With the news that the Veronica Mars kickstarter reached it’s target of two million dollars in less than a day (news that I didn’t cover because I just don’t understand why people care about Veronica Mars) our thoughts turned to other beloved and cancelled series that might be Kickstartered. Series like Firefly or… Firefly or maybe… Firefly? I’m sure there are other series. Somewhere there’s someone writing an impassioned letter to get Party Down kickstartered. But obviously the thing we all care about is Firefly. And while any rational human could probably list, like, a million reasons why this wouldn’t really work, we’re not rational when it comes to Firefly. Because it’s Firefly.
So it falls to Joss Whedon to remind us that “Dude, that’s probably not gonna happen.” Nathan Fillion’s still making Castle, Joss Whedon is not only making another Avengers, but shepherding all the other Marvel movies to make sure that Marvel is the best it can be. Adam Baldwin is busy writing ridiculously offensive right wing propaganda on Twitter (seriously, what’s going on there?) and everyone else is doing… things, I’m sure. So if it ever does happen, it won’t be for years. And we’re already more than ten years out. We’re getting close to Firefly: The Next Generation every day.
Then there’s the fact that it’s an expensive show. The movie cost forty million dollars. That’s substantially more than Veronica Mars’s two million. We don’t know how much the show cost, estimates place it at a million dollars an episode, which is slightly more reasonable, if you’re happy with a movie around the quality of an episode of the show, but you figure a lot of that had to be props or sets whose cost was spread out over several episodes, and would ratchet the cost of a movie up substantially. So unless you have a lot of cash laying around, this probably isn’t really happening.
Plus you still have to buy the rights from Fox or Universal, or possibly both, I don’t know how those contracts with out. Probably Fox if it’s a show, Universal if it’s a movie, unless maybe the movie rights reverted back to Fox at some point? Too complicated for me. That can’t be cheap either. Let’s just let it go, and hope that Whedon has an excuse to cast Summer Glau for some role in the Avengers 2. That’s really the best were going to get.
