February 2004 Archives
Pointed out by Jackie last night, while getting caught up on Angel: The human puppeteer guy sang "Courage and Pluck".
Sang it.
In front of Lorne.
James Marsters once observed that it was only once you became a favorite of Joss and the other writers that your character really started getting royally messed with.
So... who is their favorite character? Fred or Wesley? It's kinda close to call.
So, Todd McFarlane (comic artist/writer and creator of Spawn, et cetera) went to court against Neil Gaiman contesting the 'creative ownership' of several characters both secondary (Angela & Cogliostro) and primary (the medieval incarnation of Spawn) that Gaiman created and introduced during a medieval-timeline Spawn story arc he wrote back in the mid-90's.
(For those who didn't already know this, Gaiman's "1602" gig with Marvel was worked out by the author solely to pay for the court costs of dealing with McFarlane.)
Rather than simply apologizing, McFarlane threw a lot of money at lawyers and lost the legal case on every count, then threw a lot more money at lawyers to appeal... and just lost it all again.
To say that the judge skewered the arguments of McFarlane's lead attorney* is... well, unkind, but wholly accurate, as near as I can tell. Good for him.
According to Gaiman, any money successfully extracted from McFarlane and left over from legal bills goes straight to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
(* -- 'Secondary comic characters are public domain until they've been around for, let's say, 50 issues worth of steady appearance in a comic.' Riiiight. Also: painting McFarlane as a blue-collar working-joe just trying to make a living in this dog-eat-dog world while being taken advantage of by the high-rolling Eurotrash Gaiman is... amusing in a horrible kind of way.)"Serenity" shows up on Universal Pictures Web Site. Look under the (not entirely link-functional) "Coming Soon" menu.
Leave any comments or questions below, and thanks!
Working title for Firefly movie 'revealed' on FireflyFans.net.
Thin veneer of veracity on this on, but it seems to be legit. Makes sense, anyway.
If it's true, well... "I'll be in my bunk."
pation.
Buzz inside certain Los Angeles law firms suggests that talent contracts are being hammered out, and they’re timed around a May start for an upcoming Universal feature about a starship captain, a space hooker, a mysterious preacher and a pair of fugitives named Tam. The bad news: under the scenario discussed, “Firefly: The Movie” wouldn’t hit multiplexes until late 2005."
Just enough time to prep for the 2006 TV season ;).
CASSHERN: oriental movie trailer
Negotiations underway to get Firefly DVDs directly on US Navy ships in combat zones rather at USO centers.
The best part about that update was the info that the Navy Contact info was given to the folks organizing the DVD distribution by the folks in charge of similar efforts for Farscape. Geeky knows Geeky, I guess.
Also, DVD donations deadlin extended to the 14th of February, since the negotiations are taking awhile.
Finally, just for the heck of it, here's a kick-ass little firefly wallpaper I found. Enjoy.
Dear Fox:I have heard through the electronic grapevine that you are thinking about releasing a soundtrack for the show Firefly. I wanted to convey my complete support of this project: I would absolutely buy such a soundtrack in any form you choose for distribution, whether via paid downloads or CD -- honestly, I'd probably buy it both ways, if both were available. The music on the show was phenomenal and I'd love to have clean copies of that tremendous creative work.
In summation, I sincerely hope that you decide to make a Firefly soundtrack available for purchase in some (any) medium.
Sincerely,
Doyce Testerman
I'll let you in on a little secret.
A few years back, when the Fifth season of Buffy was running against the Second season of Angel, I liked Angel better. I think that was true for a couple years, in fact... I liked Angel better.
Sometimes a lot better.
I think the reason was Cordelia. She was really the heart of the group and the folks that have stepped up into the main cast after Carpenter left... have not filled her designer shoes, to put it mildly.
So last night, Angel's 100th episode, was very bittersweet for me -- Cordy took me back to a time when the group really popped: it wasn't just Angel she got back on track, it was everyone -- Gunn was spoiling for a fight, Wesley was making with the Mojo, Fred was making with the eyes for Wesley, and everything was simple; all the employees were gone, leaving Team Angel together again for the first time.
It was right.
I hope the character's are allowed to realize that.
(And I hope Charisma Carpenter's interview in TVGuide prompts someone to write a Wonder Woman movie for her. Kick ass.)
Kudos to David Fury, who's never written or directed an episode on Angel (but did a number of great things on Buffy) and came in to do both in one great episode that really captured the essence of the show -- you have to really know the whole show to be able to do that episode, and he pulled it off really well.
Unfortunately, these appear to merely be listed chronologically, not in 'best to worst' order. Randy brought up 'favorite scenes on Angel' not two days ago, coincidently. Both the scene he mentioned (Darla stakes herself to have her kid) and the one I responded with ("Are you now or have you ever been?") are on the list, naturally. :)
Thinking about it, though, I realized which scene I liked better than the Darla scene -- When Wesley shoots his father to save Fred.
Darla's thing was more unexpected and 'new', but it didn't hit me as hard, probably because Darla had already died like... fifteen times by that point. :)
"We have received word from a couple of sources that Universal is, at this point, on board with movie, and that the current stumbling block is elsewhere."
