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DrummDragon



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:18 pm    Post subject: How to get a sequel, read if you want to help!!! Reply with quote

Attention Browncoats, this is a call to arms! We must organize! We must fight! What are we fighting for? For a sequel to one of the best science-fiction movies to date, a sequel to Serenity. A letter writing campaign is being organized, and it's very simple to participate. All you must do is copy/paste, and print out the following letter. Then sign your name, and mail it off to the address below. This campaign is being timed with the release of the special edition of the Serenity DVD. The idea is that if enough people buy a copy of the special edition DVD and send out a copy of the exact same letter, Universal will consider making a sequel to Serenity because it will be profitable. So all you have to do to expand the Firefly/Serenity universe, is mail the following letter to Universal Studios on or after August 21st, the day the special edition DVD ships. If everyone one of us gets as many people as possible to send in a letter and buy a copy of the DVD, then no power in the 'verse can stop us.

-Trevor Latal (DrummDragon)

Universal Studios Address:

100 Universal City Plaza
Universal Studios, CA. 91608

Letter to be printed and mailed (email may work also): double space the letter so it fills the whole page




To whom it may concern,

I am what one would call a "Browncoat." A fan of the 2005 major motion picture Serenity, by Joss Whedon and Universal Studios. This also means that I am a fan of the short lived television series Firefly. As a member of the very large Browncoat community, I can say that we have done the impossible. What the Browncoat community has done is to help get a cancelled television series made into a major motion picture. My hope is that we can do it again, and have a sequel to the 2005 major motion picture Serenity will soon be made by Universal Studios.

Due to both DVD sales and word of mouth, popularity of the major motion picture Serenity has increased greatly since it's theatrical debut in 2005. This rise in popularity is not just among determined fans who call themselves "Browncoats," but among the general movie going public as well. I am sure that your company's sales records of the Serenity DVD can indicate better than I can, that it would be in Universal Studio's best financial interest to produce a sequel to Serenity. With better publicity and marketing than the first, a sequel to Serenity would be much more successful at the box office, as well as in DVD sales. I can guarantee that when a sequel to Serenity is produced, that no power in the 'verse can stop me, or thousands of other Browncoats and ordinary moviegoers alike from seeing it.

Sincerely,


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Companion Kate



Joined: 27 Jan 2005
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Location: UK

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:52 am    Post subject: Re: How to get a sequel, read if you want to help!!! Reply with quote

DrummDragon wrote:
All you must do is copy/paste, and print out the following letter. Then sign your name, and mail it off to the address below.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! This will not help, and your thread title "How to get a sequel" is misleading, at best.

Hi DrummDragon. I see that was your first post, so you are very welcome to the forum. But you might want to check to see what other activity is going on, and what the general consensus is, before posting "call to arms" posts. Recruiting browncoats to send SPAM to the people who made our Big Damn Movie (and realistically, that's what you're suggesting) is almost certainly not likely to help.

Universal are not stupid, and mass-copied letters will not interest them. Personal, individual letters might be nice, but mass copied text is pointless. Moreover, the actual text that you use is counterproductive. You do not need to tell Universal stuff that they already know. It's better to tell them how the movie touched your heart, and how it has led you to watch other Universal movies.

We must work with Universal, to help ensure that the Collectors Edition DVD is a rip-roaring success.

You might want to read this:
http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/2007/07/emily-posts-guide-to-save-our-show.html
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BrownCoat1



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome DrummDragon. Glad to have you here.

I agree w/ Kate in that I think more personal letters detailing how "Serenity" touched them or what the movie and a sequel means to them will get us far more milage than a copy of any single letter.

Like all companies, Universal is in this for the money which means we need to focus the majority of our energies on pushing the CE dvd. We need to buy them, convince others to buy them, use guerilla marketing tactics to get them into the publics view, and raise awareness that the CE dvd is on shelves.
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