I thought that the Firefly movie was already green-lighted, but this interview makes no mention of it -- does anyone know the date on this?

brother_grady | December 02, 19:17 CET

I think it's the most recent interview at Sci Fi Weekly if that's any help.

Simon | December 02, 20:19 CET

Brother Grady, in a another interview posted here, the following is from Joss:

CFQ: What are the odds of a movie version? I know there was the whole announcement that Universal was going to make a movie….

JOSS WHEDON: That was a little premature as there is no green light. I can’t play the odds, I can’t really count the odds. They’re not bad. The interest is genuine. It’s up to me to turn out a script that’s worth making, which is what I’m busily trying to do. I’m dealing with good, smart people, which is both good and bad. It’s good because of the interest they’ve shown, but it’s bad because I can’t pull one over on them. So it’s really up to me to see if that works and I should know soon.

CFQ: It’s fairly unusual for a studio like Fox to relinquish the rights for another studio to pick it up.

JOSS WHEDON: It was extremely gracious of them and unexpected. A lot of people were, like, “Nobody would do that.” I think they felt bad that it didn’t work out, however that may have happened, and didn’t want to get in the way of something they knew I was that passionate about, which I really, really appreciate. I do have a contract with them, and you could say this was smart business. People can do smart business in two ways, and one of them is the gracious way, which is as rare as it is beautiful.

Cris | December 02, 21:26 CET

Thanks, Cris. That is pretty big news that I had missed. The good news, I guess, is that Whedon should be able to devote the time needed to Angel and, if it comes to pass in the next year or so, the spinoff of BtVS.

brother_grady | December 02, 22:28 CET