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Firefly being prepared for Blu-ray

by Jem Alexander on Apr 8th 2008 5:00PM

We don't make a habit of posting about individual films or TV shows coming to Blu-ray. That's not the purpose of this site. Sometimes, however, something will come along that will get us totally excited and we simply have to share the news with you guys. Today that something is Firefly -- the excellent space western by Joss Whedon that was sadly canceled long before its time -- and the fact that it is being prepared for a Blu-ray box set.

Seeing the Firefly universe in HD is obviously going to be a treat. We'd love to see Serenity (the feature length "sequel" movie) to be released on Blu-ray, we didn't really expect Firefly to get similar treatment. There's no telling when the series will be released as currently it's still in the planning stages, but it's nice to know it is coming, wouldn't you say?

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I loved that series

Cue Simpsons' Comic Book Guy voice: "Best news ever"

hell yes i would so buy this series again but in Blu-ray it was so sad when fox screwed this show up by not advertise it and showing it out of order damn you FOX for canceling all your good shows

FOX, thank you for partially redeeming yourself. Now, buy the rights to "Serenity" back from Universal and start working on "Serenity 2" for the love of Pete!

FOX has wronged me many times, but that alone would make up for it (and it's about the only thing that could).

Rumour has it that Universal is already prepping for a Serenity 2 in the form of a straight to DVD movie. Mainly because the box office sales for Serenity sucked but the DVD sales were phenomenal.

I'm glad Universal has the rights to this franchise, Fox would just screw it over again.

On Topic: I might double dip for the Blu-ray version of this series... depends on the extras. Such a fantastic series though.

For the Firefly fans, Universal HD has started to air Firefly in HD (1080i) last Saturday. Will be on for the next few Saturdays.

Greg Edmonson composed the music for firefly and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

No way! That's cool.

I'm surprised that not many people know that.

Not to mention Nathan Drake looks a bit like Nathan Fillion. Weird.

This is seriously awesome news. I just started watching this again on my DVD set and thought to myself, "It would be so awesome if they re-released this on Blu-ray."

While PS3FB may not have expected it, I have to some degree, and am glad to finally hear it's official. I will definitely be picking this up when it arrives.

They do need to make another movie though ... or continue the TV series ... or both.

Best TV show ever. Period.

Indeed.

SWEET.

Oh thank god.

And by god I mean Joss Whedon.

I wouldn't say Joss is perfect. Don't get me wrong, Firefly and Serenity are amazing. But just keep in mind two words: "Alien: Resurrection."

Yeah, and I thought Buffy was one of the lamest shows on the planet.

I only heard of its greatness through a variety of websites. I finally got the series myself and I am currently watching it with my family.

It really makes you hate the terrible writing and acting in "Sci-Fi" television shows like Stargate: Atlantis that never get canceled.

What the hell....?

Hey, I liked Stargate SG1 a lot. Most of the actors are very good and charismatic. Storylines are very creative and became pretty epic towards the end. Set work was a-freakin-mazing for a TV show. But I have to agree with you about Atlantis though.

Yeah that's why I knew to be specific. I haven't watched a lot of SG1 so I couldn't speak from experience. But when my wife and I are eating our morning breakfast, sometimes it threatens to come back up if we watch too much of Atlantis. The sets on Atlantis at times are inferior to those on the very first episodes of Star Trek. Yes, Captain Kirk's Star Trek. X ( Merlin? Seriously?

YES!!!

I just got the full series DVD set for £9 off play.com *Comic book guy voice* "Best bargain, ever"

I picked mine up for $18, which is crazy cheap. So I won't feel nearly as taken when I double dip for this guy. Plus, the more Browncoats show their support through their wallets, the greater the chance for it to come back in one form or another (comic books, notwithstanding).

I don't have a PS3, but I saw this post at the bottom of Joystiq and wanted to point out.

Its already been aired in HD in entirety before on Universal HD, in addition to it apparently being rerun currently as well.

However, the official word at the time was that the masters for the effects shot were destroyed, so while most of it is in HD, there is some which was sourced from SD and simply upscaled.

Just to warn you that it won't look as good as Serenity did.

Why not quote the original source of the information rather than a site quoting the original source?

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Firefly-Blu-ray-Release/9350

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

"Shiny!" I don't feel so humped now.

This is the best news since hearing about that iphone remote thing.

'I'll be in my bunk"

Awesome! Hope it’s released in Europe!

cowboy bebop rip-off

Outlaw Star ripoff

Shiny!

Come on NBC, bring on Heroes for Blu-ray!!!

totally.

This is great news!!!! it will become a best seller in very short time!!!

Even the serenity movie was a top hd-dvd seller for a loooong looong time

i really like this show, i wish they would continue it :(

This is wonderful news. I will ejaculate!

This will be the best BD ever!

I knew this would happen as soon as I bought it on DVD (originally borrowed the set from a friend). Haven't even finished re-watching it yet. Crap.

Please Digg this one:)

http://digg.com/tech_news/Firefly_on_blu_ray

'I'll be in my bunk"

...nice reference! ha...to the nard who brought up Alien: Resurrection - his script was completely flipped by the studio...not his fault. Same thing happened to the Buffy movie.

This is def great news and a LONG time coming...yay!

AWESOME!

Now where's mah Buffy?!

OMG what awesome news! I want this show and movie on Blu-ray more than anything else, even more than LOTR or Star Wars.
Thanks for this post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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