The Firefly Movie: Serenity Thread (September 30, 2005! The Big Damn Movie Is Out!)

[ShotgunSteven]

The original thread I started about the movie was archived, and can be read HERE.

The trailer is a QuickTime exclusive, and can be found HERE.

Serenity Trailer 2

Site Links:

Serenity: The Official Movie Site

FireFlyFans.Net

An e-mail Joss sent out to the people signed up at the official movie site:

Hey guys.

I'm here on the official site, so that can only mean one thing: somebody finally told me my password! (Again.) It probably also means that I have some big-ass announcement or other. Well tops on the announcement list is this: after months of intensive yoga, i can finally touch my toes! (They feel round and bunion-y.)

But there's more! I'm talkin' movie news, peeps, so no more drumroll: Trailer. Serenity. Tuesday.

Yeah, kids, the haps is hap'nin', and it runs thus: EXCLUSIVELY on Apple movie trailers (and linked through this site as well of course) will be a small, medium, large or FULLSCREEN trailer for Serenity the major motion movie. Yeah, THE trailer. And the following Friday said trailer hits theaters. Which theaters? Until I get confirmation you'll have to guess, but I'm betting you can.

Now, here's a word of warning: this trailer ain't shy. If you're looking to live totally spoiler-free, know that there's plenty of key dialogue and images running through this bad boy. It's pretty tasty, though, and it doesn't give everything away. But close scrutiny will definitely learn you much of what's to come. (Anakin TOTALLY goes evil.) It's a nice piece to while away the time till September, and hopefully should intrigue th' peeps that don't have coats of brown.

The only thing more exciting than y'all finally seeing this was showing it to Nathan. Like a schoolboy giggled he.

Bye-ee!

Joss "You can't take my toes from me" Whedon.

I wish the movie would have been released in April as originally planned, but they said that there were too many other movies catering to the same demographic being released in that time period.

UPDATE: April 28, 2005

Joss sent out another e-mail. It seems that there is going to be an advance (way in advance) screening. Next month in fact. Here is the e-mail, sent to members of the official movie site.

Hey Browncoats-



Joss has some special news for you posted on the message boards.



http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/ser...ml?fuseaction=forum.viewtopic&t=10362s.



Well.

It gets better.

As thus: The movie is very nearly finished. You've seen many pretty images in the trailer. But I've still got work to do and you've still got months before you can see it.

Unless.

And, no, I'm not talking Australia (but Hi, Australia! anyway), I'm talking here in the more-or-less-United States, a one time multi-city Browncoat sneak event. Thursday, May 5th at 10:00 pm, the movie (Serenity! Pay attention! Jeez.) will be playing at exactly 10 theaters in 10 cities across the country. You (or possibly someone much like you) (or possibly a robot EXACTLY like you, but with better manners and sonic arm-lasers, sent to take your place) will be able to buy a ticket to see Serenity months in advance. Not just the bitty trailer with not enough Kaylee and Book, but the whole film, in its extremely almost completed state.

You probably have some questions. How is this possible? What cities exactly will it be in? What are these changes my body is going through? All valid. It's possible because some clown put a bunch of Universal execs in a theater full of Browncoats and dude, they came out SWEATING, they never seen energy like that. They loved it, and even though they were already wicked supportive of the movie (see: earlier posts re: we're making the movie) they simply weren't ready for you guys. When I whinged on about pushing the date and everyone here was posting about "what do we do till September", they agreed to let me sneak it out.

