Nathan Fillion Considers ‘Firefly’ Reunion ‘An Impossibility’ At This Point
It seems like it’s finally time to hang up the Browncoats for good. Firefly star Nathan Fillion cast doubt on fan hopes for a potential reunion in a recent interview, stating that he considers it “an impossibility” at this point.
Many cult shows have seen unlikely revivals in recent months, what with the successful Veronica Mars Kickstarter film project as well as the Netflix revival of Arrested Development, but, despite Joss Whedon’s growing influence in Hollywood with blockbusters like The Avengers, another Firefly reunion seems incredibly unlikely in the mind of the show’s star.
“That was a project that lived for so short a time and such a long time ago that I would look at that as an impossibility,” Fillion opined of the potential for the show’s revival.
“Joss Whedon made a movie of it, something I also considered an impossibility, so I look at that and say ‘where is the hope?’ but knowing Joss Whedon, I try not to underestimate that man.”
Still, a recent interview with The Huffington Post proved that the cast of the show still talk about the glory days.
“We talk about it, we dream about it. I don’t think you could find a cast member, a writer, a director, any of the crew who’d say, ‘No, I’m out,'” he said. “People are pretty busy right now, Alan [Tudyk] is always working, and obviously Joss is pretty busy. But that would be something that I would do again in a heartbeat. There’s something about Firefly — it was my first love. So if you get a chance to go back to your very first love, you’ll do it, right?”
He also suggested that if he had the financial means, he would buy the rights to the show and revive it somehow. But this seems to be a pipe dream, and one shared by the show’s creator, Joss Whedon.
“I’ve said repeatedly that I would love to make another movie with these guys, and that remains the case. It also remains the case that I’m booked up by Marvel for the next three years, and that I haven’t even been able to get Dr. Horrible 2 off the ground because of that. So I don’t even entertain the notion of entertaining the notion of doing this, and won’t. Couple years from now, when Nathan [Fillion]’s no longer [on] Castle and I’m no longer the Tom Hagen of the Marvel Universe and making a giant movie, we might look and see where the market is then. But right now, it’s a complete non-Kickstarter for me,” he said.
What do you think? Are you still holding out hope for a Firefly reunion?
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