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NEWS
April 12, 2005 Executive changes afoot at Universal Whedonesque is reporting that Firefly/Serenity supporter and Universal Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production, Mary Parent is moving on to a different role within Universal. Hopefully this won't have any negative effect on marketing for Serenity or the possibility of getting Serenity 2 & 3, but it shouldn't hurt to kindly remind Universal how excited you are for Serenity. April 4, 2005 Finding Serenity available now. Jane Espenson's book Finding Serenity is now available on Amazon and at your local bookstore. Finding Serenity is a collection of essays about Firefly and Serenity. Writers include Jane (writer of "Shindig"), the lovely Jewel Staite, and Keith R.A. DeCandido (author of "Serenity" novelization). So far reviews have been fairly positive. My copy arrives soon, and I'll post a review as soon as I finish it. Jewel shows up to the Vancouver Firefly Meetup As she hinted she might, Jewel and her husband showed up to the Vancouver Firefly meetup. Have I mentioned how cool hour BDH's are? Here's a pic. First Serenity Comic to be available July 6th Dark Horse has released information about the first Serenity comic tie-in.
March 31, 2005 A great "podcast" about Firefly from Screen Gems Screen Gems has posted a "podcast" editorial about Firefly, that absolutely HAS to be heard by fans and non-fans alike. (Is there such a thing as a non-fan, or are they just fans waiting for their chance to see the show.) My favorite quote "Yep, it surely is the best Sci Fi series that's ever been made." Praise doesn't come much higher than that. March 18, 2005 Joss Signs on for Wonder Woman Well the rumors turned out to be true, Joss Whedon will be writing and directing the Wonder Woman movie. I'm a bit divided about this, on the one hand I'm disappointed because it means Joss won't be writing and directing Serenity 2 & 3 anytime soon. On the other hand, if Wonder Woman does well, then Joss's Hollywood rep will go up, and hopefully that will increase the likely hood he'll be allowed to do Serenity 2 & 3 (unless that becomes too small of a fish for him...grrr argg at the thought!) No filming date has been announced. Another con I just learned about another con that is going to feature some of our BDH and Joss: Wizard World March 18 -20 (Today - Sunday), Long Beach, CA March 12, 2005 England Here I Come, Art, Cons and more Sorry for the lack of news updates lately, between my insane work schedule, business trips, trade shows and cons, my life has been and is going to continue to be insanely busy between now and June. So news updates will be continue to be sporadic. In the mean time please if you hear some good Firefly or Serenity news, post it on the message board. Also poster order fulfillment will also continue to be slow (expect about 3-4 weeks for delivery). I still plan on getting around to posting my video from Wondercon soon (of course I still haven't gotten around to last years Comic Con and Dragon Con videos, so don't hold your breath.)
I've received a lot of questions about this cast painting, so here is the info: It was created by artist Jason Palmer, this is the second version of this painting he's done, the first was never fully colored. Rumor has it, Joss has a copy of this hanging in his office. You can learn more about the artist at his website: www.jasonpalmer.net Starfury Serenity Now for the really good news, thanks to Anna (a local firefly fan who also just happens to work for both an airline and hotel chain) I'm going to the Starfury Serenity Con! Woo! So if you are going to be there, look for my shiny bald head (or orange Jayne hat) and say hi. Cons (short for conventions, in case you were wondering) It's almost getting difficult to keep track of all the Cons that our BDH (big damn heros for you newbies) are attending, But here is a quick summary from memory, please let me know if I've missed any: I'll be attending Starfury, Comic Con and Dragon Con, so I look forward to meeting many of you there. February 21, 2005 Wondercon I'm back from Wondercon, and it was a blast. The cast and Joss were hi-larous, as usual, (in spite of Joss being very under the weather) and all you browncoats raised about $2,000 for Tsunami relief, including a generous donation from Joss. Joss also formally announced the Serenity comic that will fill in the story between the end of the TV show and the beginning of the movie - this would probably explain the mysterious Amazon listing. I'll file a full Wondercon report in the message boards, including photos and videos, as soon as I recover. Jewel update Jewel updated her blog, and reminded us all to get the Serenity buzz going NOW! February 15, 2005 