Post by grailwolf on Nov 24, 2004 17:41:13 GMT -5
I belong to the Northern Virginia Firefly meetup group, and our organizer mailed this to everyone yesterday. I know that C69 already broke the news, but here it is straight from the horse's mouth. Well, the Joss's mouth anyway...
Joss posted this today:
Are you guys starting to hear that fanfare? Those distant
drums? Are you slapping on your side-arms, pulling on your long
brownish-colored coats and thumbing your crisp new bills in
anticipation of the cinematic event of the year? Well, it's
official: on April 22nd you, the true the blue the loyal, can
step right up with the rest of America and WAIT FIVE MORE
MONTHS.
Heh. See, sometimes studios shuffle around release dates...
Okay. Don't panic. right now you're panicking. you're thinking,
"how could they do this to me?" But what you SHOULD be thinking
is: "How could they do this to JOSS?". Seriously. That pity is
mine and I want it back.
So what happened? Well, nothing terribly original. April got
crowded with a lot of titles aimed at a similar demographic,
and the studio decided September was a clearer corridor for the
film to make the kind of impact it should. This isn't about a
lack of confidence in the film -- in fact, they told me this
before they even saw it. And now they have seen it, and unless
they're way better liars than I'm used to, they dug it.
Actually, they dug it pretty large, which is a good sign since
there's not a single finished effect in the film. There's no
reworking the end, no reshoots, no "does it have to be in
space?". It's just a marketing issue. Now you'll get to watch
lots of trailers in the summer. And hopefully, by the time it
comes out, other people, people who ain't us, will get a whiff
of what we're up to, and come along too.
I love this movie. I HATE waiting to show it too you. I felt
pretty much the way I imagine you're feeling right now when
they told me. But these guys know what they're doing, and
they're trying to protect their investment, not bury it. So I
gotta be a grown-up. The release date is September 30th.
Hopefully it won't change again.
Spread the word. Keep the faith. And gleam the damn cube
already.
-j.
Joss posted this today:
Are you guys starting to hear that fanfare? Those distant
drums? Are you slapping on your side-arms, pulling on your long
brownish-colored coats and thumbing your crisp new bills in
anticipation of the cinematic event of the year? Well, it's
official: on April 22nd you, the true the blue the loyal, can
step right up with the rest of America and WAIT FIVE MORE
MONTHS.
Heh. See, sometimes studios shuffle around release dates...
Okay. Don't panic. right now you're panicking. you're thinking,
"how could they do this to me?" But what you SHOULD be thinking
is: "How could they do this to JOSS?". Seriously. That pity is
mine and I want it back.
So what happened? Well, nothing terribly original. April got
crowded with a lot of titles aimed at a similar demographic,
and the studio decided September was a clearer corridor for the
film to make the kind of impact it should. This isn't about a
lack of confidence in the film -- in fact, they told me this
before they even saw it. And now they have seen it, and unless
they're way better liars than I'm used to, they dug it.
Actually, they dug it pretty large, which is a good sign since
there's not a single finished effect in the film. There's no
reworking the end, no reshoots, no "does it have to be in
space?". It's just a marketing issue. Now you'll get to watch
lots of trailers in the summer. And hopefully, by the time it
comes out, other people, people who ain't us, will get a whiff
of what we're up to, and come along too.
I love this movie. I HATE waiting to show it too you. I felt
pretty much the way I imagine you're feeling right now when
they told me. But these guys know what they're doing, and
they're trying to protect their investment, not bury it. So I
gotta be a grown-up. The release date is September 30th.
Hopefully it won't change again.
Spread the word. Keep the faith. And gleam the damn cube
already.
-j.