Universal letter campaign----we need your help!

POSTED BY: Lindley
UPDATED: Monday, February 2, 2004 14:42
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LEAFY

Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:05 AM

ALL letters and postcards are read and discarded, but the easier it is to tell what the writer is talking about, the better chance it will be paid attention to. They do make notes of what is being said.

But been there and done that with being told "if it is a form letter, forget it. It doesn't count." They do look for things like that.

Suggestions that a person can put in their own words are best.

SERENA

Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:19 AM

I'm totally down with "suggestions that a person can put in their own words". What I'm looking for is something to help get the words coming.

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:24 AM

With all due respect, Leafy, form letters basically saved Star Trek.

...Oh, yeah. They saved it twice.

Honestly. As my salty old Chief would have said, "We don't have to finesse this problem; we just nuke it." Form letters don't have a lot of finesse. But if you could get 20K sent, that's hard to ignore.

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No power in the 'verse can stop me.

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:25 AM

And why the HELL am I getting double posts?

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No power in the 'verse can stop me.

SERENA

Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:27 AM

Dunno, but its sort of irritating.

VETERAN

Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:10 AM

Be patient after you click on the "Post My Response" button. If you hit it more than once you get multiple posts.

SYNERGY

Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:01 AM

Hey dudes and dudettes,

It's a big world. All sorts of crazy things can, do, and will happen. Amidst the crazy, you ever experience one of those moments where you regret not doing something? You think "Oh man, if only I had not ..."
I don't know about you, but I have those moments all too often.

So there I was, having one of the aforementioned moments, thinking "Geez, Joss's recent post on the status of the Firefly movie sounds pretty bad. If only I had done something, sent a letter, postcard, whatever, it might have helped."
Then I thought "Wait a sec...this isn't one of those moments...it...it's not too late. Weird."
Yeah, it is sort of weird. The whole production side of Firefly and other movies and shows and the big Hollywood sha-bang may as well be on Mount Olympus for all we know. It all seems so far away, something that we crane our necks to look up it and then look away before the glare gets too bright.

And yet...and yet, somehow, we have managed to have an effect in that far away place on that far away world.
Another thing Joss mentioned in his post was that yes, we had made a difference. He noticed us, and we gave him the boost he needed, apparantly, right when he needed it.
Us. The fans. Made a difference.
What more could we ask?

I also post on TrekBBS (under the name GrimFandango) and the other day, a friend and I from that board (Lindley) came to the conclusion that no, it was not too late. Firefly has been off the air for over a year now, and yet it still has a chance to soar. It still has a chance to come back, but the clock is ticking.

We decided that, hell, why not? We would start a letter writing campaign. Maybe we can make a difference one more time.
Then we realized how 'down to the wire' (apparantly wires that get 'down to' are bad) the entire movie situation is. If we're going to do this, we're going to have to do it big and loud and fast because the clock is ticking and soon the batteries will be out. Or it will need to be wound again. Whatever, the conclusion we came to was that if a decision on this is going to be made, it will most likely be made very soon.

We felt that it would be best to launch this campaign not just as the members of one particular board, but as members in the much larger group that is all of the Firefly fans.
If we can do this thing and get EVERYONE in on it, we just might be able to work up the fireworks we need to get noticed. One last time.

Over the past few days I have been doing my best to contact Universal and other fan groups to see if we can launch this one last effort and make it one to remember.

We have the full support of the TrekBBS group and I have been in correspondance with the guy running fireflymovie.com and he has given us his full support.

It's all over his main page. Check it out: http://www.fireflymovie.com

Now all we need is the support of fireflyfans.net. I have been trying to contact the moderators of the site but have yet to recieve a response. If anyone here is in contact with them, can you please forward my plea for assistance.
We are trying to promote this as the last chance we have to show our support for this franchise, it very well may be.
If we stand, we need to stand united.

We have made a difference before, we helped get Mr. Whedon up and back in the ring. Is that enough? Is once enough when twice can happen? If we can even turn one head at Universal, make them think "Hey, what do you know, there really ARE a bunch of people that are dying to see this movie..." then we have achieved our goal. If we can get even one person at Mutant Enemy to say "Well hot dog, the fans are behind us, and as long as they are, we're NOT giving up!" then we have accomplished our mission.
If we can help get this movie get made, then we have done the impossible.
And yes, that makes us mighty.

If the moderators of this site are reading this, I ask, urge, and on-hands-and-knees beg that you lend us your support. Put this effort as a news bulletin on your site, update us on the status of your

LINDLEY

Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:15 AM

My position on Form letters is that, if you're not going to send a letter unless its a form letter, then go ahead. But its far more effective to just write something up yourself. It can be done in 5 minutes.

NIGHTTRAIN

Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:27 AM

Where I work, we have people who just read letters all day and just make a tally of what the letters are about. So a manager can look at what's topping the list with the most letters and respond to whatever the problem is. So if we can make "requests for a Firefly Movie" top the list or even come close, it would be a very good thing. I'd have to recomend keeping the letters short and plentiful because if Universal does it the same way my company does, ten pages worth of writing will become a single vote for a firefly movie as opposed to 30, 6 sentence letters becoming thirty votes for a firefly movie. I'll probably be writing a short letter every day until we can get a definative answer.

SAFFY

Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:15 AM

InevitableBetrayal, I thought your letter was poetry. It rocked!!! Not obsessive or freaky.

Sorry. I meant the hysterical, nutty stuff.

P.S. Three letters/postcards plus an e-mail sent. Can anyone recruit people from the Buffy or Angel boards?

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