Serenity book by Joss Whedon A rather mysterious listing has shown up on Amazon and Amazon.uk for a book called "Serenity" by Joss Whedon. Based on the length, 160 pages, it's probably the screen play. February 14, 2005 Wondercon Here I come In case you missed my mention in the message board, I'm going to Wondercon. This will be my fourth "sci-fi con" in just over a year. Considering I'd never been to one before... It just goes to show how much this show has impacted my life. If you are going to be there, drop me a note, maybe we can meet up. Speaking of meet ups, I'll be at in the fan room from Saturday 3 to 7 or so, and I'll be showing some never before posted "behind-the-scenes" photos from my day on the set. Hope to see many of you there! Happy valentines day Not much Serenity news today, so I thought I'd stray WAY off-topic and get a little personal with you all. And since I run this place, I shouldn't get into too much trouble... I'll get right to the point, yet another Valentines day has gone by and I'm still single, and I'm looking to change that. Like I said, right to the point. :) Now don't get me wrong, I'm not down — far from it. In fact I'm very happy with where I've been and where I'm going in life. I'm just looking forward to traversing more of the road ahead with somebody else. Of course that begs the question, why am I still single. I've had two long-term relationships, but it's been a while. Two reasons really, I'm far too busy to date much, and what little dating I do, I'm having a difficult time finding women with common interests. I've tried the online dating thing, but that hasn't worked. Then it hit me today, about 2000 people visit this site everyday, and ALL of them share at least one interest. So I've started a Browncoat Dating thread on the message board. Maybe with some luck we'll get a few flans together. And if all this seems weird or inappropriate... then too bad, it's my site. :) February 13, 2005 MSNBC Confirms Serenity Comic As was rumored quite some time ago, MSNBC has confirmed plans for a Serenity comic that will tell the story of what happened to Serenity's crew between before the movie events and after the TV show events. No confirmation on the animated version, though I've heard it's still in the works. February 5, 2005 Firefly book table of contents The table of contents of the upcoming book Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly has been posted on Keith R.A. DeCandido LiveJournal. Keith, Jewel and Jane Espenson all contribute to the book. Keith is also the author of the Serenity novelization. January 29, 2005 Serenity to be previewed in London For those of you going to Starfury:Serenity, Chris Buchanan and Joss's assistant Michael Boretz have arranged for a preview of "Serenity" on February 8th. Which oddly is months before the actual convention. Lucky Londoners! Now if they'd just have a special showing for guerilla marketers and the fan boards that support them... ;) Speaking of the Starfury:Serenity con, I'm still waiting to hear from any travel agents... Somebody help find me a good deal, and I'm there. January 19, 2005 OSC gives Firefly a thumbs up Orson Scott Card, writer of "Ender's Game" and one of the best sci-fi authors of our time has written a great review of Firefly. Great quotes:
January 19, 2005 Serenity in the news Last week's issue of TVGuide included a small blurb about Serenity, and SciFi portal posted some spoilery comments from one of the "guest" stars of the movie. However in the interest of keeping this site 100% spoiler free from now on, I'm not going to link directly to it. Starfury Convention Because of the cost of airfare and hotel, I've managed to talk myself out of attending the Starfury Serenity convention in Heathrow London. However, if there are any travel agents out there that can get me a good deal (Utah to anywhere in England, or worse case Vegas to England) about 1-3 days before the con (April 29), I might just be persuaded to change my mind. :) January 16, 2005 The Year of Serenity September may seem like a long ways off, but at least we can now say it's THIS year! Serenity news has been slow this month, so I'm going to take this time to remind everybody that fans (or should I say flans) can make a huge difference at the box office. So cruise on over to the guerilla marketing section, and keep sending in your ideas! Spread the word, this is the year of Serenity. December 29, 2004 Site update: Message board is back up. Turns out it was much more than "server upgrades" apparently there was a nasty worm spreading around the internet that used google to find phpBB message boards and exploited a security hole. Being that I'm a Mac user and very unaccustomed to viruses and worms, I found the whole thing very unsettling, and