'Is Serenity II a good idea?' - (article via whedonesque)
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Thursday, October 18, 2007 05:08
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I have read this thread with interest. Is Serenity II a good idea? It depends on the script when you get right down to it. Could Joss take the ending he made and do it again, I think the guy is pretty talented and could write a place to go from here. Heck, I have a few ideas myself and if I had a life (I am a college instructor and a grad student with a wife and three kids) I'd try my hand as some fan fic.
A Mini-series sounds like a very good option. A feature film could work as well. I think the economics of the situation preclude direct to DVD as the stars and Joss want to be paid for their work. Joss has mentioned that they actors were not paid as well as other movie players in an effort to get this story out.
Unfortunately, the same economics preclude more series TV unless there is a significant amount of money involved. The actors all have good careers now (partly thanks to the boost they get from Firefly) but going back might mean that they will become type cast. For example, the orginal Star Trek cast found it very difficult to work in other films or TV.
This is an interesting time to be a Brown Coat ;-)
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Originally posted by Seer:
Seriously. Who wants to try to make peace with a piece-meal version of the Firefly crew?
We can't fly without a pilot.
Me. Fact is, while I'll REALLY, REALLY miss Wash and Book... I still absolutely adore the other seven characters. On top of that, there's a new dynamic... a new relationship... a more promising future for Mal and Inara... the aftermath of Miranda coming to light... all this interesting stuff.
Plus, Joss seems to feel that you can't really go back to Firefly. He's moved on, and is looking ahead. Here's an analogy for you...
"So I thought too, once. But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one* has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."
*It's typed like this in the Houghton Mifflin revised edition printed in 1956.
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Landmines - $50 per
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The look on your face when I show up on your doorstep with a bigfoot - ... Priceless
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Can't stop the signal."
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Just to stem the anguish about this:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=147037
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Much as I love Jewel, let's not get all depressed, here. This is what she said:
"Okay, okay, okay: Lets address these Serenity 2 rumors before anything else. I have no idea what you people are talking about! Seems to me someone (with a name that starts with A and ends in LAN) said something in an interview that was misconstrued as the sequel being greenlit, which is not the case at the moment. I will never say it will never happen, because that's just blasphemy in my opinion, but it's not happening at the moment… no matter what you read on the internet. You know better than to believe everything you read, anyway! "
No one, not even the most ridiculously optimistic, has ever said they thought what Alan meant was that Universal (or, anyone else) had greenlighted a sequel.
Pretty much, Jewel's NOT Joss.
So, I'm still waiting to hear from HIM about the rumors about Universal /being interested in/ a sequel, as expressed by Alan in the original interview.
Hang in there, folks. This is far from over.
-Raycheetah =^[.]^=
The enjoyment of any good thing is only enhanced by sharing it with others.
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=30176
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Originally posted by Seer:
The only way to do that, in my humble opinion, is to return to the roots of the story. New-old events that preceed that which took place in the movie.
Huh? So the story goes backward but the cast get older??? no...
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Seriously. Who wants to try to make peace with a piece-meal version of the Firefly crew?
We can't fly without a pilot.
and willow shoulda stayed with oz - and i don't accept that tara ever got killed - and really, well buffy died anyway when angel left - and killing fred just means no more angel to me (though i have a friend that's happy coz he heard that in the comic they ALL come back alive!:) yay! Shiny!:) puh-lease...
i'll fly with whoever joss can shove in a firefly gorram it! don't mean i love wash any less.
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