Firefly on DVD

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Wow, 35 mil. That's impressive. They're actually getting behind it. But shit, no Minear, that sucks the ass.

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What was he going to be able to add to it?

 

It's not like it's a series of episodes...it's a movie. I'm more comfortable with Joss writing and directing than anyone else.

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Tim added a lot to the series, just like he added a lot to Angel, season 3.

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But that's individual episodes and storyline writing for over the coarse of TWENTY TWO HOURS.

 

We're talking about a 2 hour film.

 

Tim didn't create the series, or the characters.

 

Joss brought him on board.

 

So I ask again...what is he going to be able to add to the film?

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Well, he wrote Out of Gas.

 

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Plus, even if Minear wrote bits and pieces of the script, I think it would add a lot. Remember, Joss and Tim co-wrote "The Message", which was a great, great episode.

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The article said that it's done "6 months after" the last episode, but then it talks about the film being about Simon and River getting on the ship.

Actually, it says "two passengers on board the ship who cause trouble for the crew." Which means they were already aboard..

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But it also says this:

 

The film centers on a veteran captain of a galactic war, who, with a small crew, rents out his ship, Serenity, for the purposes of transport-for-hire and pulling off small crimes.

 

When the captain takes on two new passengers, he soon learns that they are hotly pursued fugitives from the coalition controlling the universe.

 

A whole host of trouble follows for the captain and his fearless crew, as they find themselves the prey of evil forces that they are ill equipped to evade.

[Mole 0]

But that's individual episodes and storyline writing for over the coarse of TWENTY TWO HOURS.

 

We're talking about a 2 hour film.

 

Tim didn't create the series, or the characters.

 

Joss brought him on board.

 

So I ask again...what is he going to be able to add to the film?

He would add something, he is a smart man.

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But it also says this:

 

The film centers on a veteran captain of a galactic war, who, with a small crew, rents out his ship, Serenity, for the purposes of transport-for-hire and pulling off small crimes.

 

When the captain takes on two new passengers, he soon learns that they are hotly pursued fugitives from the coalition controlling the universe.

 

A whole host of trouble follows for the captain and his fearless crew, as they find themselves the prey of evil forces that they are ill equipped to evade.

I think that's just providing a synopsis of the show. It'd be stupid to have Simon and River magically come onto the ship for the first time again; they were just describing the show in a nutshell.

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Yes, however the introduction of the two characters is an integral plot point; The Train Job did a poor job of doing that so I can easily see Joss doing it again for the purpose of the movie.

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Yes, however the introduction of the two characters is an integral plot point; The Train Job did a poor job of doing that so I can easily see Joss doing it again for the purpose of the movie.

Personally, I'm glad I got to see the show [via the DVDs] with Serenity as the pilot, instead of the Train Job. A MUCH better way to start the series, IMO!

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Dude, that's not opinion; that's fact.

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True enough. Unfortunately Fox wants to cater to the "all action, no depth" crowd of TV viewers. =\

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Yeah, who needs to understand silly things like Character; that Mal lost his faith in Serenity Valley. Small plot point; irrelevant, actually.

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http://www.creative-insanity.net/voice/deaniemiscvids.html

 

http://www.creative-insanity.net/voice/videos/fireflyhq.wmv

 

Ok, the bottom WMV file is of an AWESOME music video montage of Firefly that every time I watch it brings a smile to my face. Just great work here and I recommend it for anyone and everyone. As good as Metro's movie trailer was (and it was very good) this is just the best I've seen. I love it.

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AWESOME VID.

 

here is some casting info for the movie from Buffy.nu

CFB Casting character descriptions for "Serenity"

From Browncoats.com - 2004-03-15th

 

Producer: Barry Mendel

Director / Writer: Joss Whedon

Casting Directors: Amy McIntyre Britt / Anya Colloff

Casting Associate: Sari Knight

Casting Assistant: Carrie Levin

Start Date: June 2004

LOCATION: Los Angeles

HARD COPY SUBMISSIONS TO:

CFB CASTING

2260 CENTINELA AVENUE

LOS ANGELES, CA 90064

NOTE: This project is set 500 years in the future, when a universal government has

subdued much of the known galaxy, but parties of rebels, outlaws, thieves and

grifters operate on the loosely-policed fringes of the final frontier.

