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September 27, 2005

Firefly/Serenity: The Little Show That Could

(Filed under: Buzz)

Joss Whedon's SerenityRarely does a canceled TV show go anywhere. Though that's changing. Star Trek is probably the prime example, with the canceled TV show that spawned an entire universe of spin off shows and movies. Lately Family Guy had success on DVD and returned to primetime and also got to do their own movie.

This Friday the canceled sci-fi/western TV show Firefly makes its big screen debut as Serenity. Created by Joss Whedon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, the series came back from extinction.

"It's extraordinary and it still surprises me to sit here today and talk about the movie," says Sean Maher, who plays Simon. "Now that it's done and people are loving it, and it's getting this wonderful response, it continually surprises me. It's like we're this little show that could."

Serenity is not just the TV show on a bigger scale. It's also not necessary to be familiar with the TV series in order to get the movie.

"I worked for a long time to come up with something epic enough to be a Universal movie and not just a glorified episode of Firefly," says Whedon. "I wanted to make a movie that made me feel or made people feel the way I felt the first time I saw the first Star Wars."

That's a lot of hype to live up to, but we'll see what happens when the movie opens on Friday.

Posted by kevin at September 27, 2005 10:05 AM

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