Disney should buy the rights to Firefly.

Fenris said:
People seem to forget how popular Firefly really wasn't.

Yes there are forums full of nerds like us who heap it with praises but for the most part, it really didn't do very well.
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IIRC the movie did well as did the box set of firefly.

i think they messed around with the schedule for it on US TV which killed viewing numbers.

i really enjoyed FF as did my wife.
 
The movie and boxset did exceptionally well. afaik the movie was one of the highest grossing films.

The tv series was a farce though, fox had the order wrong, aired it at daft times clashing with other programs and generally failed!
 
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The movie did pretty badly (just about broke even) but has done very well on home media, so could point to poor marketing, bad time of year, competiton at the cinema or any number of reasons.
 
Fenris said:
People seem to forget how popular Firefly really wasn't.

Yes there are forums full of nerds like us who heap it with praises but for the most part, it really didn't do very well.
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Exactly. I watched it on DVD, and it's very good, and it could have been much more, but it flopped. The blame largely rests with Fox, who completely mishandled it. The trouble is, who is going to pick up the name and do anything with it now? It is the name of a failure.

It's worth looking at the fate of the original Battlestar Galactica. That aired in 1978, with some further episodes in 1980. It didn't do well. It cost too much to make and it received poor ratings. It had a cult following, sure, and it still maintains that. However, in spite of much pushing for a remake, no one would touch it. Richard Hatch, who played Apollo in the original and Tom Zarek in the new version, pushed for it to be remade, and wrote scripts, novels, etc, but he could never get anyone interested in it. It took until 2003 - nearly 25 years later - for someone to remake it. Now, admittedly, when they did get round to it, it was awesome, and the re-imagined BSG is some of the best telly ever, but the thing to remember is that it took a quarter of a century to get to the point where someone would humour someone wanting to remake a failure. So, I guess we hold out until 2027 and hope for the best.
 
Agreed, I doubt Whedon wants to touch it now anyway, one of those things for fan service that if he/they doesnt/dont get it perfectly right people with say they should have left it alone - its a poisioned chalice...

I thought as far as Whedons concerned getting Serenity out gave him the closure the series needed.

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I watched the Firefly series and film, start to finish and... I dunno. I'm not sure what the fuss is about. The wife kind of liked it, I preferred Battlestar Galactica. I'm a sci-fi/fantasy nerd/fan but not everyone likes the same stuff. I'd prefer new, original Sci Fi series as opposed to nudging and prodding a corpse to coax more life from it. It was canned cause no one watched it (relatively speaking) and I don't think anything would change if anyone resurrected it.

Besides, Disney haven't a great track record with Sci Fi lately. John Carter, Tron Legacy for example. Wanted/tried to like both, failed.
 
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