Tentatively titled "Firefly,'' the new ensemble series takes place 500 years in the future and revolves around the crew of a "small, incredibly mobile spaceship whose aft end lights up,'' Whedon said -- hence the name.
"There'll be scary-ass humans,'' he said. "I can make people that are scarier than anything you can put in latex."
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