{"id":9450,"date":"2006-07-05T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/05\/proto-serenity.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:39:14","slug":"proto_serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/05\/proto_serenity.html","title":{"rendered":"Proto-<i>Serenity<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is, it is claimed, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serenitystuff.com\/2006\/07\/01\/the-earlier-longer-script-for-serenity\/\" target=\"_blank\">early version of the Serenity script<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-1890013-5463217?loc=http%3A\/\/search.ebay.com\/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZphilshibano\" target=\"_blank\">up for grabs on eBay<\/a>; it&#8217;s an earlier &#8220;kitchen sink&#8221; version, where Joss was unimpeded by thinks like, oh, budget and time and the laws of physics. <\/p>\n<p>The referenced post gives a summary of the changes from the filmed version.&nbsp; By and large, the filmed version is darker and tighter and arguably better &#8212; but given that one of the joys of the show (and Joss&#8217; writing) is his dialog, there&#8217;s all sorts of nice throw-away goodness that got, well, thrown away.&nbsp; And (sad glee) Book is still part of the crew in this draft.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As the poster puts it: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This would have made a really good <em>Firefly<\/em> movie. It wouldn\u2019t have been <em>Serenity<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that it gets published &#8220;for free&#8221; someday. <\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/?comments=10760\">Whedonesque<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is, it is claimed, an early version of the Serenity script up for grabs on eBay; it&#8217;s an earlier &#8220;kitchen sink&#8221; version, where Joss was unimpeded by thinks like,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39316,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/serenity-and-the-avengers.html","url_meta":{"origin":9450,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Serenity&quot; and &quot;The Avengers&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Oct-13 11:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting comparison between Serenity and The Avengers. \u00a0I'll be honest in saying that the former struck me more as a \"I'm going to tell this story come hell or high water\" and was a movie that was, perforce, less than the sum of its glorious parts (speaking as a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/08\/unserene.html","url_meta":{"origin":9450,"position":1},"title":"Unserene","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Jan-04 1:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, if you decide that \"Serenity\" was an interesting Firefly episode, and remember that you have an early version of the script on your hard drive, and think it...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Firefly \/ Serenity&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Firefly \/ Serenity","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-fireflyserenity"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6153,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/05\/06\/you_cant_take_t-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":9450,"position":2},"title":"You can&#8217;t take the sky from me","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-May-04 12:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Serenity movie is about to go into production. 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