Before watching the movie I'd seen two episodes of the show. One of which being "The Train Job", which was by far the worst episode in the series (that's the one Joss wrote to prove to Fox that he could dumb things down and make it a straight space western). The movie is what made me fall in love with the characters and their universe.

I just wished I'd been there from the start, as it would have been great to have been a part of the movement that got that movie made.

The movie was good, and the show was really quite excellent. It's really too bad there were only 13 episodes.

It's on my favorite movies list ;)

The 39 million is all production fees and no marketing and distribution so we really have no clue how much it actually cost.  But if DVD sales were good something could happen but it's not very likely.  I mean hey the fans were the ones that urged Joss Whedon to do the movie in the first place so you never know.

I thought the trailers looked interesting and rented the movie without ever having seen Firefly, and loved it.  Much later, I bought the Firefly DVD boxset on the recommendation of a friend, and also loved it.  I'm not a "Joss Whedon fan" either; I have never seen an episode of Buffy and had not really been aware of his other works.

First, sadly, a new movie just isn't possible at the moment. Joss has stated for the record that he doesn't want to return to the Firefly universe again, and really, that's all right. I like the guy's preference for not milking a particular universe for all it's worth. (See the dismal state of the Star Trek universe for an example of something that jumped the shark over a decade ago due to new series/movies and such.) He even left the popular Buffy/Angelverse to do other things, when he could have just ridden that cash cow for the rest of his life.

That said, Firefly could have been a stellar series, but it got canned before it could really take off. Given the fact that Joss' TV series seem to be increasingly less episodic after the first season, I can only imagine what awesome direction the show would have taken. But, it could be worse. Serenity gave the short-lived series a satisfactory ending, and wrapped up pretty much every burning question about the characters. (Well, except for Book's true identity, but he got killed off anyway.) How many canceled-after-the-first-season shows get that sort of treatment?

This deserves a million bumps. I just saw the whole series and saw the movie months ago. This series deserved more popularity, the episodes are just ridiculously amazing. It pains me to see this off the air and shit like MTV road rules or whatever still on t.v. And I wanna see Jewel Staite in more episodes, she was so good in that role.............. I never thought I would like a sci fi show that much, but then again it wasn't a normal sci-fi. I liked every single character. The last episode was kick ass. When River was talking to Jubal Early: "You've made Serenity angry", I almost crapped myself at the awesomeness. And, in Our Mrs. Reynolds, I felt so stupid because I just didn't see it coming, lol. Epic, and will get DVD's and the comics. Oh by the way, the new comics are either out or will be in a matter of days.

I actually liked the tv series more than the movie.

Never saw the TV show (didn´t air in germany and I didn´t want to rent or buy it) but the movie is realy great :)