Disney Plus could be rebooting Firefly

[Aeson]

Disney Plus Reportedly Rebooting Joss Whedon's Firefly

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Is this a good idea?

 

[Aeson]

Give me a good one for no.

 

[Umbran]

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.

 

[aco175]

There are no more original stories in Hollywood (Disney), but I would like to have something like the original.

 

[Aeson]

I would like to see that universe expanded. I think it would be a mistake to start over. Once River's past, and how the Reavers came to be were revealed, it would be hard to put them back in the box. It would have to pick up after Serenity, and deal with the aftermath.

 

[Khelon Testudo]

Yeah... nah.
It's time has come and gone.

Is there room for another sf series about a group of witty nomadic mercenary ne'er-do-wells and their ship? Sure! But not this one. Firefly is done.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Please do not take this in any way as a judgment of Firefly, but to the eyes of corporate suits it has to just look like off-brand Star Wars (and honestly, I love it, but it really is in most ways that matter). I don't see how Disney ends up making it.

They own the leading brand franchise, so I don't see how major investment in the off-brand make sense to media conglomerate brains. If Star Wars shows are doing well and they receive a Firefly pitch then it will probably become a Star Wars show about a crew of lovable misfits trucking around between planets on a funky and cobbled together but somehow exceptionally high performance ship, on the run from authorities and having various episodic Sci-Fi adventures. A lot of Star Wars is like that, and that is where Joss Whedon got the damned idea in the first place. He developed it more than any Star Wars media ever did, and is a strong writer in a way George Lucas certainly never was with a level of authorial control that most the non-Lucases helming Star Wars media have not had, but core concept-wise Firefly is the "Millennium Falcon in the old west" and for those not invested in the Firefly universe's lore the same stories mostly fit the galaxy far far away.

If Star Wars shows do poorly and they get a Firefly pitch then Disney executives will just assume that audiences have lost interest in all things Star Wars like and not make it for that reason. because that is how megacorporate media conglomerate brains think.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

As much as I like Nathan Fillion, even he could not make Firefly watchable for me, so maybe a better version from Disney would be a good thing. Plus it would give those weird Star Wars haters some sci-fi to watch on Disney+.

 

[Ulfgeir]

Depends on how it is done.

I would have loved seeing more of the original cast do more seasons. They had wonderful chemistry, and so much to explore. Remake with the same characters, probably not a good idea. Of course they could do some kind of series that take place between the tv-series and the film. That would work if handled well. Or go with what happens after the film.

Otherwise, they probably need to do new orignial characters , that do something similar. Might be set at the same time as the others, and let the original characters just be peripherially present. As in you hear rumours of what they have done, or they show up for a scene in the background etc.

 

[ccs]

I'm going to go with NO, it's not a good idea.
But things not being a good idea isn't often a deterrent in the entertainment industry....