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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GREAT NEWS!

[bandy]

Firefly is a prime example of how Fox is populated by PHBs. Fabulous show, great concept .. and they show the episodes out of order and at random intervals so the audience just can't get into it. They could have capitalized on Farscape's cancellation [SciFi: A channel for SF fans run by PHBs], but nooooooooo!

Re:GREAT NEWS!

[DCheesi]

A lot of the early shows which made them great wouldn't last one season if they premiered on Fox now. The frustrating thing is that Fox still greenlights these innovative projects, but then turns around and kills them in their infancy. It would almost be better if they didn't buy these concept-shows in the first place. Then we wouldn't be tortured with the might-have-beens; and maybe the good ones would find an audience on cable or syndication.

Re:GREAT NEWS!

[Scrameustache]

Firefly was not a good show.

Just like that? No context, no explanation? What, your off topic rant about the crap that doesn't get cancelled is proof of that statement?

Well then...

You are not a good human being.

P.S. Dear Moderator, get your finger off that "moderate" button and read his comment, then mine again. That's right, I'm using his own style to engage conversation. I want him to back his statement instead of riding an OT karma boost to pull a quick one with that lil' snippet.

A full season?

[Rinikusu]

My god, man. If "Everybody Loves Raymond" (lies! The title is a LIE! I hate that fucking show) can go on for how long now?, then Firefly deserves a run at least as long as Buffy.

But, what do you expect? Great show, great premise, nice twist on typical plotlines, great writing, great "settings", great girls er actors and actresses.. It had all the recipes to be axed.

"Hey, this show is too good. Gotta give it the axe."

Remember, America doesn't want quality. We want convenience and entertainment that doesn't require thinking. Hence, Jackass.

Re:A full season?

[Rinikusu]

Man, don't apologize for how you think about things. Your perception and decisions are yours, so be proud of them. You don't like Firefly. I'm grown up enough to admit that Firefly isn't for everyone, just like Linux isn't for everyone. You know what I mean? But that's what makes the world go 'round: The little differences. You know, like how Quarter Pounders with Cheese are called "Royales w/cheese" in France, or how women don't shave their legs in Germany. So, stand up and be proud fellow geek! You're an individual!

Re:Universal

[RobotRunAmok]

lower costs to own a DVD?

Are you kidding? With the exception of video games, DVDs represnt the best value in entertainment. What would *you* call a fair price to own a DVD?

Re:no good

[Jonathan_S]

Prostitutes will never be the top females in the social hierarchy of any civilization.
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.

First of all she wasn't exactly a prostitute, but more importantly a companion is not the "top female in the social hierarchy", yes she ranks better than the semi-criminal/black-market/smuggler crew running around in their obsolete junker of a spacecraft, but that isn't exactly way up the social chain.

And second, depending on how you got to the planet you might well drive a chuckwagon pulled by a team of horses. Just because you got dropped off in a spaceship doesn't imply that you are rich, or that the spaceship deposited a set of modern machine tools with the colony.

A planet could be colonized much like Australia, a place to dump people that aren't wanted in the parent society. With a low level of trading between the parent planet and the colony, there wouldn't be much ability to import needed items, and maintaining or building up a technological society from near scratch isn't easy. You need a lot of energy, which you don't necessarily have, a lot of raw materials, and some expensive machining tools to even get as far as the 19th century tech.

The nice thing about horses and wagons is that horses are self reproducing, you don't need a tech base to fix them when they break or build new ones. And grass or hay is easier to get than petroleum, or electric generation, or fission/fusion. And wagons can be build and maintained with little more that basic hand word working tools.

Re:Good lord...

[Frostalicious]

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

Yeah, most westerns are about high adventure on the frontier of civilization. Whereas most sci-fi shows are about high adventure on the frontier of civilization. I don't see how they are compatible.

vote with your wallet

[Scrameustache]

No one would watch the show when it was broadcast into the comfort of our living rooms for FREE.

I watched it, but...
I was willing to:

• stay at home on friday nights to watch it.
  
• spend the ENTIRE night watching FOX on mute absentmindedly (while killing time on the net) until it came on at 12:05am to then stay up until 1:05am to watch it.
  
• spend the ENTIRE night watching FOX on mute absentmindedly (while killing time on the net) until it came on at 12:20am to then stay up until 1:20am to watch it.
  
• Live with the frustration and disapointment of staying at home to watch it on friday night only to discover that its crap like Andromeda or Happy Gilmour that is playing in its time slot that week (sometimes with advance warning, sometimes not).
  
• Stick to the show after having been promised in all the commercials all summer long that the first ep. would be the pilot featuring a Girl In A Box only to be shown ep2 in its place, with no girl-ina-box (the (quite excellent) pilot was the LAST show aired...go figure).
  
• Watch episodes in first run OUT OF ORDER, seeing the "previously on firefly" segement showing something that was only seen the week after (and that completely fucked up the story, seeing as how important stuff had happen in the episode that they had not shown, screwing the viewer quite thouroughly).
  
• endure the ads for Fox's crappy other shows during the commercial breaks.
  
• etc

Most people aren't THAT dedicated to a completly new show.

And BTW, not only were people watching the show when it was on for free, but we also TOPPED OFF THE PREORDER LIMIT for the DVD in one day. Jeez, think about it for one second will ya...