The Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 16
Editor: Endorill


From MaidenGreen:

Hello all you die-hard Angel fans!

Still with us? Still here? Still the faithful even after all this time?
TERRIFIC!

Have you been writing Christmas cards to friends and family? How about
taking a break from penning all those greeting and send a postcard and
Christmas greetings to our newest target for an Angel feature film?

We Can Do This!

The Farscape Fans got their Mini-Series...

The Firefly Fans got their Movie...

Angel Fans need their chance to shine!

We Want An Angel Feature Film!

And good news for those of you who thought Serenity was a dump on the
big screen... Well, Suncoast nearly ran out of their DVD pre-order
allotment for this terrific movie. So Whedon's little space western
with a no-name cast did pretty well! And Angel Will Do Better! It has
a bigger following, and terrific fans who'll fight for their show!

So let keep the momentum going and Write Those Postcards.
Send Joss a Christmas Greeting as well, reminding him we're waiting
for him to bring out beloved Angel characters to the Big Screen!

Newest Angel Movie Target:

New Line Cinema
Robert Shaye, Co-Chairman/CEO
Michael Lynne, Co-Chairman/CEO
888 - 7th Ave.
New York, NY 10106

Joss Whedon
c/o Chris Harbert
Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA. 90212-1825


Action Alert from Gman:

Well, the big day is here. The Serenity DVD is finally available and
at the right time. It is, after all, it is the season of giving. So go
out and grab a copy or two (or three) and give them as holiday
presents to all your loved ones that appreciate great movies, give
yourself a treat, and give Joss a boost.

And if you can give a little more of your time, send postcards with
either receipts or UPC codes attached to them to:

Stacey Snider - Chairman
Ron Meyer - President and COO
NBC Universal Studios
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Here is a link to some terrific postcard art:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4449

Let's make the holidays a little happier for all things Joss!

Take A Letter, Cordelia.

We wish you Happy Holidays, not because we repudiate Christmas, but
because we know not everyone celebrates Christmas. Some folks
celebrate Channukah, Kwanzaa, or Winter Solstice. Some folks do not
celebrate anything at all. My wishes for you are not limited by some
date, but prompted by what I think about at Christmas, which I
celebrate, including all the ways people are alike. I remember how
frequently our needs mesh and overlap and I stop myself and remind
myself to be a little kinder, a little more understanding, and to
listen more and talk less.
So I want to wish you a satisfying peace of mind, a heart with joy
overflowing and hands willing to help the less fortunate. Because that
is what ANGEL was about, Helping The Helpless. So be somebody's Angel,
Christmas or otherwise, and take this week to make a small difference
in someone else's life.

Wesley's Archives

Anybody see the Ready Set Change segments on The TV Guide channel?
They featured a change for an ANGEL style bedroom and a Beaver
Cleaver-style kitchen for the redo. They did a pretty could job. I was
kind of bemused that the show was doing it's bit to bring Art Deco to
the masses. Hurray for Joss Whedon, arbitrator of fashion.



Joss Whedon - "Serenity" Movie - Thestar.com Interview
From Thestar.com - By Rob Salem - 12-19-2005

The Serenity cycle continues with DVD

"There was a line that was cut out of the pilot of the show," recalls
Joss Whedon with all due irony: "Once you're in Serenity, you never
leave. You just learn to live there."

Whedon and his crewmates - and their legions of dedicated, die-hard
fans - have been living in Serenity since early 2002. Even when there
was no "Serenity" to live in.

And now it has all somehow come full circle. The TV show, Firefly,
abruptly cancelled halfway through its first season, did well enough
in fan-generated DVD sales to inspire its resurrection as the feature
film Serenity. After a healthy, if not yet entirely profitable
theatrical run, it arrives tomorrow on DVD.

And after that, who knows? A sequel? Another series?

"It would depend on huge numbers from the DVD," writer/director Whedon
allows. "Obviously, we are still shy of making our money back from the
box office. But we are within shouting distance. Still, it would have
to blow up pretty huge for a sequel to be called for.

"Mind you, stranger things have happened. And they do seem to happen
to me. So it's not like I'm shutting the door."

This is not a man who gives up easily. Particularly when it comes to
this particular world, an Eastern-accented sci-fi Western set in a
dystopian post-war near-future, centered on a ragged band of mercenary
space pirates, led by the taciturn (if slightly quippy) battle-scarred
veteran, Mal Reynolds, as portrayed by Calgary-born Nathan Fillion.

"I'm never satisfied," Whedon confesses. "I do feel some closure. But
closure doesn't mean closing the book, on those characters, on those
actors, on that universe. I always want more. I am a rabid fan. And
so, while I'm happy to lay down my arms for a while, if somebody said,
`Pick 'em up, let's do more!' I wouldn't hesitate."

