Sensible Erection | Whedon Makes Joke at SDCC, Browncoats Go Nuts (Again)

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Whedon Makes Joke at SDCC, Browncoats Go Nuts (Again)

quote [ “The opening sequence [of the Firefly reboot] is a conversation between Wash and Book,” said Whedon quite, quite seriously to the amazed Firefly cast and crew on the press panel with him Friday in San Diego.

“Have I never talked to you about this?” He asked Nathan Fillion, seated to his left. ]

Science Channel/SDCC has a 10 Year Anniversary panel for Firefly. So of course Joss is messing with the fans. I mean, he is just making a joke, right?

Article in extended.

A Reboot Of Firefly? Joss And The Science Channel Say “Yes!”

Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool

Out of the 10th Anniversary Firefly Reunion panel came a surprise announcement which will delight Browncoats the world over:

Bleeding Cool was on the scene when Joss Whedon and The Science Channel’s Debbie Myers confirmed to a packed room of journalists that if the planned Firefly reunion movie performs well that we can expect a full Firefly series reboot. And, it seems as if Whedon plans to wipe the slates clean and bring back the entire original cast.

“The opening sequence [of the Firefly reboot] is a conversation between Wash and Book,” said Whedon quite, quite seriously to the amazed Firefly cast and crew on the press panel with him Friday in San Diego.

“Have I never talked to you about this?” He asked Nathan Fillion, seated to his left.

To this point, Whedon has seldom discussed the decision to kill off the characters portrayed by Alan Tudyk and Ron Glass in the 2005 release, Serenity. To critics and fans, alike, this decision provided a finality which indicated that it would be unlikely that a reunion or reboot would ever be possible.

Now we know, that perception was incorrect.

Some are supposing that because Whedon followed the comment with an offhanded remark about rebooting the series with a younger cast (“Zac Effron as Simon…”) that bringing back Wash and Book is more of Whedon’s patented “snark” and are not taking the concept of a reboot seriously.

Not so; immediately upon confirming that, yes, he would like to head back to the ‘Verse again, The Science Channel’s General Manager, Debbie Myers, stated emphatically, “We can help you with that!”

Regardless, it is clear that even after a decade, the impact of the short-lived sci fi series is still being felt by both fans and the cast.

“[Doing Firefly] taught me how to act,” said Nathan Fillion of his involvement with the show, “Out of [the show] I got some of the best work I’ve ever done and a movie, I really couldn’t ask for more.”

“I have much more perspective,” said Alan Tuydk of watching the series again for the first time, “Everything is a discovery again after ten years.”

Bleeding Cool will continue to work to confirm the exact details of the promised reboot and the confirmed movie. Stay tuned!

[by gm1970@6:58amGMT] [+5 Interesting]

Comments

sua_sponte said @ 7:11am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:3 Insightful]

Kurisu said @ 7:44am GMT on 14th Jul
I find it funny that ^ this guy is a viking in the Capitol One Commercials.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 11:14pm GMT on 14th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
He was also Jackson from Bloodsport.

atter_cob said @ 7:27am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:2]
I liked the show, but I only watched it after it was over. I don't watch much TV and so never noticed but a bunch of my friends were all gaga over the movie. So I downloaded the series... and holy crap I watched most of it in a single marathon sitting. It's good. I hope it comes back as good at it was. I don't mind it it's a reboot or if the dead people stay dead, as long as the writing and intelligence remains. Also, River Tam needs to kick everyone's ass.

arrowhen said @ 8:50am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:1 Interesting]
I pretty much deliberately skipped it when it was on, because The Internet couldn't fucking shut up about how good it was and The Internet usually has pretty shitty taste. I finally broke down and watched it years later and liked it way more than I thought I would, to the point where I thought it was finally starting to get somewhat good towards the end, and then it ended.

I still think Buffy is orders of magnitude better, if you appreciate it in the right way. (Hint: Buffy isn't the main character of Buffy; in fact, she's not a character at all, but a plot device. Or, one might even say, Buffy is actually the setting of Buffy.)

EPT said @ 5:11pm GMT on 14th Jul
Indeed. The internet told me that The Big Bang Theory was a quality sitcom that appeals to scientists.

schatten00777 said @ 7:48pm GMT on 14th Jul
I watched my first episode of that show yesterday, and it was absolutely terrible.

azazel said @ 8:16pm GMT on 14th Jul
It has a few good moments, but they're few and far between. As with any Chuck Lorre production, the comedy is so forced that you're wincing more than laughing. Mayim Bialik raised the quality quite a bit, but even her appearance does little to salvage the show.

damnit said @ 3:34am GMT on 16th Jul
The show is carried by a guest character who was well-liked and became a regular... just like Family Matters.

