Current State Of The Firefly Movie
Taken from www.countingdown.com:
CFQ: What are the odds of a movie version? I know there was the whole announcement that Universal was going to make a movie....
JOSS WHEDON: That was a little premature as there is no green light. I can't play the odds, I can't really count the odds. They're not bad. The interest is genuine. It's up to me to turn out a script that's worth making, which is what I'm busily trying to do. I'm dealing with good, smart people, which is both good and bad. It's good because of the interest they've shown, but it's bad because I can't pull one over on them. So it's really up to me to see if that works and I should know soon.
CFQ: It's fairly unusual for a studio like Fox to relinquish the rights for another studio to pick it up.
JOSS WHEDON: It was extremely gracious of them and unexpected. A lot of people were, like, 'Nobody would do that.' I think they felt bad that it didn't work out, however that may have happened, and didn't want to get in the way of something they knew I was that passionate about, which I really, really appreciate. I do have a contract with them, and you could say this was smart business. People can do smart business in two ways, and one of them is the gracious way, which is as rare as it is beautiful.
One thing that Whedon does know is that a proposed Firefly: The Movie has the challenge of being a true hybrid of two media. "It's not just a bigger budget," he offers. "Coming up with an idea and seeing it through to screenplay is the hardest thing I've tried to do, because the show is designed as a show, and the movie needs to be true to that and completely separated from the series. You need a story that's bigger than life. What's great is that the show was always about the idea that these guys were actual size and not bigger than life. So to take them and put them in a situation that is so dire - as the one in the movie is - is kind of where the fun and tension comes from. The fate of the world is in the hands of these schlemiels, and that's always exciting."
Taken from www.countingdown.com:
CFQ: What are the odds of a movie version? I know there was the whole announcement that Universal was going to make a movie....
JOSS WHEDON: That was a little premature as there is no green light. I can't play the odds, I can't really count the odds. They're not bad. The interest is genuine. It's up to me to turn out a script that's worth making, which is what I'm busily trying to do. I'm dealing with good, smart people, which is both good and bad. It's good because of the interest they've shown, but it's bad because I can't pull one over on them. So it's really up to me to see if that works and I should know soon.
CFQ: It's fairly unusual for a studio like Fox to relinquish the rights for another studio to pick it up.
JOSS WHEDON: It was extremely gracious of them and unexpected. A lot of people were, like, 'Nobody would do that.' I think they felt bad that it didn't work out, however that may have happened, and didn't want to get in the way of something they knew I was that passionate about, which I really, really appreciate. I do have a contract with them, and you could say this was smart business. People can do smart business in two ways, and one of them is the gracious way, which is as rare as it is beautiful.
One thing that Whedon does know is that a proposed Firefly: The Movie has the challenge of being a true hybrid of two media. "It's not just a bigger budget," he offers. "Coming up with an idea and seeing it through to screenplay is the hardest thing I've tried to do, because the show is designed as a show, and the movie needs to be true to that and completely separated from the series. You need a story that's bigger than life. What's great is that the show was always about the idea that these guys were actual size and not bigger than life. So to take them and put them in a situation that is so dire - as the one in the movie is - is kind of where the fun and tension comes from. The fate of the world is in the hands of these schlemiels, and that's always exciting."