Whedon is not Firefly's only rabid fan - nor is it his only TV
creation to generate this level of fannish devotion. Almost three
years after its cancellation (and two after its spin-off, Angel),
acolytes of Whedon's cult-hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer still clamour
for a sequel series, a movie or, as is most commonly rumoured, series
of TV movies.

"Unfortunately," laughs Whedon, "they're still just rumours. But I am
trying to turn them into something else. And so that, hopefully, will
be the thing ... and if not, then, unfortunately, it's just me talking."

Still, even in this rarified environment, there is something
distinctly different about the respective after-the-fact affection for
Firefly and Buffy.

Firefly fans had the rug pulled from under them after barely a dozen
episodes had aired. Buffy buffs could at least look back on a
cumulative run of (including Angel) 254.

"They got seven seasons (of Buffy)," acknowledges Whedon. "That's as
many as we had in us. But (Firefly fans) had everything taken away
from them."

Commensurate with those feelings of loss and outrage comes a certain
odd sense of righteous entitlement. More than merely wanting, or even
just deserving a full-on Serenity movie, the Firefly fans feel they
actually earned it.

And Whedon enthusiastically agrees. "They really did struggle to make
this happen. I owe them a huge debt, not, you know, of money.... It's
easy to forget that, or overplay it, or to start to sound facetious.
But they really did mobilize and that really does matter."

For Whedon himself, the Serenity film has proven an ideal transitional
vehicle from television to features, though he had toiled for many
years as a film writer (from the original Buffy movie to Toy Story to
the sequel Alien: Resurrection), Serenity would be the first time he
would direct for the big screen.

Not that he's planning on giving up TV. "Never," he insists. "I love,
love, love television. I love it in a way that I don't love film.
They're two completely separate and different entities. And just
because I'm getting a crack at doing what I've wanted to do for a long
while, i.e. my whole life, doesn't mean that I have passed television by.

"It wasn't a stepping stone. Or if it was, it radically stopped being
one when I realized exactly how out there and daring and delightful
and extraordinary things can be on television."

Still, he won't deny that he's enjoying the luxury of the larger
palette. "In a way," he admits, "the stakes are higher. The scripts
are longer. But at the same time, it's pretty much the same process.
It really is. `Did I find the moment?' `How do I hit them?' `Where do
I jab that they're not protecting?' "

Most significantly, in genre circles, he's been hitting and jabbing at
his computer keyboard, finishing up his long-anticipated script for
the Wonder Woman feature he will also direct.

But first, this last bit of "old" business, getting out the Serenity
DVD. Unlike Whedon's often-reticent participation on earlier DVD
commentary tracks, this one has him tripping over his own tongue in an
effort to try and cram everything in.

"The movie," he says, "was three years in the making. So I had a lot
to say."

He has also, he admits, somewhat warmed to the form. "I go back and
forth ... I get very nervous and sometimes I worry that I am going to
be the most boring man alive. But now that I am a little more at ease
with the process, I do kind of enjoy it. I do like showing `behind the
curtain' a little bit."

Particularly in this case: the Serenity DVD's bonus extras contain
several tasty nuggets for the faithful, including, perhaps, a hint of
who he may have in mind for the tiara and bullet-bouncing bracelets of
his Amazon Princess.

There is a point during his commentary track on the movie's deleted
scenes that he refers to cutting back the role of Inara, portrayed by
Morena Baccarin. "But I'll be making that up to her soon," he
cryptically allows on the disc.

Baccarin is one of the names most bandied about as a favoured Wonder
Woman candidate.

But Whedon isn't talking now. "You know," he chuckles, "making up for
something and casting her as Wonder Woman are not exactly the same thing.

"But you know what? Honestly, I don't even think about it. Morena is
spectacularly lovely and very talented, and has a lot of the qualities
I'm looking for. But I'm writing a character now who does not exist in
a physical body. So until that script is finished and I start looking
for that physical body, I won't even have an opinion on the subject."

One wonders if the current project is Goner, a subject that has been
whispered about here and there.


No Serenity novels this summer
From Fireflyfans.net - By Webmaster - 12-18-2005

From Buffyverse Forever, Fan Fiction Moderator:

Over in the Fan Fiction Zone, Endorill begins a new chapter in her
saga as we learn how everybody's favorite bleach blonde vampire spends
this holiday season. And you just know that Spike spends the holidays
quietly meditating and spreading Christmas joy wherever he
goes...Yeah, right laugh.gif Get in on the ground floor for all the
excitement!

Plus, more installments in MaidenGreen's "Full Circle." Angel is up
against his deadliest foe ever and he needs all the help he can get!
Unfortunately, that may not be enough...