Nathan Fillion Is Getting Firefly Fans All Sorts of Excited, Over 20 Years After the Show Was Canceled

Nathan Fillion has hyped up Firefly fans with a fig of societal media posts that has immoderate hoping for a bid instrumentality implicit 20 years aft it was canceled.

Fillion, who plays Captain Mal Reynolds successful Firefly, has made respective societal media posts wherever helium visits assorted formed members from the amusement portion highlighting a mysterious “announcement.” He’s made videos with folks similar Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres, Summer Glau, and Sean Maher, and successful the clips, helium tells his erstwhile costars that “it’s time.”

It seems arsenic though Fillion is hinting astatine immoderate benignant of formed reunion, but successful what signifier volition that reunion take? That’s anyone’s conjecture close now. In the station wherever Fillion joins forces with Maher, the caption tells fans: “Some of you person guessed convention, podcast, oregon cross-over. You are wrong.” And that means immoderate folks who assumed Fillion and his different erstwhile Firefly costar Alan Tudyck would beryllium hosting a reunion (and possibly adjacent a rewatch, too) connected their podcast Once We Were Spacemen are astir apt yet incorrect.

When is this large announcement happening, you mightiness beryllium wondering? Well, successful Fillion’s latest station — each of which person been made connected his podcast account, fueling that speculation — helium visits costar Jewel Staite and confirms that the astonishment volition beryllium revealed connected Sunday, March 15, though helium doesn't clarify wherever oregon however the announcement volition beryllium made.

As acold arsenic what the announcement could really be, fans person been musing astir a imaginable 25th day reunion special, 1 bigger than a podcast meetup, oregon adjacent the highly anticipated and hoped-for revival bid fans person waited patiently for.

"I curse by my beauteous floral bonnet, if Nathan Fillion is starring america connected with these hints I volition curse his abrupt but inevitable betrayal," said 1 instrumentality connected the Firefly subreddit, which arsenic you tin ideate is each sorts of engaged close now.

That said, Baccarin, who played Inara Serra, antecedently opened up astir however improbable it was for a full-scale revival to happen. "There’s ever talk. There’s ever radical asking astir it. Part of maine would beryllium excited to revisit that world, and portion of maine is besides a small spot like, I emotion it truthful overmuch wherever it is, that I’m disquieted astir reopening that door,” she explained connected Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum backmost successful July 2025. “That’s a batch of antithetic careers and antithetic radical that you person to negociate with and marque enactment and each that … schedules and whatnot. Could determination beryllium a comic publication oregon [another] thing–maybe?"

Firefly premiered connected Fox successful September 2002 and ran for conscionable 11 of its 14 episodes earlier being cancelled. The series, created by Joss Whedon, followed the unit of the spaceship known arsenic Serenity helmed by Fillion’s Mal Reynolds successful the twelvemonth 2517 and ended up becoming a cult classical erstwhile it made its mode to DVD. We’ll spot wherever this caller announcement takes things for the fans.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.