When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But… the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.
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Film Cast:
- Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds: Nathan Fillion
- River Tam: Summer Glau
- Zoë Alleyne Washburne: Gina Torres
- Hoban “Wash” Washburne: Alan Tudyk
- Inara Serra: Morena Baccarin
- Jayne Cobb: Adam Baldwin
- Kaywinnet Lee “Kaylee” Frye: Jewel Staite
- Simon Tam: Sean Maher
- Shepherd Derrial Book: Ron Glass
- The Operative: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Mr. Universe: David Krumholtz
- Dr. Mathias: Michael Hitchcock
- Dr. Caron: Sarah Paulson
- Mingojerry “Mingo” Rample: Yan Feldman
- Fantastic “Fanty” Rample: Rafael Feldman
- Lenore: Nectar Rose
- Teacher: Tamara Taylor
- Lilac Young Tough: Glenn Howerton
- Young River Tam: Hunter Ansley Wryn
- Boy Student: Logan O’Brien
- Boy Student: Erik Erotas
- Girl Student: Demetra Raven
- Girl Student: Marley McClean
- Girl Student: Jessica Huang
- Ensign: Scott Kinworthy
- Helmsman: Erik Weiner
- Lab Technician: Conor O’Brien
- Lab Technician: Peter James Smith
- Trade Agent: Weston Nathanson
- Young Female Intern: Carrie ‘CeCe’ Cline
- Vault Guard: Chuck O’Neil
- Lilac Mom: Amy Wieczorek
- Lilac Son: Tristan Jarred
- Fan Dancer: Elaine Mani Lee
- Mining Camp Boy: Terrence Hardy Jr.
- Alliance Pilot: Brian O’Hare
- Black Room Soldier: Ryan Tasz
- Black Room Soldier: Colin Patrick Lynch
- News Anchor: Terrell Tilford
- Slovenly Beaumonde Man: Joshua Michael Kwiat
- Bartender (uncredited): Antonio Rufino
- Chinese Snake Dancer (uncredited): Linda Wang
- Furturistic Worker (uncredited): Mark Winn
- Bar Guy (uncredited): Rick Williamson
- Screaming Reaver (uncredited): Neil Patrick Harris
- Lab Security (uncredited): Matt McColm
- Bar Security (uncredited): Marcus Young
- Bar Guy (uncredited): Dennis Keiffer
Film Crew:
- Director of Photography: Jack Green
- Conductor: David Newman
- Unit Production Manager: David V. Lester
- Key Makeup Artist: Christopher Allen Nelson
- Producer: Barry Mendel
- Stunts: Hank Amos
- Stunt Coordinator: Chad Stahelski
- Stunts: David Leitch
- Music Editor: Jeff Carson
- Executive Producer: Alisa Tager
- Writer: Joss Whedon
- Costume Design: Ruth E. Carter
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ron Bartlett
- Assistant Art Director: Kevin Kavanaugh
- Special Effects Coordinator: Daniel Sudick
- Production Design: Barry Chusid
- Art Direction: Daniel T. Dorrance
- Set Decoration: Larry Dias
- Stunt Driver: Chris Palermo
- Assistant Art Director: Gerald Sullivan
- Second Unit Director of Photography: Raymond Stella
- Set Medic: Louis Farah
- Animation Supervisor: Fumi Mashimo
- Visual Effects Producer: Catherine Sudolcan
- Sound Mixer: Art Rochester
- Steadicam Operator: Mark Emery Moore
- Casting: Anya Colloff
- Casting: Amy McIntyre Britt
- Executive Producer: Christopher Buchanan
- Leadman: P. Scott Bailey
- ADR Recordist: Rick Canelli
- Props: Helen Wilson
- Stunt Double: J. J. Perry
- Set Decoration Buyer: Kelly Berry
- Stunts: Jeff Imada
- Stunts: John Meier
- Stunts: Tim Trella
- Sound Recordist: Eric Flickinger
- Sound Effects Editor: David A. Whittaker
- Makeup Department Head: Camille Calvet
- Supervising Sound Editor: Tom Bellfort
- Digital Color Timer: Anthony Harris
- Casting Associate: Sari Knight
- Second Assistant Camera: Heather Green
- Editor: Lisa Lassek
- Sound Effects Editor: Kerry Ann Carmean
- Sound Effects Editor: Ben Wilkins
- Stunts: Samuel Le
- Production Illustrator: Harald Belker
- Foley: John Roesch
- Stunts: Steve Upton
- Stunts: Tim Rigby
- Digital Intermediate: Bill Schultz
- Stunts: David Hugghins
- First Assistant Director: Rich Sickler
- CG Supervisor: Emile Edwin Smith
- Stunts: Clay Donahue Fontenot
- Set Decoration: Jim Johnson
- Key Set Production Assistant: Blake Perkinson
- Costume Supervisor: Dana Kay Hart
- Property Master: Brad Einhorn
- Dialogue Editor: Michael Magill
- Assistant Camera: Mark Colicci
- Dialogue Editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- Sound Effects Editor: Karen Vassar Triest
- Visual Effects Producer: Les Hunter
- Location Manager: Lauren Ross
- Set Designer: Mick Cukurs
- Visual Effects Producer: Lisa Goldberg
- Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Rpin Suwannath
- Ager/Dyer: Ryck Schmidt
- Foley Artist: Alyson Dee Moore
- Second Unit Director: Shaun O’Dell
- Digital Intermediate: Walter Volpatto
- Color Timer: Aidan Stanford
- Costumer: Steve Constancio
- Special Effects Supervisor: John K. Stirber
- Key Costumer: Monica Haynes
- Aerial Director of Photography: David B. Nowell
- Construction Coordinator: Robert A. Blackburn
