Nathan Fillion announced that he and the original cast are going to “try” to bring back Firefly. They have Joss’s blessing, the rights, a script, two showrunners (Tara Butters and Marc Guggenheim,) and an animation studio (Shadow Machine.)
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Firefly’s Shepard, Ron Glass, Heads Out Into The Black
Because 2016 hasn’t sucked enough, we lose the man the represented the soul of the Serenity. No details yet, but Ron Glass, famous for a variety of TV roles, including seven years on Barney Miller, has passed away at the age of 71.
As Shepard Book, a wandering preacher, Glass brought dignity to an undignified crew. He would reprise the role in the film sequel, where he uttered one of the most poignant lines of the series, “I don’t care what you believe. Just believe it.”
Joss Whedon took to Twitter with this:
He got there with grace, humor & enormous heart. He was, among so many other things, my Shepherd. Raise, appropriately, a glass. Rest, Ron. pic.twitter.com/yzPly7TmgE
— Joss Whedon (@joss) November 26, 2016
RIP, Mr. Glass.
Firefly Online announced
In the first of a zillion or so news announcements from San Diego Comic-Con, we present the teaser trailer for “Firefly Online,” a social MMORPG targeted to mobile devices. The game’s Web site is at keepflying.com, but it’s being hammered (not Captain Hammer) and may take a while to load.
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Happy birthday, Firefly!
It has been ten years since Firefly first hit the airwaves, and the episode Objects In Space remains the only entry of any media to score a perfect 42/42 in a Bureau 42 review. If next year’s special project (which will start September 10, 2013 and end in the spring of 2022) gets a good response, we’ll do one for Firefly too.
Beware the scary poster of Captain Tightpants!
rickyjames pointed us to this article about what appears to be a great overreaction to a Firefly poster. Given that the article was posted September 27 but no dates are given, and that Nathan Fillion responded via Twitter on September 26, what I want to know is how long that poster was hanging there before it was deemed threatening. To me, this sounds like a student who didn’t like the prof and looked for something to report to get the guy in trouble.
“Serenity 2” has director
Universal has been trying to get “Serenity 2” off the ground since it was announced that Joss Whedon is behind the new Avengers film. Well, it looks like they decided not to wait for him, and hired Michael Bay instead. More after the break.
She Don’t Like…
Rickyjames sends us a link to a song of a love doomed to failure. YouTube video follows the break.
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Firefly Returns….
The original Firefly returns to basic cable. The Science Channel will be rerunning the original series in HD starting March 6, with the addition of some science-based commentary.
As for Nathan Fillion, he says he would gladly play Captain Mal again. (The second link will take you to an interview).
Firefly Tidbits
Rickyjames e-mailed the following about Firefly. To answer his first question for all, direct e-mail is the current way to submit stories and links.
How do you submit a story for B42 now that you’ve switched to WordPress? There’s no link that I can see…
Anyway, there’s a couple of interesting items in the Firefly world that I’ve run across in just the past few days besides the throwaway line in this week’s ep of Castle. USA Today ran a whole page of a new Firefly comic book (they’ve done that a few times lately with various franchises, most recently Hellboy as I recall, trying to be more “relevant”) and best of all the entire issue is online. Also, a 90 minute fan-made movie set in the Firefly universe a few months after the events of the Serenity movie is out in the past few weeks, complete with fairly interesting trailer. It’s called Browncoats: Redemption and is available on DVD. So dust off the old Firefly logo for one more run!
Firefly: Shepherd Book’s Secrets Unveiled!
Dark Horse will be publishing two new Firefly comics. One will be by Patton Oswald, who currently appears on Caprica. The other, co-authored by Joss Whedon and his younger brother, will provide some answers to our questions about Shepherd Book.
Details at Comic Book Resources.