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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. Re:why does firefly have such a fanbase? by ian+mills · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How is this offtopic? Maybe redundant, but he does have a valid point.
    This whole thread is nothing but cheerleading, with every post that says anything good about the series getting an automatic insightful mod. Sure Wheadon is a talented writer, but this show had some serious issues with realism. Wheadon seems to not understand the enormous amounts of energy required for space travel, and moving livestock around is just not going to pay for it. And ancient projectile weapons? I'm sorry, my suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Buffy was at least fantasy, but to have this kind of stuff in sci-fi is just a misuse of the genre. Star Wars is a good space western, this series just takes the term far too literally.