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Universal Studios is going to be showing the cult tv classic Firefly in their Saturday slot of their new? HD Channel.
If you've never watched the show by Buffy director Josh Whedon, or its subsequent Universal movie, Serenity then you are missing out. It was an incredible Sci-Fi/Western Hybrid written in the style of the sophisticated Westerns of the 1950's.
It was killed by Fox studios execs who only showed 11 episodes in its inital run and out of order. Apparently, they were either jealous or wanted another Buffy. But this is the same group that cancelled Futurama and gave us another clone of a clone Major Dad (they kept trying to kill In Living Color too).
When the series was released on DVD it sold 500k copies, one of the biggest DVD releases ever so Universal was willing to fund the Serenity movie. Serenity broke even which disappointed the studios but fans have been very Star Trek like and cultish and subsequent media releases like iPod version do brisk sales.
"Browncoats" spread the gospel of Firefly with strange missionary zeal, buying multiple copies for families and friends. I have to admit I got my PW very interested in it myself. There's even a guy I work with that lends out copies of his DVD to anyone who will listen.
To me this sounds like the whole "save buffy" campaign and this grass roots campaign appears every bit as engineered as Gene Rodeenberry's. Nevertheless, its a great series and I still won't watch buffy (when I think of buffy I think of the 20 minutes I saw of the movie).
Very strange.
Either way Universal is hosting several forums for Browncoats and encouragin responses. It appears to be a way of gauging interest in a sequel or a set up for pre-hype and word of mouth.
Either way, read about it at fireflyfans.net
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=29132&newsid=0
You can't take the sky away from me
http://www.universalhd.com/Firefly/
If you've never watched the show by Buffy director Josh Whedon, or its subsequent Universal movie, Serenity then you are missing out. It was an incredible Sci-Fi/Western Hybrid written in the style of the sophisticated Westerns of the 1950's.
It was killed by Fox studios execs who only showed 11 episodes in its inital run and out of order. Apparently, they were either jealous or wanted another Buffy. But this is the same group that cancelled Futurama and gave us another clone of a clone Major Dad (they kept trying to kill In Living Color too).
When the series was released on DVD it sold 500k copies, one of the biggest DVD releases ever so Universal was willing to fund the Serenity movie. Serenity broke even which disappointed the studios but fans have been very Star Trek like and cultish and subsequent media releases like iPod version do brisk sales.
"Browncoats" spread the gospel of Firefly with strange missionary zeal, buying multiple copies for families and friends. I have to admit I got my PW very interested in it myself. There's even a guy I work with that lends out copies of his DVD to anyone who will listen.
To me this sounds like the whole "save buffy" campaign and this grass roots campaign appears every bit as engineered as Gene Rodeenberry's. Nevertheless, its a great series and I still won't watch buffy (when I think of buffy I think of the 20 minutes I saw of the movie).
Very strange.
Either way Universal is hosting several forums for Browncoats and encouragin responses. It appears to be a way of gauging interest in a sequel or a set up for pre-hype and word of mouth.
Either way, read about it at fireflyfans.net
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=29132&newsid=0
You can't take the sky away from me
http://www.universalhd.com/Firefly/
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