Joss Whedon talks Sernity

Joss Whedon's "Serenity, based on his "Firefly" TV-Series comes out this Friday September 30th, and our colleagues from Latino Review had the chance to talk to the director about his Sci Fi movie. And Whedon also talks about "Wonder Woman", the "Serenity" DVD and "X-Men 3".

Read on for a clip from the interview below:

What was your inspiration for the Serenity series? Was it Star Wars? Star Trek?

Joss Whedon: The words millennium falcon might have crossed my mind at some point, but it was actually reading a book about the battles at Gettysburg. I got so caught up in the minutia of the world and all the current way of life and thought about life back then, you know? They didn’t have any Tivo, or internet and everything you had you made yourself. And I wanted to translate that to the screen in this type of movie. I wanted to make a movie that made me feel the way I did when I saw Star Wars or Star Trek. And ultimately, I feel that in the future everything will be made up from everything in the past.

Does that bother you at all? Technology? Do you wish for simpler times?

JW: In some ways, after raising a child, its hard because you want to be able to handle things in this tactile world, you want them to know the difference between waiting for something and getting it right away; and also a lot of the most imaginative stuff comes from being left alone with yourself and being bored, and I think we’re losing a bit of that. I’m happy to have alot the convenient things that I have, I mean its not like I don’t live in this world, but I do think there are something’s that we miss; and there’s a kind of alienation that comes with that, that the matrix sort of dealt with.

To read the complete interview, just click here.

Set five-hundred years in the future, the film centres around Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds, a hardened veteran who fought on the losing side of a galactic civil war. Mal now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transporting passengers and cargo on the Firefly-class ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family – squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.