quite a pain the in the butt to fix. But all's good, please resume your posting. December 27, 2004 Site update: Message board is temporarily down. Due to some server upgrades, the message board will be down for a few days. Those of you writing the "Quote of the day" had better keep writing cause you are going to have some catching up to do. :) December 24, 2004 Joss talks about the Serenity Screening. Yes, I know this is old news, but I've been out of the loop working on a big (Hollywood!!) project. Read Joss's comments on Whedonesque. Merry Christmas! December 15, 2004 An excellent spoiler-free review. Great review "DamnitGirlie" Thanks! Joss Whedon and Chris Buchanan were at the screening. Several browncoats spotted Joss at the screening and some extra lucky browncoats got to spend an hour and half chatting with Chris in the parking lot after the screening. I've had two very similar opportunities (one right after the show was canceled and the second when I was on the set), and I can honestly say, you couldn't ask for a more fan friendly producer in the world. He's so generous with his time when it comes to the fans. Thanks Chris! Reviews are arriving! Reviews are starting to trickle in; here and here. Favorite quote so far, from TheZeppo on Whedonesque: "Serenity will let no Joss fan down, no science fiction fan down, and no movie fan down. Period." I MADE THE CUT! Apparently I made the cut (so far)!! tlacook said: "Yep! you are very visible and there was cheering. 'There's Jeremy!'" YESSS! Now, I just hope all of us BDE (Big Damn Extras) made the cut. On second thought, no plot spoilers PERIOD! From what I've read so far, it sounds like there are some great surprises in the movie and that even minor spoilers will probably ruin or at least water them down. So new policy here. No more plot spoilers PERIOD. It was one thing when it was just a rumor here and a rumor there, but now that a bunch of you have seen it, it's getting too dangerous. So I'm closing down the spoiler room, and I'll avoid posting plot spoilers here in the news, and please don't send me any spoiler via email either. Thanks for your understanding. December 14, 2004 Several Browncoats manage to get themselves invited to the Serenity screening! The Serenity test screening was tonight at 7pm PST. So far at last count 5-6 Browncoats managed to get in. Please post your spoiler-free comments/reviews here, and your spoilers here (Let's not drop any big spoilers, even in the spoiler area, please.) And would somebody please tell me if my tattooed head made the cut? Thanks. December 13, 2004 Test screenings for Serenity start tomrrow! Rumor has it, test screenings start in LA tomorrow for Serenity. Oh to live in SoCal. I don't have any info on how to get tickets, but my personal experience is that they tend to give them away to tourists around the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. If you happen to score a ticket, send me your 100% spoiler-free review and I'll pos it! (Post spoilers in the spoiler room. If you like.) So, please, I don't want to hear that Jayne get's killed in the first 10 minutes. (Don't worry, I just made that up.. I hope.) December 8, 2004 Video interviews with the cast! IESB.NET has posted video interviews with Nathan, Alan, Summer and Morena. Sadly Windows Media is required. :( (Firefly cast deserves the quality of QuickTime if you ask me... but nobody did.) Summer Glau talks about Serenity, Firefly and Joss About.com has also posted an excellent interview with Nathan. (minor spoilers) December 7, 2004 Summer Glau talks about Serenity, Firefly and Joss About.com has posted an excellent interview with Summer. (minor spoilers) "...People kept coming up to me during the movie and saying, “You know, I’ve been worrying about you Summer because who is ever going to write a story for you like this again?” I’m so lucky." December 6, 2004 Serenity stars attend Universal World Premiere of "In Good Company" Nathan, Morena, Adam, Summer, and Alan all attended the premiere. Please send any red carpet photos my way, and I'll post 'em. Jewel chimes in about the rough cut of Serenity
Nathan and Moreena hang out with fans at GenCon Our cast of Firefly/Serenity continue to show their support for the fan community. Nathan even sat down and played a Firefly RPG with some fans. Rosie's GenCon story. With pics. (Morena cut her hair!) Two painfully cute photos from GenCon - click to enlarge. (thanks Andé):
December 4, 2004 Adam talks about the rough cut of Serenity All of a sudden September 30 seems even further away. Read Adam's comments:
November 25, 2004 Jewel and Summer comment on the delay, plus more comments from Joss Both Jewel and Summer chime in on the delay of Serenity. Joss also talked a bit more about the delay...
