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[XC]

Originalartikeln

12:00 AM, 16-SEPTEMBER-05
Film: Serenity Cast Signed For Sequels

Most of the cast of the upcoming SF movie Serenity told SCI FI Wire that they have signed on for two more movies if the film version of Joss Whedon's canceled Fox TV series Firefly is a hit. They include Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, Sean Maher, Jewel Staite, Gina Torres and Morena Baccarin. Star Nathan Fillion wouldn't say whether he's signed for more films, but writer/director Whedon said that the entire cast would likely return if a sequel is warranted.

As for his ideas for the sequel, Whedon said he was focused only on completing the first movie. "It's very sweet to mention the word sequel," Whedon said in a press conference in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Obviously that's the way my brain works. It continues to tell stories. ... So it's inevitable for me that I do that, and of course I love this universe. I love these people, and I would jump at the chance to do it again. But I couldn't think about that while I was making it, because, ultimately, you have to make [the first one]. ... It's a trilogy if you make two that are so good there's a third. ... Now that I've finished it, ... I think about it all the time. But it don't tell anybody that. Except just now."

Serenity picks up the story of the ragtag crew of a transport ship 400 years in the future as it tries to avoid a menacing central galactic government intent on capturing a fugitive aboard the ship. Whedon said it was a challenge adapting the TV show for the big screen.

"Well, ultimately, you know, that's certainly the hardest job I ever had" Whedon said. "It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down. You know, opening it up in the sense of: We need a giant, epic story that is not the kind of thing these people usually get involved in in a TV series, which is more mundane. You need a reason for this to be a movie. ... The closing comes in making sure that it is accessible to everybody: that you explain everybody as much as you need to, that you explain the world as much as you need to, that you begin and you end, that you have an arc for the character, as well as a plot that has a question and then an answer."

Whedon added: "I've actually said once or twice that the difference between TV and movies is that TV shows are a question, and movies are an answer. And so in this we had to have a definitive statement about freedom and humanity and what we need and what we should be allowed to have as people, which is all our flaws. And then I answer that. I make a definitive statement. I put a period or, hopefully, an exclamation point on that, as opposed to just sort of pursuing the question for years, which is what a TV show would do." Serenity opens Sept. 30. 

[Sötnosen]

Woohoo!! Det är väl bra... eller?

[XC]

Det är ju helt beroende på hur första filmen funkar. Floppar filmen så betvivlar jag att producenterna tänker skjuta till pengar till ytterligare en (eller två) filmer. De har helt enkelt förevisat sig om att inga skådespelare försvinner innan de vet när/var/hur.

Men visst: Är filmen bra så är det ju bra, och om filmen avslutas med en cliffhanger så är det ju i det närmsta ett måste med en uppföljare.

[Marie Morot]

Han har sagt i en annan intervju att filmen är gjord som om den vore en säsong två av Firefly i komprimerad form. Så visst finns det potential att utveckla karaktärer och 'verse ytterligare ...

[Kermit]

Potential? Självklart. Absolut.

Ekonomi/tillfälle? Det vet man ju inte...

[foke]

Ganska väntat att Firefly skulle få planerade uppföljare innan den ens släppts. Men som sagt, det beror ju på hur lyckad den första filmen blir och innan jag vet det är jag inte ens säker på om jag vill ha några uppföljare.

[Forever Xena]

Hoppas den blir av eller att de fortsätter med en säsong 2 och och 4 och 5 och .........

[Sötnosen]

Hoppas den blir av eller att de fortsätter med en säsong 2 och och 4 och 5 och .........

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Amen till det!! Jag har blivit helt besatt av serien och längtar efter något mer att se på. Annars blir min DVD box utsliten...

[XC]

Moviehole.net - Serenity 2 A New Hope?

I love “Firefly” – so much so every time I’d see it I’d squeeze its cheeks, bring it in closer and share saliva with it. It’s a show that had the danglers to say “screw you! We’re not going anywhere!” despite the fact the network yanked it after 12 episodes. And then, just when it looked like it was done, it remerged as a full-length mother-hoppin’ movie – and by golly if it didn’t bring a lump to George Lucas’s throat.

