The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2005 The movie IS good. If you have a heart...or maybe it's a soul... anyway...if the Whedon has spoken to you before (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) then Serenity IS your movie. If not... well...everyone that it has spoken to feels sorry for you...you souless, heartless beast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RavishingRickRudo 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2005 The Whedon speaks to everyone, however, some people choose not to listen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2005 The movie IS good. If you have a heart...or maybe it's a soul... anyway...if the Whedon has spoken to you before (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) then Serenity IS your movie. If not... well...everyone that it has spoken to feels sorry for you...you souless, heartless beast. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Joss has spoken to me plenty of times, mostly through Angel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the pinjockey 0 Report post Posted June 15, 2005 To any of you bastards out there that haven't jumped in feet first and bought the set. Here is your chance to check out the series. SCI FI To Air Firefly Episodes SCI FI Channel announced that it will air reruns of Fox's canceled SF series Firefly, including three episodes that never aired on Fox. SCI FI will air all 14 hours of the show, from creator Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), starting July 22, in the 7 p.m. ET/PT Friday timeslot. It will be followed by new episodes of Stargate SG-1 at 8, Stargate Atlantis at 9 and Battlestar Galactica at 10. The channel will air the episodes in their intended order, beginning with Whedon's pilot. (Fox, by contrast, began with the show's third produced hour, "The Train Job," and aired the two-hour pilot at the end of the show's abortive first season.) SCI FI acquired exclusive rights to the show from 20th Century Television, which produced the show for the Fox Broadcasting Co. Firefly centers on the ragtag crew of the firefly-class transport ship Serenity 500 years in the future, led by renegade Capt. Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), a veteran of the losing side in a galactic civil war. Universal Pictures will release Serenity, a theatrical film based on Firefly, on Sept. 30. Universal and SCI FI are owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anakin Flair 0 Report post Posted June 16, 2005 More good news- I just read an article on Buffy.nu. The gist of it was that studio execs were blown away by the response Serenity got at the advanced screenings, and were actually upset that they chose to postpone the release, stating something like it could have done as well as Episode 3. Think about it- the STUDIO EXECS believe that Serenity could have done as well, or comparably as well (I doubt it'll take in over $300 mil) as STAR WARS. Mostly, though, they were upset that they blew their shot to let it play all Summer. Which brings us to the second point in the article- there are rumors and rumblings that Serenity could have its release date MOVED UP. Yup, we may get the movie before September. Which would be good news for me, 'cause I'm dying to know what happens, and I've decided to remain spoiler free. So the sooner, the better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 Here is the international trailer for Serenity. http://www.cantstopthesignal.co.uk/trailer/ Much better than the other one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 More good news- I just read an article on Buffy.nu. The gist of it was that studio execs were blown away by the response Serenity got at the advanced screenings, and were actually upset that they chose to postpone the release, stating something like it could have done as well as Episode 3. Think about it- the STUDIO EXECS believe that Serenity could have done as well, or comparably as well (I doubt it'll take in over $300 mil) as STAR WARS. Mostly, though, they were upset that they blew their shot to let it play all Summer. Which brings us to the second point in the article- there are rumors and rumblings that Serenity could have its release date MOVED UP. Yup, we may get the movie before September. Which would be good news for me, 'cause I'm dying to know what happens, and I've decided to remain spoiler free. So the sooner, the better. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not doubting the goodness of this movie but those execs are out of their fucking mind to think that Serenity could touch Star Wars numbers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 I'm still betting most people reaction will be the same "OMG this is so dumb! They're in space with no aliens and warp drive and phasers, but shoot with bullets and their clothes look like regular clothes..." response "Firefly" intially got from the brainless uber-nerd sci-fi community (and that the "Battlestar Galatica" remake still gets). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 I finally picked up the series today. I'll start in on it tomorrow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dangerous A 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2005 Being a huge Whedon fan, I am looking to view this to set up the movie coming out this Sept. I am banking on your guys recommendation, so this set better be worth my money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2005 Ive seen the movie twice now. It's so great. But I don't like this trailer as much as the first one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jingus 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2005 Ive seen the movie twice now. It's so great. But I don't like this trailer as much as the first one. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Must... resist... urge... to stab... in the face... GodDAMNIT some people have all the luck. So it rules, yea? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2005 Oh yeah. Even better...the first time I drove 8 hours with a friend. The second time we only had a 2 hour drive...so we had 8 people go. Most of them had seen the whole show...but even one who had seen nothing, and one who had just seen the pilot (so he would know the characters) thought it ruled. And they weren't all Whedon fans either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RavishingRickRudo 0 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 Mal-content vindicated by big-screen break Edmonton's Nathan Fillion is Serenity's leading man Liz Nicholls The Edmonton Journal EDMONTON - Operative: It's worse than you know. Captain Mal Reynolds: It usually is. -- Joss Whedon's Serenity You figure it would take a lot to flummox Captain Mal, a man of deadpan wit whose worst suspicions about everything keep getting confirmed as he shepherds his spaceship through the lawless extremities of the firmament. Even world-weary Mal, however, might be jarred out of the cog of his low expectations by the route that has brought a cancelled Fox TV sci-fi western series called Firefly to a major Hollywood incarnation on the big screen -- via an international cult following. The anti-leading man leading man of Serenity, coming to theatres near you Sept. 30 with TV cast intact, is a handsome, good-natured, eminently civilized 34-year-old from the improv cauldron of Edmonton. He's Nathan Fillion, poised for stardom if there are any laws at all, even probability, in the movie industry. "Yes, vindication is the word; it's very vindicating,"says Fillion of the $45-million big-screen adventure which reassembles the Firefly team, right down to the makeup artists. Fillion is musing on the chain of events whereby a well-written, highly original series -- by Joss Whedon, the renegade talent who created Buffy The Vampire Slayer -- got neglected by Fox, relegated to bad time-slots, then dumped after 11 episodes in 2002. "So depressing, so discouraging," sighs Fillion. "I don't even know the why-fors. But somebody said that the life of Firefly, fighting a losing war and trying to survive, was very much like what it's actually about." Set in a bleak future 500 years hence, the series and now the movie track life on the lam: on a transport ship that's seen better days, a family of mercenaries and misfits, outsiders, eke out an existence on the violent fringes of the universe. They're led by a captain who's ended up on the wrong side of a galactic civil war against ominously Orwellian forces, The Alliance. "Adam Baldwin (who plays Jayne, one of Mal's crew) said to me that, sure, he's always disappointed when a series gets cancelled; he wants to work. But he's never heartbroken the way we were when Firefly got cancelled. ..." "It's the feeling you get when you're getting the run-around and you know it ... when someone's not dealing straight with you." Fillion, who's back in Edmonton to hang with his folks and his older bro (two English teachers and a school principal, respectively), warms to his subject. "Any time art and business meet, the art is going to lose out, that's been my experience." There is, perhaps, a grassroots lesson for the chilly post-9/11 world and its Mals: Fox could yank an off-centre series, but it couldn't make it lie down and die. The loyal fans, the self-styled Browncoats, wouldn't allow it. They launched websites. They bought a million copies of the DVD. Fillion went to a sci-fi convention in London, and Firefly DVDs sold out, even though the show had never aired there. That kind of measurable popularity speaks Hollywood-ese. Universal bought the rights and hired Whedon. And Whedon reassembled his forces. Fillion, he told Entertainment Weekly, "is Harrison Ford. He can do romantic comedy, thrillers, drama -- and does all those in my movie." And now the nice guy from Mill Woods is an action figure. Fillion laughs. "He's sitting on the hutch in my dining room. It's me -- in my space boots, green pants, long duster, a gun." And he's on a comic book cover, drawn by well-known artist John Cassady for Whedon's Dark Horse Comics, part of a trilogy designed to bridge the gap between the end of Firefly and the start of Serenity. Fillion's is a story with a certain oddball Edmonton-style logic. He played TheatreSports, that loopy improvised entertainment where performers create from audience clues. He did a couple of David Belkes, including The Maltese Bodkin, a Shakespeare spoof where he played five characters including Iago. He did the Soap-A-Thon, the Varscona's Guinness-busting marathon, as a French condo manager with an outrageous accent. He did a season of Die-Nasty, as farmer/poet Howie McChuckski. And suddenly, at 23, Fillion was sudsing it up in New York, on the ABC daytime soap One Life To Live, as heartthhrob Joey Buchanan, who arrived back from Italy, said "Buona sera, Poppa" to his dad, and set fans palpitating. Fillion's intro to L.A. was ... Steven Spielberg. He was "the wrong Ryan" in Saving Private Ryan. Since then, "work begets work," he says of a resume that includes