 

CAST:

MAL: NATHAN FILLION

INARA: MORENA BACCARIN

JAYNE: ADAM BALDWIN

RIVER: SUMMER GLAU

SIMON: SEAN MAHER

KAYLEE: JEWEL STAITE

ZOE: GINA TORRES

WASH: ALAN TUDYK

 

All roles open to ethnicities (except River at 10). PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES.

 

[THE OPERATIVE] A Government agent, The Operative is thoughtful, a little

removed, with wire-rimmed glasses and neatly trimmed hair, wearing a suit too

nondescript to be a uniform and too neat to be casual wear. An expert martial artist,

assassin, investigator and tracker, who moves with the fluid grace of a killer and

speaks with the eloquent sophistication of a very intelligent man. Cool in his strategic

planning but a bit feral when provoked, The Operative is on a headlong collision

course with a rogue ship full of renegades and thieves...LEAD

 

[MR. UNIVERSE] An unkempt young man, sleep-deprived, over-caffeinated and kinda

sweet, he lives in an empty industrial complex on a deserted moon. Accompanied

only by his lovebot, Mr. Universe is the ultimate information junkie, monitoring

pretty much everything in the universe (hence his name) through a variety of video

feeds and monitors. An old buddy of Mal, Mr. Universe knows he’ll only hear from his

pal if he’s in mortal danger and needs a secret code -- or something -- to get him

out of the latest spitstorm...LEAD/CAMEO 3 scenes.

 

SERENITY page 2

 

[DOCTOR MATHIAS] 35-50. A cold man, more than a little satisfied with himself, Doctor

Mathias is not instantly likable -- nor gradually, for that matter. He fiddles with the cerebral

cortices of teenagers, and his pride in his questionable achievements has made him blind to

potential ethics violations...9 speeches & 15 lines, 2 scenes

 

[MINGO & FANTY] 20s. A pair of young tough identical twins, whose social status is

somewhere between gangsters and fur-traders. With accents that sound lower class British,

Mingo and Fanty are indistinguishable from each other. Middlemen who handle stolen goods

and keep the best part of the cut, they are the equivalent of the Kray Brothers of the outer

rim of the galaxy. Intent on screwing Mal after his latest bank job goes badly awry, Mingo and

Fanty have a quarrelsome negotiation with the cantankerous Mal, who wants to keep more

than 60% of his haul.

British accents are preferable but not a must...2 speeches & 8

lines, 2 scenes; 1 speech & 5 lines, 2 scenes

 

[sHEYDRA] A slightly older companion (40-45), Sheydra is elegant, likeable and well-spoken.

She lives in a Companion Training House with Inara, and compliments her on her skill at

training a new generation of consorts and courtesans. But her compliments fail to impress

Inara, who is convinced that her latest crop of students are sweet, but hopelessly gauche and

too undisciplined ever to qualify as true Companions. Sheydra tries to draw out Inara’s

reminiscences of her adventures with Mal...3 speeches & 7 lines, 1 scene

 

[TEACHER] The 30-50 female teacher of a group of highly gifted children, including 12 year

old River, she is a soft-spoken, intelligent woman who tries to instill a belief in the virtues of

The Alliance in her students...2 speeches & 11 lines, 2 scenes

 

[DOCTOR CARON] 40-60. female scientist (think Jane Goodall), Doctor Caron is seen as a

hologram. On the desolate planet of Miranda, Doctor Caron leaves behind her hologram as an

urgent message to future explorers...6 speeches & 3 lines, 1 scene

 