- Video Assist Operator: Paul Murphey
- Key Costumer: Daniel Dirks
- ADR Editor: Stephanie Flack
- Still Photographer: Sidney Ray Baldwin
- Unit Publicist: Rob Harris
- Visual Effects Producer: Gary Nolin
- Sound Effects Editor: Hector C. Gika
- Supervising Sound Editor: Geoffrey G. Rubay
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Richard Malzahn
- Hairstylist: Jennifer Bell
- Art Department Coordinator: Carla S. Nemec
- Compositing Supervisor: Patti Gannon
- Art Department Coordinator: Lisa D. DiSanto
- Greensman: Pedro Barquin
- First Assistant Accountant: Jill Rosenblatt
- Digital Intermediate: John Nicolard
- Digital Effects Supervisor: Karl Herbst
- Visual Effects Producer: Juliette Yager
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Chris Anderson
- Assistant Sound Editor: Andrew Bock
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Loni Peristere
- First Assistant Camera: Peter N. Green
- Hairstylist: Vickie Mynes
- Matte Painter: Michael Lloyd
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Randy Goux
- Title Designer: Gary Hebert
- Digital Supervisor: Richard Patterson
- Foley Mixer: Mary Jo Lang
- Propmaker: Mark Bialuski
- VFX Artist: Jacqueline Cooper
- 3D Artist: Mary E. Manning
- Grip: Steven A. Guerrero
- Best Boy Electric: George Lozano Jr.
- Musician: Norman Ludwin
- Stunts: Casey Pieretti
- Utility Stunts: Regina McKee Redwing
- Stunts: Henry Kingi Jr.
- Makeup Artist: Margie Kaklamanos
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Smith
- Makeup Artist: Ron Pipes
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Eric Withee
- Foley Supervisor: Christopher Flick
- Color Timer: Dan Muscarella
- Rigging Grip: Justin Van Fleet
- Assistant Costume Designer: Jordanna Fineberg
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Susie Brubaker
- First Assistant Editor: Catherine Chase
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Thomas Elder-Groebe
- Visual Effects: L. Patrick McCormack
- Sculptor: Jaremy Aiello
- Creative Director: Jarik van Sluijs
- Boom Operator: Timothy P. Salmon
- Digital Intermediate Editor: John Daro
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Dan DeLeeuw
- Production Accountant: Mary Sunshine
- Storyboard Artist: Ray Harvie
- Post Production Supervisor: Virginia Landis Albertson
- Orchestrator: Gregory Jamrok
- Makeup Supervisor: Scott Stoddard
- Key Hair Stylist: Sean Flanigan
- Makeup Artist: Karen Iverson
- Camera Operator: Andrew Shulkind
- Rigging Grip: Rex Anson Rhorer
- Driver: Jack Carpenter
- Set Painter: Joey Genitempo
- Special Effects: Ron Petruccione
- Extras Casting Assistant: Judy Cook
- Best Boy Grip: Jeffrey A. Johnson
- Dialogue Editor: Lou Kleinman
- Electrician: Chris Pavlu
- Foley Editor: Craig S. Jaeger
- Dialogue Editor: David Williams
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Collin Fowler
- Set Dressing Artist: Courtney J. Andersen
- Negative Cutter: Mo Henry
- Boom Operator: Gail Carroll-Coe
- Rigging Gaffer: James M. Cox
- Key Grip: Jerry C. Deats
- Textile Artist: Julia Gombert
- Camera Loader: Lynda Wu
- First Assistant Sound Editor: John Cannon
- Assistant Property Master: James Lee Kroning
- Camera Operator: Ryan Green
- Production Coordinator: Christina Rollo
- Stunt Double: Karin Silvestri
- First Assistant Camera: Tony Olivieri
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Patrick D. Hurd
- Assistant Editor: Scott Wesley Ross
- Best Boy Electric: Jesse Jaraczewski
- Foley Recordist: Scott Morgan
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Stephanie Pollard
- Transportation Coordinator: Donald R. Casella
- Painter: Shawn Albro
- Visual Effects Editor: Josh Margolies
- Casting Assistant: Carrie Levin
- Chief Lighting Technician: Gary Tandrow
- Digital Compositor: Achint Bansal
- Dialect Coach: Sophia Lansky
- Dolly Grip: Sean Devine
- Sequence Supervisor: Marcus Stokes
- ADR Mixer: Eric Gotthelf
- Stunts: Tyler Vogt
- Assistant Editor: Patrick J. Barry
- Key Makeup Artist: Mary Kay Morse
- Key Makeup Artist: Garrett Immel
- Makeup Artist: Tina Hoffman
- Digital Effects Supervisor: Bud Myrick
- Visual Effects Coordinator: James Turek
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Steve Pimental
- Visual Effects Editor: J.P. “Brendan” Bernardo
- Dolly Grip: Brad Boyer
- Electrician: John Davies
- Electrician: Jason Young
- Key Grip: Greg Karamov
- Key Rigging Grip: Robert Dudley
- Rigging Grip: Minh Bahnsen
- Script Supervisor: Jain Sekuler
- Pilot: Thomas Terry
- Colorist: Greg Curry
- Payroll Accountant: David Hickey
- Second Second Assistant Director: Maria Battle Campbell
- Standby Painter: Chuck Eskridge
- Compositor: Scott Burrows
- Systems Administrators & Support: Justin Ball
