Firefly Series Revival Gets New Update From Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk

Published Jul 27, 2026, 11:51 AM EDT Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Sign in to your ScreenRant account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Firefly continues to chart its comeback. Firefly is a space Western series that was created by Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and debuted in 2002. The show ended up being canceled after a single season, with 14 episodes in total. Despite it being short-lived, Firefly ended up developing a cult status over the years. That eventually led to the sci-fi franchise coming back in a major way a few years after its cancellation. Written and directed by Whedon, Serenity, the Firefly sequel movie, was released in theaters on September 30, 2005. It brought back the show's main cast. Now, another project aims the same. At MCM Comic-Con, Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk explained where the Firefly animated sequel series stands right now. According to the actors, who played Captain Mal Reynolds and Hoban "Wash" Washburne in Firefly and Serenity, respectively, the revival remains in development. However, they made it clear that it has not yet found a home, be it on a TV network or a streaming service, and that they will let fans know when the new sci-fi series has moved to the next step in its journey. Fillion said, "It's not easy work," but they remain committed to the development process. Check out the full exchange below: Nathan Fillion: So, you saw a video, not announcing a series, but announcing the development of the series. Boy, it takes a lot longer than one would hope. The development to get a show onto a a television network or streaming platform. It's not easy work, Alan, or else everyone would do it, right? Alan Tudyk: I agree. I know. Especially since previously I mentioned the business is in a bit of a... going through some things. So, it's in process much like developing photos when we were young. You go to a little box, guy who lives in a little house in a parking lot. That's how they would do it in the states, the Kodak part, and you drop them off to some guy who was certainly stoned and you'd pick them up a little while later after he's done rifling through all of your personal images. So, we're in the rifling through the personal images part. We're not ready to pick them up, but when we do, you will hear.