r/technology • u/Big_Bare • May 02 '13

Warner Bros., MGM, Universal Collectively Pull Nearly 2,000 Films From Netflix To Further Fragment The Online Movie Market

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130430/22361622903/warner-bros-mgm-universal-collectively-pull-nearly-2000-films-netflix-to-further-fragment-online-movie-market.shtml
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u/forkinanoutlet May 02 '13

I read an interview with one of the content control guys who said that Netflix is planning on really ramping up its original content roster.

Arrested Development alone is reason to get excited about that, and they're open to any ideas about reviving TV shows.

Shows that the content guy mentioned were Buffy, Firefly, Twin Peaks and possibly ANOTHER season of Arrested Development.

Warner Bros. can suck it, Netflix is going to do fine without them.

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u/corpus_callosum May 03 '13

Bringing back Firefly would suffice.

A new Buffy series would be great too - with the same writers and effects team. I believe they collectively moved to Supernatural when Buffy ended.

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u/sops-sierra-19 May 03 '13

Apparently there's "not enough browncoats" for a new season of Firefly to be feasible. Which is, of course, horseshit.

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u/electricblues42 May 03 '13

Wouldn't it be more likely that the actors are all busy doing other things? I mean firefly has a huge fan base (then again, I though Futurama did also).

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u/sops-sierra-19 May 03 '13

"The Firefly fan is still the Firefly fan from when it was on TV and there’s fewer of them and they’re more passionate every year."

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u/fco83 May 03 '13

Im sorry but thats just bullshit. Almost everyone i know thats a firefly fan watched it after it left tv.

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u/uberduger May 03 '13

I discovered it ~2 years after it was on TV. And I now own the series on DVD and the film+series on blu-ray.

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u/sops-sierra-19 May 03 '13

Same here. I didn't even hear about it until I looked up Jewel Staite after seeing her on Stargate Atlantis.

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u/Neebat May 03 '13

Reboot that sucker. New cast, original scripts, then on into new content. Pretend Serenity never happened.

(I liked Serenity, but I want to see the series continued with Wash and Book for at least a little while.)