Hollywood Reporter say Joss has gotten the go-ahead to turn the show into a movie:
Yay! Yippee! Wahoo! and W00t!
Daniel
Yeah, what he said.
Rock on!!
Suck this, Fox. 
It’s been a long fight and it’s really nice to see Fox’s nose rubbed in it!
There should be little trouble getting most of the cast back. Nathan Fillion still calls himself “Cappy” online.
That’s damn good news. Might be a good time for me to do a marathon viewing of the tv show, too…
I saw this yesterday. And you can’t see me right now, but I’m spinning around on my chair while great showers of happy sparks fly out of my ears.
Okay, not really.
Finally, concrete evidence of a just and loving God. If y’all will excuse me, I’m going to Church now.
And don’t forget the DVD set coming out in December.
Just goes to show that a bunch of suits can’t keep a great show down. Long live Firefly! Let’s hope this is the start of a new franchise.
Will this be a theatre movie or a TV movie? I can’t really think that Firefly will make a producer see dollar signs, since it’s got more of a cult following instead of a large audience. But maybe if Whedon promises to have more scenes of Kaylee chasing River all over the ship, it’ll fly.
get it? FLY??? I kill me! HAH!
This argument seems to pop up in any thread related to a Firefly movie: the TV show failed, so why do people think the movie will do well? The problem with this argument is that it implies that, for a movie to be succesful, it has to be based on a succesful TV show. Star Wars had no pre-established fan base. Lucas didn’t even have a reputation as an sf filmmaker. 2001 didn’t have a TV show, and ditto for Kubrick. The same goes for E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Matrix, and many, many more. Certainly, the small size of the established Firefly fanbase won’t give it the sort of boost that helped establish the Star Trek movie franchise, but it’s certainly no worse off out of the gate than any wholly original sf movie.
Oh, and yes, the plan is for a theatrical release, although really any celebration before the film lands in theaters (or, really, before the report on the first week’s gross comes in) is premature. There are still a lot of pitfalls between now and then.
Theatrical!!! So we dould get some more nudity. (Morena Baccarin nude! Heart, be still!)
I’m not surprised it’s doing well in Great Britain. Fox was SO dumb cancelling this show before the overseas markets saw it. Some people over here dismissed it as a western in space but can you imagine how gaga the Germans, for instance, would go over a WESTERN in space?
As I spent much of my absence from the SDMB at a Firefly site, proving incidentally that it was internet access and my addictive personality and nothing intrinsic about the SDMB that made me such an addict, I missed any discussions here of the show and its themes. Were there any? I tried searching and couldn’t find any.
Man, if Joss can get me and Sam Stone in wholehearted agreement about an issue, that bastard can do ANYTHING.
As for nudity – c’mon, now. Who on that cast wouldn’t you want to see naked? A hottier bunch of hotties I’ve never seen.
I would, obviously, love for the movie to jump-start the TV show; as Miller points out, it’s a little early to be counting chickens. Still, I’m very very hopeful; this is the most excited I’ve been about a movie announcement since…
…um…
…since I first heard about Alien Resurrection.
Please, dear Joss, please let it be coincidence.
Daniel
Sweet!
I’m happy about it, too. I’d be even happier if they made a Buffy movie (not really counting the Kristy Swanson/Luke Perry vehicle–although, IPU forgive me, that movie made me laugh so much with its campiness that it was the entire reason I tuned into the televison series on its premier night) with the television cast.
But Firefly? I’m there. 
Yay! Serenity Now!
Yay! Serenity Now!
Yee ha!
Anyone else think that Universal only agreed to this if Joss Whedon agreed to allow them to make a future Buffy movie, if the cast agreed to one? Seems to be the only thing that makes sense to me.
Giggity!