Is anybody else getting nervous?????
POSTED BY: Smaug
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 03:00
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This is precisely why it IS a hindrance. The actors likely are locked into particular deals under that original option. Once expired, some of their agents will insist upon more money than those original deals. Given the tepid performance of Serenity at the box office, it's doubtful Universal would want to shell out more money for the actors' contracts.
Which is exactly my point and why I am nervous. I'm not saying a sequal is impossible after September 30th... just that the likelyhood, in my opinion, suddenly become pretty close to zero.
Yes.. I KNOW that all the actors LOVED working on Firefly and Serenity.. that's one of the 100 reasons why Firefly is what it is.. everyone from Joss down to the key grip.. you could just tell LOVED and believed in what they were doing. And the actors may even be willing to do a sequal without asking for more money or even accepting less.. I am not questioning their willingness to do it.. but they also have to make a living.. if they are already doing work that is paying more.
Let's look at it this way.. how many of us would be "able to" take a 50% pay cut to go work another job for a few months? Even if it's somethign you loved.. sure you might be willing because of your love for it... but would you be able?
And of course.. there can be disputed that the September 30th deadline is a "myth" and not accurate.. maybe the contracts already did expire or whatever. It's just that I have heard that deadline quoted many many times.. and even though that's may not be absolute proof.. I have never heard or read any absolute proof that it's not.
But, until I hear otherwise.. I have to go with the Sept. 30 deadline.. and yes.. I am still nervous..
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I'm not that nervous about it. I'm sure Joss will continue the story in whatever format he can get his hands on.
And I will be their to.. even if it's just Joss doing a drunken ramble on a blog spilling out all his ideas for what would have eventually happen to our BDH's.. I will be there.. But I just want to have my BDS!!!
I gots to get me more of Mal and Inara... they got the short end of the stick in the first movie.. I need my sequel so they get their time to shine... probably right before Joss kills one of them though.. trying not to think about that possiblity..
Smile..
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Originally posted by Walkdogger:
I'm not that nervous about it. I'm sure Joss will continue the story in whatever format he can get his hands on.
Yeah I just don't expect anymore live action Serenifly anymore. I'm guessing there will still be some comics once in a while and if we're exceedingly lucky maybe an animated series.
I'm very pessimistic about getting all these wonderful actors and actresses together again. They're just too good and are being pulled in too many new directions.
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Well.. Sept. 30th has come and gone.. All I can do now is wait for a month or so.. to hear weither or not they greenlit a sequel to Serenity. If they did.. we might not hear about it for a few weeks.. I can still hope.. for a little longer..
All I can think is that if the Sept. 30th deadline was real.. and Universal didn't greenlight it.. that's probably it for ever seeing these actors all together playing these characters ever again..
All I can say now is what I said yesterday..
Dear God..
I've asked for a lot of things over the years..
A lot of it simple things I wanted as a child..
Or just things to get me through the day as an adult..
And I have asked for infinitly more for other people..
But deep down, I have only ever truely dreamed of and wanted... one thing... You know what that is..
I wanted it more than I wanted to breath..
I will never understand why I wasn't deserving of what you know my soul longs for so bad..
I've lost my love..
I've lost my land..
I am in a place I can't stand..
And I don't even have a sky to soar in..
I know there are a million things in this world more important to billions of people..
And I have to admit I do feel sometimes as if it's nothing more than a long wait for a train don't come..
But if there is any way you could throw a dog a bone..
How about opening the eyes of the execs. at Universal..
To creating something that won't be a jackpot..
But infinitly more valuable..
A gift..
To touch someone's soul..
if only for a little while....
Smaug..
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Originally posted by Smaug:
Well.. Sept. 30th has come and gone.. All I can do now is wait for a month or so.. to hear weither or not they greenlit a sequel to Serenity. If they did..
All I can think is that if the Sept. 30th deadline was real.. and Universal didn't greenlight it.. that's probably it for ever seeing these actors all together playing these characters ever again..
No need to be so down Smaug. We pretty much figured that the end of September would come and go with no word at all.
Joss said that the word from Universal is that the hopes of a sequel rely on the sales figures of the CE dvds. The dvds did not come out in time for Universal to get a real feel of how well the dvds are doing. We need time to push sales and get the kind of numbers that Universal wants to see. Those figures will be rolling in right through the end of this year.
With the holidays approaching we are presented with a great opportunity to really push the CE dvd and get the kinds of numbers that will get us our sequel.
Just like pretty much everything we have gotten from Firefly so far, we browncoats are going to have to work for it. We'll have to bust our humps, but hell, the story is worth every ounce of effort we put into it.
So, rather than all of sitting around wondering what the end of September may or may not mean, let's get out there and push some dvds. Now is the time for guerilla marketing strategies.
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The dvds did not come out in time for Universal to get a real feel of how well the dvds are doing.
We may never know for sure... but it might just be possible that if Universal was on the fence they might have been thinking "If the CE sells 50,000 units in the first week.. then the sequel is a go... if not.. then it's finished".
I told someone recently that Firefly and Serenity are a "money tree". 40 years from now they will still be making money. And may even hit the top of the sales charts (again) even 30+ years from now as lists of "Greatest Sci-fi" moves inevitably pop up from time to time and of course Serenity will still be in the top 10 or even top five and may even be number 1 on some lists... causing new people to check it out who may not have heard of it. But that's the problem .. it's a money tree.. it's not a jackpot. And unfortunaly all studios care about.. are Jackpots.
All they care is that some movie sells 500,000 copies in the first two months of release.. doesn't matter that it's sales effectly drop to zero after that for the rest of time.. and doesn't mater than Firefly and Serenity might sell millions over the next few decades.. It's not a jackpot.
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