Alien Resurrection=Firefly??

POSTED BY: Jorgasnarova
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 19:07
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JORGASNAROVA

Friday, July 26, 2002 2:51 AM

I was reminded of another show Whedon did which also featured a ragtag crew of smugglers aboard a rundown ship: the movie Alien-Resurrection.

There do appear to be some similarities at first blush. Tis been a while since I've seen the film, but I think the parallels would work out as:

Starship Betty=Starship Firefly
Captain Johner=Captain Malcolm
Elgyn, the mercenary=Jayne, the mercenary
Call, the robot mechanic=Kaylee the mechanic
Vries, the pilot/engineer=Wash, the pilot/engineer.

ZICSOFT

Friday, July 26, 2002 3:21 AM

Whedon disclaims all responsibility for Alien Ressurection.

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In Alien 4, the director changed something so that it didn't make any sense. He wanted someone to go and get a gun and get killed by the alien, so I wrote that in and tried to make it work, but he directed it in a way that it made no sense whatsoever. And I was sitting there in the editing room, trying to come up with looplines to explain what's going on, to make the scene make sense, and I asked the director, "Can you just explain to me why he's doing this? Why is he going for this gun?" And the editor, who was French, turned to me and said, with a little leer on his face, [adopts gravelly, smarmy, French-accented voice] "Because eet's een the screept." And I actually went and dented the bathroom stall with my puddly little fist. I have never been angrier. But it's the classic, "When something goes wrong, you assume the writer's a dork." And that's painful.

Full interview here:

http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3731/avfeature_3731b.html

HJERMSTED

Friday, July 26, 2002 6:49 PM

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Great Onion interview! From the same piece:

O: Now that you've actually appeared in an episode of Angel, do you have the acting bug? Are you going to write yourself into more scripts?

JW: I do and I don't. I've always had it, and I think it's part of being a writer and a director. It's knowing how you want things to be played. But I don't have the face-that's the problem-and I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman. The acting bug, I mostly got the worst from doing our weekly Shakespeare readings.

What episode of Angel was Joss in?
Somehow I missed that detail.

mattro

INARASNEWTOY

Friday, July 26, 2002 7:23 PM

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What episode of Angel was Joss in?
Somehow I missed that detail.

mattro

It was part of that series of episodes in the dimension that they picked up Fred.

Joss was Namtar the green demon that did the funny dances.

"Namtar! Do the dance of Shame!"

INT

One evil at a time, that's the best i can do - Farscape

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ZICSOFT

Friday, July 26, 2002 7:34 PM

Whedon played the Host's brother Numfar in the last two eps in season 2. "Numfar, do the dance of shame!"

INARASNEWTOY

Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:07 PM

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Originally posted by Zicsoft:
Whedon played the Host's brother Numfar in the last two eps in season 2. "Numfar, do the dance of shame!"

I wish i had said that!

Oh....wait!

INT

One evil at a time, that's the best i can do - Farscape