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Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen

lhouk281 writes "According to this article in the Hollywood Reporter, Universal is turning Firefly into a movie. Firefly lives!" This show deserved a chance to run a full season. If this comes out, I'll sure be there opening weekend.

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  1. It's Thursday.... by panda · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, we like he MPAA and its members today?

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    1. Re:It's Thursday.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nope. I'm going to display civil disobedience by commiting an act of copyright infringement.

    2. Re:It's Thursday.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Slashbaiting - To attack Slashdot by acting like Slashdot readers have a single Borg mind.

    3. Re:It's Thursday.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      /.: We are the GNU/.. Resistance is futile. You will be asimilated, and your consciousness will be added to the GNU/. hive mind. Hot grits, Natalie Portman, and the Penis Bird await.

      There is no chance. Make your time. Hhahah.

      Imagine a beowulf cluster of ./ hive minds... Woah.

  2. Re:GREAT NEWS! by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it will be so good it will spawn a T.V. Series.

    Oh wait....

  3. Re:Oh boy by bandy · · Score: 2, Funny
    with an hour of special effects, gratuitous sex and fight scenes added.
    You're saying that as if it were a bad thing...
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  4. no good by falsification · · Score: 1, Funny
    Sorry, but I didn't like it. Three big reasons.
    1. Prostitutes will never be the top females in the social hierarchy of any civilization.
    2. If you fly a spaceship to colonize a new planet, you will never have to drive a chuckwagon pulled by a team of horses to get across a babbling brook on that planet.
    3. Swearing in Chinese is geeky.
    1. Re:no good by benwaggoner · · Score: 3, Funny

      1. They weren't the top female hierarchy. There was explicit prejudice against her and her profession. The guild was doing better than the equivalent profession today, but it's not like they were running things.

      2. They were in disguise.

      3. You're posting on Slashdot.

  5. Re:Good lord... by qengho · · Score: 2, Funny


    What the hell is a western and space fantasy doing on the same page?!

    Too young to remember Battlestar Galactica, eh?

  6. Bunk by Scrameustache · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! Finally a reason to get out of my bunk! : )

    (You need to have seen the series to get this)
    P.S. Notice my .sig:

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  7. New cast members announced! by LeiGong · · Score: 4, Funny

    Along with the original cast, 3 new members will be added to lure in the casual movie goer. The first new addition will be a stubborn and mean-spirited, yet loveable, robot named "Alvin." The 2nd character will be a 1-2' tall furry creature with a really "cute" name that always seems to get into trouble. The 3rd character will be a "superior" alien-being that will constantly remind the crew of their mistakes and point out the foolish of 80% of the captain's actions. This will help the movie attract more than just the show's 16-35 male demographic audience.

  8. I will wait for the movie to come to DVD by nexusone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just like the TV version, I expect it to flop.

    I should not take long after it flop's that the theater for it to be release to DVD.

    Then I will do down to the local Hollywood video and rent it!!!

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  9. Re: About time by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny


    > If I had mod points, I'd mod you as a troll for making such an uninformed comment about women.

    Hey, this is Slashdot - he's not expected to have a clue about women.

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  10. Re:About time by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's this "SPORTS" you are all talking about?

  11. Re:GREAT NEWS! by dasmegabyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you are their market, I guess. Not your type of viewer: I mean JUST you.

    You might want to call them up and let them know what kind of ads you like see. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

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  12. Re:GREAT NEWS! by Wandering+Idiot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefly was not a good show.
    Die.
    Oh, wait, I should probably back that up with some sort of coherent response, hadn't I? Very well, then:

    ZOE: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?"
    BOOK: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps..."

    ZOE: "Jayne...this is something the captain has to do for himself."
    MAL: "No! No, it's not!"

    MAN: "Gave him a peck of trouble for it."
    MAL: "What kind of peck is that?"
    MAN: "The kind where they hacked off his hands and feet with a machete, rolled him into the bog."
    WASH: "The peck pretty hard around here..."

    HARROW: "You didn't have to wound that man."
    MAL: "Yeah, I know. It was just funny."

    WASH: "Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
    ZOE: "We live on a space ship, dear."
    WASH: "So?"

    Plus, it had *no sound in space*. Firefly rocked. Deny it again and I'll shove you into the nearest convenient intake port...

  13. Re:It's not funny anymore.... by Snaller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Retardation is never funny.

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  14. Re:GREAT NEWS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I live in the UK... those episode aren't unaired. the SciFi channel showed them a couple of months ago here. Hahahaha.