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Any Prospect of Serenity Sequel Quashed
Shadowruni writes "According to IGN.com, there will be no sequel to Serenity." Update: 10/07 01:31 GMT by Z : As enjerth pointed out below, this is not 100% accurate. Don't believe IGN, is the lesson. Here's the word from the man himself: "I turn my back for five minutes (that's how long it takes to admire my lovely back) and the interweb goes banoonoos! Isn't there any ACTUAL news to get wrong? Sorry about all this; it might be best if I just stay off the computer for a while ... The brain place is crowded with goods, ideas, sequels, spinoffs, animated versions, miniseries, radio dramas -- this is just the used goods. All the new wares are in there as well and it's deafening. Once I create a verse I never let go of it. And figuring out how much of my energy should be devoted to reawakening the projects you all love with the actors and characters I all love, and how much should be forging ahead and creating entirely new works (which you are contractually obligated to love) is exhausting."
. . . there's no reason it couldn't happen. It just isn't happening now, and is less likely as time goes by.
as a drama and an action movie without having to dumb down the plot, with special effects and acting on par with anything you'd see on the big screen.
Quack, quack.
The article is exagerated.
Many sites ran with similar stories, taking Joss Whedon's words out of context.
From Whedonesque http://whedonesque.com/comments/11513#144407:
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If you missed all the fun, at the weekend Joss responded to the latest Serenity sequel rumour and quite rightly knocked it on the head. Several sites picked up on what he said and took his remarks to mean that there would be never be a sequel to Serenity.
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And in this thread, Joss Whedon replies http://whedonesque.com/comments/11513#144407 with the following:
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Isn't there any ACTUAL news to get wrong? Sorry about all this; it might be best if I just stay off the computer for a while. Or just glut the feed with wild conjecture. Hmm, let's see... I'm me, so... let's glut! Here are some ABSOLUTELY TRUE statements of factiness. Gentlemen, start your websites.
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Joss was putting to rest the rumor that he was working on Serenity 2, not saying that there will never be a Serenity 2.
Actually that's a loss. Some inside quotes. For the first week the studio gets 60% of the boxoffice. After that it generally drops to 50% with it continuing to drop with the theater owners making an increasing percentage, 60%+. The studio would have made a little less than 20 mill off the theatrical take with ten mill for advertising being conservative. If it made 13 mill on DVD sales that means they made back less than 23 mill on a 39 mill investment. That's extremely bad. I think it was badly marketed which cost it sales but it's unlikely to have ever broke even making it a very bad risk for the studio to make sequels. I liked the movie version but it didn't even come close to seeing a profit based on the numbers you provided.
Yeah, great move. We finally get another great sci-fi show, and you want to kill it by encouraging people to download it illegally rather than spending the modest asking price to buy a DVD set that can be had from Amazon within 24 hours.
And we wonder why shows like Firefly got canned. Sheesh.
No we don't, pretty much every agrees it was mismanaged by Fox (plus, while great, it wasn't the most mainstream of shows). It wasn't because of people downloading it. In fact, quite the opposite; the movie got made largely because so many people bought the DVDs.
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