Against Serenity 2

POSTED BY: KiMbEr
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 08:56
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KIMBER

Monday, August 10, 2009 3:42 PM

Mediocre is certenly the word we were looking for when we wanted to describe Serenity.
Please Universal!!! publicly announce you will never EVER do a sequel of this pile of firefly dodo.

Sincerely!
People of the free world

Before you shoot me (politely) that is not my message. It's a message posted by someone in a voting which even 4 years past Serenity is still active and Serenity is still winning (I emphasize the w word), I posted this not to be discouraging but to be realistic. If people @ universal share the same opinion...I'm seeing black for a BDsequel =(

I just thought you should know *shrugs a little*

Kim

BYTEMITE

Monday, August 10, 2009 3:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by KiMbEr:
Before you shoot me (politely) that is not my message. It's a message posted by someone in a voting which even 4 years past Serenity is still active and Serenity is still winning (I emphasize the w word), I posted this not to be discouraging but to be realistic. If people @ universal share the same opinion...I'm seeing black for a BDsequel =(

I just thought you should know *shrugs a little*

Kim

*Channels Wash* I'm confused...

Are you saying you think that Universal sees and agrees with people who think Serenity was bad? Despite the awards it received, despite the DVD sales?

Granted, ticket sales, not so good, but if the letter campaigns are anything to judge by, I think the response Universal has heard has been overwhelmingly positive.

Or are you saying it would be a bad thing to have a Serenity 2?

KIMBER

Monday, August 10, 2009 3:52 PM

I'm sorry... forgot to post the link :S

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/would-you-rather-universal-make-a
-third-riddick-film-or-serenity-2

Scroll down...last msg I think.

Kim

KIMBER

Monday, August 10, 2009 3:56 PM

What? :S whoa! I think I've been misunderstood, one minute...don't forget that I consider myself a browncoat here, and a BDsequel would be fantastic. All I'm saying here is that despite all the good feedback and sales Firefly and Serenity got Universal isn't thinking about making a sequel, than maybe they share this person's opinion is all.

Kim

CONNOR

Monday, August 10, 2009 4:17 PM

Like I said earlier:

While I didn't enjoy Serenity as much as Firefly, it was still a great film, and you can't immediately assume that if a sequel is made, it won't be even better. If Joss Whedon and the cast team up again for a second film, I know that it won't be absolute horseshit. It might just have some redeeming qualities, no?

RIPWASH

Monday, August 10, 2009 4:19 PM

If anything, I think Universal should be e-mailed a link to that poll and then have the Browncoat Community start another letter-writing campaign.

Myself, I contacted Ropesofsilicon.com and they said the poll was just for their own curiosity, nothing official about it, but it would be a good notice to Universal that a sequel would do notably better than the original due to the increase in the fanbase over the last 4 years. I mean, heck. If Star Trek TMP could generate a sequel, certainly Serenity should! I mean, look at the percentages over at Rotten Tomatoes? Even critics, for the most part, enjoyed Serenity! What could possibly go wrong with a sequel if Joss and the BDH's were all in place? Especially if they kept the budget approximately equal to the first movie.

Answer: Nothing.

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"What does that mean?!?!?!"

CONNOR

Monday, August 10, 2009 4:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RIPWash:
If anything, I think Universal should be e-mailed a link to that poll and then have the Browncoat Community start another letter-writing campaign.

Well, uh, I just did send them an email to that effect, but I'm not so sure I sent it to the right address. I used the form at http://www.universalstudios.com/contact_form.php

Here's the message in full:

Quote:
Hi,

I just wanted to send an email to say how much I appreciate all the entertainment your company gives my family and I every year. You release huge numbers of films every year and it's sometimes hard to keep up with so many releases.

That's possibly why I never had a chance to see Serenity until a few days ago, after I bought it on DVD from Amazon. I was already familiar with Firefly, the television show that Serenity was based on, and Serenity sure didn't disappoint me. Hell, if anything, it made me thirsty for more.

That's actually kind of why I'm sending this email. I'm a huge Firefly/Serenity fan and I wanted to tell you guys that just in case it helps you consider making a sequel. Lots of fans want one. Just check out the poll at this reputable website to see for yourself:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/would-you-rather-universal-make-a
-third-riddick-film-or-serenity-2

Keep making great films and TV!

Connor Beaton

FREEBROWNCOAT

Monday, August 10, 2009 6:33 PM

Serenity 2 Please (91%, 4,568 Votes)
Another Chronicles of Riddick (7%, 365 Votes)
Forget both of them and give me Battlestar Galactica (2%, 90 Votes)
Total Voters: 5,023

The numbers pretty much belie the poster.

MANGOLO

Monday, August 10, 2009 7:00 PM

We'd first have to get Joss on board with this, but there is a new movement in independent financing- swarm funding. I have no idea how many browncoats would buy a DVD before a sequel is made, but that's the basic premise. There could be all kinds of other options for higher involvement- tickets to the opening, signed copies of the DVD, other merchandise, playing an extra on the BDM2, meet and greet with the full cast, etc.

To be realistic we'd probably need at least a base of 500,000 pre-sold DVDs. Anybody got numbers on how many DVDs of the previous movie have been sold?

KIMBER

Monday, August 10, 2009 7:10 PM

That was a very good idea =)But I have no idea how much dvds we must sell to get another movie but I guess we can ask... when I saw that comment I felt that we needed to shake some sense in universal, my opinion is that once they give us an official number of much we need to collect, it will be the browncoats' target. As Joss would say..."We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty."

It's what made me start this post in the first place.

91% people...it's quite a lot

Kim

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