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Joss Whedon announces the end of Firefly

livejournal.com — In this weeks Entertainment Weekly in the News and Notes section Joss Whedon announced some news: he has given up on the Firefly saga.

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  • szelij, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can we have a link to the original article...
  • Chexee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1found it here http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1141343_1_0_,00.html

    i'll resubmit with this article
  • fuerion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What happened to the made for tv movie on sci-fi? I thought I read a dugg article saying that was happening?
    http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/673/673102p1.html
  • kal-el, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0CS: What's going to happen with the "Serenity" franchise now? Are you just going to put it on the backburner?
    Whedon: Yeah, you know, that's pretty much it. It was hard to make and I'm very tired. I need some sleep, and then we'll see if people are interested in more, than I have more say.

    http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=12399
  • Chexee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0=/ hate to be repetative, so if you want the original article just click there
  • Chexee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0fuerion :

    "IGN FilmForce checked with Joss Whedon's camp who denied the claim; Universal did not comment."

    Unconfirmed. May have been a rumour
  • drathen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  • Chexee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1drathen : yeah, i almost felt like crying when i read it. firefly has found a pretty hardcore following, if i were Joss, I don't think I could bear to give it up.
  • t3rmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There has to be more. Firefly/Serenity is the best show I've seen in a long time. I REALLY REALLY hope there is more to come...
  • nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Maybe now the fans will shut up. I've never seen a worse group of sci-fi show fans. Burn your Brown Coats!
  • xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yea, i read that issue too, it's the end. time to move on to Wonder Woman!
  • ShadowMarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can't be true! Audience be damned, keep it going!
  • nate007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats too bad...
  • adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well he never had a problem handing off his TV shows to other people when he was working on other projects, why the hell can't he do that here?
  • ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be nice to see more, but it is just entertainment. There is more to life than that.
  • Kiltak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bah..
  • craterburnsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very sad indeed, this was a very good story.
  • MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Hallelujah
  • Chexee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0lol, haters.
  • Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It'll come back when the Serenity DVD sales skyrocket
  • Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1BTW, everyone go out and buy Serenity today...
  • MajorOutage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This story is a bunch of BS.
  • Miyazaki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Good, maybe all those creepy browncoats will just give up now.

    Seriously, you people are scary. Stop it.
  • l00dpr3h, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It's too bad none of you have a life. Maybe now you can move out of your parents' basement.
  • Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just wait until the Hero of Canton gets wind of this... Heads will roll!
  • Rndm_Tngnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing about this in Variety, fyi...
  • Spaztic, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Serenity sucked...this is only a loss felt by 30+ year old basement dwellers...
  • 1337geek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i seriousley dont know why this show isnt atleast making a come back now, i think the show would do good now, and i understand why it didnt at the time though.
  • Smooph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have moved on to Battlestar Galactica. Now available on iTunes. BG is now my all time fav sci-fi.

    http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/
  • MajorOutage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You've "moved on"? What's the matter? Can't keep up with more than one show at a time?
  • wolfger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This story is rubbish. Nothing definite was said. Serenity did not "only muster $25 million" (DVD sales are just beginning), and Universal, while better than FOX by lightyears, did not give it their "best marketing efforts". Most people who heard about the movie at all, heard about it from Browncoats. Universal's ads (few and far between) were not very good at explaining to people why they should see the movie.
    So maybe it is over. I'm certainly not delusional enough to think a sequel is guaranteed. This story is still pure crap.
  • MajorOutage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That was a senseless plug btw.

    PS. When in the heck are we going to be able to edit comments?
  • geckofiend, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Good riddance to bad rubish.
  • macslut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I loved the TV show. I really loved the movie, but the TV show failed to get rating and the movie failed at the box office ($35 million worldwide with a budget of $40 million).

    The DVDs (of the series and the movie) are doing very well...#1 on Amazon for the movie and #6 for the series set.

    Even if in the end the movie goes into profitability, it seems less likely that a sequel would. Combine the constraints that would be put on a sequel with the way the movie wrapped things up so nicely, and I could see why Joss would be very reluctant to pursue this any more.
  • bytor7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just bought my copy of Serenity.
  • kucing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's so sad to hear. Give me Firefly over Buffy anyday.

    R.I.P. Browncoats.
  • JChung2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Firefly is dead. The numbers don't lie. It was great television, and it was a good movie. Let it go, fans.
  • AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Now if there were only a way for us to stop hearing about it too.
  • Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Um. Didn't it end a few years ago? It wasn't the worst show I'd ever seen, but it was certainly not the best. It was, if anything, mediocre. Sort of like "Andromeda". I couldn't care less. Give me more Farscape. Or... anything, really.
  • Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Good riddance.

    Now, if there were news of a Lexx revival I'd be spooging all over the walls...
  • bobmcsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not buying Serenity until after Sunday...in case I get it for Xmas :D...but if not, I'm getting it Monday!
  • Bloodwine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seumas, did you watch the series on Fox or on Sci-Fi channel?

    Fox showed them completely out of order. Firefly is best experienced when shown in order. Yes, it makes a difference.

    Imagine watching Battlestar Galactica out-of-order.

    Many people disliked Firefly until they saw it on DVD or the Sci-Fi channel (which shown them in order).
  • FormulaOne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1
    Finally, the Brown Coats can start scrubbing the brown stains from their fruit of the loom. I never did like the series or the movie. The mere concept of space cowboys, a lesbian and a brat just wasn't compelling enough for me to waste my time with.

    Good riddence to a POS show and any future movies based on this drivel.
  • TheQwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  • FormulaOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Fox showed them completely out of order. Firefly is best experienced when shown in order. Yes, it makes a difference.

    Imagine watching Battlestar Galactica out-of-order."

    The Geek meter just broke the needle on the above comment.
  • JewFro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0who cares? Sci-Fi is so lame.
  • uacheesehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just saw Serenity the other day after finishing the Firefly series.. and I am happy with it ending there. If it can't last through multiple seasons as a TV series, then there's no point in dragging it out past that movie. It was a good ending to a good story, I think..
  • dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Jewfro, do us a favor and eat your own dick.

    I think Whedon is just downtrodden. Can't say I blame the guy. Rejection is pretty friggin hard. ++digg for the show.
  • firebird2110, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1The TV series was a flop, the movie was flop, about time JW faced up to reality. It has some rabid fans for sure, but not enough to pay the bills.
  • au071, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad, it's a nice series...
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