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Disney Plus Reportedly Rebooting Joss Whedon's Firefly
Disney Plus is reportedly in the early stages of developing a reboot of Joss Whedon's cult classic sci-fi Firefly.

Is this a good idea?
They are terribly unlikely to get anything like the chemistry of the original, which was its real selling point. So, I don't expect this to turn out well.
I mean...Disney is doing a ton of new shows in the Star Wars universe; a show about a mismatched group of ex-Rebellion avoiding the Empire/First Order in the Outer Rim couldn't work?
Is this a good idea?
Oh, I know. Since they can't reboot the cast, the only real reason to do a reboot is to maintain the general premise and the fictional universe, and I think the premise is more intriguing than the fictional universe. So why not just use the premise in the fictional universe they're already heavily invested in?Nobody is saying the premise doesn't work. We are saying that the premise isn't what led us to love Firefly in the first place.
So why not just use the premise in the fictional universe they're already heavily invested in?
That's why they shouldn't do a reboot of Firefly! To clarify, I don't see why Disney would do a reboot of an IP when they're already investing heavily in a more valuable IP that has a lot of conceptual overlap.Because telling people it is a reboot of Firefly, but then setting it in the Star Wars Universe would seriously cheese fans off? If you wanted to do this, you'd not speak of it in terms of directly ripping off another show, even if you owned that other show.
For those fans of Firefly- do you know how we got it? Because someone did something original. And every reboot is something that is not original.