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."

Comments

Take my love, take my land,

[PIPBoy3000]

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."

Re:Take my love, take my land,

[Romeozulu]

The first two episodes sucked

The first two episodes where shown out of order. No wonder they didn't make any sense.

Re:In Movie Speak

[Anonymous Coward]

Pushing a movie back due to competition means your movie sucks.

As Joss said in TFA (emph mine)

This isn't about a lack of confidence in the film -- in fact, they told me this before they even saw it. And now they have seen it, and unless they're way better liars than I'm used to, they dug it. Actually, they dug it pretty large, which is a good sign since there's not a single finished effect in the film. There's no reworking the end, no reshoots, no "does it have to be in space?". It's just a marketing issue.

This is actually great news.

[Doktor Memory]

"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."