Whedon & Minear Interview at CFQ
POSTED BY: Sarahetc
UPDATED: Saturday, December 6, 2003 22:53
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Great interview! Can't wait to read the episode-by-episode notes Tim and Joss make.
When is Wonderfalls debuting?
Did that get bumped to mid-season?
mattro
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Oh to have been a fly on the wall to watch every episode as it unfolded, and to think that somwhere on a cutting room floor there is stuff & banter we'll never see. kinda sad and beautiful all at once.
You think I look good now, wait till you see me in my new "Browncoat T-shirt" 
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Very good interview.
Thanks for posting Zentertainment and clearing up the "when" of the interviews.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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The movie greenlight question is cleared up in the introductory article (called Firefly: Superfly) to the interview series.
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Not long ago, a movie version of Firefly seemed like a certainty, but the announcement that Universal had picked it up came a bit prematurely, and the project has not yet been given the go-ahead. “The interest is genuine, but it’s up to me to turn out a script that is worth making, which is what I’m trying to do,” Whedon says. “I’m dealing with good, smart people, which is both good and bad. It’s good because of the interest they’ve shown in the project, and it’s bad because I can’t pull one over on them. So it’s really up to me. I should know soon.”
The article can be found at:
http://64.5.52.62/%7ecfqcom/nuked/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
id=136
Or click on the Firefly link at the top of the interview page, and it will take you to the index page for all the Firefly articles. Super Fly is found at the bottom.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
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Universal is waiting for DVD sales results.
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Originally posted by canttakesky:
The movie greenlight question is cleared up in the introductory article (called Firefly: Superfly) to the interview series.
The article can be found at:
http://64.5.52.62/%7ecfqcom/nuked/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
id=136
Thanks very much, I was looking all over their site for this article but didn't find it. I'm wondering why no one is commenting on the part where Serentiy crew saves the world in the movie.
Joss:
“Coming up with an idea and seeing it through to screenplay is the hardest thing I’ve tried to do, because the show is designed as a show, and the movie needs to be true to that and completely separated from the series.
You need a story that’s bigger than life.
So to take them and put them in a situation that is so dire — as the one in the movie is — ... The fate of the world is in the hands of these schlemiels....”
So Mal and Gang are going to save the world from Reavers?
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I'm wondering why no one is commenting on the part where Serentiy crew saves the world in the movie.
Yeah, what an exciting glimpse of things to come! I guess Star Trek is always saving the world in every movie, why not Firefly?
I just wonder if it might be a bit ambitious for our somewhat low-rent, albeit beloved schlemiels. I mean, isn't it taking all they've got just to keep themselves alive in every episode? Would saving the verse might be a bit out of character for them?
And what would they save the world from? Reavers? Alliance? Blue-hand people? Any thoughts? There are so bad guys in this verse!
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
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So Mal and Gang are going to save the world from Reavers?
Umm.... which one? There are plenty of worlds out there. Are they going to collect them as well?
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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Drakon, you disappoint me. Usually your posts are long and thoughtful.
I'm surprised you seem to think this topic is unimportant. The TV show was character driven, and the characters were "actual size" not larger than life.
But now, the movie demands them to be larger than life and they must "save the world." To me, this a big deal.
I'm sure the world they save isn't some barren mud moon. I bet the Reavers threaten the core planets, and Mal and crew find themselves trying to save the Alliance. Hah, that would be ironic.
Maybe a new unknown is scaring the Reavers and forcing them from the Black, into civilization.
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Universal is waiting for DVD sales results.
I don't doubt that. No matter what Universal thinks of the project's nature, they want to make sure they will profit from it.
Excerpt from My Genre Geek Resume:
~huge Odyssey 5 fan (despite its cancellation)
~dangerously obsessed with BtVS and Angel
~former Andromeda fan
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