Joss: No Serenity sequel on the way
If you’re holding your breath for a sequel to “Serenity,” you may want to exhale. According to Joss Whedon, the creator of the first film and the series it was based on “Firefly,” while he and the cast are ready and eager to make another installment, there aren’t any studios willing to take up the mantle of a second “Serenity” movie.
“The rumors are there because people really wish it would happen,” Whedon told MTV.
“There’s been no movement,” he said. “Those rumors are just rumors, and I don’t think they’re going to stop, no matter how many times I say, ‘No, it’s not happening.’ Because somebody will say, ‘He said yes. His eyes said yes. His nose said yes. There was a yes-iness about him.’ Because people want it.”
The latest rumor seems to stem from this year’s ComicCon. Star Summer Glau, when asked about what she’d like to see happen to her character River in future comic book installments, stated she was ready and willing to do a second feature. “Oh, I would love to go back and do another ‘Serenity’ movie,” she gushed.
“It’s just that I miss everyone,” she explained. “That experience for me was the best acting experience of my life. I had never really worked before, and we were truly like a family. It was an amazing and fun time for all of us. I feel so blessed that we got to do the film at all.” But, she added, “I feel at peace with it,” so if there weren’t another movie, she’d be OK.
While “Serenity” may not generate a sequel, fans can take some comfort that both “Firefly” and “Serenity” are scheduled to debut on Blu-Ray later this year. Also, with the success of the “Firefly” mini-series from Dark Horse comics, there is a good possibility Mal and the rest of the crew will have further adventures at a comic-shop near you.
I think my heart just broke. But at least we will still have the comic book.
Figures.
I guess the studios are too busy remaking Escape from New York and Land of the Lost.
I weep for the future.
While that’s not the news all of us Browncoats would like to hear it’s good that so many people still want it to happen.
For the sake of accuracy the Dark Horse comics are technically a ‘Serenity’ series not a ‘Firefly’ series.
Meanwhile at Skifies’ Evil Corporate Headquarters….
A man in a cheap business suit and a monocle says,
“Sure, we could pay a few million for the rights and set another series in a rich, diverse, exciting universe and get Joss to produce…”
“But then we couldn’t make Megasnake 2: Death of Sci-Fi, and fans would kill us!”
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‘Meanwhile at the Legion of Gnome…’
did you notice how many times Joss said ‘yes’ in that arcticle? I can’t wait for it to come out!
I died a little inside…
…and he said “Because people want it.”
As in “The sequel is coming. Because people want it.”
That’s clearly what he meant.
I love how there is no plans to make anything new, but the properties are good enough to pillage from on a new high def platform! I really don’t know if I can recommend to brown coats to spend their hard earned cash for the same old titles on a new platform, seems unfair!
I like Skiznot’s enthusiasm and optimism… all we can hope is that it does come true…
JAC… as much as I agree with your sentiment, maybe if there was a huge show of support the studios might see enough $$$ to sway their minds…
meanwhile, we’re pummeled with one lazy comic book adaptation after another, each one costing two or three times the budget needed for a serenity sequel. thus, the best sci-fi film of the last 5 or 10 years can’t get a sequel, but god forbid hollywood doesn’t blow 500million trying to perfect the f-ing incredible hulk, shoving some vapid doll like jessica alba down our throats in the craptastic four, or givng the wankowski brothers carte blanche in the hopes they’ll remove their heads from their respective asses and make another film worth watching.
major bummer.
While I’m not happy hearing this I’m not surprised either.
Is it really bad that even with this, I refuse to give up all hope? It’s taken years for franchise films to resurrect themselves ::cough:: Star Trek ::cough::. And really, this is nothing new from what has been said before: “We’d love to do it, but no studios are calling.”
This year will mark the three year anniversary of Serenity’s premiere. It’s only been three years. I have to believe that with the stars becoming bigger named actors, the continued re-release of both Firefly and Serenity to higher-def formats with new special features, and the continued growth of the Whedonverse community through events like Dr. Horrible and the upcoming Dollhouse, certainly someone somewhere will realize what this ‘verse could do if it were revived.
And yes, I’m deluded. But if I lose all hope in this, I think that’s it for humanity for me. Insert mocking comments here.
But the longer the time until the sequel, the more likely it is that the sequel will suck. Anybody remember “Star Trek, the Movie”? The actors mature, the writer moves on to other things, and the fans expect something impossible - the recreation of that wonderful experience of seeing that universe on the big screen for the first time.
Part of me really thinks we should leave Serenity in the perfect universe of “It might have been”. No disappointments. No recriminations. Just perfection.
