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Wanted, Dead or Alive

How Portlanders Resurrected a TV Show, Got Their Favorite Movie on the Big Screen, and Donated a Small Fortune to Charity

WHAT A CLUSTERFUCK. In 2002, Firefly—the latest TV show from Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel—was supposed to be the Next Big Thing. It wasn’t. Quickly and brutally cancelled, Firefly wasn’t heard from again until a few years later—when a feature film, Serenity, promised to resurrect Firefly‘s abandoned characters and […]

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A Better World

Serenity Does it for Charity

“I believe in something greater than myself,” the Operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) says in Serenity, last year’s excellent sci-fi/western. “A better world.” Never mind that the Operative is the bad guy in Serenity—it’s still a nice thought. And that line—like about 4,000 others—has been faithfully memorized by Serenity‘s rabid fanbase, whose members are slavishly devoted to […]

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