[LENORE] Early-mid 20’s; A mannikin like lovebot, she is the sole companion of Mr. Universe,

and lives with him on a distant and isolated moon. Dormant while Mr. Universe chats with Mal,

she ultimately passes along a secret message to Mal...1 speech & 5 lines, 3 scenes

 

[RIVER TAM AT 10] River seen at 10 years old, she is a very bright young woman with

remarkable mental powers. Insightful and empathetic, she intuitively understands the frontier

rebels and their quest for freedom...1 speech & 5 lines, 2 scenes

SHOULD RESEMBLE

SUMMER GLAU AT 10 YEARS OLD

 

[YOUNG MAN] A young tough, he is one of the hostages in the bank heist. Aggressive enough

to think about shooting his way out of trouble, he foolishly pursues the bank robbers, hoping

to hitch a ride with them out of trouble...3 lines, 2 scenes

 

[ENSIGN] 20s. A young ensign aboard a spaceship, he ferries The Operative during his cross-galaxy

pursuit of the Serenity...1 speech & 3 lines, at least 2 scenes

 

[GUARD] A young alliance bank guard on a far-distant trading station, he is an easily cowed

greenhorn...6 lines, 2 scenes

 

interesting that there is no Book. Comments?

 

And some shooting locations:

Firefly Movie ’Serinity’ - Shooting Locations

From Fireflyfans.net - By Zaphodb - 2004-03-15th

 

Friday, March 12, 2004 07:27

 

Movie Shooting Location(s)

 

ZAPHODB

 

"A big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere...and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."

 

Did some digging around and found out that New York City and Upstate New York are a couple of the locations Joss Whedon and company are planning to use for "Serenity" when shooting starts in June 2004.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

interesting that there is no Book. Comments?

 

Probably (hopefully) still in negotiations. I like the supporting cast thus far, it looks like they're in the right direction. Inara is back at the academy; that's cool.

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No Book? Well, at least Wash is back!

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I find it interesting because the guy who played Book (can't think of his name right now, and I lent my DVD's to my friend) seemed to really like playing the role from what I gathered from the DVD's. But like Rudo said, maybe he's still in negotiations.

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Ron Glass (Book) has been around forever. I was watching War Stories with my mom this weekend (I got her into Buffy and Angel, so I was planning to do the same with Firefly) and she immediately recognized him from "Barney Miller" ages ago.

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Me and Curry joke about Ron that he'll say anything and have a big laugh at the end.

 

"And so, she died in my arms before I could say 'I love you'... HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH"

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Holy Crap.

 

I was watching Ariel and something I never really thought about occured to me. Inara had her yearly physical. She had mentioned being on the ship for almost a year in Bushwacked. So, it would be reasonable to assume that she went on board Firefly right after having her last physical. She also said "we're all running from something" in, I believe, Bushwacked as well (it may have been "safe"). THUS adding more 'proof' to the "Inara has a terminal disease and has a short time to live." theory.

 

Serenity was also referred to (though I am forgetting which episode) as a "place where journeys end/where you go when your journey has ended", or something to that effect. I had a theory, which I didn't want to expand upon here because it's crazy, that Serenity was a ghost ship. Not a literal ghost ship, but rather, one that lost souls clung to - or rather, clung to Mal and his strength to carry on. It's an interesting theory, the theme song lends itself to that...

 

"Take me out, to the black, tell em I ain't coming back" - which could be used both literally (space being black) and metaphorically (Death = Darkness), and the "I ain't coming back" is pretty self-explanitory.

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[MR. UNIVERSE] An unkempt young man, sleep-deprived, over-caffeinated and kinda

sweet, he lives in an empty industrial complex on a deserted moon. Accompanied

only by his lovebot, Mr. Universe is the ultimate information junkie, monitoring

pretty much everything in the universe (hence his name) through a variety of video

feeds and monitors. An old buddy of Mal, Mr. Universe knows he’ll only hear from his

pal if he’s in mortal danger and needs a secret code -- or something -- to get him

out of the latest spitstorm...LEAD/CAMEO 3 scenes.

