Good news for B5 fans...and potential good news for future Firefly episodes???

POSTED BY: HanoverFist
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 21:20
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HANOVERFIST

Monday, July 24, 2006 9:51 PM

Check out this story on AICN:

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=23963

I think this may bode well for the potential of future Firefly/Serenity episodes via DVD. One can only hope.

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Monday, July 24, 2006 10:05 PM

Hmm... Well, I have trouble trusting someone who says "the Internets" (and who doesn't even rank Firefly in his top 3 scifi series!), but maybe that's just me. But even taking him at his word, he specifically states that he hasn't been able to find anything online about the B5 situation. You'd think it'd be all over the place by now.

And even if B5 does get episodes on DVD, it's a vastly different situation from Firefly. For one thing, we know that Joss has several more projects lined up, so it would be a few years at best before he could start working on Firefly episodes again. And then there are issues of budget, working with Fox, getting the actors all back together, etc etc. Yay for B5 fans if this rumor is true, but I'm not holding my breath for similar treatment for Firefly.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

HANOVERFIST

Monday, July 24, 2006 11:33 PM

Seems like you just took the sky from yourself.

First, his tongue is placed firmly in his cheek when he said "the Internets".

Second this is from JMS himself, so I am sure it is more than mere rumor.

Third, one can always hope, right. If there is anything I have learned from my years long love affair with Firefly/Serenity it is that hope is what keeps me going. It also is one of the central themes of the show. So, while I am no fool and I am not sitting here holding my breath foolishly, I can still hope that there will be more Firefly stories told (original cast or not).

Many thought there would never be a movie. Then Serenity happened. Star Trek was off the air for a long time before the first movie was even made. Then another decade (more or less) passed before a new series started. B5 was cancelled and then picked up by another network when all was thought lost. Now it seems that the idea championed by many for Firefly (episodic content direct to DVD) will be happening for B5. I do not think it is out of bounds of reality to hope that this will happen for Firefly in the next 5 years or so (especially as digital content distribtion ramps up and distribution costs go down).

/rant off

CHINDI

Monday, July 24, 2006 11:39 PM

I found the creative financing the MOST interesting in this tidbit.. they have sold 500 million DVDs and are still 50 Million in the red???? wonder how many DVDS firefly sold...

still.. the ink may be red but he gets to go back to the black.. I think this is hopeful...

Chindi

CHEWIE

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:14 AM

*jumps up and down screaming* YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!!!!!!!!!

Please tell me this is true and not some very, VERY horrible joke!

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:47 AM

I'd hesitate to trust anything I hear on ItAin'tCoolNews, myself. They don't have the best rep when it comes to accuracy or checking sources.

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THEPISTONENGINE

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:24 AM

I was a big fan of the original B5 series (at least the first three seasons, the last two seasons had a lot of good stuff but got bogged down in mindless lovey dovey) and even a few of the made for TV movies... but I'm not confident in the resurrection of B5, especially after my attempt at watching Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers.

Can't say where it went wrong. The director was the same as In the Beginning, which, while flawed, was a good movie. He's also done a lot of Star Trek episodes. JMS has done some really good stuff too, so I'm not sure if he is at fault. But I digress.

I could deal with the bad acting, since it was obviously a low-budget film (Andreas Katsulas was awesome, as usual). I could even deal with the rediculous concept of the Rangers being forbidded to retreat, even though (originally) they were a intelligence and reconassaince group, not a engagement force. I could even stomach the "diplomats" started bitching after they got saved, which was way over the top. But who the hell, I mean, what pimply-faced snot-nosed hasn't-showered-since-kindergarten testicle-shrunken retard came up with the combat system. Please.

I'm sure I would have more gripes if I could ahve finished watching the movie.

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GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:30 AM

If this is true, I should probably find the whole of the original somewhere.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you

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I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

THUNDAR

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:17 AM

I see aintitcoolnews as more a cess-pool full of idiots than anything else.

JMS mentioned this in volume 8 of the script books. The dollar figure mentioned there was earning WB half a Billion dollars in gross DVD sales. I don't know how they could be in the Red because they usually came in under budget.

STORYMARK

Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Thundar:

JMS mentioned this in volume 8 of the script books. The dollar figure mentioned there was earning WB half a Billion dollars in gross DVD sales. I don't know how they could be in the Red because they usually came in under budget.

I once read an article by Ted Elliot and Terry Rollio (writers of the Pirates movies, among many others) about how, with the way the studio stuctured the books, the budget of Pirates of the Carribean would continue to rise, retroactively, as the movie continued to pull in money, even on DVD. Just one of the many ways studios cook the books. I get the impression the same thing is at work here.

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