Two Guys, A Girl And A Pizza Place, and the five-episode Buffy finale. Recently he's been in Vancouver shooting Slither, a horror flick with a whiff of Shaun Of The Dead in the premise. Fillion plays the chief of police in a backwater South Carolina town where nothing criminal ever happens. "I just mope around, supervising the school crosswalk, chasing deer out of people's yards ... and all of a sudden there's an alien infestation." "Offers come along, but it's not like people are knocking on my door saying 'we need you for this part'," says Fillion modestly. A premiere awaits that could change all that. What he likes about Serenity is that, "yes, they're on a space ship. But it's a show about the people, who they are, how they relate to each other.... Joss Whedon is never guilty of two-by-four writing. You glean knowledge; you learn about characters from what they say, what they do. "My wish is that Serenity does so well, it makes Hollywood think we should be investing in people like Joss, who know how to tell a story. We don't need to spend $180 million on a movie. It's clever witty writing that keeps you invested." Mal, a case in point, is a man steeped in irony. "He's not one to panic; he's seen too much," he says. "He doesn't have a fire within him. But there's a lot of anger. He'll fight when it's not prudent. He gets beat up all the time; he gets clobbered but he won't lie down. He'll cheat and steal to survive." Similarly, the vision of the future explodes the notion of progress. "It's the same as now. It's about money, greed, power. Governments are terrible. Life continues. We're in space because we ran out of room. There are no aliens, just us," says Fillion, who's already been at six preview screenings, held to reward the patience of die-hard fans who made Serenity happen. "I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures ... ." It's a dream that couldn't possibly be schemed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 I still think it's going to bomb, but I'm also tremendously excited to see it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobobrazil1984 0 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 The movie's so low-budget though (40 million) that i have to think it will eventually make some profit, which bodes well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted July 23, 2005 Yeah, the nice thing is that even the relatively small fanbase should push it close to that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2005 I've been kinda 50/50 on whether or not to buy Firely...but after seeing the Serenity trailer I decided I definatly wanted to see the movie, and the show's Joss, so I'd probably like it anyway. I am starting the series tomorrow, I've been putting it off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RavishingRickRudo 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2005 I've been sour on Firefly for a while now. But I watched the episode where Safron and Mal steal the laser gun and the charm of the show came back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2005 I love it. Some of the best stuff Joss has done. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2005 Saffron's jugs are a marvel to look at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted July 24, 2005 I rank myself among the biggest Buffy fans in the world. I say that without any feeling of nerdiness or anything of the sort...so serious is my claim on this great television. It. Can't. Hold. Firefly's. Jock. If you are holding out for any reason at all...you are one of those fools who won't watch Buffy because of the title. And the movie...is even better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zaius 0 Report post Posted July 25, 2005 Saffron's jugs are a marvel to look at. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Apparently the producers agreed. The show only lasted half a season, and they brought her on the show for 2 separate episodes? Someone was in love with her. (Can't blame them.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlackFlagg 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2005 don't recall seeing this mentioned but the first issue of the Serenity comic book is out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2005 I saw a movie today and they showed the Serenity trailer before it. I'm so fucking psyched now. That is all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anakin Flair 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2005 The new Serenity trailer is set to air this Friday, sometime during the airing of "Serenity- Part 2", and will be up on the internet shortly thereafter. This comes from whedon.info Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chirs3 0 Report post Posted August 2, 2005 New trailer's up: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/trailer_2/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted August 3, 2005 I know they had to go w/ PG-13 but really this movie should be an R-rated gorefest with lots of nude River. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord of The Curry 0 Report post Posted August 3, 2005 Holy shit, I'm dying here....... Mal: DO YOU WANT TO RUN THIS SHIP?! Jayne: Yes. Mal: Well...........you can't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted August 3, 2005 Too bad the computer I'm on doesn't have the updated QT, so I can't watch it. And since one needs the ADMIN to do it, I can't update. Fuckin crap. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