GordonGuano said @ 1:10pm GMT on 14th Jul [Score:2 Underrated]
What made Firefly so good is that the rest of the cast had enough talent to keep you from noticing how dreadful Summer Glau is. Willow and Friends, er, Buffy, had it far worse, though, as there probably isn't anyone that could make up for how atrociously bad SMG and Eliza Dushku are. I'd be happy if Joss spent the rest of his career doing things like Avengers, with entire casts that know what comedic timing is.

CapnSilver said @ 1:40pm GMT on 14th Jul
Summer Glau has the creative deathtouch

snowfox said @ 5:31pm GMT on 14th Jul
Druscilla had the worst actress by far. Her performance was so wooden and so tightly controlled, which was exactly the wrong kind of crazy for the character. Of course, the blame cannot lie entirely with the actress, the director is also responsible for bad performances.

Forsaken_One said @ 8:02am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:4 Underrated]
It's been ten freaking years. I really wish everyone would appreciate it for what it was and move on to some new awesomeness.

arrowhen said @ 8:37am GMT on 14th Jul
I wish there was some new awesomeness.

arrowhen said @ 8:57am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:3 Underrated]
No disrespect to current TV awesomeness like Game of Thrones or Boardwalk Empire. But I'd specifically like to see some new space-based science fiction awesomeness on TV, which is a silly thing to wish for, because we haven't ever seen any space-based science fiction awesomeness ever, in the entire history of television.

Spleen23 said @ 11:11am GMT on 14th Jul
Battlestar galactica.
A entire hanger full of identical, naked, freaking hot, asian chicks.
That was awesome enought for me to sit through the rest of that train wreak.

Urzazero said @ 11:17pm GMT on 15th Jul
Battlestar Galactica was one of the best TV shows ever made, blasphemer!

arrowhen said @ 11:31pm GMT on 15th Jul [Score:1 Interesting]
Yeah, but then they did that remake.

Vernes said @ 8:42am GMT on 16th Jul
never happened

Spleen23 said @ 3:04am GMT on 16th Jul
Sadly enought, it was.

entropyboy said @ 11:33am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
Stargate Universe is good.

GordonGuano said @ 1:13pm GMT on 14th Jul
I'd go so far as to say it would be hilarious if whoever thought a merely okay Kurt Russell movie was a jumping-off point for three TV series was gang-raped by five guys.

graham said @ 8:37pm GMT on 14th Jul [Score:1 Informative]
was

:(

G. W. Bush said @ 1:53am GMT on 15th Jul [Score:3]
Id like whatever drug you take that made that good. I found it a failure to the name.

structured_spirits said @ 3:46am GMT on 15th Jul
Edgy for the sake of edginess at the expense of everything else. Yeah lets make all the characters total dicks to the point where we don't care if they live or die.

snowfox said @ 4:57pm GMT on 14th Jul
I love Boardwalk Empire. My only gripe is that it lacks much in the way of sexy male nudity.

I would add Mad Men and Breaking Bad to the list of good shows out there.

GordonGuano said @ 5:38pm GMT on 14th Jul
You can't handle the Buscemi!

(But seriously, Game of Thrones has enough skin for just about every persuasion except dwarf fetishists. They just keep teasing us on that one.)

sanepride said @ 7:55pm GMT on 14th Jul
Not a Star Trek fan I presume?

cb361 said @ 9:26pm GMT on 14th Jul
He must be more a Babylon 5 kind of guy then.

arrowhen said @ 11:12pm GMT on 14th Jul
I loved TOS as a kid, was all excited for Next Generation as a nerdy teenager, but quickly grew disappointed by its clumsy moralizing about Space Recycling, Space AIDS, and whatever other 90s current events they tacked a bit of Trek jargon onto, and thought Voyager was fun until it turned into the holodeck malfunction of the week show, and I never caught the others.

Star Trek isn't science fiction, though, it's "sci-fi". ;)

bruceski said @ 8:30am GMT on 14th Jul [Score:3 Insightful]
Let it die with dignity, Joss. Last time you wrote a second season we got Dollhouse. Do you want Firefly to be another Dollhouse?

arctan said @ 5:32pm GMT on 14th Jul [Score:1 Good]
Excuse me, but Dollhouse Season 2 kicks Dollhouse Season 1's ass so hard.

MelloHippo said @ 9:07pm GMT on 14th Jul
Watching the unaired pilot for Dollhouse, you could really see how Joss's vision for the show was stifled by Fox execs. The pilot basically was stretched out into half of the first season. I'm surprised he agreed to another show with Fox after how they handled Firefly.

kichijoii said @ 10:19am GMT on 14th Jul
... I'm Alliance.

