Serenity not a space western? by chronicthehedgehog

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Serenity not a space western?

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UPDATED: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 16:22
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:35 AM

Just read an about.com article with Alan Tudyk who says the western feel is gone (or at least lessened) in the movie, because they're not going to be on the backwater moons very much. Do you think this means they're going to be spending their time in the core? Or it's mostly going to be taking place on the ship?

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:47 AM

PURPLEBELLY

Gosh darn it. Best make sure I've gotten backups of the DVDs. Poor lil' critters are gonner get plumb tuckered out.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:30 AM

ANOTHERFIREFLYFAN

Link please?

Keep flying

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:35 AM

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

http://actionadventure.about.com/od/news/a/aa071404.htm

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 5:36 AM

PURPLEBELLY

edited out overlap with above reply

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:15 AM

ZOID

Calling All Browncoats!

According to the interview available at the link above, we've got a three picture deal, dependent solely on how well the first does at the box office.

Well that simplifies things, doesn't it? All we need to do is ensure it makes enough money! I believe a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" routine (for those old enough to properly recall the phenomenon) should do the trick nicely, if all else fails. Since many of the posters here have claimed advanced decrepitude, equal to or greater than my own 46 years, and a willingness to appear in public in costumes, this seems like a natural.

Now all we need is appropriate 'props': Apples? Strawberries? Bibles? Whetstones? ("Would you please not do that while we're... Ever?") Canned goods that enter the theater with labels and exit without them?

Warpedly,

zoid
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:59 AM

TIGER

I noticed in the picture of Jayne on the mule posted by DustyBottoms at the official site, that Jayne wasn't holding one of his western-retro-LeMat-python revolvers, but a decidedly 'newer' looking gun.

Does this mean Mal will get a new gun?! No more chopped lever action for Zoe? I know it's a minor detail but...I really hope not.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:19 AM

KOZURE

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

Calling All Browncoats!

According to the interview available at the link above, we've got a three picture deal, dependent solely on how well the first does at the box office.

Well that simplifies things, doesn't it? All we need to do is ensure it makes enough money! I believe a "Rocky Horror Picture Show" routine (for those old enough to properly recall the phenomenon) should do the trick nicely, if all else fails. Since many of the posters here have claimed advanced decrepitude, equal to or greater than my own 46 years, and a willingness to appear in public in costumes, this seems like a natural.

Now all we need is appropriate 'props': Apples? Strawberries? Bibles? Whetstones? ("Would you please not do that while we're... Ever?") Canned goods that enter the theater with labels and exit without them?

Not to burst your bubble, Zoid, but the "three-picture deal" probably refers to a contract that Alan has with the studio, not a deal for three Firefly-based movies, as nice as that sounds.

Kozure the Kamikaze Highlander

Proud Citizen of Canada-That-Was

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:38 PM

KURUKAMI

Actually, from all the reports I've heard (including, I believe, the transcript of Jewel Staite's dialogue at a recent convention that is squirrelled away somewhere on this site), it is a three-picture Firefly deal assuming the first one does well financially.

As for props and costumes... well, I know I'll be turning up in my dark business suit, white shirt, dark tie, and blue latex surgical gloves. (As a side note, they're quite inexpensive out on the web -- $10 for a hundred pairs or something like that -- you just have to search a bit to find the right color.)

"Sir, I would like to gingerly point out that it is difficult for someone to be gently reassuring when they're holding three and a half feet of sharpened steel."

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:05 PM

TRASK43

Im pretty sure Alan meant a 3 year deal for Serenity movies. It makes good business sense too, if the film does well universal are going to want the actors to be tied down for a sequel.

Its a shame that we are going to lose the western feel but Universal probably felt that it might have been a hard sell for cinema goers. I just hope that if a sequel gets made we see western elements incorporated again.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:18 PM

FORRESTWOLF

No, no, say it ain't so...I'll attend and enjoy the movie, but I'll be seriously grieving for the loss of the 'real' Firefly again if it's not at least somewhat Western.

Perhaps I should (and we could) clarify what we'd need to see to satisfy the 'western' fan requirements for Serenity...For me, I'd need either:

1) sufficiently convincing landscapes - we're talking dry sagebrush, plateaus, etc.
2) one great little Western town - I want a saloon, a general store, a wooden porch at least, for gorram sake, one of those.
or
3) horses. Come'on. There have GOT to be horses in the movie. Or maybe cows.

How 'bout y'all?

Forrestwolf, feeling his Oklahoma roots :)

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:32 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Quote:
Originally posted by Forrestwolf:
There have GOT to be horses in the movie. Or maybe cows.

Would you settle for beagles with their smallish droppings?

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:01 PM

LTNOWIS

No, according to Alan the Western worlds will still be there, just not a lot in this movie. I'm more worried about the fact that he says the bridge is different and the ship hallways wider.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 4:22 PM

FORRESTWOLF

When I just read the interview, there was a rather ironic ad for a Fox sitcom called Quintuplets. Grrr....arrr...

- FW

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