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Monday, September 26, 2005

Feeling serene

Conservative megasite Townhall.com is sponsoring screenings of Serenity (official website here), the new Joss Whedon film based on his sci-fi Western TV show Firefly this evening, and I'm expecting to be in attendence.

This film has been through multiple rounds of screenings, building excitement from the small-but-dedicated fanbase (who, like all good nerd cliques, have a name: Browncoats).

Anyway, Firefly was clever and fun, a sarcastic blending of both satire and homage to science fiction and western tropes that also managed to present some compelling ideas about government and social justice without ever descending into speechifying punditry. Reviews of the various Serenity screenings have so far been mostly positive, and with the addition of Chiwetal Ejiofor - so great in Dirty Pretty Things - to the cast, I'm expecting good things. My full review will be up at Relevant next week sometime, but for now, here's the official word:

Joss Whedon, the Oscar® - and Emmy - nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family –squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.

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