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This is great news! I for one hope this movie will live up to the same standard to the show - if that's all it does it will be worth watching =D>

More info on the Firefly fans web site

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Well, is anyone going to air the reruns? How else are folks like me who've never seen the show going to get caught up (short of buying anything, that is)?

The reruns will probably eventually be shown on Scifi but I beleive the DVD is already out.

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Get the DVDs, they are worth it. Great show. Such a sin that Enterprise is in its umpteenth season and Firefly was canc'ed in less than one.

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Ripper is right. The DVDs are well worth the cost. I bought them sight unseen after seeing recommendations here and I'm wearing them out. Can't wait for the movie. Yay!!!!

Bravo! Bravo! This confirms the rumors that the lawyers in several Hollywood legal offices were working on the "talent" contracts.

Lycus, private-message me -- I might be able to help you out if you want a short sample of Firefly without springing for the DVDs sight-unseen. Or perhaps your local video store has it for rent...

I'll take a look the next time I go to rent a video. It's my usual policy to not buy any movie (or TV show) that I haven't seen at least once. Thanks, guys

Word is that the Firefly movie (working title Serenity) will have a budget of $35 million.

Sounds ample to me...

Most excellent news! Can't wait. We could get BABBers in our local areas together to go see it... in what, like 2007?

Should be 2005.

So far, all the original cast members are on board for the movie except for "Wash" and "Shepherd Book". Hopefully they will join the party soon!

What's firefly? I don't watch TV much... not even scifi or much of anything at all.

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Firefly was a sci-fi series by Joss Weldon, the maker of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. It was, IMHO, the best sci-fi series to date, and it was sabotaged by the pin-heads at Fox so that it only ran 11 episodes.

The basic plot is that a large central government recently won a war to rool up all of the independent colonies. The Serenity is a Firefly class ship owned by a former member of the independents who refuses to fall under the government yoke. I like it because the ship is always falling apart, and the crew is always one job away from being broke, and always just a few minutes from being arrested or killed. It had unlimmited potential for new storylines and character development.

More importantly, it is about the only sci-fi series with characters I can relate to.

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And, in a most unusual move, they were actually developing the characters. I hope Ron Glass signs on as Shepherd Book. I don't think I've seen him in anything since his Barney Miller days, but he must be working.

I can not imagine that he has anything better to do these days. The only other character I had seen in anything else is the actress who plays Zoe.

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Looks like he's been doing voice overs for kids' cartoons until Firefly came along. Can't imagine what more pressing job he has waiting.

I don't think there's any cause for alarm about Book and Wash. Several of the press releases have stated that "all the original cast members will return" (or similar language). It's just that when they list the actors specifically, Ron Glass and Alan Tudyk are conspicuously absent. It may just mean that contract details haven't been finalized, or that they left them off the list for no particular reason.

By the way, a good fansite for Firefly is:
www.fireflyfans.net

The IMDB page is up, though there isn't much there yet:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/

I've managed to get hold of all the Firefly episodes and watched them a number of times. I think the thing that sets it apart is the same thing that the original Star Trek had. The stories are not particularly special, and in fact it doesn't really matter, because it's the interaction between the characters that makes the series. Look at what make Star Trek good. The constant tension between Spock and McCoy, Scotty going off on one about his engines, etc. TNG had the same thing with the needling of Worf by Riker, and Data always missing the point. Firefly has these in abundance. It's the way these characters react to a situation, not the situation itself that's important.

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I agree with johnwitts. In the end, all the special effects in the world will not make up for a boring story or uninteresting characters. There aren't even any "aliens" in the Firefly series. Moments like Jayne's plea to Mal not to tell the others what he's done after he blows him out of the airlock (in Ariel) or Wash's hard won understanding of Zoe's loyalty to Mal (in War Stories) are what character development is all about.
I can't wait for the movie.

Well said, well said indeed. I think it is possible to measure the decline of Star Trek by the death of such character interaction. Firefly was primarily a character interaction show (which may be why Fox didn't like it). Buffy was the same; the dynamic was the interaction between the characters (incidently BTVS is well-regarded enough that there is now a strategic principle called the Buffy Paradigm in her honor).

Stargate SG1 has the same interaction; series VII has been less of a draw than its predecessors because that element has been reduced.

By the way, I have heard on the grapevine that UPN is making noises about buying Firefly to replace Enterprise (which is very close to cancellation if not already axed). I'm told that one of the reasons for the delay of the Firefly film was the need to rewrite it so it became a bridge to a new series.

If that is true it is indeed good news. Stuart has never given me reason to doubt anything he says. The character development on Angel has followed the same paradigm. They have been at Wolfram and Hart for two seasons now, and it is slowly taking its toll on the characters. They are doing it in a subtle way which keeps it interesting.

I will like to see where they go with Firefly is we get it back.

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If this turns out to be true, it will be the Best News Ever.

I do have some difficulty believing UPN has that much sense and taste, however.

On the other hand, UPN has made a lot of money off of Joss.

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More Firefly would be worth losing Enterprise for. There, I've said it.

However, I'd much rather have both.

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Back in the Bad Old Days, CBS didn't pick up Star Trek because it already had a science fiction show. There's a pretty good chance that network executives haven't gotten any smarter in the meantime.

I think a bigger point in Firefly's favor is that Sci-Fi is no longer such an esoteric taste. I do not think too many networks would pass on a sci-fi series because they already have one.

I will take Firefly over Enterprise any day.

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I don't think it'll shock anybody to hear that I am in the "better Firefly than Enterprise" camp. Which is too bad, really -- the premise of Enterprise was excellent and could have led to a truly great show. I don't know, maybe they just got lazy, after milking that franchise for 40 years.

In addition to the character interplay, Firefly has a few other things going for it. The show has a story arc, so even though each episode stands on its own, the overall plot progresses through time. (Fox totally botched this by showing episodes out of order and skipping some altogether.) The characters and the society they live in have back stories, and there are mysteries to be revealed. The crew treads the fine line between legitimacy and criminality, which is where all the cool and dangerous types hang out. And this future is no golden age, yet neither is it a post-apocalytic hell -- which makes it more or less like any other epoch of history, and therefore quite believable. No STNG perfect society!

Then, add in the outstanding technical aspects (SFX, production design, musical score, acting talent), and you have... well, something that boggles the mind that Fox couldn't "get it".

Agreed. No contest, much as I wanted Enterprise to be really good.

And on a related note, there will also be a Farscape Miniseries to close out the cycle (Thank you!).

See here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387736/

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Firefly reminds me of the Anime Series Cowboy BEBOP

they also made a movie from it

http://www.sonypictures.com/cthe/cowboybebop/

they used to play it late at night on cartoon network during adult swim

Great Cartoon!!!

good movie too, I had the pleasure of seeing it in an actual theatre.[/url]

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