And part of me is giggling, “Oh my God, Joss said ‘yes’ nine times in that paragraph! Gotta mean something is in the works!”
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I STILL WANT SEASON 2 OF FIREFLY!!!!!!!
Darn. I only just discovered Firefly and Serenity and I am totally hooked. Such awesome characters and a great story line. What a shame to waste it all by not having a follow up movie. Serenity rocks! Bring on the sequel, I say!
There has to be some way to put a Serenity sequel back on the corporate agenda. What needs to happen is an all at once upheaval of fans.
The cancellation of the show all those years ago allowed an immediate incentive, and the mass movement to support the show is what pushed through to a major motion picture. But now that there’s a less threatening issue to address, and it’s been three years of sort of assuming Serenity would be continued… fans are suffering a mixture of confusion and ennui.
There needs to be another uniform decision for all Browncoats to raise funds and post promotional essays and hold online meets and so on. This anniversary and the recent release of the special edition should be a perfect time. Another year and it may be too late to keep the continuity of the film in tact were a sequel to be delved into.
Fans, Browncoats, we did it before. Let’s do it again for Joss, and the cast and crew of Serenity!!!
I feel with NewZealandFan. I have also recently discovered Serenity and then Firefly serie. Is there any clinic for addicted Firefly fans
i’ve still never watched the last disc from the box set. I watch the others over and over, but I’m saving the last few episodes for “special occasion”. Nah, I really just like the thought that there’s still some stuff that’s new to me that I haven’t seen, lol.
I was a truck driver when the series aired so I missed it unfortunately , and didn’t know it existed untill one day in a video store I rented Serenity and fell in love with the movie then I watched the special features and learned of Firefly so I went to the nearest big video sales store and bought both Serenity and Firefly .
I own several series Starsky and Hutch, Magnam P.I., Terminator The Sarah Connor show, etc. etc. but of all these shows Firefly is the one I have watched the most. I have even hooked my friends on this show and movie.
How do WE THE FANS GET THIS MOVIE MADE!!!!!
Far out man. With all the crap Hollwood is churning out, you’d think someone would have the sense to fund a sequel that is pretty much guaranteed to have a great, funny dialog. The actors are great and there is actually a story to the movie. ARGGG it makes me so mad. I also saw the movie, got hooked & bought the Firefly series…seriously SHINY!!!!.
I still remember watching the trailer in a cinema back in 2005. I got hooked and waited for it to air. It’s either never aired or benn quickly taken down in the country I was in. I missed the big screen. I finally got the DVD some time later. Love it immediately and search for the series. It took me sometimes to finally found the series. What can I say, I love the series.
Though it’s unlikely to have season 2 or sequesl to Serenity in immediate future, I still hope, one day, it will happen. Just like Transformers movie, I wished it happen for my past 20 years.
I just started watching Firefly shortly after Serenity, The style of writing and way of story telling is so unbelievable. So complex and compelling that it makes you want to watch for the whole story. Fox studios even though they have the money, They really have the vision in great story telling. I’m proud of Summer Glau for moving on but seriously how many more times can they beat the Terminator story over and over again.
The Terminator was awesome the 2 sequels that followed were amazing too, but after we got the picture that the war was going to happen no matter what did they really need to make a series of TV shows of the in between time Terminator 2 & 3 let alone the lack of thought process because in the Third movie we find out John Conner resents his mother because she’s crazy and she doesn’t get killed by a robot buy by cancer. So therefore any logical idiot can figure out Sarah Conner is not going to die at the hands of a robot. Wasting more time and film on an inevitable conclusion in which most people already know.
They need a studio to pick Firefly up for more seasons, any studio except Fox. They’re more worried about the “Death, bullets and Explosions” than the actual story. They need a studio with heart and vision where as Fox likes the blow up and fart jokes. My prime time TV line up that i watch sadly doesn’t even involve Fox anymore because all the really good shows get canceled before their prime. Sci-Fi should pick them up it be the smart thing for them since its they’re type of series with its own large group of loyal followers, that and Flash Gordon the only good that came from that movie was the Queen song I fell asleep to that movie the first time i tried to suffer through it. It really didn’t need its own TV series.
Seriously think the Studios need to do the same thing as the US congress and that is, FLUSH DOWN those old dead turds and get some new blood in there of those people who still know how to DREAM and want to change the world for the better.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein, smart man with more vision then those studio executives with their Shiny New Gold plated helmets and upgraded from the short bus to a limo.
My personal quote, “How did all the stupid people come into power? Was I sleeping when they took over?”