Is Joss Whedon’s sci-fi western “Firefly” making some sort of comeback?
The short-lived series may have only lasted a season, but all these years on still has its fans and certainly helped the careers of some of its key actors like Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Jewel Staite, Adam Baldwin and Summer Glau.
Fillion starred in the series as Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a former soldier turned smuggler and captain of Serenity, a ship living on the fringes of 26th-century society running small-time smuggling operations and other odd jobs. Despite the presence of spaceships, the show is otherwise played as an essentially straight western.
Eleven episodes aired in late 2022 on FOX, with the show cancelled – three further episodes were released the following year on the Sci-Fi Channel, completing the story arc. The film “Serenity” followed in 2005, which offered closure.
In recent days, mysterious video posts have been added to Fillion and Tudyk’s Instagram account Once We Were Spacemen, posts in which Fillion visits the various actors while catchphrases and callbacks to the show are spouted.
All of the post teases some sort of major announcement coming next weekend on March 15th. Fillion has also already ruled out some possibilities, saying: “Some of you have guessed convention, podcast, or crossover. You are wrong.”
The mystery has spurred chatter about a potential resurrection of the series, be it a streaming film, an animated web series, or something else. What is it? We’ll find out next week.
