Ron Glass spent five years voicing Randy Carmichael in the Rugrats follow-up All Grown Up, and has made a few appearances in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Summer Glau played a Terminator in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, appeared in Whedon’s Dollhouse, and has had steady work guest-starring on other shows including Arrow. Sean Maher has been the voice of Dick Grayson on several direct-to-video Batman and Robin movies and is in his second season on Eastsiders. Jewel Staite spent four years on Stargate: Atlantis and another on The Killing. Adam Baldwin spent five years on Chuck and now stars on TNT’s The Last Ship, recently renewed for its third season. After two seasons on Homeland, Morena Baccarin is now entering her second season on Gotham (and recently announced she’s pregnant with a child with Gotham co-star Benjamin McKenzie). Alan Tudyk seems to pop up just about everywhere, most recently in last week’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Gina Torres is in her sixth season on USA’s Suits. Nathan Fillion, of course, is now in his eighth season as Richard Castle. It cost an estimated $40 million and would only gross just over half that, pulling in only $25 million domestically.Īnd so everyone involved went on to other things. Moviegoers, though, were less impressed, and the film flopped at the box office. NPR’s Ken Tucker told readers to “go see Joss Whedon’s witty whizbang of an action movie or we will kill a kitten.” My own local critic, the Sacramento Bee’s Jim Lane, said that “he movie is a sci-fi buccaneer swashbuckler Whedon hits all the obligatory space-opera notes, and he does it with a degree of verbal wit and agile pacing that could teach George Lucas a thing or two,” while the BBC’s Jonathan Trout named it “the blockbuster you’ve been waiting for all year.” The movie holds an 82% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 74/100 Metascore. Maybe those jerks at FOX would be at last proven terribly, horribly wrong, and some other network would capitalize on FOX’s mistake and bring back Firefly. Maybe the hordes of people who never had the chance to find the show would line up in the theaters to see the movie. Maybe the movie would be a commercial success. To those like me who were still mourning the loss, two years before, of our favorite TV show, the movie represented, here in the real world, one of the big themes of the show: hope. Ten years ago today, Firefly fans got to revisit Joss Whedon’s ‘verse one final time with the release of Serenity.
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