When Alan Tudyk told me on the phone this morning that a sequel to “Serenity” – that’s the name of the “Firefly” movie for those who’ve been up at Guantanamo Bay for the past couple of years – could be happening I just about dropped the phone (I didn’t though, because the last time I did that it landed in the loo. Fried itself. And as a consequence, I lost all my numbers.) Tudyk says the newly-released “Serenity : Special Edition“ DVD has been selling so hot, that there’s talk in doing another movie.

“They had to put [the new DVD] out because they’ve been selling out of the other one and so Universal’s like ‘So, let’s do another one’. And now… there’s now a chance there’s going to be another movie”.

Tudyk agrees that even if it was a direct-to-DVD movie, it’d still be worthwhile. Especially since the whole DVD sequel is a big trend.

“It really is”, says Tudyk. “Everybody in the Firefly crew – and that includes the ones who died in the movie – are excited about the prospect of doing another”.

Nathan Fillion, says Tudyk, is especially keen. “We were out a couple of weeks ago together at a party and there was a bunch of people there, and he was like ‘Oh, look we’re Browncoats”.

Great to hear Fillion’s still as crazy as ever about wearing the Tightpants again.

Tudyk says he heard from creator Joss Whedon a few weeks back – but mainly about Tudyk’s role in the new Western “3:10 to Yuma”. “He sent me an email when it first came out because at first he thought I was a different character – by the trailer”, he laughs. “He was like ‘My god! You’re playing such a bad-ass!’ That was Ben Foster, who is such a bad-ass in that movie, and is just brilliant, just brilliant, and we both have a similar look – we both have polish genes – and anyway, Joss writes back ‘Sorry, I didn’t realise you were the sympathetic funny character – how would cast you as that?’. Joss, that would be you!”.

The actor, who appears in the new Frank Oz film “Death at a Funeral”, is absolutely blown-away by the life “Firefly” has had. He’s even headed downunder next week to appear at a science fiction convention. It amazes him even more that he got to do a feature film version of his 12-episode series. “That’s wild; you don’t see that happen until years later when it becomes a campy spoof of the thing. But even then, shows like Dukes of Hazzard and Starsky and Hutch were huge hits [from the beginning, and they didn’t do movies straight away] this was something that was a hit only with a group of people and it just grew.”

Likely to happen before a “Serenity” sequel though is an “I, Robot” sequel. Tudyk visited the set of Will Smith’s latest movie “I am Legend” to talk about the movie recently, and says he’d be super excited to play Sonny the robot again.

Yep, but what about Wash? Now that there’s the shizzle.

[Crusader]

Tja, det har ju alltid snackats om en uppföljare. Det hela hänger på Joss och hans gäng evighets projekt som han arbetar på. har har 10 bollar i luften på samma gång. Han är en sån som vill göra alla sina drömmar på samma gång.
Jag är rätt säker på att det blir en uppföljare men det kommer ta år innan det blir dags.

Men det här påminde mig om hur arg jag fortfarande är att vi i Europa inte fick Serenity: Special Edition. Nu är vi de enda i världen som inte har fått de extramatrialen.
Jag har fortfarande inte Serenity på DVD för jag har väntat på Serenity: Special Edition ända sedan filmen kom.

[Robert Jonsson]

Jag är nog lite mer pessimistisk. Joss har en sådan brinnande passion för det och senast Joss talade om det var han "game" för det. Han taladeo m just det här som nämndes, men sa att bolen ligger hos bolaget. Det är där som jag tvivlar det blir av.

[Rick Hunter]

Det är väl vara att hålla tummarna men även jag är något pessimistisk, tror att de bör göras snart eller aldrig.

[Aztecface]

Usch. Jag älskar serien men jag kunde inte med filmen.

[dukeofnewyork]

Först när jag läste Aztecface inlägg tänkte jag, e du go eller. Men sen insåg jag att jag faktiskt delvis håller med honom. Jag kan iofs med filmen, har den på DVD och så, men den när jag jämför serien med filmen, så känns filmen inte alls lika bra. Jag såg dock filmen först och sedd bara som en film utan att man som tittare har en relation till serien är den helt ok. Ingen världsomvävlande upplevelse, och sannerligen inte världens bästa sci-fi-film, men njutbar. Men serien är bara så bra, bra mycket bättre än filmen, och sedd i relation till serien är filmen både rätt tunn och faktiskt lite apart.