Serenity Sneak Preview
Jason Kuznicki on Sep 24th 2005
On Monday I will be attending a sneak preview of the upcoming film Serenity. In return, the film’s promoters have asked me (understandably) to say a few words about their product.
Honestly, I’d have been promoting this movie even without the sneak preview, which will make Scott and I the envy of our friends for almost an entire week–The main release isn’t until the 30th.
Serenity is based on the TV series Firefly, which is to me pretty much the best television ever created. The Serenity promo team has this to say about the upcoming film:
Joss Whedon, the Oscar® - and Emmy - nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family –squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.
The blurb really doesn’t do the series justice: Its challenging, thought-provoking plots recall the very best of the great novelists; if Charles Dickens or Victor Hugo wrote action-packed science fiction, the results might look something like Firefly. It’s mass media for the thinking person, which, I hate to say it, might be one reason the show got canceled–It was just far too good for the boob tube. Let’s hope it meets with the success that it deserves on the big screen.
Lastly, here’s a jpeg of the movie poster:
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I’m jealous! I watch Firefly every Friday night and I’m jealous you get to watch this before me!!!! Why not me?!?! (pouts!)
Make me as another one amoung the insanely jealous.
Concerning the reasons Firefly got cancelled: While you may have a point about it being to intelecutal for most people, something has to be said about the absoultely pathetic effort FOX put into promoting the show. First, they aired all the episodes out of order, making it almost impossible for viewers to get introduced to and involved withi the characters. Secondly, they put almost no effort into advertising. They clearly had no faith in the show in the first place. Had they trusted Joss (and one wonders what strange drug they were taking to make them NOT trust a man behind two of the most popular shows on television), Firefly might still be airing today.
I still hold hopes that the inevitable success of Serenity will make FOX consider bring back the show.
One last thing I just stumbled accross: we have a friend.
http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2005/09/serenity.html
I found his site via his guest blogging at theagitator (and if you’re not reading that site, you should be). Obviously, finding people that think Firefly is one of the best things to happen to TV in forever is like shooting dead fish floating at the top of the barrel, but I thought I’d share anyway.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to continue work on my time machine. Since I can’t wait until the 30th and I’m not as lucky as Jason or Scot, I feel I have no other choice. The space/time continuum be damned!
(also, anyone else going to pre-order opening night tickets at the Uptown?)