Viper6
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Joined: 6/20/2005 From: Morris, MN Status: offline
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Fox aired The Train Job first becouse they wanted more of a shoot-em-up action type of series anyway, in the end what Joss Whedon wanted to do with Firefly was not really what Fox had in mind for the series; so they pulled the plug. SciFi has already bought the re-run rights for the origonal series (they ran them almost constantly before the movie cam out), and acording the the rumers were waiting to see how well the movie did at the box office to determin if they wanted to pick it up as a series. SciFi does has a reputation of taking supposedly dead series from other channels and reviving them. Thier current biggest money maker, Stargate, is one of the better examples. Serenity the movie (why did they give the movie the same name as the pilot?) however did not do very well at the box office at all, and so far nothing has happend at SciFi ... There is also a rumer that the origonal contract for the movie was for 2 sequals, but in light of Serenity's box office failier I'm not sure if that will happen or not. Just things I've picked up ... also a dedicated Firefly fan, honestly it's better than any other sci-fi show out there, including Star Trek. The movie was alright, though they tried to sell it as a big action movie which was a mistake, Whedon really is better at wrighting and directing for television though.
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