All original cast members confirmed for "Serenity" movie.

POSTED BY: Elfrenetico
UPDATED: Saturday, May 15, 2004 19:58
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ELFRENETICO

Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:12 PM

Does anyone have Joss's direct quote? A friend just left me a message from this weeks Entertainment weekly. He says he wouldn't have done it without every cast member. I gotta go get that magazine now.

HAWKMOTH

Saturday, May 15, 2004 3:08 PM

Here's the relevant bit:

(Joss wants the movie to be) "...a movie that not only people who loved Firefly will respect, but people who never heard of it can walk in and have a wonderful time."

EW: "Are you losing any cast members?"

JW: "Every. Single. Member. Of. The. TV. Show. Is. Back. I wouldn't have done it without everybody."

(And that's exactly the way it was written in the magazine.)

The rest of the interview is about "the end of an era" and Joss moving on from TV, and some mention of the stupidity of newtorks...

ECGORDON

Saturday, May 15, 2004 3:10 PM

It has been mentioned by both Gina and Nathan at different convention appearances, and I believe Chris Buchanan alluded to the same info in one of his posts on the OB. But...nothing truly official from Joss as far as I know, and no announcements from ME that have been printed in any industry periodical so far.

I know imdb.com is not that official either, but I find it suspicious that Ron Glass is still not listed in the cast for Serenity, and his profile page has Firefly as his last credited role, no other pending productions as of my last check there (about 30 seconds ago).

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EMBERS

Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:58 PM

ecgordon: the Entertainment Weekly article is from issue #766 for May 21, 2004 and it does directly quote Joss as stated above. Here is the entire article:

"The X Factor".
(Top of the picture says "End of an era: Buffy and Angel slay goodbye")

In big white font "What's a writer to do when his three beloved TV shows -'Buffy,' 'Angel,' and 'Firefly' - are off the air? If you're Joss Whedon, you move into movies and mess with Marvel's comic - book mutants.

by Jeff Jensen

Eighteen months ago, Joss Whedon had three TV series on the air. And now, he has none. In the cult-pop underground, where he is something of a wickedly big-brained deity, there is an anguished gnashing of fangs. While he promises a return to TV in the future, Whedon is preparing an expansion of his kingdom to two fronts. This month he begins a 12-issue stint as a writer of Marvel Comics' The Astonishing X-Men. The pairing of scribe and title is both fitting (X-Fan Whedon cites the mutant freedom-fighters as a formative Buffy the Vampire Slayer influence.) and ironic (Whedon wrote an unused draft of Bryan Singer's first X-Men movie). "Joss knows how to write an ensemble and has the aibility to nail a character with a sentence and a half," says Marvel editor in chief Joe Quesada. "He has some kind of black-voodoo writer magic."

Whedon will also make his film-directing debut with Serenity, a big-screen revival of Firefly(whose cancellation by Fox still irks him), due in 2005 from Universal. Whedon says it's been hard getting over the end of the Buffyverse, but he's ready for new challenges. "With both Serenity and X-Men, its gratifying to be walking in worlds I love, I am surrounded by old friends in new mediums. It doesn't get any more exciting than that." More from the Hellmouth's mouth...

EW:Does it feel like the end of an era?
JOSS WHEDON: It does! Somebody on the Internet - and it wasn't me - said this era of the Buffyverse, these eight years, were like Camelot. "One brief shining instant." I have to say, I did get a little choked up.

EW: Wish you had another season of Angel?
JW: I was really upset [When Angel got canceled]. When we hit 100 episodes, we felt we had made a stand. I felt we had hit [our stride] in our fifth year - and then we got cut down. With Buffy, I was ready to end. Firefly - I went into such a state of denial, it caused a film. But with Angel, it was like "Healthy Guy Falls Dead From Heart Attack." I believe the reason Angel had trouble on The WB was that it was the only show on the network that wasn't trying to be Buffy. It was a show about grown-ups.

EW: Why didn't Sarah Michelle Gellar appear in the final Angel?
JW: We wanted her earlier in the season; she declined. When we realized it was going to be our last season, we made some inquiries about her appearing on one of the shows before the finale. But she was only available for the last one, and I didn't want her in the last one - in part, because when she wasn't available earlier, we did an episode all about her. [The story] is something that occurred to me based on what was going on [while trying to get Sarah], which was: Well, she has clearly moved on. Maybe we should too.

EW: There's been talk of Buffy or Angel TV movies. True?
JW: The WB mentioned the idea. At first I thought an Angel TV movie feels like electrifying a corpse to see it twitch. But then again, I have these characters I love. Maybe a series of movies, focusing on a different aspect of the Buffyverse, would be fun. But I don't know if there's a market for what I'm proposing. The marketplace is just so bi-zarre right now.

EW: Bizarre?
JW: The reality television thing. I've definitely been the guy in Singin' in the Rain who's like, "Talking pictures - it's just a fad!" The face of the marketplace is changing; none of the networks are doing that well, and they're all scrambling. ABC is kind of falling apart, NBC and CBS are entrenched, my history with Fox [as a network] is...not great. The WB basically said, We have to do more reality, we don't have room for