Browncoats are some of the most die-hard fans you can find in the sci-fi genre these days and you’d better believe that they are serious when they say that they want to help Nathan Fillion aka Captain Malcolm Reynolds buy the rights to Joss Whedon’s cult hit series, Firefly.
Fan reaction was jubilant in reaction to the Science Channel’s announcement to broadcast the canceled space western and mighty swift in response to Fillion’s statement that he’d be more than willing to play Mal again and that if he won the California lottery, “the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it my own, and distribute it on the Internet.”
Fans have created a website and a Facebook page to garner support for the cause, enlisting fans to pledge their support (pledge system to be available in a few days.) Jose Molina, currently a producer of SyFy’s Haven and previously a producer for Castle and writer on two Firefly episodes, threw in his support with this tweet:
“For what it’s worth, I’ve told him I’d drop what I was doing and follow.”
Jane Espensen, creator of SyFy’s Warehouse 13, writer of a Firefly episode, and co-executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica, stepped in line with Molina, tweeting:
“I’m there, if needed.”
It probably would not cost $300 million to buy the rights of Firefly, but 20th Century Fox isn’t likely to sell the rights at this time. However, such a display of fan support might make the studio think about continuing the ‘verse of Firefly… if only the stars could align for Joss Whedon and the entire original cast to be available at the same time! Keep the signal going, folks.
[Source] EW