GordonGuano said @ 1:03pm GMT on 14th Jul
I heard that after Red Tails flopped, George Lucas is considering an Episode 3.5. He's already tapped Josh Hartnett to play the young Han Solo.

user420 said @ 1:41pm GMT on 14th Jul
I almost posted something like "wtf?? Why would he do something so asinine instead of doing episode 7?" but then I remembered who you were talking about. Then I thought, would I even want to see ep 7?

Now I'm just depressed.

GordonGuano said @ 2:30pm GMT on 14th Jul
If it makes you feel any better, that was just a joke I stole from Garth Ennis's Chronicles of Wormwood. In that, the kicker to the joke is that the day after Lucas announces it, a 400-lb Tusken Raider sets himself on fire outside the gate of Skywalker Ranch.

ithaqua10 said @ 4:47pm GMT on 14th Jul
I figured this was a joke, but would love someone else to take over the helm of it, and film the heir to the empire books. Didn't george say he was done with the big epics and wanted to make small indie films? If so then no reason why someone shouldn't be able to get him to allow this. Not as if it is doing a disservice to his star wars legacy (Hell he did that himself with the prequels that I refuse to acknowledge the existence thereof)

EPT said @ 5:12pm GMT on 14th Jul
I would download ep 7 and watch it, just so that I'm not left out of the loop when the internet erupts.

sherlock said @ 1:39pm GMT on 14th Jul
I just wanted to drop in to point out that the spaceship in the thumb image *really* looks like a flying dick.

radioelectric said @ 2:39pm GMT on 14th Jul [Score:4 WTF]

mrklipp said @ 2:42am GMT on 15th Jul
I have to give him credit for his commitment to the bit.

feeling constipated said @ 5:54pm GMT on 14th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
I don't get its appeal, I watched a few episodes but couldn't get over that low-budget feel à la Hercules or Xena, even though I really liked those two.
Also the space cowboys thing just felt weird, it was like Star Wars with horses.

Dioxin said @ 2:12am GMT on 15th Jul
Star Wars was Star Wars with horses.

midden said @ 2:44am GMT on 15th Jul
But in Firefly, the protagonist shots a horse when a bad guy (or girl) was attacking him from behind it. No, "oh my god, you shot the horse!" bullshit. It was in the way of killing the person trying to kill the protagonist. Of course he shot it. No one even comments on it.

And there's a scene with a couple of Bad Guys on their knees on the ground outside the ship in front of the protagonist. He asks the first guy a question. There's no time to screw around. The first guy won't answer, so he kicks him into the running ship's engine and proceeds to ask the next guy in line, who promptly answers.

No agonizing over it. It's life and death on the frontier.

That's great stuff.

spite48 said @ 3:04am GMT on 16th Jul
The engine kick was awesome.

damnit said @ 3:36am GMT on 16th Jul [Score:1 Insightful]
Josh Whedon saw Cowboy Bebop and said "Let their be Firefly."

arrowhen said @ 4:12am GMT on 16th Jul
The influence of Westerns on Gene Roddenberry's original concept for Star Trek can be seen in the series' opening narration: "Space, the final frontier ...". Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to network executives as "Wagon Train to the stars."[4]

George Lucas attributes the character of Boba Fett to the Man with No Name in the DVD commentary on The Empire Strikes Back[5]. Han Solo's original costume and charming rogue gunslinger mannerisms also reflects the Western's influence on Star Wars.

The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers is a cartoon example of the Space Western theme. The opening trailer shows Texas Rangers-like heroes riding across a prairie landscape on robotic horses. Spaceships and sixguns both figure prominently throughout.

In the Bravestarr universe, the culture and landscape of the colony world where the series is set bears a remarkable resemblance to the culture of the American Old West.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Western

sanepride said @ 6:08pm GMT on 14th Jul
At least it wasn't a rape joke.

mechanical contrivance said @ 3:02am GMT on 15th Jul [Score:1 Underrated]
yet.

structured_spirits said @ 3:43am GMT on 15th Jul
Goes to check fandom thread ... discovers it contains no pony references ... why no ponies?

SicJake said @ 12:41am GMT on 17th Jul
Didn't care for Dollhouse or Buffy much, found Angel to be a decent series but just drawn out too far. I think Joss Whedon works best when limited, the Firefly movie was fantastic (as was Avengers). Instead of a second season of Firefly, I rather see a mini series. I think the guy has these story archs in his head, but only so many are worth airing on tv. Firefly got short changed ya, and could have done well with a few more episodes to complete his defined story arch, but I'd hate to see it a 7 season marathon like Buffy.