Whedon Calls Death Knell For Firefly

Ant writes "Entertainment Weekly is reporting on the end of Firefly." From the article: "Alas, Whedon's fond memories are also tainted by Serenity's status as a franchise nonstarter; despite Universal's best marketing efforts, the film only mustered $25 million. 'In the end, it was what it was: a tough sell,' says Whedon, adding that it appears the Firefly saga has reached its conclusion. He has no regrets -- and he's moving on."

Comments

No FOX told Josh to takes his marbles and go home.

[DeadMilkman]

Fox owns the TV rights and they are NOT letting go of them for 10 years as per contract.

Cable and broadcast TV are right out...

Movie was the next good idea...

IF dvd sales are up "maybe" they could try direct to DVD...but that would be the last big hope

(I'm sorry but iTunes vids arenot quite up to finacial snuff to provide 1 million sales per episode)

Re:prepare to mod me redundant...

[TychoCelchuuu]

The whole "binary" thing is, to me, the very crux of the situation and gets right down to why people didn't like Wash's and Book's deaths. I think if you gave me 5 minutes with Whedon, I could convince him to stop killing off his characters (apparently he does this in Buffy too, although I wouldn't know): it seems like his urge to make the universe so realistic results in deaths that otherwise don't make sense. It's obvious to us, and obvious to Whedon, that you can't have people just dancing around the galaxy fighting the Alliance and Reavers and god knows what else, and then at the end of the movie they're all a big happy family again and everything's all right. Whedon's solution to this is to kill people, not just "red shirts" who we don't really care about but people who are near and dear to us. Yes, this does erasae the idea that these characters are immortal, and it makes them real people. I think, though, that Joss is sort of viewing characters on a sort of discrete scale: they either have a problem, have solved their problem, or are dead.

From what little I've read about Buffy (after loving Firefly to death, I figured I ought to check up on this other stuff that Whedon did), it seems like every time someone hooks up with their true love, one of them gets killed. I feel like if I was able to talk to Whedon, to remind him that in real life people manage to lead all sorts of horrid, depraved, depressing lives without dying ONCE (except at the end), I would be able to get him to change his view on killing people: killing them off is his effort to make the universe real, but the end effect is to make it seem even less real, because half the time the only problems the characters have are that they're dead. I mean, come on. There are better ways than death to explore the fundamental flaws of humans.