Ways to Restore Firefly as a Series: A few possibilites

POSTED BY: ImperialKnight
UPDATED: Thursday, April 20, 2006 19:51
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DARKDELACROIX

Monday, January 23, 2006 8:21 AM

just to confirm, is there an email address we can send stuff to that would actually matter? i want to make sure i send to the right place(s)

Kaylee: Everyone's got somebody. Wash, tell me I'm pretty.
Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.
Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?
Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.

JHANCE11

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:51 PM

Fox is going to sit on the post, trying to cut A deal nobody else would consider. Why they know of our lust for the show and will have the belief we would give away the farm to get it.

The idea of fan donations directly has merit if you could find the right people to do it. You say Josh's weakness if the selling part, we would need the right people onboard. on the whole, there's some of this that could be done

jhance11

AIMSTOMISBEHAVE

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:02 PM

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Originally posted by jhance11:
You say Josh's weakness if the selling part, we would need the right people onboard.

jhance11

Joss*

and...

I would like to see not only the episodes of Firfly on itunes (would be absolutely amazing), but the soundtrack too. All they have right now is the Serenity soundtrack.

"This show isn't about the people who made history; it's about the people history stepped on."

JHANCE11

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:21 PM

I think we olny to wait and send in request's to the I-tunes store. Hollywood might as well get onboard as Steven Jobs did with the music industry. This is the way we will purchase most all of our audio and video

jhance11

IMPERIALKNIGHT

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by Gorramcoffeehead:

So is anyone organizing a money effort? Are there draft proposals in existence? Seems to me Sci-Fi is the most obvious fit, if they can afford it.

(Coat's fittin' better now...had the sleeve inside-out)

ANTIREAVER is said to be organizing some form of Web-driven FAN fund. I don't know if ANTIREAVER is the same Ace Underhill that's putting together the Firefly Season2.com effort. The proposals sound somewhat similiar but are different in certain key aspects at any rate. I am uncertain and frankly more than a little skeptical of this 'Mr. Underhill' ('Frodo Baggins' anyone?-LOTR) abilities, competence, and business savvy given what little I've heard from him about his proposal to acquire the rights to Firefly without first getting the endorsement of Joss and Co. before going to FOX Productions and seeking the rights to Joss' show without even confirming the possibility of a "No New Firefly series" clause for x years in FOX's contract with Universal that would prevent a Season 2 of Firefly in the first place (others suggest that this clause might exist). I don't know anything more concrete about this 'Underhill' save that several of his posts and some of my personal observations of his site makes him sound well-intentioned("...road to hell is paved with good intentions.") but in way over his head.

Anyway, this ANTIREAVER claims to live in Vancover (near the estate of Jewel Staite (Kailee)) and is currently collecting mock pledges at this time in order to garner interest from Joss, Cast, Networks in a form of resurgance that sounds somewhat similiar to what BattleStar Galactica's Internet Fan driven effort accomplished. Based upon my understanding of his proposal and assuming he can collect enough mock pledges to give his copyright lawyer/web designing friends confident expectations of payment and catch the attention and complete support and approval of Jewel/Joss/relevant parties, he will have the copyright lawyer draw up a sound arrangement that is completely compliant with all pertinent copyright laws and his web designer friend will provide fans a website in which to donate pledges to ultimately bring our show back with a money-back guarantee (if it should fail or prove insufficient) and protected with legitament third-party online security service(as yet undetermined). There is a little ambiguity as to the medium he intends to bring it back on, but Scifi might be willing to bite if he manages to turn all of these "ifs" into a reality. The thread in which he describes his proposal and accepts mock pledges is entitled "ITS TIME! Post How much you would personally give to Joss Whedon & Co. to get our Ship in the air AGAIN!" by ANTIREAVER under General Discussions Forum here at fireflyfans.net.

It's difficult to know if this will work but if successful then this MIGHT be one way to convince Scifi to bring Firefly back via a deal with FOX Productions. His proposal has some structural/technical challenges that he will have to work out himself but it holds some potential. This is only fan-based investment strategy I am aware of that might work and serve as a proactive way to attract Scifi's attention to Firefly as a practical investment. I have already 'contributed' to this fund myself. The predicates required for this to work are quite steep but no less steeper than wresting Firefly from those who ground her into the dirt, dusting her off, putting her back into working order, gathering the entire crew again, and taking her back into the black on a budget thats healthy and sustainable enough to keep her flying all by ourselves with the support of a corporation that doesn't yet exist. The choice is, as ever, yours - my fellow browncoats. What shall we do?

Whatever form is required to resurrect Firefly, it must first have the blessing and (nominal at the very least) leadership of Joss himself for the effort to be truly credible in ALL of our eyes. Simply put, if we can't convince Joss to restore Firefly by

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, March 23, 2006 7:34 AM

some nice ideas here

SNOFI

Friday, March 24, 2006 5:29 PM

indeed. shame i have a short attention span and didn't read most of them but still.
indeed.

Objects in space- Simon: I'm a doctor and my sister is a ship. We had a strange childhood...

YT

Monday, April 10, 2006 1:38 AM

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Originally posted by Kishi:
Joss has had a very positive and very successful relationship with Warner Bros. He enjoyed a lot of television success with them, with Buffy and Angel, right?

It was this company which had enough faith in him after Buffy's movie debut to give him that chance - and it payed off big.

The studio that made & distributed the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and which later gave Joss the chance to take his concept to television, was 20th Century Fox. It was there that he made BtVS the series, Angel & Firefly.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . .

CHMEE

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:20 AM

I have yet to see a quote from Joss saying he would like to do ANY more of the series. Given that he killed Wash and Book, I have to question that he has any desire to continue. Has anyone heard anything that would indicate he has the slightest interest?

JOSSISAGOD

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:40 AM

I believe I heard Joss say in an interview for Serenity that(I'm paraphrasing) he just needed some one to come to him and say "lets do it" or something along that line. Unfortunatly, I can't be quoted on that 'cause I forgot where I heard it.

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

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