Crushing the hopes of Browncoats, Joss Whedon contends the runaway success of the Kickstarter for a Veronica Mars movie “doesn’t just open the floodgates” for a campaign to fund a Serenity sequel.
Nathan Fillion, Jewel Staite and Sean Maher met a packed auditorium at New York Comic Con to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Joss Whedon’s space Western Firefly, promote the Science Channel reunion … and hint at the show’s future.
The Science Channel will screen footage from Firefly 10th Anniversary Browcoats Unite Oct. 13 at New York Comic Con ahead of its Nov. 11 television premiere.
Spinning out of my ongoing fascination with the idea of canon – both “official” and personal – my attention wanders back to expanded universe spin-offs from long-running franchises. What happens when the original source material is overwhelmed by the peripheral?
The Avengers director Joss Whedon says he’s unsure about returning to helm the sequel to Marvel’s $1-billion blockbuster, admitting, “It’s an enormous amount of work telling what is ultimately somebody else’s story.”
Well-established as a killer of beloved characters, from Joyce Summers to Shepherd Book to Winifred Burkle, writer/director Joss Whedon comes clean about a certain turn of events in Marvel’s The Avengers. WARNING: SPOILERS!
The new rumors about what might be happening in Marvel’s Avengers movie – brought on by reports of an already-filmed teaser trailer that may accompany either Thor or Captain America in theaters – underline the ongoing problem with superhero sequels (and, for that matter, Joss Whedon films).
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