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Senerity Update from Dark Horizons

POSTED BY: Poetic4U
UPDATED: Sunday, September 5, 2004 11:58
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PFORHAN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 5:37 PM

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"When the set was struck, at the end of the show, nothing was kept except one door, so everything had to be built from scratch."
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I thought they made a point of saving the set at the end of the show, because of plans to come back. Did this change?

PALADIN

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 6:13 PM

Any plan, executed carefully enough, can be a successful one. Let's just hope Mr. Whedon knows what he's doing.

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BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 6:29 PM

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Originally posted by Poetic4U:
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"When the set was struck, at the end of the show, nothing was kept except one door, so everything had to be built from scratch."
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I thought they made a point of saving the set at the end of the show, because of plans to come back. Did this change?

According to a post from Nathan Fillion over at the OB, he saw all of the sets dimantled and in dumpsters over on Fox's lot back in the spring of '03. I think Fox sat on them for awhile, but when it was apparent no network was going to p/u the show, they destroyed the sets.

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IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Tuesday, May 4, 2004 9:04 PM

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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'll be okay with 4 hours of "deleted scenes" on the Serenity DVD.

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AIENAN

Thursday, May 6, 2004 11:12 PM

See, I think the question we SHOULD be asking is who do we start sending letters to?

I do agree that a trilogy of movies is better than nothing, but I would dearly love to see it back on my TV screen.

ANKHAGOGO

Friday, May 7, 2004 12:37 AM

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Yay! ...I really like how, in TV, you get a lot of character development, that you just can't get in a film. Am I lame, that I'm feeling awfully sad that it won't come back as a series?

No, you're not lame, cause I feel the same way -- and heaven knows I'm never lame.

One of the things I dearly,dearly love about Joss Whedon's shows is the almost geologic character development, and you can't do that in one movie, or three movies. The most obvious example is Willow, but the one that impresses me the most is Cordelia. I hated Cordelia through the first two seasons of Buffy, was indifferent about her during season three, and only started to even half-way like her during season one of Angel. And that's entirely because her character development was so gradual that one day I looked around and went, "Hey. I like Cordelia. Who'da thunk it?"

Sure, I'll take three movies with a yee-haw, but with movies, it's harder to do sneaky character development that creeps on you like that. That's what I'd miss the most, I think. Other than the being able to watch it weekly, obviously.

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KRYTEN3

Sunday, May 9, 2004 9:09 AM

I see where they're coming from.

1) They make a series, it gets axed.

2) They make a movie that endures in the box office for as long as any other.

3) They get offered the chance to revive the TV series.

4) Five eps in, it gets axed again.

Who wants that?! NOT ME, THAT'S FOR GORRAM SURE!!
Movies are safer investments, at least until Fox is willing to either COMMIT itself, or step aside for someone else to commit.

SHUTTY24

Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:08 PM

Hey - just signed up to this thing, and I have slightly jolier news for you guys than seems to have been indicated on here so far.
I was at Starfury:Fusion in Blackpool a couple of weeks ago, and what Nathan Fillion actually said about the deal between Fox and Universal was that they would be unable to produce a tv series FOR A PARTICULAR TIME PERIOD. The hint that he (and Summer Glau and Jewel Staite) seemed to be giving was that a trilogy of films could take them up to the end of this time period. Assuming the films had been succesful, a series could then be produced.

GREGGALLINSON

Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:52 PM

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Another thing to bear in mind; the original budget was set at $35 million, but according to reports, the new budget is $50 million. What has changed to increase the budge $15 million and how will that effect expectations for the movie? What ticket sales figure will now be accepted by Universal as successful?

As I understand it, a movie needs to earn back double or triple its budget to "break even". So...$150 million and Serenity would likely be seen as at least a moderate hit. $200 mill and I can almost guarantee another movie.

AERRIN

Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:41 PM

Absolutely. I think we need to find out exactly who owns what and where we can start campaigning (although it may be better timed to wait til a bit later in the scheme of the BDM) for a return to television as the ultimate goal. Browncoats need to be heard!