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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=33982

Whedon: No More Firefly

Firefly/Serenity creator Joss Whedon told USA Today that he still hopes to tell more stories set in the futuristic universe, but added that there's no chance he'll do another Firefly TV show. "We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone," Whedon told the newspaper before Christmas . "And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career."

Serenity, based on the canceled Fox TV show Firefly, hit theaters last September and has pulled in a disappointing $25.4 million domestically since opening Sept. 30, 2005. The movie is now available on DVD. "The best-case scenario is that the DVD is such a spectacular, monster hit that we get to make another movie," Whedon said. "Then we get to make another movie. After three movies, we're all very tired. After Serenity: Revolutions, we feel like we've played it out. And then we make another series."

Whedon is currently writing the script for Wonder Woman, which he is slated to direct once Warner Brothers signs off.

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Originally posted by BWare42:
I read that Firefly never actually happened.

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I read that Firefly never actually happened.

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Browncoats around the world cried out in despair when, due to an underwhelming performance at the box office, Joss Whedon announced that the saga of Serenity had ended. No sequels, no follow-ups, no hope. But Whedon isn't a man to let his brain-child die; the man's already resuscitated the franchise once and there's still hope for a third coming.

"A sequel's unlikely," Whedon told Empire with a note of clear regret, "but it's amazing what permutations of something can happen." But if not a theatrical encore, that leaves... yes, you guessed it, a possible return to the smaller screen. "As long as I was able to service the characters with integrity and had enough money so that I wasn't hampered, then I would love to return Serenity to TV. I love that universe; it continues and those characters live on. There could be a series, there could be a miniseries, there could be all sorts of things. I'm not ruling anything out. I'll let it simmer for a while and see if anyone calls."

As for why the film failed to rake in the cash despite uniformly glowing reviews, according to Whedon it's all in the presentation. "It's a question of marketing ultimately. The fact that I like to dance around genres with gay abandon has worked to my disadvantage. Nobody knows exactly how to market anything I do because it usually has so much in it. It has a diffuseness because of it's origin that keeps it from being the easy sell. Some people also said that you can't call an action movie 'Serenity' but I think that's still okay. What was I going to call it? 'Big Smash Bang With Boobies'? Which was, of course my second choice."

DVD sales should, however, put Serenity back in the black and when the bucks start rolling in we can only hope that one of the suits at Universal looks at the numbers, adds the success of the Firefly DVD box set and greenlights a return for Captain Reynolds and his crew. Until that time we advise Whedon to keep his phone switched on.

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I read that Firefly never actually happened.

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I read that Firefly never actually happened.

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i also heard rumors that Joss Whedon is a fictional person; someone studio made him up to sell tv shows.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Actually I thought TNG improved quite a bit after Gene's departure. Doesn't mean he wasn't a genius but...

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Originally posted by SimonWho:
Actually I thought TNG improved quite a bit after Gene's departure. Doesn't mean he wasn't a genius but...

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Personally, other than the original series, I probably liked "Voyager" the best of the lot. And "Voyager" came years after Roddenberry's death.

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Originally posted by Cartoon:
Even though "Firefly" was Joss's brainchild, it can go on (dare I say it?) without Joss...

"Star Trek" survived Roddenberry. "Firefly" could likewise survive without Joss's input.

(I'm not sure, but he didn't even write a majority of the episodes, did he? Off hand, does anyone know how many episodes he actually wrote?)

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