Austin Serenity Premiere with Summer & Jewel

Next Thursday, September 29, Wednesday, September 28, at an abandoned Old West town somewhere near Austin, the Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow, Ain't It Cool News and Fantastic Fest will present the Austin premiere of Serenity with Summer Glau and Jewel Staite in attendance.

An extremely limited number of tickets will go on sale starting 5pm this Friday, 9/23, at rollingroadshow.com - but you can get your ticket right now for absolutely free if you purchase a badge to Fantastic Fest. How shiny is that?

Now, for those of you who still haven't figured out what all the fuss is about, try to imagine a brilliantly written Star Wars movie where Han Solo is the main character (and shot first). Joss Whedon elaborates in an interview with About.com: "The idea behind Serenity in the first place really did have to do with the idea of the Millennium Falcon as a real concept. What if you were that guy, forget the aliens and the robots and the Force. What if you just had a crappy little spaceship and you had to make a living and you didn’t really care how? How hard would your life be? That to me, the reality of that fantasy is what makes it so fascinating and ultimately that’s the benchmark of everything I do. It’s finding the reality behind the fantasy no matter how absurd the fantasy may be."