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Ideas: 'Firefly - Season Two' (the Serenity film edited into a Firefly S2?)

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I have been doing some thinking, I would love to take the Serenity movie, deleted scenes and the new upcoming extended scenes to create 4 or 5 new episodes, sort of like a new season two - imagine if that happened and the movie didn’t?

Firefly - Season Two

I think with all the new scenes I could create four or maybe five episodes. I would like to add some falshback scenes from season one, for example Mals’ lost battle from the original Serenity Pilot, some footage of River, some friendhip scenes with some of the cast including the ones that buy the farm (Die) in this movie.
I would like to really touch on the friendship from season one that the movie lacked.

Taking the film from 2:35.1 to 1:85.1 will lose image but it will be needed to give it a television feel.

I had this idea after viewing the movie, it felt sort of like a TV show in away!!!

Who knows maybe someday my partner and I could do this project, but for now I just wanted to throw it out there and gain some ideas!! I just wanted to see what interest there would be?

Any ideas would be a great help!!!

Remember, Highlander, you’ve both still got your full measure of life. Use it well, and your future will be glorious.

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Cropping it to 1.85 will be fine, it was made with protection for 1.85, so you won't lose any important image information (much like cropping movies made with "open matte").
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I like serenity as it is but as a fan of both I'd be interested to see your suggestions.

One thing that may give it a 'firefly' feel would be to start with the heist and maybe flashback to the operative as he begins his search a bit later on. Or were you going to totally hack up and rearrange things?
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Originally posted by: Mojo_LA
Cropping it to 1.85 will be fine, it was made with protection for 1.85, so you won't lose any important image information (much like cropping movies made with "open matte").
I don't understand how this applies. If Mitch is started with the 2.35:1 image, he'll still need to cut off the sides to get it to 1.85:1. Unless he's working from a fullscreen (unmatted) transfer of the film, everything in the 2.35 image he's using is considered "important". Or are you saying that the film was shot in 2.35 with extraneous information on the sides, which would be a relatively uncommon way of shooting a movie. If so, do you have any proof that it was shot this way?

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Ye! The film was shot in that manner, have you seen the Highlander Endgame workprint? It was released a few years back, that movie gives you an idea of what they do. They save money by filming full matte in some areas and them crop it, some scenes are shot 2:35.1 but most dialog scenes are not.

I hope thats a good example

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Wait, so was it just filmed Super 35 with more image on the top and bottom of the 2.35:1 area, or are you saying they filmed it in 2.35:1 and left a lot of dead space on the sides of the movie? I'm assuming it's the former, but I don't see how that's gonna allow for an easier cropping unless you have an unmatted/fullscreen version of the film.

EDIT: Didn't realize they released a fullscreen version on DVD, so I guess if that's what you're working with it might be okay.
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F.Y.I.

I know this does not have anything to do with your edit, but...

"A new 2-disc Special Edition DVD of Serenity has been announced for Region 1 release on August 21, 2007. According to Whedon, the River Tam Sessions will be included, along with a new cast commentary, although the latter has yet to be finalised. The reason for this release, says Joss, is the excellent sales figures for the "Normal Edition" DVD.[35]"

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hmm. access to these 'tam sessions' could really prove useful to the story. That might be something worth getting. The dvd that was originally released in Oz [region 4] was already a 2 disc set. I think there were a few exclusives such as a Q and A session with Joss at the premiere in Sydney. Not much in the way of useable 'serenity' content if i recall. I wonder if we'll see a new R4 set with these new added features...
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The Tam Sessions are stylistically a world away from either Firefly or Serenity, and wouldn't really work in an edit - they were leaked "viral" releases in the summer of 2005 to hype the release of Serenity. You can download them at http://www.session416.com.