There are new rumors that a sequel to Serenity is being considered.
From This link:
Apparently, one of the reasons they made the special edition (despite Joss Whedon saying there wouldn’t be one) is that they simply sold out of the first pressing of the movie. And now the special edition is selling extremely well.
It’s certainly not a sure thing - it’s in the ‘There’s a chance’ stage of development. But there’s hope…
Maybe…they could spin the movie off into a TV show? I think Joss did that with an early movie of his…
We did this less than a week ago. Room for more, I suppose, but the original thread is here:
Off on a tangent, but this line - “that’s the name of the “Firefly” movie for those who’ve been up at Guantanamo Bay for the past couple of years” - struck me as hilarious. I realize the writer is an obsessed fanboy who probably wears his browncoat to bed every night but there are probably a few otherwise well-informed people who aren’t aware of what was a short-lived TV series that aired five years ago and the relatively obscure movie about it a couple of years later.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be.
If we can get direct-to-DVD sequels to American Pie (2, with a third coming in December), Starship Troopers (2 of them) and Hollow Man, I have no doubt a Serenity sequel will appear someday.
It’s all about the waiting game…
If they are the quality of the direct-to-DVD sequels of American Pie, every Starship Troopers movie, and Hollow Man, then I’d just as soon they drop the whole idea right now.
The article you linked to is just someone’s interpretation of what Tudyk said - and it seems wrong to me. Tudyk is clearly saying two things - the ‘let’s make another one’ line is clearly referencing the new collector’s edition of Serenity, but Tudyk goes on to say that there is talk of doing another movie. Clearly, this is in the, ‘there’s a glimmer of hope’ stage, and not the, "the movie’s pretty much greenlighted’ stage. But the writer at ain’t it cool is just wrong.
I’ll bet you part of what the suits are thinking is that a couple of the actors have really had their stock rise since the original ‘Serenity’ - particularly Alan Tudyk, who’s about to have big roles in two movies just being released, and who has had several good roles in big films already. Summer Glau is going to star in the midseason show “The Sarah Conner Chronicles”, Adam Baldwin is on ‘Chuck’ and has two movies coming out next year, Nathan Fillion has a movie coming out next year… Between them, they may have enough cast recognition by 2008 to be able to carry a bit more audience than the first time around.
My guess is that if a movie is made, it’ll either be direct to DVD, or it will be a low-budget film aimed at making about what the original Serenity did, but with less cost.
By the way, the first movie has turned a profit. It was made for 40 million, and it grossed 38 million worldwide. So it didn’t quite make up production costs and marketing costs in theatrical release, but it’s been a big hit on DVD, and the DVD sales have pushed it well into the black. It sold over 2 million DVD’s as of a year and a half ago, and at that point the studio had broken even. Given that it’s still selling well enough to warrant a special edition, and that the special edition is apparently selling like gangbusters, it would seem that Serenity could actually turn out to be fairly profitable for the studio.
Given that, the rising stock of the actors, and a larger built-in audience for a sequel than the first movie had, and the potential any sci-fi show has for becoming a franchise, I would imagine that the suits have to be giving serious thought to a sequel.
You just keep thinkin’ Butch. That’s what you’re good at. 
Sequel? Part of me says, “Yes please!”, but part of me also says, “Let it remain a jewel untarnished.” The series was very uneven.
How would they take it forward? Make a new Star Wars out of it?
If anything this will make it less likely another movie would get made especially a direct to DVD movie.
If the actors are seeing some success post-firefly that means the salary bill to get them back is going to be higher. Especially with a large cast like Firefly.
Plus if you were starting to get your foot in the Hollywood door with a few roles - would you go back to making a direct to DVD movie?
Even if they are making another Firefly movie or restarting the series, you have to figure Alan Tudyk is out of the loop.
One word: Flashback.
No, go check out the original moviehole.net article. It’s been updated to say exactly what the aintitcool writer said.
No, it says exactly what -I- said is says. That Tudyk says there’s now a chance that there will be a second movie. Of course, the “let’s do another one!” comment was about the collector’s edition. I never read it any other way. But he goes on to say that there is now a chance that a sequel could be done. That’s what I just said:
Based on how the cast get along on the commentaries and in the outtakes etc, I’d say they’d probably jump at the chance to be reunited, even if it was just as a direct to DVD movie.
From the way they speak of it, you can tell they love the series and have a lot of respect for the fans.
Interesting, but I’d settle at the moment for finding the last disc from the Firefly boxset I lost somewhere amongst my sister’s DVDs :rolleyes:
Reading some of Nathan Fillion’s post Firefly/Serenity interviews really makes it sound like he has a wild man-crush on Joss Whedon.
If Joss is involved in any way (and I’d imagine the suits have to know he’d have to be at least involved in developing the story), Mal might do the movie for free.