'Firefly' TV movies?

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WHOZIT

Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:36 PM

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/05/29/firefly-would-fox-or-nbc-be-willi
ng-to-bring-it-back/19669

PIRATENEWS

Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:50 PM

The actors aren't too old. The script could take place several years after Serenity.

Wash and Book can return as fond memories or backstory for new characters.

They haven't killed themselves in the Real World. No disfiguring car crashes, like Luke Skywalker. Not even rehab or DUI arrests.

Nobody seems too greedy. None of that $750,000 weekly salary per actor, like Friends.

GRIPPER

Sunday, June 7, 2009 11:29 PM

Whaddya think? Primetime or SciFi channel(maybe the same nights as "SGU"??

:if you find yourself in a fair fight-your tactics suck".....

KWICKO

Monday, June 8, 2009 12:59 AM

Hell, I'd even be happy with Universal HD or HDNet doing 'em. If Universal HD network did it, it might make the rights a li'l' easier. Possibly. And it would DEFINITELY get some people to sign up for their service (I know I would!). Do that, and then a fairly quick DVD release, and I'm pretty damned sure they'd have quite a number of guaranteed sales...

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

"You're a idiot." -AuRaptor, RWED, May 27, 2009.

SCHISM

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 9:52 PM

I posted in another thread that I often thought the best 'return strategy' would be a few tv movies.

They could involve Ron Glass and Alan Tudyk without 'reviving' them.

Flashbacks to the Sheperd's past to coincide with some current happenings?

As for Alan, perhaps a few dreams that Zoe is happening. She had to say goodbye to him pretty quickly in the movie. Perhaps a few appearances could help her (and the viewer) let go before moving on to potentially new crew members.

Oh, and consider this.....why do you think the comic series "A Shepherd's Tale" is constantly being delayed?

To be included as part of a new show/movie?

Meanwhile, in the real world, I won't get excited until it comes from the mouth of Joss or one of his cronies.

KWICKO

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:25 AM

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Meanwhile, in the real world, I won't get excited until it comes from the mouth of Joss or one of his cronies.

That's why we hold 'til Joss gets back!

GUITARANTIHERO

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:54 PM

Why do we even need to worry about this? There was clearly a time gap between the end of the series and the movie. There's no reason we can't pick up where the series left off and fill in the gap. After that's done, then we can worry about what to do with the deceased characters.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:01 PM

Well, um, according to canon that time gap was two months, and there are already two comics set in that time period. I say maybe you could get away with two more before we're talking serious plot time compression issues.

I've never understood why the movie can't be ret-conned. It happens all the time in other franchises.

GUITARANTIHERO

Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:29 AM

Comics? Lol please don't tell me we're worried about compromising the story line of comics. As far as I'm concerned, they stand apart as their own (and very lame) thing. As you may have guessed, I don't read comics. But then I'm 27 and never really was into them even 20 years ago.

As for the number of movies that could be fit into the game. The possibilities really aren't all that limited. Never mind the sort of Star Trek-like tricks you could do with time, let's not go there, you could potentially have a movie with a time frame as small as a day quite easily.

I still think that Sy-Fy would be smart to try to resurrect the series itself. Fox didn't want it, but I think Sy-Fy would do at least as well with it as they did with Battlestar Galactica. Besides, they'll be looking for something to take it's place as the flagship series.

I assume by re-conned you mean retconned, which is certainly another possibility. Apparently Georgle Lucas retconned the opening credits to Star Wars after The Empire Strikes Back was released and it was clear a complete series would be a possibility.

One more question. Who or what is canon?

BYTEMITE

Thursday, December 24, 2009 5:05 AM

Actually, the comics are pretty much stand alone, so no, that's not what I'm saying. But what is canon is two months between series and movie. That's not much time.

I care about canon. I actually like the movie fine and wouldn't mind stuff set after it, but a lot of people don't because of what happened in the movie. The only viable options I see are after the movie, or starting at the end of the series and ret-conning the movie.

Also: ret-con = short for retroactive continuity. You know what I meant, and hyphens are just one way to abbreviate a word.

Canon is what is established story-wise and generally understood and considered to be official. But I think you know that as well.

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