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New International Serenity Trailer Released
Tenken writes "The international Serenity trailer has just popped up online and it looks to be even shinier than the first. This new trailer doesn't really spell out the plot of the film as explicitly as the first one, but for that reason it may play better with fans. Chiwetel Ejiofor's "Operative" character is also shaping up to be one of those memorable Whedon villains along the lines of Jubal Early from the episode "Objects in Space.""
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Another version of the trailer can be found at Apple - Trailers: Serenity.
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It was a popular series (popular among sci-fi fans) on fox when it was canceled pre-maturly. Thats why there is so much hype.
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It'll be in theatres September 30th, dork.
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I'm part of the team that produces The Signal, the only podcast in the 'verse totally dedicated to Firefly. http://www.serenityfirefly.com. The response from listners has just been amazing. We had to switch providers 12 hours after launch because of bandwidth problems. I'm sure the international trailer is about to have the same problems. Serenity is definitely one to keep your eyes out for even if you never saw the TV show.
Don't forget, the Sci-Fi channel has picked up Firefly. They will be airing the orginal series, in the correct order, starting tomarrow (Friday) at 6pm central time.
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Instead of buying them... you could watch the re-runs on SciFi...
1. Each successive screening has been better than the previous. They're still in post-production and they're still improving stuff.
They probably have a relatively small advertising budget. So,
2. You don't want to compete with the summer blockbusters - because you don't want to compete with their advertising budget. So you schedule a fall release to not compete with them.
3. You want to magnify your small $ as much as possible. So you release trailers on RELEVANT movies that interested people are going to see. And you do what you can to make your fans advertise for you for free/cheap.
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"Good. I hate watching trailers that give away too much of the film." Having seen the film (5/5 screening in Seattle) I can tell you that neither of the trailers give away the plot in a way. :)
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You do realize that the first episode was actually the SECOND episode, as the two hour preimier was never shown by Fox, and that subsequent episodes were shown out of order as well.
You might try renting the first DVD from NetFlix and watching the first four shows in order. And the show did get stronger and stronger as each episode progressed. I found the premier shown on Fox to be dull as well, but I kept with it anyway and was rewarded. And when I finally saw the two hour pilot, I was hooked. I own it on DVD now.
- Spryguy
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Fox axed the pilot which was INTENDED to be the premier, and instead showed the second episode, which wasn't the premier episode, just the first episode shown.
Yes, it matters.
And it's really worth watching in order. Seriously. Sacrifice a Netflix queue slot. Or better yet, just wait until later in August when Sci-Fi will run the entire series IN ORDER, in the run-up to the movie's premier at the end of September.
- Spryguy
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Actually, I believe Nathan Fillion is a distant relative of Jubal Early, which is why Joss Whedon used the name for that character.
I reproduced this twice -
WinXP SP2, QT 6.5.2, about 9/10 of the way through the movie, firefox hangs up, and I had to kill it with Task Manager.
Recommend a separate download, and play outside of the browser.
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If you haven't seen it before, you should check out the old BBC sci-fi "Blake's 7" -- now, there was a show full of "bad boys". The concept was that Blake, a freedom fighter up against a corrupt interstellar Federation, gathered together a crew of pirates and thieves to pursue freedom. But the actor playing Blake left the show after the first season; so, one of the thieves took over the ship after that. :)
Now, that became a show without a truly clear sense of good vs. evil. The main characters occasionally did the "right" thing for the right reasons, often for the wrong reasons, and sometimes didn't accomplish anything good at all! It made things quite interesting...
--John
Well, that all falls square on the shoulders of Fox. You know, those guys who advertised for weeks about a show that included "a girl in a box", and then decided at the last minute to scrap the two hour premiere containing said girl in said box, and made Joss and Tim write a brand premiere over the weekend to be hurried into production. Oh yeah, the new premiere also had to be just an hour long... and with more action, so all of the backstory had to be compressed into quick blunt exposition so we could try to figure out who all these people on this ship were...
And then they had the whacky idea to jumble all the episodes more or less randomly, cause hey... who doesn't love Keno! And oh yeah... they finally decided to show the real premiere as the last episode of the series. Because that makes perfect sense...
It's not that the show required too much involvement... it's that Fox got too damned involved with it.
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What you're writing is sorta neat, but it's not necessarily edgy in a new and good manner.
What I see in Joss' stuff is good characters with depth, that develop over time, and humor that is mostly achived by putting realistic characters in absurd (but in context for the assumed macguffins) situations and watching the results.
You don't like it? Fine. But over 95% of the sci fi book writers out there can't do that well with their characters, situations, etc. Joss is good at what he does by any measure.
Almost, that line was said by Jayne :P (twice in the same episode, I might add)