monster hit that we get to make another movie. Then we get to make another movie. After three movies, we're all very tired," he added, joking: "After Serenity: Revolutions, we feel like we've played it out. And then we make another series."

Note the emphasis I added on "And then we make another series." I take that to be his half-joking-half-hoping inference that he'd love to do a couple movies, grow the 'verse into a legitimate franchise, and then do another series with it. That series wouldn't be Firefly, but it wouldn't be terribly different from it, either.

Comparing Firefly to Serenity is, to me, a bit like trying to compare Buffy the movie to Buffy the series. How much time was spent exploring the depth of the characters in the movie? Exactly: next to none; that's because that's not what two-hour movies are for, unless they're Merchant/Ivory productions (heavens forbid!). Serenity was very much a different creature than Firefly, but very much in the same vein as the show. More shoot-em-up-blow-em-up, but still with the same core values we loved about the show...just...y'know... less time to actually delve into them, because it's a two-hour movie.

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Damn Whedon sure does a sudden about face in 6 days. First he's saying the TV series is gone never to return, hoping for a sequel. Then he says the sequel is unlikely and hopes to return to TV? Is this guy toying with our emotions?

Not intentionally, I'm sure. I think it's more like HIS emotions are toying with him. Watch Joss talk about Firefly, Serenity, and the fans sometime; he's not just SAYING that he's touched and moved by them - he really IS touched and moved by them! To have those feelings about your creations and the people who love them, and to constantly be in a state of limbo as to whether you'll be *allowed* to keep telling your stories about them, it just has to be a mind-rending experience. Now go through it every day for a few years, and oh, yeah - do a few dozen interviews a month while you're busy being tormented, and don't forget to smile. Ya get what I'm trying to say here? I don't think Joss is deliberately misleading anyone or trying to do an about-face to cover his ass; I just think sometimes he honestly has no freaking idea what his next move is going to be, or his next job, and maybe sometimes he can't quite hide his feelings about that.

Anyway, I don't think that anything Joss ever said in any interview is any kind of "definitive" proof that he'll never write another TV series set in the Firefly 'verse. It might not be his *first* choice as a venue for his storytelling talents, but if it's the only choice open to him, my bet is he'll take it and do a damn good job at it.

Mike

PS: Rabbit26: Wow. Just... wow. I feel 27% less intelligent just having read your post. And it's "should have" and "would have", not "should of" and "would of".

"Kaylee, find that kid that's taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus; we need a hood ornament."

WHATABOUTWASHVILLE

Sunday, January 29, 2006 8:28 AM

i think it's like joss said in that inteview for the Empire that i noted above; we, like joss himself, are going to have to "let it simmer for a while and see if anyone calls"

that's pretty much all we can do.

...oh, and buy more copies and spread the shiny. :D

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