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Serenity Flies Again in Firefly 15th Anniversary Video
A new video honors the 15th anniversary of the ground-breaking television show Firefly. The tribute was produced by Zoic Studios - an Emmy Award-winning visual effects company, whose first major project after their establishment in 2002 was providing the special effects for the science fiction series.
Produced by Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, Firefly was set in a future that resembled the frontier of post-Reconstruction America more than the final frontier of Star Trek. The action of the series focused upon Serenity - a Firefly-class shuttle, whose captain and crew took on odd-jobs of varying levels of legality, while working under the noses of a fascist central government called The Alliance. Airing on Friday nights, with its episodes played out-of-order and its pilot being the last episode ever aired, the series was quickly cancelled, though it developed a cult following after the entire series was released on DVD. This led to a sequel film, Serenity, which resolved most of the television series' on-going story lines, as well as a number of role-playing games, board games and several comic book mini-series.
The highlight of the anniversary reel by Zoic Studios is its opening sequence, which presents the first new footage of Serenity in over a decade. The video opens with a camera panning across a desert landscape before Serenity comes into view, and we follow it into space, as Nathan Fillion's closing monologue from Serenity plays.
The rest of the video features a number of the best scenes from Firefly and Serenity. These include both intense action sequences, for which Zoic Studios provided the digital effects (such as the famous "Leaf on the Wind" scene from Serenity) as well as several of the show's best light-hearted moments. These are over-dubbed with some of the show's more memorable comedic lines, such as Alan Tudyk's dramatic first lines... which are then revealed to be him talking to his toy dinosaurs.
Sadly, this is probably the last original footage for Firefly that fans can expect to ever see. While rumors of a reunion movie or a series revival have persisted for years, most of the original cast have said it wouldn't be right to try and continue the show without Ron Glass, who played the role of Shepherd Book and passed on in 2016. Despite this, Fox has expressed interest in rebooting the series but has said they will only do so with Joss Whedon's involvement. Given that Whedon has said he has no interest in reviving or rebooting the series at this point, that would seem to be a final and definitive answer. Regardless, the show will live on forever in the hearts of Browncoats around the 'Verse.
