If I were a betting man, Id say the sequel to Serenity will most likely be direct-to-DVD. But, if I were a man of faith, Id also be collapsing on my knees, bringing the hands together and praying to the high heavens that we get (at least) one more cinema excursion of the crew.
Whatever-will-be-will-be I guess and as Whedon says, nothing will be decided until the monkeys tally up the returns from the forthcoming Serenity DVD but regardless, Whedon has some ideas for the sequel.
Though he didnt go into specifics, Whedon tells moviesonline.ca that theres a couple of characters hed like to revisit : Jubal Early, the bounty hunter in the final episode of Firefly, and Shepherd Book, who only had a small part in Serenity.
Whedon says that Earlys still around (I know he survived) and that hes keen to use the character again because I love that character.
He says he might also one day tell Books back-story.
So is the big man disappointed that Serenity didnt set alight the box office? It wasn't a horrible bomb. Yes it did struggle. It's a question of how do you market a film that doesn't have any stars. Or a film that's just not one thing, that is generally diverse. Ultimately, I'm enormously surprised that people came out and saw it. That's what matters.
