Serenity (2005 film) Serenity (2005 film) Serenity is a 2005 American science fiction action film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is a continuation of Whedon's short-lived 2002 Fox television series "Firefly" and stars the same cast, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set in 2517, "Serenity" is the story of the captain and crew of "Serenity", a ""Firefly"-class" spaceship. The captain and first mate are veterans of the Unification War, having fought on the losing Independent side against the Alliance. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbors a dangerous secret. The
History of science fiction films story about a boy in Bengal befriending an alien. Production of the film was cancelled, but the script was released and available throughout the world. Ray believed that the 1982 Steven Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was based on "The Alien", though Spielberg states that it was not. "Planet of the Apes" (1968) was extremely popular, spawning four sequels and a television series. While not strictly-speaking science fiction, some of the James Bond films included a variety of science fiction-like gadgetry. Possibly the most significant Science Fiction film of the 1960s was "" of 1968, directed by Stanley Kubrick and