New Joss Interview 11/5 by dietcoke

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New Joss Interview 11/5

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Friday, November 5, 2004 1:54 PM

Here it is!

Serenity Jumps From TV

Joss Whedon, who wrote and directed the upcoming SF movie Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that it's been a challenge adapting his low-rated Fox TV series Firefly for the big screen. "It's incredibly hard, you know, building a story that doesn't repeat or contradict what we've already done, that satisfies the fans, and yet is really made for people who have never seen the show," Whedon said in an interview on the film's set at Universal Studios in Los Angeles last August. "[It's] incredibly tricky. There's pitfalls everywhere."

Serenity, set 500 years in the future, picks up the story of the intrepid crew of the Firefly-class transport ship Serenity. Fox canceled Firefly in the middle of its first season, but fan enthusiasm for the show and its subsequent DVD release persuaded Universal Pictures to green-light a movie adaptation. "It's the hardest story I've ever had to structure," Whedon said. But, he added, "once I get writing these people, it's the easiest thing in the world, because I know them so well. The other thing is, a TV show is built around slow development of character. A movie ... is built around momentum. They're very different things. So ... you have to let some things drop, and you have to speed some things up, and you have to sort of know which ones are which."

Serenity also marks longtime TV veteran Whedon's feature-film directorial debut. Whedon has been critical in the past about how his movie scripts for such films as Alien: Resurrection and the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie have been realized. "After Alien: Resurrection I said the next person who ruins one of my scripts is going to be me," he said, with tongue in cheek. "And I think I'm doing a fine job. Actually, I think that the director on occasion could use a little more imagination and the writer could have shut up occasionally. We fight, but we're still getting along better than I usually do."

Seriously, Whedon said, "It's been great. ... Unlike TV, I have the time to really explore what it is I'm doing and to go back and reassess every day. But the piece is so fluid, because it's a domino effect. Every time you shoot a scene, it affects 50 other scenes. It's not like you have eight days and you know exactly what you need, and you're out and you go on to the next one. It's constantly shifting. Hopefully not so much that it doesn't know where it's going." Serenity, which is in post-production, opens April 22, 2005. Universal Pictures is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.

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Friday, November 5, 2004 2:25 PM

ZOID

dietcoke:

Thanks so much for that. I am downright desperate for this story to continue.

The only thing that worries me: Whatever shall we do after the movie is released, we've seen it 6 times in the theatre, and bought the DVD(s)? Then we'll have another two years to wait for the next installment, right?

Firefly must return to TV, or else we shall all spontaneously combust.

(zoid begins chanting, burning incense, rubbing prayer beads, finding his center, and visualizing the F*x corporate jet flying into some "cumulus granitis"; replacement executives fully fund Firefly's return to TV and show Joss some respeck, muthafu... Om mani padme hum...)

Meditatively,

zoid

P.S.
No, I did not say, 'Medicatively'.

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Friday, November 5, 2004 6:20 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

very nice

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 2:11 AM

WHEDONESQUE

Thanks for posting that, DC.

I share your concerns about what will happen after the movie is out. I have been focused so intently on the movie that I am afraid that I will be somewhat lost after it finally arrives. We may have to starts some new service projects in the name of Joss Whedon or something to keep us focused and motivated...

We are a creative group. I'm sure that we can come up with some good stuff to keep us occupied.

We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty. Mal - Serenity

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Saturday, November 6, 2004 5:25 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

You beat me to it DietCoke. LOL

I share your concerns Zoid. I have wondered many times what will happen after we have all seen the movie multiple times and made it a success, what then? Sure we get the DVD by the fall, we watch it a dozen or so times, using it to recruit even more new people into our ranks. It is a long time to the next movie though. Two years is a long wait.

Guess we get to practice some more patience. It served us pretty well while we waited for the DVD set to be released, and are doing so now waiting for the BDM.

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"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

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