Firefly: The Radio Play?
Every now and again, one’s mind grabs ahold of seemingly disparate pieces of information and forms of them an interconnected whole. It does this, often, without regard to the distinction between deduction (or is that induction?) and wishful fancy. This, then, is one of those nows and agains.
The brain place is crowded with goods, ideas, sequels, spinoffs, animated versions, miniseries, radio dramas.
– Joss Whedon, October 2006
We’re talking about doing a little something together that is obviously just on the side because he’s working on Wonder Woman right now.
– Summer Glau, October 2006
If it was animated and they were doing the voices, if it was done like A Scanner Darkly, if it was on radio – all of those things would be interesting to me because I would be able to get the actors.
– Joss Whedon, November 2006
I am coming to London, but not to do a con. I’m doing something I haven’t done before. If you’re in London, come and see me. It’s going to blow your mind. Late January, February. Maybe into March, I’m not too sure yet. But it’s going to blow your mind.
– Nathan Fillion, December 2006
I have a super secret thingy in London coming up soon.
– Nathan Fillion, December 2006
The super cool, mind blower in London? You’ll have to wait. April or so is the new time frame, and I won’t spoil the surprise.
– Nathan Fillion, January 2007
So what? Well, during the week or so before the cancelled Flanvention 2 in Burbank in early December, it was reported that Joss Whedon was in London, although it doesn’t appear ever to have been reported just what he was doing there.
What follows is entirely and utterly and completely nothing more than a rampant and wingnut speculation based on little more than taking random statements from different people and wondering if they aren’t so random after all.
Here’s my favorite pronoiac idea these days: That someone in England has licensed and commissioned a Firefly radio play, and that all of the above statements in fact are connected and are about the same thing.
Perhaps, if the unsupported speculation were true, it would be a radio dramatization of the forthcoming three-issue Serenity comic from Dark Horse entitled Better Days. Imagine reading each issue accompanied by an online feed or podcast of that installment being dramatized in radio form by the actors themselves.
Or it could be a different story altogether, which would mean that 2007 would bring us not one but two new stories from the ‘Verse.
And horses in a radio play are easy. Just a few coconuts and you’re good to go. They could even have Alan Tudyk perform the horses, what with him having been in Spamalot and all.
At the very least, since the unsupported speculation almost certainly is entirely and completely and utterly false, pitching this theory serves as additional notice that Summer might be doing something with Joss, and Nathan is promoting something coming up in London, although promoting it quite cryptically.
Disparate pieces of information? Or an interconnected whole? At some point in the next few months, we’ll all know for certain. Meanwhile, as Nathan continues to hype but not spoil, I’ll enjoy spending the time living with my mad theory about it all.
January 5th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Yes, please. Yes, very much, please.