Firefly Producer Teases Limited Series Return Possibility

You can take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand, I don’t care, I’m still free, as I dream for another Serenity. Or better still, a soft Firefly reboot.

Yes, for as long as the Joss Whedon cult classic that produced only 14 episodes for Fox (only 11 of which aired) has been cancelled, there has been someone on a message board somewhere out on the Internet crying for Captain Mal Reynolds, Zoe Washburne, Jayne Cobb, and all the rest to fly back into our lives. Alas, while this may remain the wistful ramblings of a Tam sibling still dreaming of the Alliance’s cities, hope springs eternal for we browncoats. Especially when we are teased by the likes of Tim Minear, an executive producer on Firefly and now an executive producer on the also 20^th Century Fox TV-produced American Horror Story.

While discussing that series with Entertainment Weekly, the discussion inevitably had to turn to Firefly, a subject upon which Minear couldn’t resist speculating how it might fly again—but understand that that is all this is at the moment.

“I would never foreclose the possibility,” Minear told EW about the potential of a Firefly rebirth. “I would love it. It would be great. But first everybody has their respective projects that limit them from crossing over into other things. It’s just trying to coordinate everybody’s obligations so they could somehow participate.”

However, Minear soon revealed that he did think about how it could be done in a profitable manner for 20^th Century Fox TV.

“I’m completely talking off the top of my head, but there’s a show that’s been on for the last couple years that’s reinvented the form in terms of the limited series. I’m trying to think of the name of that show—Oh yes! American Horror Story! It doesn’t even have to be 13 episodes. Look how Sherlock does it….I think a limited series of some kind would work best. Something like that could also work if, say, 20^th could partner with Netflix, or another distributor. It could have its home on Fox, of course [then a second window on streaming]. A limited series would do very well, I bet.”

And it’s safe to say every DoG visitor with an amber-hued coat in their closet also would agree. Granted, Joss Whedon at the moment seems to be looking forward with his current work in the Avengers universe and beyond, but if Arrested Development can have a limited resurrection why not Firefly?

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