November 24, 2004 Adam Baldwin talks about the delay Apparently Adam ran into Joss outside of a Starbucks and they chatted about the Serenity delay. Sounds like they both agree, it's a painful but overall good thing for the movie and the future of the franchise. November 23, 2004 I've been Slashdotted! Woo! Welcome Slashdoters! Visit the message board, buy a Firefly Movie poster. :) November 22, 2004 SERENITY DELAYED FIVE MONTHS!!!! Joss posted this highly disturbing news at Whedonesque.com:
Firefly Book coming soon. Jane Espensen is writing a book about Firefly, due out in April. From Amazon (thanks Kevin):
It'll be interesting to compare their speculation with what we see in Serenity. November 9, 2004 IGN posts similar but more detailed Serenity Article Apparently IGN was on set the same day as Joblo.com, but they have written a more detailed account, including two new pictures. Major Spoilers Warning! Poster update To all of you that have ordered posters in the last week or so, thanks. Unfortunately I ran out of tubes (again), so I won't be able to get the posters shipped out until late this week or early next week. November 8, 2004 Great Joss Whedon interview about Serenity Joblo.com has posted a Joss Whedon interview that was obviously conducted a few months ago while the movie was still being filmed. Warning the intro has some spoilers, but if you skip down to the picture of Joss and just read the interview, you should remain fairly spoiler free. November 4, 2004 Jewel updates her blog. Jewel mentioned Serenity in her latest blog entry.
October 31, 2004 Listen to Joss's call in. For a donation of at least $25 (send your real name, phone number and email) to Kerry you can get a phone number that allows you to listen to Joss's call in from last week. Since I'm supporting Badnarik for President I couldn't justify the donation myself, so I can't give any details. But feel free to report back any tidbits. Posters running low If you want a Firefly movie poster, you may want to act soon, as I'm starting to run pretty low. Speaking of which, one enterprising Browncoat was able to get one put up at the AMC theater than he manages. Check out the photo, it almost brings a tear to your eye.
(click to enlarge) October 21, 2004 Joss is throwing a political shindig, and you are invited... Sort of. I'm not a Kerry supporter (not much of a Bush supporter either - vote Libertarian!), but since Joss is involved I thought I should pass along this info. If anyone hears any good Firefly info from any of Joss's call ins pass along the info! October 9, 2004 Serenity is already cut (edited)! With Serenity in post production and our BDHs all over the world, news has been slow. But in her latest blog update, Jewel dropped the following bomb, "A little birdie just told me the film may be cut together already. I hear it looks AMAZING." Very cool! Crossing fingers hoping that all the big damn extras made the cut. Sounds like Jewel is also going to be starring in a new TV show called "Widow on the Hill", Congratulations! Guess I'll have to see if my TV actually gets Lifetime. :) September 22, 2004 New Blog entry from Jewel Woo! I made her top ten favorite things about Dragon Con:
September 17, 2004 Blog entry from none other than Joss at the Universal Board
September 9, 2004 Jewel posts a big thank you at FireflyFans.net Jewel posted a thank you to all the fans that showed up to Dragon Con. One highlight,
September 8, 2004 Firefly / Serenity Dragon Con reports Firefly / Serenity was a huge draw at Dragon Con; Biggest in the 18 year history of Dragon Con for a new "property". Read all about my experience at Dragon Con. Stories about Nathan, Jewel, and Adam are included. Photos soon, audio and possibly video coming shortly thereafter. I'd like to post links to other Dragon Con blogs, if you seen any other blogs, send 'em my way. August 31, 2004Our captian posts tells us all to do some guerilla marketing! Over at the the Universal board Nathan Fillion reminded us all to get out and do some guerilla marketing for the BDM:
You heard the man, get busy! I'm off to Dragon Con! I'm heading to Dragon Con tomorrow, and I look forward to meeting as many of you as I can. I probably going to re-"tattoo" my shaved head with the characters from my day as an extra, so I shouldn't be too hard to spot. (We'll being that it's Dragon Con, I might not stand out as much as you would expect.) If nothing else look for me at the front of the line for all of the Serenity sessions. I'm also going to be on the panel for two Firefly/Serenity related sessions. Saturday at 10pm and Sunday at 7pm. See you there! Jeremy August 26, 2004 Serenity has wrapped, and after tonight's wrap party our BDH will be going their separate ways once again. Jewel updated her blog today and confirmed that Serenity has indeed wrapped. Seems like just yesterday it was green lit. Let's hope Universal keeps it's word to not destroy Serenity (the ship). It was heart breaking when Fox destroyed the first one. We need her in good shape for the sequels and eventual return to TV (or serialized DVDs). August 23, 2004 Nathan, Jewel and Adam plan to attend Dragon Con First it was just Jewel, and I was tempted, then Adam said he was going too, and I was very tempted, now our Captain's announced he's gonna be there... Uh oh! Time to check the credit limit on my American Express. Anyone looking for a roommate? Filming on Serenity wraps this week By this time next week, our Big Damn Heros will have gone their separate ways. And presumably Universal will be packing up the set for Serenity. Kinda sad, if you ask me. Let's make sure this week is not the last time they are all together. Say after me... Sequel-sequel-sequel! August 15, 2004 Photos and Blog from Joss Whedon's Q & A at Wizard World Chicago MZ's blog about his days at WWC. August 8, 2004 Adam posts Serenity movie update Over at the OB, Adam Baldwin posted some good news and an update of what they'll be up to the remainder of filming on Serenity (mini-tiny spoilers).
