Serenity update.
Sep. 24th, 2005 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckI've managed to reserve two seats to the Serenity pre-screening on October, 2. This means I only have to stay away from the boards for two days.
I've been in email correspondence with the guy who helps Universal Germany promote Serenity - he seems to be active in the German Star Trek fan community and I doubt that he's a browncoat himself.
[As an aside: We might have to find a different term for the German fans, as there are unfortunate connotations - brown clothing will forever be associated with the Nazis.]
Anyway, this promoter guy told me that Universal hadn't decided yet about the language of the film. Let's hope they'll go for the original - I wrote back begging for the English version. I am going to write to Universal Germany as well. It would probably be a good idea to get the German fans together to make sure we get to see Serenity as Joss Whedon intended and not in some butchered dubbed version. Except I don't know any German fans save for a few who frequent Whedonesque. I lost touch with the friend who got me into Buffy in the first place. And anyway, some of them might prefer to watch the film in German or at least with subtitles.
I'm getting nervous about how Serenity will do in Germany. As you may know there was a Firefly-Marathon in a cinema in Munich on September, 10 with all episodes of the show and after that a screening of Serenity. I've managed to unearth an article (in German) about this shindig - roughly 100 people showed up, it was a fun experience, the review is positive. Universal had a flyer full of (translation) mistakes - not along the lines of Jewel and Joss are married, but still grating. You can find it here and try to spot the errors.
Let's hope there are a few more people at the screening I'm attending and let's hope that the mainstream press will notice Serenity soon.
News: There is a press screening in Hamburg on October, 7, with Summer, Nathan and Joss. Universal has invited a group of German internet fans (those most active on a German firefly board, two folks from slayerverse.de...) to help them spread the word. There has been an article in the mainstream media - in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - but I haven't read it, because they want to charge me 0,85€ to access it.
I've been in email correspondence with the guy who helps Universal Germany promote Serenity - he seems to be active in the German Star Trek fan community and I doubt that he's a browncoat himself.
[As an aside: We might have to find a different term for the German fans, as there are unfortunate connotations - brown clothing will forever be associated with the Nazis.]
Anyway, this promoter guy told me that Universal hadn't decided yet about the language of the film. Let's hope they'll go for the original - I wrote back begging for the English version. I am going to write to Universal Germany as well. It would probably be a good idea to get the German fans together to make sure we get to see Serenity as Joss Whedon intended and not in some butchered dubbed version. Except I don't know any German fans save for a few who frequent Whedonesque. I lost touch with the friend who got me into Buffy in the first place. And anyway, some of them might prefer to watch the film in German or at least with subtitles.
I'm getting nervous about how Serenity will do in Germany. As you may know there was a Firefly-Marathon in a cinema in Munich on September, 10 with all episodes of the show and after that a screening of Serenity. I've managed to unearth an article (in German) about this shindig - roughly 100 people showed up, it was a fun experience, the review is positive. Universal had a flyer full of (translation) mistakes - not along the lines of Jewel and Joss are married, but still grating. You can find it here and try to spot the errors.
Let's hope there are a few more people at the screening I'm attending and let's hope that the mainstream press will notice Serenity soon.
News: There is a press screening in Hamburg on October, 7, with Summer, Nathan and Joss. Universal has invited a group of German internet fans (those most active on a German firefly board, two folks from slayerverse.de...) to help them spread the word. There has been an article in the mainstream media - in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - but I haven't read it, because they want to charge me 0,85€ to access it.
