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Serenity to Premiere at Edinburgh Film Fest
CABridges writes "Serenity, the science-fiction/western/comedy/drama based on Joss Whedon's TV show Firefly will receive its official Gala Premiere Screening at the 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival on Monday, August 22nd, with a 'Reel Life' interview with Whedon the next day.
Serenity will make its U.S. debut September 30th and will open in the UK & Ireland on October 7th.
More info available at the official movie website."
We could still be watching the actual TV show if fox hadn't screwed it over by running the episodes out of order. Man I love that show!
Not sure how much a debut it is given that it's been screening fairly frequently in the US. Still one would hope for some good buzz so te trade rags notice.
I also will be interested to see what changes have occured since the first showings. I am certain there will be some.
If you live in the states, get in there and swich on - Scifi are showing the entire series (followed by new episodes of Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and the new Battlestar galatica)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
...and assigning it the death-slot (Friday 8pm), and cutting the advertising for it. I don't think they ever really wanted Joss to have a hit on FOX. Someone made the deal, and someone else got put in charge of fulfilling FOX's obligations, is my theory.
They were pissed that it cost so much to make, while "reality" was dirt-cheap and selling like hotcakes, so they torpedoed it. I hope the who cancelled the TV series all get invitations to the L.A. premiere. And then I hope that ABC picks up Firefly, and those same execs have to watch Firefly's second season kick the out of Fox's lineup.
I was lucky enough to see one of the previews and can can safely say that the movie in NOT a remake of the pilot. The story stands on it's own. There is a nice introduction to bring people who have not seen the series up to speed and plenty of new material for the fans. The movie also wraps-up a number of story lines left dangling after the series was canceled.
Considering the craptastic movies that have been released this year, it may turn out to be the best movie of the summer.
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
It's nothing like a remake. The closest I could see to it being a remake is the fact that, as a movie, they have to revisit some of the background. The plot itself is completely new for the series.
I admit I've never watched the series, and wasn't a huge fan of Whedon's other stuff, the little I saw of it. I did see the trailer for Serenity though before Mr and Mrs Smith, which was better than I expected.
The trailer too was better than I expected. Good eye candy, interesting looking story, enough to get me to likely see the film when I wouldn't before. It made the film look like a [big] film, and not just a long TV show like so many converts these days.
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more proof of bad programming decisions that cant be fixed by optimizing compilers !
Are they doing any more preview screenings in the states? I missed the last, um, 3...or was it 4, and don't want to miss the 5th screening if there is one.
Do you mean that the movie only wraps up one tangling story line, or that Firefly only left one story line hanging.
Because I've seen the series, and it DEFINITELY left a ton of story lines hanging... in fact, just about all of them were left hanging. You can definitely see that the cancellation came as a horrible and sudden event.
Serious, I gotta say this WHAT THE FUCK is up with FOX? Like, I buy all these 1 season series on DVD that aired on FOX, out of order, and they all kick butt!
I'm just reminded of the beginning of the newly-uncanceled Family Guy, and their first episode back. You know, where he lists of shows canceled by FOX for like 5 minutes. I've seen many of these series, and I know they're awesome.
Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for Space above and Beyond on DVD.
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
No, it only looks like Martial arts. She's an expert dancer (look close and see how her movement is more like a ballet than an attack) and a Genius (aka able to calculate angles/force/etc near instantly) refer to the episode she closes her eyes after calcing the angles and shoots three bad guys. Basicly when she is fighting in the trailer, think of it as accounting for all the variables and pre-planning the optimal strat.
They were pissed that it cost so much to make, while "reality" was dirt-cheap and selling like hotcakes
I'm interested - are studio bang-per-buck decisions like this really sensible in the long run, or only for the next quarterly statement? Firefly was certainly expensive to make compared to reality shite, but I can't see reality shite being good for reruns or overseas syndication or wildly successful DVD sales in the way that Firefly has proved to be.
From what I gathered from commentaries and the like on the DVD set, Fox wanted a show that would do for Fox what Buffy/Angel did for WB/UPN. When Joss came back with "space western," Fox balked at the idea, instead of just trusting him or giving the show a chance. Sounds like the Fox execs had decided the show's fate before a single episode had aired.
Considering that they didn't even bother the explanatory pilot episode until the end, that sounds about right.
Having finally caught the show within the last month or so on DVD, I can see that the show would have done well if it were treated correctly. Had they shown it in order in a steady timeslot, the amount of viewers would have grown as word of mouth spread. Alternatively, since TV executives can't seem to fathom "letting a show find an audience" despite it working in the past, and insist on a combination of heavy advertising and instant success, they could have hyped the hell out of the pilot episode as a "Two Hour Special Event" or something.
Oh well, Fox blew it. It's not the first time, and it surely won't be the last. They seem to be perfectly happy with more instances of She-Male Brides Attack Bachelorettes and American No-Talent Ass Clown. Why they even bother to develop new non-"reality" shows and then instantly cancel them, though, is beyond me. Sigh.
Fox, liu kou shui de biao zi he hou zi de ben er zi!
SIGFEH
The comic book that bridges the movie and the series is now available. Issue one of the three issue Dark Horse mini series was released (in the US) this week.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
I don't want to spoil anything for you, but I will say that four of these story lines are in the movie. ;)
Can't stop the signal.
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
Heres a little secret... Almost all sci-fi shows are really westerns.
Sleep is for the weak.
It has absolutely no Sci-Fi in it!
There is NO sci-fi in it, but there are spaceships, spacestations, government-created psychics, super-efficient organ-transplants, holographic HUD brain scanners, floating estates, flying cars, terraforming, sonic weapons, hand-held laser weapons... but no sci-fi! Nope, no siree Bob, none!
You can't take the sky from me...
I'm somewhat amazed that they didn't mention John Doe. That was on after Firefly, and I really liked it.
And, because I wrote this one down too, here's another funny moment from the episode:I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Didn't get past the first two episodes, did you? Try the third and fourth discs. Or even the third episode (on the discs, not by air date).
Oh, and you probably didn't notice that little motor or turbo spool up whine as they cock one of those "6 shooters". Not that it matters -- slug throwers can be manufactured and maintained with the low tech infrastructure you'll find on a frontier planet, and they'll kill you just as dead as the laser pistols more prevalent on the core planets. (Inara has one too, come to think of it.)
At least they don't have Wesley saving the day by reversing the graviton flux polarity on the plasma conduits every other episode.
-- Alastair
You're right. Firefly is not Sci-fi. It is SF. It's not space opera, either.
If you like skiffy and space opera, but not SF (eg, you don't read any of the magazines, or science fiction books that aren't TV/movie tie-ins), you probably won't like Firefly.
(There's a great scene in "Objects in Space" where they're discussing River's possible psychic abilities. Wash says something like "I don't believe that science fiction stuff". Zoe gives him a look and says "You're living on a space ship". Wash looks at her, "so?")
To me, the holodeck episodes in ST were lazy writers' mental masturbation, barely a step up from "and it was all a dream" story endings. And Data is a toaster.
-- Alastair