Senerity Update from Dark Horizons
POSTED BY: Poetic4U
UPDATED: Sunday, September 5, 2004 11:58
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Oh, how bitter-sweet. Like being shot by an arrow with pretty feathers in the fletching so you have something pleasant to look at as you slowly bleed out.
Pardon me while I go kick my cat.
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The Film is supposed to pickup six months after the series left off.
I think that a movie trilogy was inevitable. I was very skeptical of the possibility of Firefly going from being a TV series to a movie and back to a TV series in the space of a single movie. I think we may get another series one day (which could be a spin off) but it will be after at least three movies.
With the increased production values of a movie and considering that it sounds like Joss Whedon is pulling out all the stops in terms of story telling I am rather looking forward to seeing what he does on the big screen. I’ve always felt that that he is a brilliant film writer/director but has never been given the opportunity to show his abilities, until now. Watching him fit seven years worth of TV series into three movies could be very exiting to watch.
P.S. I'm a little stumped by all the negative comments. A movie trilogy is a lot better than no movie or series at all. People should appreciate what they are going to get.
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Right on, Outlander!
While I did initially experience a moment of Great Dismay over this report...I then had a moment of clarity.
This time last year, there was every indication that we would NEVER get another glance of Firefly, except for the unaired eps on DVD. Now we're looking at the potential for a good six hours of our beloved 'verse on the Big Screen, in full Dolby Digital, and all that swai stuff. I'd call that a win!
And, lest we foreclose prematurely on the notion of Serenity streaking silently through our living rooms some day, consider this: 'Versal Pictures cut a deal with Fox to make a movie out of Firefly..and presumably to retain those rights for a period of time, during which they could make more movies. Who's to say that, five or six years (ouch!!) down the line, a new deal could not be struck, which would enable a successful movie franchise to make the leap to the small screen? Patience (not the double-crossing leader of a little world, mind you!) may reward us in the end.
At the very least, if the BDM(s) rule(s) the box office, it may lead to a string of movies to rival the run of Star Trek.
The more I think of this, the more sanguine I get about the future of our 'verse.
Let us rejoice, fellow Browncoats! We have done the impossible! Now all we have to do is start saving for all those movie tickets!!
Keep flyin'!!
Department of Redundancy Department
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I agree - BDM is very, very, very much better than waiting forever for more Firefly. And Joss will likely do an astounding job with movie resources/approach rather than TV series.
But something I've always worried about any delay in a continuation of the series is this: the cast just WORKED together - from the first episode to the last. The FX were pretty darned close to perfect, too, in terms of the fit with the show. Likewise with writing (perhaps the most important part!). The question is: can these elements really survive a several-year hiatus? I guess making 3 movies will keep a lot of that together, but I just worry that Firefly as we know it was a wonderful convergeance of events that can't be replicated once enough time has passed.
Anyway, I'll be very much looking forward to the movie, don't worry!
- FW
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Hmmm...good point. Firefly too long delayed is Firefly denied? 
Then again, do consider this... there has been a recent vogue for shooting films contiguously, even when they will be released separately. LOTR, the Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, Kill Bill (actually, there was precedent in the last two Back to the Future films). These were all shot that way...so who's to say that, given the sudden and inevitable success fo the BDM, the next two BDMs will not be shot similarly, thus eliminating the down-time?
The more I think about this, the more it creates a warm, fuzzy feeling in my solar plexus....mmmmm...warm fuzzy feeling....
I'll be in my bunk!
Department of Redundancy Department
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Kill Bill was actually meant and filmed to be one movie not two. The studio later told Tarantino to break it up into two movies because it was just to long and complicated for one sitting.
Anyways, they seem pretty positive about being able to film and cut everything by the end of this year for a 2005 release. So it might be every other year that we will see a movie. The studios have realized that they lose an audience in the course of waiting. They use to think that waiting built the audience but that is no longer true. That is why more and more sequels are being filmed back to back or being ready within a year of the last film.
Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Noocyte:
. . . there has been a recent vogue for shooting films contiguously, even when they will be released separately. LOTR, the Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, Kill Bill (actually, there was precedent in the last two Back to the Future films). These were all shot that way...so who's to say that, given the sudden and inevitable success fo the BDM, the next two BDMs will not be shot similarly, thus eliminating the down-time?
The more I think about this, the more it creates a warm, fuzzy feeling in my solar plexus....mmmmm...warm fuzzy feeling....
A damned fine point. It's well within the realm of possibility that Universal could push the red button on vols 2 and 3 anytime, and I think that time could come quickly. It could make its decision after seeing the first few days of shooting on Serenity Vol. 1. I can see a prior agreement that 'Versal will watch the first rushes on the promise that, if it's happy, Joss can be assured of shooting the rest of the trilogy. He'll just have to minor problem of having to write two more massive shiny movies -- if he hasn't at least outlined them already.
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I know we all wished Firefly would come back as a weekly series, but the real (possible) truth is Universal doesn't own the TV rights, the production studio 20th Century Fox (not the broadcast TV network) still has those rights.
Please note: I don't have confirmation on the ownership issue. I know for a fact there's a MAJOR difference between TV and feature films. There's a fine line between the rights.
For instance, Glen Larson can do a "Battlestar Galactica" feature film, but he can't produce a TV show (Universal TV division own the series rights). He gave up those rights a while back. Of course, if Larson did do a feature, chances are he couldn't call it "Battlestar Galactica." This is why he thought he could do a Battlestar Pegasus storyline.
Who knows what rights Universal has at the moment, but a least we have a movie with our favorite actors coming next year. This is a miracle in itself.
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10 weeks and 50 million dollars, that seems a bit long for just one movie in the first place. Think about it a second. They are going to take 10 weeks and 50 million dollars to do what they used to be able to do in 2 weeks, for about 4 million dollars. Figure a 2 hour movie, that is essentially the equivalent of 2 episodes. I know budgets for film goes up, but this seems a bit much for just a single movie.
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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I have a 52" widescreen and a kickbutt surround system, and I don't watch TV any more. Maybe you can guess why.
I hate commercials. I hate pre-emptions, when I've just waited all week for that one shiny hour. (...We now join our regularly scheduled programming in progress...) I HATE cancellations of the only worthwhile show--and this could happen again. And the other thing I hate is not knowing the resolution of stories that I love, and realizing I never WILL.
IMO, a movie (preferably two or three) is the way to go, ESPECIALLY for Joss. His stories are unique to TV because they're not pablum TV--where there generally IS no story thread to continue from episode to episode. And the story is the thing. I'd LOVE to see him spread his wings.
I would dust off the TV and watch a series, because it's Firefly. Maybe the phone wouldn't ring or the power wouldn't go out or the kids wouldn't start fighting. But I'd rather see the movie(s), buy the DVD's even before they came out, and leave the gorram cable off.
Jen dao mei.
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