I feel a sudden urge to try out for this role, heh

 

 

 

On another note, after finally buying the DVD set I'm on the third disc and am just in love with this show...so far I think Out of Gas is my favorite episode.

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Out of Gas

War Stories

Ariel

Trash

 

They pretty-much-well spin around the top spot in my book. Our Mrs. Reynolds sneaks in occasionally as does Serenity. That's like, what, half the episodes (?) that I would consider as the top spot at different times?

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Agreed on the above, those were great episodes...

 

 

 

on a different note River calling Simon a boob=GOLD~!

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I've been lurkin around the Fireflyfans.net message board and came up with these two:

 

Since Variety is by subscription only, I"m posting the whole thing:

 

'Firefly' feature alights

 

Whedon project jumps from Fox TV to bigscreen

 

By GABRIEL SNYDER

 

 

Last month, Universal greenlit "Serenity," a feature based on Joss Whedon's TV show "Firefly," which Fox canceled in 2002 after airing only 11 episodes.

The film biz is filled with adaptations of hit TV series, such as "Charlie's Angels" and "Starsky & Hutch." But it's rare when a feature is based on a nonhit, such as the six-episode "Naked Gun" and the never-aired-pilot "Mulholland Dr." In each of those cases, the pics featured the original contributors of series -- and went on to significant bigscreen success.

 

"Serenity" is hoping to similarly rewrite the TV-to-film rules. But then, breaking the rules is familiar territory to Whedon, who created the series and will direct the film.

 

Five years after the 1992 film "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" opened to ho-hum box office, he used the material to create a TV show that became a seven-year hit and even spawned a spinoff, "Angel."

 

Now he's reversing that process with "Serenity."

 

While Universal's decision may seem like an eyebrow-raiser, it's closer to a no-brainer: The risk is modest, and the rewards could be plentiful.

 

With a first-time director and no pricey stars (Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher), the pic is a bargain, particularly for a sci-fi actioner: under $40 million. Most of it will be shot on stages on the U lot. The handful of locations will be in the L.A. area.

 

In addition, "Firefly" has a loyal fan base. A number of Internet fan sites, such as CHUD.com continue to dissect "Firefly," follow Whedon's career and swap series action figures.

 

"If you strike a chord with fans of science-fiction adventure, they're never going away," Whedon says.

 

This would seem to ensure a built-in audience for "Serenity" at the box office and afterward. The "Firefly" DVD has sold a surprising 200,000 copies since it was released last December. (The release fortuitously came out while U execs were debating greenlighting the pic.)

 

Underlying the deal was U's desire to be in business with Whedon. His shingle, Mutant Enemy, has an exclusive television deal with Fox and no motion picture deal. U execs, particularly vice chair Mary Parent, had been trying to figure out a way to work with Whedon for years.

 

Fox had touted "Firefly" for its 2002 season as a show that could potentially fill the sci-fi gap in its sked created by the end of the aging "X-Files" franchise. The concept was to set an ensemble of characters familiar from Westerns (the noble outlaw, the hard-scrabble preacher, the practical prostitute) in outer space 500 years in the future.

 

But just 11 of the 14 "Firefly" episodes produced made it to air. Interrupted by baseball and dropped for November sweeps (much to Whedon's chagrin), the show never caught on with a big enough audience to justify its 8 p.m. Friday slot (the show averaged a 2.1 rating and a 7 share; it also briefly ran at 9 p.m.).

 

Just before Christmas, Fox pulled the plug, using "Fastlane," which would itself later be yanked, as a replacement.

 

After the cancellation, Whedon sat down with Chris Buchanan, the president of his production company, and his longtime agent Chris Harbert of CAA and started brainstorming how they could keep the project alive.

 

Per-episode production costs were high. They mulled cable and tossed around the idea of a miniseries. The very last idea on their list was turning to a movie studio to make a feature version.

