Well, the Firefly movie is on schedule for a release date next spring. The original cast are all on board. As usual, Harry Knowles claims to have a leaked first-draft script, and he quotes a very apropos and encouraging bit of dialogue:
Wash: Yeah well if she doesn’t give us some extra flow from the engine room to offset the burnthrough the landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define “interesting.”
Wash (calm suggestion): “Oh god, oh god, we’re all gonna die?”
Nice to see Whedon’s still got it. Incidentally, rumor has it he’s also working on an X-Men script.