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The first ten or so pages of Serenity are a lesson in graceful screenwriting – Whedon manages to set up more or less the entire Firefly universe, from Earth-That-Was to the Reavers to the War for Unification to River and Simon and right on down to the ubiquity of the Chinese language all in a concise, folding-flashback format that should prove intriguing to new viewers even as it offers faithful fans of the series some expanded information that hasn’t been explicitly covered before.

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Originally posted by gojiro:
That said, scripts change daily during shooting, so what this lil' lady was reviewing may not be what ends up on screen.gojiro

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Originally posted by gojiro:
A page of screenplay roughly equals a minute of screen time, so it sounds like the first ten minutes is flashback. That's pretty daring, and is usually a huge no-no (flashbacks of any kind are usually huge no-nos in a movie)

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Originally posted by TheGreyJedi:
But in Firefly, we've seen Joss do many "no-nos" like fade to black, zooms and close-ups, and the like. I don't think Joss is afraid to use "cliches" because they've been avoided so long, they're almost new.

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