Serenity (2005 film) they will likely continue their pursuit in retribution for getting the word out. "Serenity" takes off with River as Mal's new pilot. The film is based on "Firefly", a television series canceled by the Fox Broadcasting Company in December 2002, after 11 of its 14 produced episodes had aired. Attempts to have other networks acquire the series failed, and creator Joss Whedon started to sell it as a film. He had been working on a film script since the show's cancellation. Shortly after the cancellation, he contacted Barry Mendel, who was working with Universal Studios, and "flat-out asked him" for
Sci-Fi (G.I. Joe) of the G.I. Joe sub-team, the Star Brigade, which includes Space Shot, Roadblock and Payload. Teaming with the Oktober Guard, they destroy an asteroid that was headed for Earth. Sci-Fi makes an appearance in issue 25 of the Devil's Due G.I. Joe series. He is part of a demolitions team sent in to destroy EMP generators on Cobra Island. Led by the Joe Mercer, the team does so, but not without the deaths of Flash, Mainframe and the rookie Joe member, 'Hacker'. Jinx, another member of the team, survives. Sci-Fi is later seen fighting Cobra operatives in Peru. In the