Diehard Joss Whedon fans (or Whedonites, I think is what they call themselves) want it to happen desperately, and even the cast thinks it would be just too cool if they could go back and do a sequel to the movie “Serenity” (the feature-length movie version of the cancelled Firefly TV show), but according to the franchise’s creator, writer, and do-it-all guy Joss Whedon — it ain’t gonna happen. Ever. Well, maybe not ever, but definitely it’s not going to happen anytime soon, because according to Whedon, no one is telling him they WANT the sequel. At least, no one with the money to bankroll it.

Here’s what Whedon tells MTV:

“The rumors are there because people really wish it would happen,” Whedon said.

[It’s an “improbable fantasy,” Whedon said. Then again, “so was making ‘Serenity’ [given the cancellation of 'Firefly'], and so is half my career, which is why I never write it off.”

“I’d do it in a heartbeat,” Whedon said, “because I love those people so much.” But that doesn’t change the fact that the rumors are not being circulated “by anyone who owns a studio,” and “nobody’s knocking on our door.”

“There’s been no movement,” he said. “Those rumors are just rumors, and I don’t think they’re going to stop, no matter how many times I say, ‘No, it’s not happening.’ Because somebody will say, ‘He said yes. His eyes said yes. His nose said yes. There was a yes-iness about him.’ Because people want it.”

In a nutshell: it ain’t gonna happen. Probably.