Serenity: Collector's Edition DVD Review
8/18/2007 Posted by Admin
On Tuesday, Universal will release its new 2-disc collector's edition of the excellent sci-fi film, "Serenity." The set includes several all-new bonus features, the best of which is the featurette "A Filmmaker's Journey," in which director Joss Whedon explores the journey from script to screen, and "Sci-Fi Inside," in which host Adam Baldwin explores how the television show rose from the ashes to be turned into a movie (hint: the series' die-hard fans helped).
With a sequel rumored to be in the works, this collector's edition can only fuel those hopes.
The movie is one of our recent sci-fi favorites.
August 18, 2007 at 10:59 PM
Excellent review. By the way, a sequel to Serenity is indeed in the works. Rumors be damned!
August 18, 2007 at 11:01 PM
Thanks, Steve. If you can share particulars on the sequel, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Chris
August 18, 2007 at 11:03 PM
Very psyched!
August 19, 2007 at 12:18 AM
By the way, a sequel to Serenity is indeed in the works.
No, it isn't.
August 19, 2007 at 12:27 AM
That's not what I heard. I heard that there was a sequel going forward. Why do you say there isn't?
August 19, 2007 at 12:28 AM
The one True b!x:
Could you give us some insight? Seems there's a disagreement. I'll do some digging myself.
Thanks,
Chris
August 19, 2007 at 1:12 AM
Ok, let's run this through. One thing, and one thing alone, has been said about the notion of a sequel, and that was Joss saying, in essence, that as long as people keep buying what there is, sooner or later someone at Universal will notice the money and say, "Hey, maybe we should do another one or something."
That's it.
Joss is off writing comics and his script for Goners, and a short film ballet for Summer Glau, and a few other things. Universal is waiting on a script for said Goners that it's willing to greenlight.
There is no Serenity sequel in the pipeline. There's simply the new DVD, the loose and general idea that the DVD sales are important because at some point someone will realize there's money to be made by telling another story.
The problem is that, through a process akin to the children's game of "telephone", all of that gets blown up four dozen re-tellings down the line into "there's a sequel!"
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