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Firefly Movie Gets The Green Light
An anonymous reader writes "According to FireflyFans.net and Ain't It Cool News, Universal has greenlit production of 'Serenity,' the motion picture based on Joss Whedon's cancelled TV series 'Firefly.' Both sites point to an article from Variety that says the film will start production in June, and be ready for release in 2005." The informative Whedonesque weblog is also monitoring developments regarding this much-deserved resurrection.
So they actually decided to make a movie about a web browser?
Oh, wait...
Serenity Now!!
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
They're really naming it Serenity to avoid being prematurely cut off during production. This would surely have happened had the name started with 'F'.
Firefly - cancelled
Family Guy - cancelled
Futurama - cancelled
Someone ought to cancel Fox.
Sharpies don't just sniff themselves.
...I am terrified of people in business suits wearing bright blue gloves.
On the up side, I know now how to say "Fuck everyone in the universe to death!", "Shut up," and my favorite, "Holy mother of God and all her wacky nephews!" in Mandarin Chinese.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Shiny!
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
The script is already leaked:
Overlord Busche: You vile Freedonian varmints, give us all rights to yer planetary oil then destroy yer WMD and we won't be shootin' ya with our Laser Cannons..
Sahdamm: but.. Freedonia ain't got no WMD, your people confirmed it!
Busche: Prepare to liberate Freedonia! Jebus commands it!
Trolling is a art,
Seeing the article made me want to buy the DVD set. I liked the concept of the show a lot, but didn't catch many of them. In Star Trek, everyone has neatly groomed hair and they're always nice to each other. Firefly seemed to be about normal, flawed people who happen to fly around in space.
Anyway, I go to BestBuy.com to see how much it costs. Only 40 bucks is a good deal. Here's the messed up part. On the web site, and presumably on the store shelves, the Firefly DVD set is listed under "Horror". Their subgroups under horror are "Comedies, Occult, Vampires, Zombies, and General Horror". At least it's not under Zombies.
-B
I know, isn't that crazy? Next thing you know they'll be making a television series out of a box office flop.
Oh wait...
"But the cars are all flashing me, bright lights are passing me, I feel life passing me by" - Stiff Little Fingers
Ah yes... Kaylee Frye. Every geek and tinkerers dream girl.
;)
C'mon guys, admit it. That's the only reason anyone really watched the show.
"Auds"? Obviously this is short for "audience," but still. Let's move on.
Variety seems to love these abbreviations. Nick Nunziata of CHUD sums it up:
For those not invested in Variety's ass injuring dialect, re-skedding and distribs are slightly quicker ways to say rescheduling and distributors. I can only imagine these folks in the bedroom saying "Honey, thank God I circummed my 'nis or you'd not know the face of Baldhammer(TM)". Annoying.
They are calling the movie 'Serenity'? Now what am I supposed to do with all these Firefly Movie posters?
"They've canceled the show but we're still here. What does that make us?" "Big Damn Junkies, Sir!" "Ain't we just"
I am not a native Chinese speaker (or even a remotely good Chinese speaker), but here's some tasty bits of Firefly Mandarin dialog:
Tai-kong suo-yo de shing-chiou doh sai-jin wu di pigu: Stuff all the planets in the universe up my ass!
Huh choo-shung huh tza-jiao duh!: Filthy fornicators of livestock!
Nee ta ma duh. Tyen-shia suo-yo duh run doh gai si! - F--- everyone in the universe to death!
Yeah, we pithy americans could never appreciate a decent tv show.
Because "Mr. Bean" is pure comedy genius.
Hahah, have you seen him in the commentary and suchnot on the end of the Firefly DVDs? The man laughs/smiles at *anything.* I swear he's the real life version Dr. Hibbert from the simpsons.
I still hope he (and especially Alan Tudyk - he's hilarious) return though.
But at the same time, ME journals don't usually hire retarded 1920s Jazz band promoters that have somehow gotten themselves addicted to crack to come up with their jargon. Hey, the auds like the space oater from Whedon's shingle? That's just ducky, daddy-o, now where's the giggle water, I wanna get blotto before we blow this joint!
Also, is it me, or is this "press release" more of a series of writer's notes?
You missed a couple....
Pic, budgeted in the mid-eight figures, is skedded for a June start and should be ready for a 2005 release.
Apparently grammer is a lost art. 'skedded'?
speaking with other nets and cablers about the skein
Ok, I have no idea what the thought is here. Are you sure this wasn't written in chinese and run through a google translator?
U acquired the feature rights from Fox last fall.
Good news, apparently I have acquired the feature rights, so there should definately be a movie.
It's a sad, sad day for journalism.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman