Big 'Firefly' Following Leads Whedon to 'Serenity'

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Space is literally the final frontier in "Firefly," a self- styled "sci-fi Western" with a short TV life but a long cult following.

It was this strong fan base that allowed series creator Joss Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel") to not only resurrect the moribund series for the big screen in his new movie "Serenity" (it opened Friday) but to do it John Wayne style: by sticking to his guns.

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Big 'Firefly' Following Leads Whedon to 'Serenity'

"I didn't come in and say, 'I want to do something like this,'-" he says. "I came in saying, 'Here it is. Here's the world, here's the look, here's the crew.' The idea of casting anybody else was never on the tab...

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