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Firefly Movie Gets The Green Light

Posted by simoniker on from the big-screen-says-hello-to-reevers dept.

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.

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  1. Strange. by nefele · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they actually decided to make a movie about a web browser?
    Oh, wait...

  2. Obligatory. by Trejkaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Serenity Now!!

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  3. Curse of the F's by KoopaTroopa · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Curse of the F's by GumboN · · Score: 4, Funny

      Fmillenium
      Flone Gunmen
      Fjohn Doe
      Fdark Angel
      The Ftick...
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  4. Thanks to Firefly... by devphil · · Score: 5, Funny


    ...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.

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  5. Go Browncoats! by torgosan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shiny!

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  6. Don't Wander Around Best Buy by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  7. Re:WTF by eatenn · · Score: 5, Funny
    Cancel a television series to make a movie based on it?

    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...

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  8. Serenity? by ShinyBrowncoat · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are calling the movie 'Serenity'? Now what am I supposed to do with all these Firefly Movie posters?

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  9. You Forgot To Share! by WombatControl · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!