Official Firefly Movie Web Site Launched

The Orange Hatter writes "The official Universal Pictures web site for the Firefly Movie 'Serenity' is up. It includes a blog, message board, opportunites to get point for Firefly swag, and lots of other fun stuff. Check it out."

Comments

FireFly DVD set is great - why did Fox cancel?

[PenguinOpus]

I didn't watch any of the episodes on Fox because I hadn't even discovered Buffy yet. 6 seasons of DVD Buffy later (waiting for the 7th), we buy Firefly's DVD set and were really impressed.

Firefly, the series, has the usual Joss Whedan good characters interacting in interesting ways.
Apparently they didn't show the pilot first on Fox and I can't imagine how that could have worked. The 2 hour pilot (also called Serenity) is a must see and its CGI special effects are surprisingly good.

15 episodes (pilot + 13) + extras.

Strongly Recommended!

Is this "just" the first episode, remade?

[Jerf]

See title. All the summaries seem to point to that but that seems odd.

I'm not sure how I feel about that, either way.

Obligatory Ballad of Serenity

[methangel]

Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me

Take me out
To the black tell 'em I ain't coming back
Burn the land
And boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

Have no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

This is one of the catchiest show songs I have heard in a long time. I remember thinking it was kind of a weird song for a space show the first episode of Firefly I ever saw. Pretty soon I found myself singing along.

I can't wait to see the movie!!!

Re:Ron Glass

[Cyno01]

Yeah, to bad the show got canned before they could get around to what his deal was. "How's a preacher know so much 'bout crime?"

Re:Gimme a break...

[afriedel]

I think you have it all wrong. This was simply one of the best shows on TV period. Not simply best Sci-fi show, best show overall.

I made several other people fans of the show by just letting borrow my DVDs. These are female, non-geeks who hate anything sci-fi who simply love the show and were shocked that it had been cancelled.

I don't know if you actually watched the show but it was the western motiff was just a small part of the show and only played a part in some of the episodes.

The dialog cheesy and cookie cutter characters? Come on!! The dialog is great and very original. The characters were also unique. We had a legal prostitute, former military soldier (low rank, not a general of anything) turned business man, gorgeous amazonian warrior, not entirely loyal hired muscle, former minister looking for his way, very feminine female mechanic, dorky, talented pilot who landed the amazon and a weakly, gifted
doctor who risked everything to save his sister.

I don't know about you, but that is an extremely original group of characters thrown together in a very plausible way. I have never watched Cowboy beebop so I can't comment on that. What I can do is comment on is the quality of this show.

I never post on /. but I had to on this. Go see this movie. You won't be sorry.

I just went by the set of Serenity

[duffhuff]

I was at Universal Studios Hollywood on Tuesday. During the studio tour (where you drive around on the busses) we went through a "quiet zone" where they were filming several movies. Right beside the Jurassic Park ride was the set of Serenity, and who was right outside the set? None other then Nathan Fillion, the Captain himself.

Although I don't subscribe to the obsessive-fan mantra, being a huge fan of Firefly and seeing him, dressed in his usual captain garb, was the highlight of the day for me.

I really hope the new movie does well, but either way, we've kept flying.

Re:no time travel

[Noren]

Hmm... I can certainly understand not liking the concept of time travel in science fiction, or of not liking specific episodes. But... in B5 there were only three episodes out of the 110 which contained any (out of sequence) time travel- "Babylon Squared" and "War Without End" parts 1 and 2. The three basically comprise one story (even though two years separated their production) and the net result was interesting in my opinion. Though not a totally novel outcome, it was at least mostly self-consistent and I hadn't seen it on the small screen before... unlike the average Star Trek "We must not alter the past and/or we must fix how someone else altered the past" or "Visit to Earth in some time period for which we already have sets" plot. More episodes were produced before the first time travel episode (19) than were ever produced for Firefly.

There were a number of anachronistic things (e.g. "Comes the Inquisitor", "A Late Delivery from Avalon", Garibaldi's Daffy Duck poster and motorcycle) which were not results of nonsequential time travel, as well as some episodes which took place over odd timelines (the "camera" going years after the rest of the series) but which had no time travel per se ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", "Sleeping in Light")

There was precognition at many points, though, and lots and lots of foreshadowing and glimpses into the future. What time travel there was also implied some amount of predestination. Was it the predestination more than just the time travel which you found objectionable?

Re:Ron Glass

[kalidasa]

Yeah, to bad the show got canned before they could get around to what his deal was. "How's a preacher know so much 'bout crime?

"That's no preacher." I figure he must be an exile from Blue Sun who sided with the browncoats, but for some reason is still considered untouchable.

Re:Of course

[Cecil]

I've gotta say, I've listened to all the actor's commentary on the Firefly DVD series, and I'll be damned if that's not Alan Tudyk ("Wash").

"Space-torture-plex-thingy"? "If Nathan Fillion was any more charming he could turn a straight man gay. I'm just sayin' is all."?

Who else could it be?

Re:no time travel

[Dr. Spork]

Yeah, City on the Edge of Forever was cool. I took the original poster to be complaining about the new Enterprise stuff, not the classics

Re:Ron Glass

[Scrameustache]

"That's no preacher." I figure he must be an exile from Blue Sun who sided with the browncoats, but for some reason is still considered untouchable.

"I don't give a damn if you're innocent or not! So where does that put you? Hmmm?"

I don't think he sided with the loosers, I think he was a high ranking official who suddenly realised that the ends did not justify the horrible means he was using. He's obviously trying to atone for his sins.
Though I think we'll curse his sudden but inevitable betrayal when he realises that the Alliance needs River (possibly to defeat the Reavers).