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Friday, January 16, 2004

Today was quite a dreary day...

Okay... Backup a sec... I live in San Francisco, and my day job takes me out to Alcatraz Island daily. And if you think it sounds kinda cool, your kinda right. I get to go to a very notorious place every day, I have full run of the island, and it's a great work environment. Except... It's not. It's a former prison. It's dreary, it's bleak and when you are isolated on an island 8-10 hours a day you start to go a little nuts. (I can only imagine what Capone, The Birdman and the likes felt...)

Anyway...

I did a little re-write on the Firefly: Orpheus pilot again today. Trying to solidify a few relationships and punch up the action.

Say what you will about FOX for canceling a slam bang show, but the truth of the matter is - you need a little action. I'm not saying that Firefly didn;t have enough action, in fact I found the balance of character development, dialogue and action to be near perfect. But I can see why the "suits" thought action was an important selling tool. As I re-read my pilot script I realize more and more how I need to rearrange, punch up the action and balance it out with how I develop the relationships between the characters.

So I leave you with this tidbit. "Firefly: Orpheus" will follow the crew of the Firefly vessel Orpheus. They are led by a con man, hustler and gambler named Jonah Boone.

And as for the name, as I've had a few comments not sure about the sound of "Orpheus", I struggled, worried it would bring Keanu Reeves in leather to mind - but decided that because of the theme of the show "Orpheus" was exactly what I wanted to convey.

First person to post the theme and it's relationship to the name "Orpheus" gets a cookie.

And bonus cookies for those who post the relationship to the Joss' established verse that "Orpheus" has.

More to come...

Now I'm home, I'm tired, I played a little party poker while I wait for a new animation test to finish rendering, but I thought I'd post an image of the new textures on the Orpheus. Once again, props to fireflyfan.net user Biotech for the suberb model.

http://fof-films.com/EasterEggs/fireflyrender

Give me a shout out and let me know what you think of the tease.

COMMENTS

Saturday, January 17, 2004 1:58 PM

FOFFILMS


Not bad there Saint Jayne! I'll eat your cookies for you.

Saturday, January 17, 2004 1:37 PM

SAINT JAYNE


No thanks on the cookies. I'm still shedding awful Christmas pounds.

It sounds like you're an honourary prisoner, FOFfilm!

BTW, anyone that confuses Orpheus with Morpheus needs to study their Greek mythology. Now go get your wife out of Hell.


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