Nathan Fillion's Big Firefly Tease Is a Canon Animated Series With the Original Actors Reprising Their Roles — but It Needs a Home

Nathan Fillion’s large Firefly tease has been revealed arsenic a caller animated bid acceptable betwixt the archetypal live-action TV amusement and the Serenity movie — but there's a catch.

Fillion and members of the archetypal formed announced the bid during a sheet astatine AwesomeCon successful Washington DC, wherever conception creation of the lineup was besides shown. Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, and Adam Baldwin volition reprise their roles. Ron Glass, who played the Shepherd Book, died successful 2016 aged 71.

While a showrunning squad has been assembled and a publication for the aviator occurrence has been completed, the Firefly animated bid isn’t a done woody yet. Deadline reports it volition beryllium taken retired to buyers successful a bid to find a streaming home, with Firefly creator Joss Whedon not involved.

Fillion, who plays Captain Mal Reynolds successful Firefly, had hyped up fans with a fig of societal media posts that sparked anticipation of a bid instrumentality implicit 20 years aft it was canceled. Now the connection is retired there, Fillion took to societal media again to accidental "we're going to effort to bring backmost Firefly." He added that helium has Joss Whedon's "blessing," and rights holders 20th Century Studios / Disney "got excited" and said "yes." Fillion has 2 showrunners successful place: joined writing-producing squad Marc Guggenheim (DC’s Arrow, Flash) and Tara Butters (Agent Carter, Dollhouse), who met done Firefly. ShadowMachine is successful spot arsenic animation studio. And successful the societal media station we get a glimpse astatine the publication of this aviator episode, titled 'Athenia' and labelled 'Episode #1, 201,' which suggests this animated bid is, essentially, Season 2 of Firefly.

The station acts arsenic a telephone to arms, a mobilization of the Firefly assemblage to assistance person would-be buyers that this animated bid is worthy investing in. Fillion ends the video by saying he's going retired to transportation the show, and the different formed members privation him luck.

"The connection is out. To support Firefly flying, we request a home," Fillion posted. "And for that, we request you. Like this post, remark connected this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, adjacent tag a Reaver. Give america immoderate 'quantifiable analytics' that we tin usage to person folks that this is thing radical want."

Firefly premiered connected Fox successful September 2002 and ran for conscionable 11 of its 14 episodes earlier being cancelled. The bid follows the unit of the spaceship known arsenic Serenity, helmed by Fillion’s Mal Reynolds, successful the twelvemonth 2517, and ended up becoming a cult classical erstwhile it made its mode to DVD. A movie, called Serenity, came retired successful 2005 arsenic a continuation of the series.

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