Firefly Is Getting Rebooted As An Animated Series

Firefly aired for conscionable 1 play successful 2002 earlier Fox canceled it. In nan 24 years since, nan sci-fi show has skyrocketed successful fame and now fans are yet getting more. Nathan Fillion has announced that an animated Firefly bid is presently successful precocious development, Deadline first reported.

Fillion shared nan news astatine AwesomeCon during a unrecorded taping of his podcast Once We Were Spacemen pinch his Firefly co-stars Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Summer Glau, Sean Maher, Jewel Staite and Alan Tudyk. Tudyk co-hosts nan podcast, successful which nan duo look backmost astatine their careers and question and reply past coworkers. Each of nan actors coming astatine AwesomeCon are expected to sound nan animated versions of their characters.

This isn't 1 of those possibly 1 time it will hap announcements, pinch galore steps already being taken. The animated reboot is nether nan guidance of showrunners Tara Butters (Agent Carter, Reaper) and Marc Guggenheim (DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow) — original creator Joss Whedon is not involved, but has fixed his blessing. It has early conception creation from ShadowMachine, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning animation studio. Fillion is producing nan show done Collision33, his accumulation company, and pinch 20th Television Animation. There's moreover already a book successful place.

According to Fillion, nan 1 point near is simply a location for nan series. He and his co-stars took to Once We Were Spacemen's Instagram to supply much specifications and implore FireFly fans to show request for nan reboot.

Firefly took spot successful 2517, hundreds of years aft a cosmopolitan civilian war. It followed a group of group surviving aboard a carrier ship, Serenity, flying done nan galaxy. In 2005, nan show sewage a sequel successful nan shape of a movie, Serenity.