Maybe they thought it was a fluke. Maybe they wanna see if people really do care about the flick. Or maybe they're just treating us with respect and kindness, though that last option confuses and terrifies me as much as these changes my body is going through (I'm "perspiring" and becoming "interested in girls", which believe me is very unsettling when you're 40.) Does it matter? The plan works for me, and it can work for a select bunch of y'all. Here's what I know:

The cities to be hit are:

Seattle
Austin
Sacramento
Boston
Altanta
Chicago
San Francisco
Las Vegas
Denver
The Portland of Oregon

If you're in or near one of those, you might wanna stop by. There's supposed to be a "Can't Stop the Signal" page on this website (I don't know where it is -- hey, I remembered my damn password, doesn't that buy me any cred?) There should be more info there soon about how to get in, bringing peeps into the fold, I think there's even competetions and stuff. (All I know is I have exactly 20 Brownie points. I answered ONE triv Q and got it wrong. Forget cred. I have no cred.) Now a couple of us might just creep into one of those major metropolitan multiplexes to see if anyone does show up, so remember: swearing in Chinese ONLY.

All right. This will please the fans and satisfy the employers of Joss Whedon, so I must stop as my arm-lasers are getting tired. I politely thank you for your attention.

Should be fun.

-j.
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In case any of you have been asleep for the past few days the Serenity trailer is out on apple.com! Check it out here



http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/

UPDATE 5/12/2005: Another showing on May 26, 2005 at 10:00 P.M., this time in twenty cities. Damn you Joss Whedon, have them show it in Alaska!

Official pre-screening site: Can't Stop The Signal

UPDATE 7/30/05: New trailer! Serenity Trailer 2

UPDATE 9/28/05: New interview with Joss Whedon!

Comments by Scott Kurtz, creator of PvP Online, who saw an advanced screening. Spoiler free.

Scott Kurtz:

I was invited last minute to sneak into an advance screening of Serenity. The wife and I slipped away after work and crammed into a packed theatre to see the movie a couple days ahead of its release. Friends and family who now want to kill me for seeing it without them...relax. I'll be seeing it again with you soon enough. Angela and I couldn't resist.

This mini-review will contain no spoilers. I really don't want to discuss the movie in detail at all. What I do want to do is thank Joss Whedon for creating a truly wonderful television series and following it up with a spectacular movie.

Serenity reminds you why the 1977 release of Star Wars captured your imagination in the first place and truly cements how stiff and boring the prequel movies truly are.

Fans of the series will not be disapointed. I can't separate myself from my love for these characters, so I can't venture a guess how people going into this movie cold will react to it.

So far, everyone I know who has seen it and NOT watched the television show have loved it. There's a lot to love.

Thanks Joss!

 

[Anonemous]

never watched FF, I guess I should one of these days...

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Anonemous
never watched FF, I guess I should one of these days...

If you like science-fiction, you definitely should. Hell, my sister loved it and she is not even a science-fiction buff.

 

[userman]

WOOTAGE!!!

if its like the Tv shows it will rock!!

I cant wait!!!

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

* marked for later.

The show was interesting enough. Joss has done some great directing/writing, so I'll check this out when I get home.

 

[userman]

Ok watched the trailer, Looks very good, the only thing missing was the music. No banjo

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: userman
Ok watched the trailer, Looks very good, the only thing missing was the music. No banjo

I suspect that the movie will have the classic Firefly music. Movie trailers seldom have the music from the actual movies in them. In fact, a lot of trailers use music from other movies, or just grab some classical piece they won't have to pay for the rights to.

 

[nakedfrog]

Hm... might be worth checking out. Watched a couple episodes, it was alright.

 

[whistleclient]

joss whedon lives on my street. i saw him once at a coffee shop but i didn't want to bug him. i'm psyched about the movie.

 

[silent tone]

Shiny

 

[Kadarin]

Looks good! But I didn't like the fact that the trailer cut scenes too abruptly and too quickly. It felt like I had ADD.

 

[huesmann]

Excellent!

Astaroth33, all movie trailers are like that today. It's to appeal to today's MTV music-video-watching generation (not that MTV shows videos anymore!).

 

[CtK]

Very Nice.
FF was an excellent series stupid ass FOX!!

oh and River is hot in that fight sequence!!

 

[cerebusPu]

sweetness. I'll have to rent the dvds before the movie

 

[Queasy]

Who was the big space battle between? Looked like Alliance and Reavers?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Who was the big space battle between? Looked like Alliance and Reavers?

