Whedon & Minear Interview at CFQ
POSTED BY: Sarahetc
UPDATED: Saturday, December 6, 2003 22:53
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Cinefantastique has posted an article and interview with Joss Whedon and Tim Minear called "The Firefly Episode Guide, Part 1." The article, by Ed Gross, relates a lot of the information we know but the interview adds a lot of interesting perspective.
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CFQ: I don’t think you can really blame the audience. I think Fox bungled this one.
JOSS WHEDON: I don’t blame the audience. According to reporters, some people liked it and some people hated. I don’t know who actually hated it. I’m sure there are people who did because it didn’t work for them, but it was never a question of people hating it, it was a question of nobody seeing it. The fan base was as devoted as Buffy’s was after three years in the space of 11 episodes. It was sort of amazing.
Read the whole article here: http://64.5.52.62/%7ecfqcom/nuked/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
id=166
And it's to be continued!
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Thanks Sarah, that was a good read. Tim Minear mentioned he was working on Wonderfalls. Has anyone heard whether he'll have any involvement in the movie? It sounded like this discussion was a couple of months old, don't we have something like a green light on the movie project now?
SergeantX
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Someone has to convince Ed Gross to ask some of the *hard* questions - like who *is* the shepherd? 
OTOH, the movie is not quite as "go" as we assumed here. 
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OK now Im getting a little worried!!!! We dont have a green light yet? This doesnt sound good...
TheDuke333
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OK now Im getting a little worried!!!! We dont have a green light yet? This doesnt sound good...
TheDuke333
I wouldn't worry about it. After all I don't know someone who would go through all the contracts and raise the millions of dollars without looking at a script first. I am sure once they have a script the movie will be fast tracked to the Go-Guy. (That's the green light guy in tinsel town lingo.)
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Originally posted by SergeantX:
It sounded like this discussion was a couple of months old, don't we have something like a green light on the movie project now?
It sounds pretty new. Minear made a reference to the recently aired Reagans telefilm.
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Joss says this:
"Last week it was particularly gratifying when they got it over in England and I got to see posts from people watching it for the first time, and in the right order on a regular schedule."
At first I thought, "This article must be old," because I figured Joss was talking about when they showed Firefly in the UK last summer.
But then, an icy cold hand of fear gripped my ballsack when I realized Joss could have been referring to the early DVD release UK people already received.
What's going on? Either this interview is really old, or really new, right?
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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Cinefantastique has posted an article and interview with Joss Whedon and Tim Minear called "The Firefly Episode Guide, Part 1." The article, by Ed Gross, relates a lot of the information we know but the interview adds a lot of interesting perspective.
Excerpt:Quote:
CFQ: I don’t think you can really blame the audience. I think Fox bungled this one.
JOSS WHEDON: I don’t blame the audience. According to reporters, some people liked it and some people hated. I don’t know who actually hated it. I’m sure there are people who did because it didn’t work for them, but it was never a question of people hating it, it was a question of nobody seeing it. The fan base was as devoted as Buffy’s was after three years in the space of 11 episodes. It was sort of amazing.
Read the whole article here: http://64.5.52.62/%7ecfqcom/nuked/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
id=166
And it's to be continued!
I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case
I respect the fact that this is your board…
But, Firefly, is the only sci-fi show that I’ve ever boycotted… Of the fans who were at home on Fridays… The powers at fox should’ve done your show the disservice of pissing off the fans of Dark Angel. In fact, I believe we could’ve helped. We’re the kinda of open-minded people who would’ve given Firefly a chance…
I could have loved them both and I’m really sorry things didn’t work out for any of us.
Because of, Dark Angel, I’m certainly no fan of Joss’s. But, I have no hard feelings toward the fans of Firefly. We’re both basically in the same boat now…
Two million years of human evolution and this is what we get.
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Originally posted by illness:
I respect the fact that this is your board…
But, Firefly, is the only sci-fi show that I’ve ever boycotted… Of the fans who were at home on Fridays… The powers at fox should’ve done your show the disservice of pissing off the fans of Dark Angel. In fact, I believe we could’ve helped. We’re the kinda of open-minded people who would’ve given Firefly a chance…
I could have loved them both and I’m really sorry things didn’t work out for any of us.
Because of, Dark Angel, I’m certainly no fan of Joss’s. But, I have no hard feelings toward the fans of Firefly. We’re both basically in the same boat now…
What the heck does Firefly have to do with Dark Angel's cancellation? It's not like Joss wanted Dark Angel's time slot...
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