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Serenity

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• Title: Serenity
• Genre: Action | Sci-Fi |
• Role: River Tam
• Director: Joss Whedon
• Writer: Joss Whedon
• U.S. Release Date: 30 September 2005
• Tagline: Can’t stop the signal. | Space Pirates on the run! | They’re armed. She’s dangerous. | This is one ‘River’ you do not want to cross. | The future is worth fighting for. | They aim to misbehave.

Serenity is based on Joss Whedon’s television show Firefly, in which interplanetary travel has brought about colonization of the planets, leading to a combination of sci-fi and Western tropes. The film picks up where the short-lived series left off, following the exploits of a crew of small-time criminals and outcasts who eke out a living on the edge of space, performing illegal smuggles and transports aboard a Firefly class cargo ship named Serenity. Led by a quick-witted veteran from the losing side of an interstellar war, Captain “Mal” Reynolds, the crew is comprised of a rag-tag assortment of characters who, despite having their differences, are mostly loyal to one another, the closest thing that many of them have to a family. The stability of the crew is challenged, however, by the revelation that two of the passengers aboard, a brother and sister, are fugitives, wanted by the Interplanetary Alliance with a hefty reward on their heads.

The Cast


Nathan Fillion
Malcolm Reynolds
Summer Glau
River Tam
Gina Torres
Zoë Washburne
Alan Tudyk
Hoban Washburne

Morena Baccarin
Inara Serra
Adam Baldwin
Jayne Cobb
Jewel Staite
Kaylee Frye
Sean Maher
Simon Tam

Did you know?

  • To put River to sleep, Dr. Simon Tam says, “Eta Kooram Nah Smech!,” Russian for “This is very ridiculous” (literally “This is for hens to laugh!”).
  • The cast had a running gag where they would yell Summer Glau’s name whenever any of them flubbed a line or forgot to do something. It originated on Firefly when she forgot her line at the end of a very long and difficult scene. (Nathan Fillion, Morena Baccarin and Sean Maher can be seen doing this on the DVD blooper reel.)
  • In his DVD commentary, Joss Whedon said Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau and Sean Maher performed many of their own stunts. Glau, a trained dancer, used her dancing skills in River’s two fights. For the second fight, the cameraman, who was also a dancer, moved through a gap around the combatants to achieve the movie’s dynamic camera angles.
  • The events of the film take place six months after Objects in Space, the final episode of the TV series. “Those Left Behind,” a three-issue comic book series written by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews, published by Dark Horse comics, and released during summer 2005, bridges that six-month gap.
  • Though she did say all the lines, the actress that plays young River was dubbed over by Summer Glau to make the connection easier.
  • Summer Glau trained intensely with the fight choreographers for three months before principal photography began.
  • According to a Q&A with Joss Whedon and the cast after the premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, there were at least 20 separate takes of Simon and Kaylee’s final make-out scene in the engine room. Take #20 was used in the final cut.
  • Summer Glau has said that she pitched the idea of River becoming a pilot during the Firefly television series. In this film, River finally becomes a co-pilot of Serenity.
  • According to Joss Whedon’s DVD commentary, the most difficult scene for sound was Simon and River’s final scene, after Simon is shot. Sean Maher and Summer Glau developed a strong bond during production of Firefly. Sean’s acting was so good that Summer kept bursting into tears whenever they attempted to shoot the scene.
  • Joss Whedon has revealed that the reason Wash and Book were killed off in the movie was because of difficulties getting Alan Tudyk and Ron Glass to commit to sequels. Universal did not want to green-light the project without knowing that any sequels were locked beforehand, leading to Whedon writing them out of the story. In his original script, all members of the crew survived, with Zoe and Wash promising to have children together.

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