- Visual Effects Editor: John Peter Bernardo
- Editorial Production Assistant: James Dornoff
- Transportation Captain: Eric Compton
- Craft Service: Mary King
- Post Production Accountant: James Maull
- Set Production Assistant: Sage Asteak
- Stand In: Elizabeth Cameron
- Concept Artist: Matt Codd
- Extras Casting: Sasha Adkinson
- Graphic Designer: Trey Shaffer
- Stunts: Michael Hugghins
- Special Effects Technician: Roy Augenstein
- Stunts: Scott Cosgrove
- Art Department Production Assistant: Amanda Crockett
- Key Production Assistant: Mollie Stallman
- Stunts: Ming Qiu
- Second Assistant Accountant: Jennifer Clark
- Contact Lens Technician: Pilar Harlow
- Costume Illustrator: Robert Miller
- Set Decorating Coordinator: Chad Koch
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Mark Asaro
- Intern: Melissa Huerta
- Production Assistant: Adam Balentine
- Production Secretary: Julia M. Sauder
- Stunts: Sonja Munsterman
- Stunts: Yuri Hinson
Movie Reviews:
- anthonyryan1: A nice wrap-up to Firefly, unfortunately far too condensed. In may ways it felt like they took the major events that would have spanned the next 2 or 3 seasons and crammed it all into a 2 hour movie.
Nonetheless, it provides a decent sense of closure to the series.
- Matthew Sanders: This was an extremely poor movie. The weakest character during the TV series, River Tam, confusingly became the story focus in this movie.
Despite never exercising and having a small frame, River fought and K.O.ed a room full of bar patrons.
The crew, mysteriously, were devoted to going to the planet River wanted to visit to help her discover her past despite showing various degrees of hostility toward her during the series ranging from open contempt to advocating her murder.
The main villains do not make sense. They are, supposedly, so wild that they regularly sack planets and cannibalize its inhabitants, but can still work together well enough to fly space ships. The entire population of these wild people came from the planet River wants to visit and from a single research facility. I’d guess about 1,000 research and support personnel were initially infected. They have no way of infecting further individuals, the facility was shut down, and yet their current population is many times the original amount. How?
The plot does not make sense. It is not engaging. None of the characters are interesting. The characters die without emotional impact. Pass on this movie. Like the TV series, this is a waste of time.
- John Chard: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then – explode.
Serenity is written and directed by Josh Whedon. It stars Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Music is by David Newman and cinematography by Jack N. Green.
When the captain Mal Reynolds (Fillion) of the space craft Serenity takes on board Dr. Simon Tam (Maher) and his troubled sister River (Glau), it thrusts the entire crew into a world of conspiracy and galactic despots.
Coming at it as a complete novice as regards “Firefly”, the short lived TV show that Serenity is spawned from, I personally have no frame of reference to work from. What I found was a hugely enjoyable sci-fi Western hybrid that deserved a better box office than it got. The cast are all comfortable with each other and very watchable, which isn’t surprising since Whedon has transported them all over from “Firefly”, good move that, while the action quota is high and the black comedy rich.
Where the itches start to appear for newcomers like myself, is that it does feel like an extended TV episode. With a twisty plot that sees Whedon cram much into the 2 hour running time, it demands the utmost attention. Which is fair enough to a degree, but many go (or more pertinently would have gone) into “Serenity” for a sci-fi action adventure, not for a tickle of the cranium. If this contributed to the poor show at the box office? I’m not sure. But you have to think this really was only made for the die-hard fans of the show.
Galling really, because the last third is a ripper of a blockbuster. The action sequences are expertly crafted, the story explodes still further and the principal characters really let loose, particularly the excellent Fillion. Biggest plus of all, the finale doesn’t cop out by insulting those who have stayed the course chartered by the good ship Serenity and its crew. It’s smart genre film making, a very enjoyable film without doubt, but really it’s not got mainstream appeal. Which might suit those die-hards in a selfish kind of why, but that also means we are unlikely to get a sequel. And that’s a shame because a newbie like me could easily stand some more of this whizz bangery. 7/10