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."

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Here Is To a BSG Movie

[moore.dustin]

Firefly is over so I can only hope Battlestar Gallactica gets the steam it needs to have a feature film. It could be very well received given the way BSG is grabbing non-SciFi people.

Sequel would have been sweet...

[TimeForGuinness]

I didn't follow Firefly, and I saw Serenity about 4 months ago. (Please don't revoke my geek card)

I must say, it was one of my favorite SciFi flicks to date. It totally surprised me, decent story, decent graphics. I recommended it to a lot of my friends. I described it loosely as if they made a movie about Han Solo. (rugged, funny thief...they almost dressed the same)

I was looking forward to another movie. I like the SciFiWestern combo that he pulled off.

Maybe I will just have to start watching Firefly.

Cheers,
TFG

Re:What's the big deal?

[kfg]

I tend to agree. I enjoyed watching it, but it's not something I'm going to go out and spend money on.

Perhaps I would think more of it if the first time I saw it it hadn't been called Fist Full of Dollars.

KFG

Re:Made a profit

[Jherek Carnelian]

Serenity made $39M on a budget of $39M worldwide, and while that does include the marketing (probably around $10M), DVD sales would certainly have resulted in a profit.

Don't forget the Stupid German Money that makes a kind of profit even if the movie doesn't. I haven't checked the credits roll for any GmbH listings, but it is virtually certain that stupid german money was used in the production since it has been used in just about every other hollywood production in recent years (for example, all the Uwe Boll flopaloozas, and all of LotR too).

Would been quite hard away

[CharonX]

As the article says with some key characters dead and the major mysteries resolved there are no plot lines to hook on.
One could feel in the movie that the series ended prematurely - with the highly compressed plot material found in the movie and the comic one could have easily filled a 2nd season, not to mention "paths not taken". But I must say Joss Whedon did the right thing - he gave the series closure. We know how the big plots resolved, we mourn the loss of loved ones and yet there is a somewhat bright future imaginable for Serenity and their crew.
Still, I am sad that there will be no new Firefly movie or series in the predictable future, but who knows - once Fox loses its choking grip on this good TV series there might be hope again if a better channel picks up the series - but this will not happen in the next few years, so I will not be holding my breath.

Re:Would been quite hard away

[Kenshin]

I always wanted to know more about Shepherd Book. People were always saying "He's not a Shepherd", but no one ever said what he actually WAS.

No More Mrs. Reynolds....

[DESADE]

I was seriously hoping for some kind of resurrection of the character played by Christina Hendricks in "Our Mrs. Reynolds" and "Trash." I'm sure some of you remember the salaciously hot redhead.

It's a shame when shows like Firefly get axed when so much crap survives. But, I hate to admit it, I missed Firefly on TV and only got hip to it on DVD. What a shame.

I think it's a tribute to Joss that he got the movie made at all. And anyone who saw the film knew it was the end.

Damn and blast.

[jpellino]

This series made my head snap around, which is more than I can say about 80% of the scifi in the past ten years.
Geez, the guy could suck the vampire franchise dry (sorry), you'd think he could soldier on without the likes of Wash and make it more/better/shinier. Even with the resolutions of the movie and all. One of my favorite quotes about anything creative is from Joss: "Restrictions are great because they make you more imaginative. They make you rethink things, they make you not-do the obvious." I'd say he set lots of restrictions on his existing story line and had no where to go but massively creative.
These characters were as salty / grounded / lofty / eye-twinkling / inventive as my favorite Heinlein characters. Even the trademark behaviors were just tweaked enough and were gently dashed often enough to keep you thinking "what's next?"

To quote Wash, this series told the rest of the scifi world "Here's something you can't do..."

We live in a world "Head of the Class" stays on the air for five seasons. Ya'd think they could keep this stuff rolling for more than one.

Re:An opportunity how big?

[masdog]

I couldn't agree more. Joss's willingness to take risks with his characters makes the stories he is telling more realistic and engaging. It sucked when he killed a fan favorite, but in doing so, he hammered home the fact that the rest of the characters might not survive.

I agree about writing with your own characters. Its very difficult to take risks with them, and in my (mostly unfinished) stories, I had to create red shirts so my stars would make it out all right. As I'm learning now, that doesn't make it fun.