Although we didn’t know it would be the final roundup, the movie works just fine as a sendoff. Serenity played like a bigger-budget, more action-packed installment of the show, but the heart and humor of the series remained intact. But that only made Joss Whedon’s acclaimed series all the more special - like a cool secret only you and a few friends knew about. As opposed to Star Trek, another cult sci-fi show that transitioned to movies, Firefly/ Serenity didn’t become a cinematic franchise. It was only fitting that the movie followed in the show’s footsteps by failing to cross over into the mainstream.īut if you loved Firefly - and, more specifically, loved the ship’s crew, which included Mal, his loyal second-in-command Zoe (Gina Torres), her sarcastic pilot husband Wash (Alan Tudyk), and the rugged enforcer Jayne (Adam Baldwin) - then the film offered one more chance to get back in the saddle with this ornery, big-hearted crew. That film, appropriately called Serenity, hit theaters on Sept. Just a few years after the series ended its run, the crew of Serenity made the leap to the big screen for a feature film that gave the show a more proper goodbye. I got to act mean and curmudgeonly.”īeloved cult shows get canceled all the time, but few of them end up having the happy afterlife that Firefly enjoyed. “What wasn’t great about it? I got to wear a low-slung holster. The show got pulled from the schedule because of low ratings - not all of the episodes even made it to air - but almost a decade later, he still had nothing but fond memories. In 2011, Nathan Fillion was reminiscing about playing Mal Reynolds, the rugged, wisecracking captain on the Joss Whedon-created sci-fi/Western series Firefly, which aired on Fox from September to December 2002. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
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