How much would you pay to bring Firefly back?!?!?!

POSTED BY: gypsyfunk
UPDATED: Friday, February 22, 2008 02:03
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SMAUG

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:04 PM

Another advantage to the pay-per-download method that I forgot to mention is that on the creative side.. they are no longer restricted to approx. 42 minutes.. and they don't have to account for commerical breaks. The story can follow a more cinimatic flow. If the episode needs to be 48 minutes.. so be it. If 39 minutes makes more sense for this story.. then so be it. Heck.. if an episode needs to be 65 minutes.. so be it.

The creative part would be open up to more avenues with this distribution model.

Also.. they could offer "season pass" prices to buy the entire season at a cheaper price than the per-episode price.

Ok.. I'm laying it all out for them.. the more I think about it why isn't anyone doing it?

Oh.. I forgot.. they can make a fortune churning out reality tv crap, so why create something that means anything?

Smaug..

CANTER

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:28 PM

I'd be all for the download option, if ever these shows were available for download outside of the US.

If you're basing any of your figures on international fans, you need to be aware of the fact that at present, a lot of fans in countries outside of the US cannot download any shows (legally) from the internet.

In South Africa, we cannot download from iTunes or Amazon. (Those are the only places I've tried, so I'm not 100% sure that there isn't a resource out there that I'm unaware of.)

$2 sounds good though. For me that would be about R15-00, which is about the price of a packet of cigarettes.

I'd gladly pay that per episode.

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ROGUESCHOLAR

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:13 PM

I would be very much in favor of the paid download option. Also, I would not be opposed to paying the entire first season up front, and a little extra, if it would get things moving. I realize that not everyone can do that, but some of us can, and some of us would be willing to do it. I think that the download option is probably the one with the best chance for getting a series. I have bought 35 copies of the Serenity Special Edition so far, and I will keep buying them and giving them away for as long as it takes.

OUT2THEBLACK

Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:06 AM

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Originally posted by RogueScholar:
I would be very much in favor of the paid download option. Also, I would not be opposed to paying the entire first season up front, and a little extra, if it would get things moving. I realize that not everyone can do that, but some of us can, and some of us would be willing to do it. I think that the download option is probably the one with the best chance for getting a series. I have bought 35 copies of the Serenity Special Edition so far, and I will keep buying them and giving them away for as long as it takes.

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IGOR

Friday, February 22, 2008 1:29 AM

I just discovered Serenity and then of course Firefly two months ago. Firefly is, in my opinion, the best TV program of all time. A 6 hour mini-series might be the best option. In 2009 during summer hiatus for TV shows, it might be possible to get the 9 wonderful actors of Firefly together for a 6 hour mini-series.
I am just guessing here, but if the six hours costs 8 million. Joss could go on all the Firefly fan sites and ask that they pre-pay for the mini-series dvd. If you sent in a check for $40(I would assume that it would be to Newscorp) that you would receive two dvds of the mini series after it was aired. If 100,000 fans sent in their money, the cost of the mini-series would be 4 million. This would make it very easy to market.
Of course I would rather have an entire season of Firefly and would pay more than $100 for that privilege.

igor

NOX

Friday, February 22, 2008 2:03 AM

I would gladly pay out the money for the show, the only issue for me is being in England, our arrival of shows on itunes can be dodgy at best (in my experience). That being said, considering the number of fans I know scattered across the south of england, scaled up the numbers for international audience must be pretty nice, though if they did remake it, whats the chances they would limit it to America and shoot themselves in the foot without even realising it? they could judge the numbers are too small without even seeing the international audience.

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