Joss Whedon and "1984", the movie plays like a critique of contemporary society, with the Alliance as Big Brother, enemy of discontent". The film received the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Script, the 2006 Prometheus Special Award, and was voted the best sci-fi movie of all time in a poll set up by SFX magazine. There have since been multiple rumors regarding sequel possibilities. The limited three-issue comic book series called "", the story of which was written by Whedon, was released in 2005 as a tie-in to "Serenity". Set between "Firefly" and the film, it was intended connect the two storylines.
AXN Sci Fi AXN Sci Fi AXN Sci Fi was a European pay television movie channel owned by Sony Pictures Television. It was available in Italy, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan and Bulgaria on Sky Italia, Boom TV, Bulsatcom, Cyfra Plus, Cyfrowy Polsat, Digi TV, Dolce, iNES, Max TV and N. The channel was launched in Czech Republic and Slovakia in October 2007. On 12 July 2013, Sony announced that AXN Sci Fi and AXN Crime would be replaced by AXN Black and AXN White. On 1 October, AXN Sci Fi was replaced by AXN Black, however Italy edition was unaffected. On