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Serenity Pushed Back to September
iontyre writes "According to Joss Whedon and reported at fireflymovie.com the much anticipated feature film adaptation of the superb but canceled tv show Firefly has been delayed till September from its original April release to supposedly avoid too much genre competition."
You wouldn't be satisfied with it now.
Wait.
Take my release date too.
Sigh. Firefly was a great series, though it took awhile to grow on people. I've been making my coworkers watch the series on DVD. After watching the first one their response is "So it's like a western in space?" A week later they hand back the DVDs with a glum face, asking "Why did they cancel it? That was a great show."
As Joss said in TFA (emph mine)
"Mid-April release" usually means "disposable genre crap that the studio is rushing out early in hopes of making some money on the curiosity factor." Think "Bulletproof Monk" or "LXG".
"Late September release" means "we think this is good and we expect to make some serious money on it and maybe we'll think about a sequel."
News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters? Like hell.
You obviously did not watch the show or track all of the terrible things that Fox did to it during its short run. First, they put in on a difficult night: Friday. Then they showed all of the episodes out of order. The pilot episode was not actually aired until the last week. It was this episode that explained who everyone was and the basic plot of the show. It made the show somewhat intriguing for those of us who like to solve mysteries but very confusing for everyone else. In addition, the show actually got good ratings, but the executives thought they could make more money with something else.
Remember, popularity doesn't even determine the longevity of a show. There are the production costs and often the personal whim of the station managers. Also, just because a show stays on the air does not mean it is "superb". Can you really call "Fear Factor" superb?
I believe in de-evolution. God made the world perfect, man fell, and its been going downhill ever since!
In news more relevant to this crowd, the DVD for Colussus, the Forbin Project was released today. One of the most underappreciated science fiction movies of the early seventies. How do you top a self-aware, megalomanical computer taking over the world? Build two of them!
I think you're talking about The Avengers.
I am trolling
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is due May 5th
It also got worse ratings that the show it replaced... Dark Angel
the reason it failed, was the same reason DA failed... they put it in a Friday timeslot
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Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Actually, the western aspects were based on Whedon reading Michael Shaara's Civil War book The Killer Angels about the Battle of Gettysburg.
'Execs' of the type we all loathe were not involved at all in that aspect of the show. Sorry you didn't like Firefly.
"Unless, of course, your competition is the last(?) installment of Star Wars. Who in their right mind is going to open another sci-fi movie against that?"
As I recall, Warner Bros did exactly that in 1999 with pretty good results....
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
Well this is true, but not for the reason you say.
First off, Fox sold the movie rights to Universal, who in turn made the movie.
However, part of the deal was that Universal couldn't create a TV series from the movie within X number of years (where X is undisclosed).
None the less, Universal has more or less talked about making a trilogy if Serenity does well, particularly on opening weekend.
No they don't. The Firefly universe is set in a single habitable/teraformable-body-rich system, colonized (pretty recently) by a seeder ship.
No, its not.
They frequently mention going to other systems (conveniently not saying "star" or "planetary" systems, thus feeding our argument). There is no indication that it is in a single solar system, and much to the contrary, there are a great number of planets, only a few of which were shown or mentioned in the show's half-season run.
They never explained in depth the universe/propulsion, but I've seen your claim about this a few times (single solar system) and rewatching the DVDs gave me numerous mentions of travelling to distant stars, and nothing at all to imply a single star universe (except for the lack of outrightly saying that there are numerous stars, but lack of proof isn't proof of the contrary).
Example: The "core worlds". You would have those all be the system's inner planets and moons? Makes no sense, they clearly talk about them as if they were the first colonies, with the outer systems being younger and poorer. With the power to go from world to world in a matter of days or weeks (depending), they are either going at near lightspeed in a single system, as you believe, or they have FTL and never got around to explaining it, because the characters were more important than the technical details in this show. Technobabble was kept to a minimum.
You can't take the sky from me...