Joss Says There's Hope For Serenity II

[BlasterBoy]

Joss Whedon did an interview at Comic Con this year and said that since Serenity is making a collector's edition, it means that Serenity is doing well. There is hope for a sequel!

So after all is said and done, was Serenity profitable? Do you consider it a success?

Joss Whedon (JW): It’s a success to the studio or else we wouldn’t be doing a special edition DVD. They actually admitted as much on paper, which you know studios are loathe to do, and that was actually from the theatrical. Theatrical was a disappointment, as everyone knows, but it did go into the black. Then the DVD came and they took me aside and said “We can’t keep these things on the shelf. We want to do a special edition.” And I didn’t want to hear that because I knew it would have to be a truly special edition to make me happy. There had to be a real reason, some real goodies.

So what will the special edition have for us?

JW: We took some stuff from the region two version; the making of – a really beautiful one that’s a bit longer. It has the first read through for the movie with the cast, two years after the show ended. And it has the River Tam sessions, the stuff I did on the internet with Summer. We got to do another commentary too, Nathan, Summer, Ron and Adam – I made sure it didn’t go the same direction as the first commentary. It feels like this version will be something more for the people who would tend to buy both.

So give me hope for a Serenity II

JW: Hope for it probably rests with this DVD.

So then you’re saying we’ve got a chance?

JW: Well it’s probably not being discussed in boardrooms right now, but the fact of the matter is if it makes enough money sooner or later they say “hey, this is money!” Also there are paradigms that are much cheaper, it doesn’t have to be enormous. But on the other hand I’m happy to say all of my actors are working very hard. It’s not the same situation where we all threw in for pennies because we had to finish telling that story. Now that situation might be harder to bring about.

Well, let's cross our fingers!

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this thread, because it's just news.

[Jenni Lou]

Fantastic news! I was always in the camp that assumed there would be another movie someday. It might be a few years down the road but I just always really thought there would be. Firefly and Serenity are high selling DVDs and every studio knows that that is where the big money for most movies now comes from.

So I say...awesome!!! :D

[LRae12]

hmmmm...though I'd love to see a second move, I highly doubt it would come to play...:( Joss seems to talk more hopeful than what he can actually make happen...*remembering ATS cancellation*...just look at the Wonder Woman movie that has yet to make an appearance...:(

But here's hoping! :)

[BlasterBoy]

Fantastic news! I was always in the camp that assumed there would be another movie someday. It might be a few years down the road but I just always really thought there would be. Firefly and Serenity are high selling DVDs and every studio knows that that is where the big money for most movies now comes from.

So I say...awesome!!! :D

I totally agree! I'm very excited about this, even though, if it is made, it will be in a few years.

hmmmm...though I'd love to see a second move, I highly doubt it would come to play... Joss seems to talk more hopeful than what he can actually make happen...*remembering ATS cancellation*...just look at the Wonder Woman movie that has yet to make an appearance...

But here's hoping!

Well, he can't make it happen. But, obviously, they're making money if they're making a special edition of Serentity, so, there is hope!

And, not to go off topic but, Wonder Woman went the same way as Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Movie). People didn't agree with him, so he left. I think it's over, unless someone else makes a script, cause this time, he took the script :lol:

[ThePoet's<3]

WOW!! That would be GREAT!!

Lets hope this second DVD does as well as Joss hopes!

I think Angel suffered because Buffy went off the air. If Buffy had continued Angel may have continued as well. And Wonder Woman - I can't unerstand why that one slipped by - what with all the superhero movies out.

But Serenity did make it to screen - so maybe Serenity II (or whatever it will be called) will have a better chance.

[Cordelia_Chase]

woohhoooo *claps with excitment* how wicked would another Firefly/Serenity Dvd be...though kinda sad as Wash woulsnt be in it. But how excellent would it be to see all those characters brought to life one more.

So i'll keep my fingers crossed.

[Eliza Lover]

I would love to have a second movie. I was watching the collectors edition a couple days ago and I was wishing there was a second one. :)

[Dana]

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.

Source: Moviehole (http://www.moviehole.net/news/20071004_serenity_2_a_new_hope.html)