![]() ![]() ![]() After a rough landing during which pieces of the ship fall off, the crew pulls off the robbery and narrowly avoids capture by a Reaver raiding party because River is able to telepathically sense their approach. In order to earn her continued passage, River accompanies Captain Malcolm Reynolds ( Nathan Fillion), Jayne ( Adam Baldwin), and Zoë ( Gina Torres) on a mission to rob a bank in order steal the payroll of an outer planet security company financed by the Alliance, knowing the crime will likely never be reported. However, the ship is badly in need of repair, and the primary buffer panel comes loose from the ship's bow in the heat of atmospheric re-entry. Sometime later, Serenity is on the way to another job. He orders an assistant to recover the mental conditioning triggers from the databanks as Doctor Mathias dies, and implies he is about to begin his search for the Tam siblings. The Operative lets him fall on the sword, which is standing upright with its hilt planted firmly on the floor as the Operative kneels beside it. He prevents the doctor's attempt to flee by paralyzing him with a pressure-point blow to the side of his torso above his waistline. The Operative quickly kills the doctor's bodyguards with an archaic sword. After the pair escape into a ship, the adventure is revealed to be a recording being viewed by the Operative, an Alliance agent working on behalf of Parliament with unspecified (but clearly very great) authority and responsibility.Īfter a brief discussion between the Operative and Doctor Mathias in charge of the Alliance facility, the Operative accuses the doctor of allowing vital government information to fall into dangerous hands, alluding to River's psychic "gleaning" of Alliance officials who monitored her in person. The film opens with Simon Tam ( Sean Maher) in the process of breaking his sister River ( Summer Glau) out of an Alliance facility where she is being experimented upon. He is horrified by her frail and abused condition. Simon finally rescues River from the Academy. A frontier justice still holds sway farther from the "core planets", where outlaws like the crew of Serenity can scrape out a living if they keep clear of Alliance forces and the Reavers, savage and cannibalistic humans who dwell beyond the outer planets and raid the Alliance worlds around the rim. All the planets are controlled by the supposedly peace-loving, but actually authoritarian, Alliance. Humanity has moved to another star system and terraformed many of the planets. The resources of Earth have been depleted. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. And now everyone can enjoy the comfort, and enlightenment of true civilization." Synopsis The war was devastating, but the Alliance's victory over the Independents ensured a safer universe. The savage outer planets were not so enlightened and refused Alliance control. Ruled by an interplanetary parliament, the Alliance was a beacon of civilization. Each one terraformed - a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new earths. We found a new solar system - dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Prologue " Earth-that-was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many. On SeptemJoss Whedon announced on the movie's official site that shooting had been completed. (The building into which the Alliance ship is crashed is the DRHS Band and Orchestra's rehearsal room.) The set for the failed colony, Miranda, was filmed on location at Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, California. ZOIC, the CG-rendering company that produced the graphics for the series, also had to perform a complete overhaul of their computer model of Serenity, as its television model would not stand up to high-definition cinema screens (and future HD DVD resolution). The entire Firefly set had to be rebuilt from scratch for the film, using frozen images from the Firefly DVD set. All nine principal cast members from the television series ( Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, Nathan Fillion, Ron Glass, Sean Maher, and Summer Glau) returned for the movie. Joss Whedon said that the film would be released as Serenity, in order to differentiate it from the TV series. Principal photography started on June 3, 2004. On March 2, 2004, according to an article in Variety, the movie was officially greenlighted to enter production with a $40 million budget. Universal Studios acquired the movie rights to Firefly. Actors Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin confirmed this on the official Firefly forum, as did Whedon in several interviews. ![]() Jane Espenson, one of the writers of Buffy and Firefly, announced in June 2003 at a Buffy convention in the UK that Whedon was writing a script for a Firefly movie. ![]()
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