Hope for Firefly?

[WayneLigon]

From Salon, 5/20/03, interview with Joss Whedon.

What's next on the agenda for you? You made an allusion to the demise of "Firefly" being only temporary.

I have hopes that there may be another venue for "Firefly," although I don't have any proof yet. But I've been fighting to find a place to do a version of that because I like the story so well and the actors so well.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Frickin' YEAH!

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Hope. The source of out biggest weakness as well as our biggest strength,

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Well over on SciFiWire (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-05/20/11.45.tv): They talked about this a little:

Firefly Film, DVDs Due?

Nathan Fillion, star of Fox's defunct SF western series Firefly, told SCI FI Wire that the show could rise again, as both a movie and as a DVD set. "Right now, our hopes and dreams are pinned on a Firefly movie, which TV can't cancel us out of," Fillion said in an interview at the May 18 Saturn Awards, where he was honored with Cinescape's Face of the Future Award. "We're talking silver screen, wide release, big old deal. So everything's looking very positive, so we're going to keep our fingers crossed."

Series creator Joss Whedon would write and direct the movie, Fillion added.

Meanwhile, Fillion—who played Capt. Mal Reynolds—said that he is completing audio commentaries for a complete DVD set of the Fox series' 15 produced episodes, including three that never aired. "I just finished commentary with Alan Tudyk [Wash] on 'War Stories,' an episode where he and I got tortured. ... And then, Monday, I go in to do audio commentary with Joss Whedon for 'Serenity,' the two-hour pilot."

The DVD will also include on-camera interviews and maybe even some of Fillion's own behind-the-scenes home video and photos. As for the unaired episodes, Fillion said, "My naked ass is in them. In the very last episode. I'll let you know that much. They called me Capt. Tight Pants for some time. And now it's going to be Capt. No Pants for sure." Fillion did not know when the DVD set would come out.