Alan Tudyk (who plays Wash) has been in a couple of other movies that I've seen, so perhaps he wanted to bow out of the whole Firefly thing to pursue his movie career. That's just a guess. I'd heard that someone was going to die in the film and so approched it with dread - whereas most shows have at least one "disposable" character who could kick the bucket without leaving too much of a hole, with this I found myself not wanting any of the crew to die - Joss Wheddon just writes his characters so well.
I thought Mr Wheddon's big achievement here was to produce a "film of the TV series" that actually continued the story and satisfactorily answered questions from the show rather than just being a tacked-on addition made for the sake of it. And to borrow one critic's assessment, if only the Star Wars prequels had been this good.
Please bring back the series!
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