Nathan Fillion sat down with Entertainment Weekly and discussed the show Firefly. He talked about the fan page that has 1 Million dollars in pledges to get the show back on, the fans in general, a text message from creator Joss Whedon,and just how difficult bringing the show back would be.
“Would I want to do [Firefly] again? Yes. Do I want people sending in money? No,” Fillion said, admitting the thought made him nervous. “But it warms my heart that people are going, ‘Wouldn’t this be great?’”
On a text message from Joss Whedon:
“Joss sent me a text that said he had a dream that we were all shooting Firefly again and, you know, this was happening, this was happening, this was happening, and the scripts were coming in late ‘It was like a little slice of heaven.’ Which is just like it used to be. We were always under the wire with scripts. Scripts were coming in the day before, or the day of, or would change for that afternoon, and everybody said ‘Okay. No problem.’ We loved it. Because what you see on TV is what we ended up with in our hands. So it was always great. There was never a day I went to work on Firefly where I looked at the script and went, ‘Eh, today will be alright.’ Everyday I was doing something so great. So great.”
On how hard it would be to get the show back going and away from Fox:
“I don’t think people understand the infrastructure that goes into actually making a TV show, and whether or not Fox would even be willing to let go of those kind of rights. Let’s say you did buy the rights to Firefly. I think it cost about a million bucks an episode to make. There’s a lot going on that I think people oversimplify.
On His appreciation for the fans of the show:
"I appreciate so much people who still have such love for it. And I think that that’s love. I don’t think that’s fanaticism. I might be biased, but I think something like Firefly rises above fanaticism. I think it touches people in their hearts. It makes them feel, and it makes them feel something good. I feel it, too.”
You can read more from Fillion in the more recent issue of
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