That would be my guess, unless it is Alliance versus some of the corporations, like Blue Sun.

A less likely explanation could be that Malcom Reynolds scrounged up some remnant of the Browncoats and some ships and decided to go toe-to-toe with the Alliance.

 

[AaronB]

I'm not up for doing a lot of research so I'll just ask the dumb questions here.

How many seasons did Firefly run for?

Is this sort of a Farscape type thing where the series was canceled before it's time and they are tying up the loose ends with a movie?

Are there any plans to bring the series back in any fashion after the movie?

BTW, oddly enough I saw the pilot and one or two episodes and didn't get into the series but the movie looks pretty good.

 

[geecee]

Originally posted by: AaronB
I'm not up for doing a lot of research so I'll just ask the dumb questions here.

How many seasons did Firefly run for?

Is this sort of a Farscape type thing where the series was canceled before it's time and they are tying up the loose ends with a movie?

Are there any plans to bring the series back in any fashion after the movie?

BTW, oddly enough I saw the pilot and one or two episodes and didn't get into the series but the movie looks pretty good.

Didn't even last a season, sadly. It was a very good show.
EDIT: There were 14 total episodes, I believe. Not all aired though. They're out on DVD if you're curious.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: AaronB
I'm not up for doing a lot of research so I'll just ask the dumb questions here.

How many seasons did Firefly run for?

Is this sort of a Farscape type thing where the series was canceled before it's time and they are tying up the loose ends with a movie?

Are there any plans to bring the series back in any fashion after the movie?

BTW, oddly enough I saw the pilot and one or two episodes and didn't get into the series but the movie looks pretty good.

Fourteen episodes. Fox skipped the two hour pilot, and started off showing the second episode as the pilot. People had no idea who the characters were, nor what was going on. They continued to show episodes out of order, trying to hook the audience with the most action packed episodes and instead screwing everything up in typical Fox fashion.

The movie is the first of what will be a trilogy, provided the first one does well. Until the movie contract is completed or changed, Firefly cannot return to television, though I can see Whedon doing a spin-off covering the war between the Alliance and the Browncoats.

 

[Praetor]

Just picked up the series box set and watched the pilot for the first time. AWESOME!

I'm off tomorrow, so I know what I'm doing all day.

 

[OulOat]

You can't stop the signal

WTF. BTW, huge ff fan, hope it comes back.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Updated with news of the advance screening, see the original post.

 

[Queasy]

All advance screenings are already sold out. Damn.

 

[K1052]

Hmmm...I wonder if I can get into the trade screening of this.

 

[silent tone]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: AaronB
I'm not up for doing a lot of research so I'll just ask the dumb questions here.

How many seasons did Firefly run for?

Is this sort of a Farscape type thing where the series was canceled before it's time and they are tying up the loose ends with a movie?

Are there any plans to bring the series back in any fashion after the movie?

BTW, oddly enough I saw the pilot and one or two episodes and didn't get into the series but the movie looks pretty good.

Fourteen episodes. Fox skipped the two hour pilot, and started off showing the second episode as the pilot. People had no idea who the characters were, nor what was going on. They continued to show episodes out of order, trying to hook the audience with the most action packed episodes and instead screwing everything up in typical Fox fashion.

The movie is the first of what will be a trilogy, provided the first one does well. Until the movie contract is completed or changed, Firefly cannot return to television, though I can see Whedon doing a spin-off covering the war between the Alliance and the Browncoats.

Yeah, the last 3 episodes weren't aired. Fox's scheduling of the show demonstrated they almost wanted to kill it. It aired on friday nights. After the "second" episode they preempted it with baseball playoffs for a month. Then continued to show episodes out of order, preempted it more, finally replacing it with a Fast and The Furious type cop show with lesbians and Bill Bellamy. Firefly still got better ratings than the first seasons of the xfiles or the simpsons.