Hopefully The Wife and I will be seeing Serenity tonight. I’m really interested to see how Whedon treats the Firefly universe as a movie, and where the whole River thing goes.
I’m inclined to like this movie, just because Firefly was pretty much the best sci-fi on TV in years, and one of the better shows in general. So, of course Fox screwed it up.
Anyway, review tomorrow assuming we get in.
Oh, and here’s the remarkably bland marketingspeak synopsys that the marketing company insists I include:
Joss Whedon, the Oscar® – and Emmy – nominated writer/director
responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE
VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion
and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the
future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film
centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the
losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living
pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship,
Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing
he has left to family –squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.
Wow. I’m all aflutter. That’s powerful writing.
