#Serenity spaceship movie#
#Serenity spaceship license#
#Serenity spaceship series#

#Serenity spaceship license#

In July 2018, Boom! Studios announced that they had acquired the comic book and graphic novel publishing license to Firefly with plans to release new monthly comic book series, limited series, original graphic novels and more. All of the Serenity miniseries and one-shots have been collected as hardcover graphic novels.

#Serenity spaceship series#

More comics followed since, most recently the six-issue No Power in the 'Verse series which ended in 2017. Another three-issue miniseries named Serenity: Better Days was released in 2008, and tells of the Serenity crew becoming rich after a successful job. It was published July through September 2005, and served as a bridge between the TV series and the Serenity film, the latter of which released later in September 2005. The first Serenity comic was Those Left Behind, a three-issue miniseries. All of the Serenity comics were one-shots or miniseries, as creator Joss Whedon didn't believe the Firefly universe could work as an ongoing format without compromising the quality of the franchise. For legal reasons, the comics were called Serenity rather than Firefly. Main articles: Serenity (comics) and Firefly (Boom! Studios comics)īetween 20, Dark Horse Comics released several Serenity comic books.

#Serenity spaceship movie#

It also won the Nebula Award for Best Script for 2005, the 7th annual 'User Tomato Awards' for best Sci-Fi movie of 2005 at Rotten Tomatoes, the 2006 viewers choice Spacey Award for favorite movie, the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form and the 2006 Prometheus Special Award. It also won IGN Film's Best Sci-Fi, Best Story and Best Trailer awards and was runner up for the Overall Best Movie. Serenity won film of the year awards from Film 2005 and FilmFocus. However, it did not make back its budget until its release on DVD. It received generally positive reviews and opened at number two, taking in $10.1 million its first weekend, spending two weeks in the top ten, and totaling a domestic box office gross of $25.5 million and a foreign box office gross of $13.3 million. It was released on DVD, VHS and UMD on December 20, 2005, on HD DVD on April 18, 2006, and Blu-ray on December 30, 2008. The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon. The film acts as a sequel to Firefly and features much of the same cast and crew. The film Serenity was released on September 30, 2005. According to Whedon's vision, 'nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today.' Characters In addition, it is set in a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures as well. The franchise explores the lives of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and now make a living as part of the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. Whedon described the Serenity crew members as 'nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things'.

The franchise is set in the year 2517, after humanity's arrival in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a ' Firefly-class' spaceship. The franchise includes the TV series Firefly, the film Serenity, and other media. Firefly is an American space Western media franchise created by Joss Whedon and produced by Mutant Enemy Productions.