# Possible new Firefly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403 "2017-02-09T19:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/1 "2017-02-09T19:14:49Z")
[Article here](https://moviepilot.com/p/fox-announcement-firefly-reboot/4205317). Basically, a Fox exec has said that they’re onboard if Joss Whedon is. That’d be very cool! Probably unlikely, but very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/2 "2017-02-09T19:31:27Z")
Eh. The show was about the characters, not the setting. Two of them are dead in-universe (one actor in reality) and the rest have aged out of the “young adventurer” demographic, so having them all still hanging out together on the same spaceship 15 years later is not only implausible but rather sad. The (space)ship has sailed. The only way _Firefly_ should be continued it to go back in time and not cancel it. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/3 "2017-02-09T19:35:55Z")
They could pull it off. Could be older and wiser versions of the old characters, or with proper writing and direction, new actors to play the characters. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/4 "2017-02-09T19:36:05Z")
I hope not. Firefly is done, and no reboot will ever capture lightning in a bottle quite that way. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/5 "2017-02-09T19:38:58Z")
Watch [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKEOlPrNGTo) video. It’ll give a bit of the feel of a rebooted _Firefly_ verses the original. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/6 "2017-02-09T21:32:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I hope not. > > Firefly is done, and no reboot will ever capture lightning in a bottle quite that way. Agreed. As much as I loved Firefly – and as much as all of the actors, and Whedon, loved it – I’d be very skeptical that a revival now would have much of a chance of success. I wouldn’t want to see younger actors in a reboot, either. ---
**Author:** ![Frumpy\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Frumpy\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumpy_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/7 "2017-02-09T21:42:10Z")
I think it’s been too long. I mean… yes, Gilmore Girls came back… but still… Maybe like that, or like when they brought back Rockford Files for short movie-based episodes… But maybe for this cast it’s been too long. That said, I still think they should flesh-out Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog… That still has feet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/8 "2017-02-09T22:11:46Z")
I’ve heard fans bandy about the idea of an animated series. That, I think, just might be able to work. But I can’t see them pulling it off with the live-action show. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/9 "2017-02-09T22:17:47Z")
I think it could work for another one-shot movie, but a series seems like a bad idea at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/10 "2017-02-09T22:20:10Z")
Meh, just have Fillion, Tudyk, Staite, and the others join the Expanse cast and I’ll be happy. ---
**Author:** ![Frumpy\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Frumpy\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumpy_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/11 "2017-02-09T22:22:56Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’ve heard fans bandy about the idea of an animated series. That, I think, just might be able to work. But I can’t see them pulling it off with the live-action show. Unless the animated series is done with motion capture (Especially of facial reactions) I don’t see it working. It was the actors/script that made it, which is true for most Joss Vehicles. It’s why it sucked donkey balls when Wash died ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/12 "2017-02-10T01:39:01Z")
I think it would have to involve a partially new cast. Nathan’s character, and a few more of the old cast, can be the older characters in a half new crew. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/13 "2017-02-10T01:59:27Z")
I’d vote for new characters and stories in the same universe. The original cast members could be worked in. The writing would have to be as good as the original. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/14 "2017-02-10T02:06:37Z")
I agree with River Hippie. I don’t see it working any other way. New characters, different Firefly. It’s the VW Microbus of the 'Verse. Let’s see more stories about the people who have flown in one. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-new-firefly/779403/15 "2017-02-10T02:19:34Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I’d vote for new characters and stories in the same universe. The original cast members could be worked in. The writing would have to be as good as the original. Yeah, I think that’s the only way this could work. Even then the Fox Network should have as little to do with in as possible.