Firefly Being Resurrected With A New Series, Joss Whedon Not Involved

By Henry Hards
| Published 1 minute ago

Nathan Fillion and the cast of Firefly have been teasing all week that a big Firefly announcement was coming, and now it’s here. They’re resurrecting the iconic, cancelled television show as an animated series. Maybe.

As Fillion outlined in his announcement, they don’t actually have a distributor. Only the rights to make it and a creative team headed up by a man named Marc Guggenheim. Joss Whedon, Firefly’s creator, won’t be involved at all. Fillion, however, confirmed in their announcement that they have Whedon’s blessing.

Whedon can’t be involved because he was fully cancelled by Hollywood over accusations that he was mean to people. So, they’ve brought in Guggenheim to create the animated show along with his wife, Tara Butters.

Marc Guggenheim is a well-known activist, writer, director, and showrunner. He is the creator of the now-ended DC superhero Arrowverse universe on television. He’s also written feature films, like the hated Ryan Reynolds version of Green Lantern. When not working in film and television, Guggenheim is heavily involved in protest marches and runs a substack where he rails against and condemns people who don’t share his political views.

Tara Butters worked on the Joss Whedon series Dollhouse. Most recently, she was responsible for the failed The Boys spinoff, Gen V.

They’ve brought back the entire cast to do voices for the animated series. That includes Alan Tudyk, whose character was killed off in the Serenity movie. It also includes Adam Baldwin, who was soft-canceled after being involved in Gamergate (he came up with the name) and sharing pro-conservative views.

Below is the full announcement from Serenity’s captain, Nathan Fillion.