Now it becomes clear. “Firefly” will certainly be back, in a way. Starring Nathan Fillion, who had hinted at some kind of revival of the cult-favorite series that lasted less than one season and was revived as a movie, it will be an animated show.
According to Deadline, which broke the news, Marc Guggenheim and Tara Butters will serve as showrunners, and the show will take place between the 2002 TV show and the 2005 feature Serenity. Animation studio ShadowMachine is in charge of the visuals. Fillion’s Collision33 is being developed at the 20th Television Animation.
Fillion was scheduled to share the news at the AwesomeCon event in Washington, D.C., and also expand on the news on his podcast, Once We Were Spacemen, which he and co-star Alan Tudyk (Hoban “Wash” Washburn) launched in November.
Last week, Fillion hinted that something was afoot in a cryptic social media video with co-stars Gina Torres (Zoe Washburn), Morena Baccarin (Inara Serra), Sean Maher (Dr. Simon Tam), Summer Glau (River Tam), Jewel Staite (Cailie Frye), and Adam Baldwin (Jane Cobb).
Set 500 years into the future during a global civil war, Firefly follows the fate of the spaceship Serenity and its nine-person crew in 2517. After its first release in 2002, it grew into a cult phenomenon.
Fox canceled the show after 11 episodes, mainly due to low ratings. In its original review, Variety wrote of Firefly: “Sassy and charming, Joss Whedon’s attempt to blend auteur and Star Trek is silly enough and works, and there’s nothing quite like it on TV.”
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