All new guerilla marketing ideas posted I just updated the Guerilla Marketing section with all of the ideas you've all been sending in. So please read 'em and do 'em. Let's get the buzz buzzing! July 27, 2004 San Diego Comic Con; Serenity Reports I got back from San Diego Comic Con last night. And all I can say is this; if Universal doesn't re-up for at least one sequel they are nuts! MP3 audio recording of the session (Thanks David!). [Temporarily removed due to space constraints, I'll repost it soon] Video hopefully coming soon (sans the trailer, for copyright reasons). July 19, 2004 Joss Whedon and Serenity Cast at Comic Con; Joss Whedon and several unnamed actors from Serenity are going to be talking about Serenity at Comic Con in San Diego this Sunday. I'm driving down on down Wed, so I'll be there for the whole 4 days. If you are planning on coming, please sign in, we need to plan an informal Browncoat meet up. Probably Saturday night. July 17, 2004 Animated Serenity Prequel? As I pointed out in my blog, I over heard some talk about an animated prequel to the movie that will help bridge the gap between the TV series and the movie. Very cool, can't wait to see all of our hotties animation style! July 15, 2004 Serenity Extras tell their stories I'm back from my experience of a lifetime. My blogs are here and here. And here is a thread on FireflyFans.net summarizing all the other extras' blogs thus far. July 9, 2004 Firefly Gets Big in Serenity Scfi.com interviews Alan Tudyk (Wash) about Serenity. (Spoilers!) Jewel Staite (Kaylee) updates her website with new Serenity Blog entry No news updates until Wednesday There will be no news updates until next Wednesday. Cause I have this small movie to go appear in. *brushing up on my Chinese, just in case* July 6, 2004 New Serenity photos and blog on the official Universal site. News from the set has been a bit slow for the last week. So sorry for the lack of updates. Universal has come to the rescue and updated the official blog with info and some photos courtesy Adam Baldwin. The info and one of the photos are a bit spoilery so beware. Non-spoilery highlights:
On a related note, I just found out that my 15 minutes of fame as an extra on Serenity this coming Monday will be filmed on stage 12! Yup the very same stage as Serenity. If I wasn't such a manly man, I think I'd just faint.... *faint* Wha...what happened? June 25, 2004 I'm back from the Serenity Fitting.My costuming story (with pics). Jewel's latest Blogs at the OB and FireflyFans.net.
June 24, 2004 I'm in Serenity!!!!! Thanks to Sasha, Chris and Bob, I'm in the BDM (Big Damn Movie). Thank you so much! I'm jetting off to LA 6AM tomorrow morning for a fitting, then I'm back on the 12th for the actual filming. I'm so excited, I'm at a loss for words. Serenity Movie official site has gone LIVE! I haven't even had time to look but apparently there are some spoilers in the blogs. So tread carefully. News will be slow while I'm in LA for my fitting tomorrow. Thanks again to those that helped me get the extra role. June 21, 2004 Adam Baldwin's humorous story about an accident on the set of Serenity,
Jewel, if you need help getting that Laptop working smooth as silk, I'd be happy to stop by the set and get it all configured for you. I'll even throw in a bunch of free training. ;) -- Jeremy Nathan Fillion's Serenity Blog week two,
June 16, 2004 June 15, 2004 Nathan Fillion's first Blog from the set of Serenity
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