OT: Firefly "Serenity" Fans

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Hey great news for Firefly "Serenity" fans. There is talk of turning the series into MMO game. Gamespot Link

From Gamespot.com

Sci-fi geeks can attest to the fact that one of the best television shows that wasn't given its proper due was Fox's short-lived Firefly. The show was created by Joss Whedon, who also brought to the small screen cult favorites Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. The show ran just 14 episodes but was momentarily resurrected by a big-screen continuation, 2005's Serenity.

Now it appears the television series is getting a third shot at life in another form of media--a massively multiplayer online game.

The Multiverse Network today announced that it has attained the rights to develop an MMO game based on Firefly from 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising. Multiverse has yet to announce the production team that will develop the game, but it hopes to have the product ready sometime in 2008.

"Fox's Firefly series is set in an incredibly rich and exciting universe. It's going to make a very compelling and unique online experience filled with adventure, humor, and mystery," said Multiverse cofounder and executive producer Corey Bridges. "It's our hope that Firefly's passionate and dedicated community of fans will enjoy the chance to become part of the story as they develop and explore the worlds of Firefly."

Eschewing the traditional practices of developing MMO games, Multiverse is creating middleware dedicated to MMO games, which can be licensed to developers who then use the technology to easily create a game. The company's profit is made off of revenue sharing.

This had to be one of the best sci-fi series to come down the pipe since the original TOS. It wasn't given a fair shake by FOX, imagine that, and was cancelled after only 9 aired episodes out of 13. In 2005 Serenity, a big screen adaptation of the series, was released and dispite it being one of the most original sci-fi movies since Star Wars, it flopped horribly. . (No more serenity movies.) (Rumor has it that George Lucas was behind the the canning of the series and the limited theater release of Serenity. - See other thread for discussion on this.)

Any who Firefly was a ground breaking series who out of control camera special effects have been adopted by other shows such as BSG. They pioneered the camera "style" that is now being widely used in BSG for special effects shots and what not.

The writing of the series was superb to say the least, and either people got the show or they didn't. It would appear that more people didn't get the show than had first been estimated and that spelled doom for the motion picture.

Now its to the PC realm and one can only hope that attempt number 3 at keeping this fantastic series alive will succeed.