 

So Universal stepped in, purchased "Firefly" rights from Fox and gave it a greenlight.

 

Thus, U and Whedon are fulfilling the fantasy of every TV writer who has had a show canned after just a few episodes.

 

"You have no idea what this means to writers," Whedon says. "You took something you love and you got a second shot. Do you know how often that happens to writers? Never."

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I really love this one. It brought a smile to my face and I did a lil dance in my chair.

 

I hope Joss reads this!!!!

STATIC

Murphy's Second Law of Combat: If your attack is going particularly well, you've walked into an ambush.

I know that a couple of people who are not real thrilled that some of us soldier-type guys shout out firefly-isms during combat, and I can honestly understand that. However, I hope that Joss and Tim read this and find it inspiring, and I hope that everyone feels their guts knot up as much as I did. . .and maybe a tear or two will well up in your eyes, as they are streaming down my face just from the telling of this. . .

 

As you all know, I've been a soldier stationed in Afghanistan for quite some time now. Many of you know that I'm posting this from my own home tonight, as I have been permitted to come home for ten days on leave. It's been a very long time since I've been home. I flew from Afghanistan to Frankfurt via military cargo jet (C-17 for those 'in the know'), and the next morning, we got on a commercial flight to Chicago. I got off the plane, grabbed my big-assed duffel bags and prepared to wait in line for customs, and to my delight, the Customs officers were pulling any soldier-types out of line and passing them through, with a pat on the back and a 'welcome home'. I immediately had to re-check my bags for my final flight, and after doing so, I made a beeline outside. I crossed the street and walked into the snow, the first I'd seen since January 2003, and stood at the base of the American Flag for a second before I finally became overwhelmed and fell to my knees. I grabbed a double handful of snow and rubbed it all over my face. When I stood up, I realized there were almost 20 other soldiers with me, all who had the same idea. Most of us didn't know each other at all, but for that moment, we were brothers who had been best of friends all our lives.

We decided to head on inside, and one young man, his name was Mike, was still overwhelmed with emotion and could not stand. Another soldier, a friend of his, went to lift Mike, and I took Mike's other arm. Mike smiled weakly and thanked us. Here's where it gets tough to even tell the story, and I hope Joss and Tim read this. . .

 

Mike's friend said, "You know the saying, Mikey. . .when you can't run anymore you crawl. . ." and before he could say anymore, I finished it for him. "And when you can't do that anymore, you find someone to carry you."

 

Mike and his buddy, and about half the guys who were standing there with us all smiled. We looked up at the flag and Mike said, "They didn't take the sky from us." Turns out they were all Browncoats, and they were home from Iraq for good.

 

Joss, Tim and all the rest of you. . .I don't know if you had any idea that what you created would be so powerful, and provide such inspiration for those of us who serve, but it does. Thank you.

 

And to all of you whom I've come to call my friends on this site, thank YOU. Because of your love and support, the 'bad guys' are unable to take the sky from ME.

 

I'M HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wow, that is amazing.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!1111

 

 

 

Shifting this here from the Firefly 3 thread.

 

Don’t know if this has been posted and I can’t vouch for the veracity of the claim but I got this from another board I frequent. Just posting as I found it:

 

I was working with Nathan Fillion who plays the captain of the firefly. He told me some really cool stuff that is being done in the movie.

 

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!

 

1. I don’t watch the show but Nathan told me you can expect to see what the bad guys really look like. Apparently you’ve only heard, but never seen them in the show.

 

2. It is super action oriented. In one scene, straight out of The Searchers, the villians are destroying a local town and killing everyone. There is a small boy and mother running for their lives and the crew of the Firefly have to leave without them. As they pull away in there landspeeder. Nathan pulls out his gun and shoots both the mother and the boy to keep them from tortured.

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

 

It's nothing major, but it could be considered a spoiler, it just warms my heart to hear it. It's so good.