Joss post at the official Serenity Board:
Well boys and girls and boys dressed as girls and girls dressed as Kaylee, the time is almost upon us. This Friday we take that old rust-bucket out of the shipyard and see if she can breach atmo. It's been a long (to paraphrase a band I like) strange trip, and it'll be nice finally to show everybody what it is we've been tinkering with all this time. You already know you have my thanks, from the hardcore fans to the softcore... fans.... let me try that again. From the people manning the booths, buying DVD sets for their friends, getting banners seen everywhere on Australian TV, raffling artwork for ticketholders (Adam Hughes, take a bow), to the most casual fan who just wants to see the flick and won't ever even read this. You guys are the fuel in the engine, the Fire in the Fly, the weird green stuff coming out of Serenity's butt. (Hmmm. Forget that last one. I'm a little bit out of control here.)
Everyone needs something to keep them going. Mal has his ship. Zoe has her integrity. Jayne has Vera. And I've got you guys.
So what now? There have been so many posts about seeing it, seeing it again, the first weekend, the second weekend, being enthusiastic without being obnoxious (and yes, it IS hard to see over the pom-pom of a Jayne hat), buying tickets in advance, making a noise... I honestly wouldn't know what to add. I can tell you this: the movie will play in about 2200 hundred theaters, which is a good number. Too many, and you get empty theaters with no energy -- not enough, and you get, well, not enough. It may be hard to find in some areas but it'll be out there. Leave no multiplex unturned! This is going to be a ground war, peeps -- we have to hold the valley for a long while. However it opens, it needs to HOLD. Instead of the Alliance we'll be fighting viewer apathy, fear of something new, the urge to wait for DVD, and Jessica Alba in a bikini. (Although I have it on good authority that she spends 90% of the film in a huge wooly parka. Make sure that gets out.)
The day this puppy opens, I'll be seeing it with my family (don't worry, there's a lot of them, and they're all paying) and then I'm off to Europe to learn the word 'Browncoats' in nine different languages -- 'cause like I said, it's all about holding. I'll never be far from a computer, though, so I can check in with y'all. Thanks for every damn thing.
And remember, amidst all the urgency to make this an event, all the work and the worry, to take two hours and just enjoy yourself. That is, after all, what all this fighting's about.
-joss.
Leave no multiplex unturned! This is going to be a ground war, peeps -- we have to hold the valley for a long while. However it opens, it needs to HOLD. Instead of the Alliance we'll be fighting viewer apathy, fear of something new, the urge to wait for DVD, and Jessica Alba in a bikini.
Sometimes he needs to chill. 2200 is less than I would expect but that's an interesting theory about filled theatres.
Week-end movie scheds are out, and the nearest theatre is about 30 miles away from me. Not too bad, but considering that Emily Rose is STILL playing around the corner from me, a tad disappointing.
The guy who draws Real Life put up his account of going to the red carpet premier: [link]
Joss apparently saw the strips he drew last week and thanked the artist for not making him look fat.
If any of you guys have G4, turn it on.
Attack of the Show
will have a segment on
Serenity.
If you miss it now, it'll re-air at noon tomorrow. And probably some other time.
Also, if anyone else is like me and missed the first showing of the SciFi channel's Serenity special, and then fell asleep during the second one, it looks like it'll be rebroadcast at 1:00 am (Eastern time) Friday night/Saturday morning.
it looks like it'll be rebroadcast at 1:00 am (Eastern time) Friday night/Saturday morning.
Oh, thank you! Because my DVR is kind of wonky, and I have a tech guy coming on Friday, but if he has to replace my DVR, I'll lose the recording. I was saving it for after the movie so I don't get spoiled.
The
Serenity
segment is about fifteen minutes in (after the first commercial break), and it's pretty nice. Short interviews with Joss, Nathan and Morena, and Adam and Jewel (though she doesn't say anything). The clips are pretty much all ones we've seen in trailers, so it's not spoilery. They also show clips from the Joss video for the special screenings and clips of fans at Comic-Con and such.
The old "the fans made it happen" statement is repeated, and Kevin notes that the Browncoat hype has made
him
feel the buzz, so that's cool.
Nice segment.
A fun, positive, and non-spoilery review from the Dallas Observer.
During one preview screening, a colleague who'd never seen the show--a campy-quirky take on John Ford's Stagecoach, set 500 years in a future run by the Alliance, which isn't to be confused with the Empire or the Federation--leaned over and asked, "Was the show this good?"
...Expect a sequel; hell, maybe Serenity will spawn its own TV series, too. Oh, wait.
Google News is listing Serenity reviews in its Entertainment section. Since GN is bot driven, it gives you some indication of the popularity of the topic right now.
Oh yeah, right now this is the "headline" link at Google News: [link]
Serenity Now!: Whedon Flips Off Fox in Clever Space-Western
