Wow. Currently if you go to the Apple QuickTime front page, there's an ad for the Serenity trailer. It mentions that it's an Apple exclusive.

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eta: Was Joss involved in the creation of the trailer?

...hi -istas. It's been a while.

But there's no supermodel in the movie, nor a Bruce Willis

There might still be crazy opera, though. (That was my favorite part of The 5th Element.)

I was disctracted by his M. Bison-style shoulder pads.

I really want a Firefly tournament fighter, all capcom-style. Whee.

I'm guessing (hoping) they're playing down the Western aspects for the trailer to try to appeal to a wider audience but they'll be more present in the actual movie.

This is my guess, too.

Oh, it's so pretty! I want to send another assload of goodies to Allyson and Kiba and everyone who pushed and pushed and kept FF visible and played any part at all in making Serenity possible.

Don't forget Kristen. In lieu of goodies, I would accept recommendations of Dragon*Con roomies.

....which is a terrible segue into my question of the day - are any of you going to Dragon*Con and looking to share a room? Because I am. Myself and my friend Lauren (a lovely Bronzer) will be down (she's Canadian!) and want to save as much money as possible so we can afford ridiculously overpriced convention food!

...I also love the River-on-the-Ceiling bit.

But possibly my favorite thing was the high rate of flying-car-viewings. Joss has that thing, with the flying cars.

Which reminds me that Fray 7 & 8 are sitting in Chapel Hill waiting for me.

Buffistas, you are excellent excellent people.

Kiba! Good to see you around these parts.

I want to send another assload of goodies to Allyson and Kiba and everyone who pushed and pushed and kept FF visible and played any part at all in making Serenity possible.

If just once, Joss Whedon would remember who I am, that'd be enough.

Signed,

Tired, bitter, and resigned

Back when I was slinging popcorn and splicing reels of film together to put myself through grad school, unless there was an exclusive promotional deal tying a coming soon to an already showing, we were allowed to put any trailer in front of any movie regardless of studio, distributor, or anything else. Management liked to put sci fi on sci fi, though.

Management liked to put sci fi on sci fi, though.

Ooh. Hot scifi-on-scifi action....

Allyson, you don't strike me as the huggy type, but that was so sad I just have to:

{{Allyson}}

It's hard for me to imagine that Joss doesn't know who you are and appreciate you, but if that is the case, it is his loss.

Hot scifi-on-scifi action....

GenYay!

You know it seems a lot of people seem to base whether or not they want to see the movie based on Joss. You have those people who seem to think he can do no wrong and follow blindly while others seen to think he's wildly overated.

There are plenty of other reasons to see Serenity.

If you're a fan of the show, you'll want to learn more about unanswered questions surrounding Book and River or you just may simply want to see these characters do what they do.

You'll want to support Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin who post on Firefly message boards and the rest of the cast for being generous to Firefly "flans" whether online or at cons. You'll want to support Chris Buchanan for making sure there were even boards left to post at.

You might just appreciate good science fiction in a unique universe that's more than just another crew on another ship.

Or you may want to flip off the suits who cancelled the show to prove maybe their viewing models should be changed. You can teach them that loyalty is to be earned and nurtured and if you're patient that loyalty will be mighty. I can think of no better way to thumb your nose at FOX than to buy a ticket to Serenity.

Beej, due to timing (score isn't recorded until film is all cut, and trailers often come out before that time), they almost never use music from the actual film in trailers. They actually use music from OTHER movies on a regular basis. Freaky, but there you go.

A friend of mine actually had his music used in one of the trailers for one of the Matrix movies - Reloaded, I believe it was.