Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, and Tony Shalhoub along with Tim Daly and Rebecca Schull in Funny Or Die's "The Wings Serenity Movie Project"
The Wings Serenity Movie Project was a parody fundraiser created by Funny Or Die to crowdfund Wings: Serenity the feature film.
History[]
On April 1, 2013 Funny Or Die posted a parody video titled "The Wings Serenity Movie Project". The video was a parody promotional video to crowdfund a feature film based on the original Wings TV series titled Wings: Serenity through Kickstarter.
Having already secured partial funding from Redbull (because "Redbull gives you wings") and started filming, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, and Tony Shalhoub along with Tim Daly and Rebecca Schull joining via video asked fans to help raise the remaining $87 million dollars needed to complete the project.
As part of the promotion, the cast shared a short, already filmed spec scene depicting Brian Hackett piloting an out of control airplane with Paul, his copilot, unconscious in the seat next to him. Casey Davenport asking if their going to crash. After getting Brian an ice cold Redbull, Casey moves Paul and occupies the copilot seat to help Brian "trim the nose" and "roll" the plane. When Brian reveals that he's drunk, they both scream at each other and the scene ends. As commented on by the cast, the scene is very reminiscent of Denzel Washington's Flight (2012).
Although present for this fundraiser, Tony Shalhoub is actually concurrently filming a Kickstarter video for a competing Wings film titled Antonio Scarpacci's Big Adventure. Shalhoub then shares his own short, already filmed spec scene depicting Antonio Scarpacci driving a out of control cab off road with an unnamed passenger in the backseat. The scene end with Antonio trying to "trim the nose" and "roll" the cab and exclaiming that they are going down.
Obviously, based on announcement date and sponsor, this was a parody.
Cast[]
- Steven Weber as Himself and Brian Hackett
- Amy Yasbeck as Herself and Casey Davenport
- Tony Shalhoub as Himself and Antonio Scarpacci
- Tim Daly as Himself
- Rebecca Schull as Herself
Trivia[]
- Steven Weber dubbs fans of the original series "Wingnuts", "Wingdings", and "Wingbrats".
- The title "Wings: Serenity" is likely a reference to Serenity, the 2005 feature film that acted as the final episode of creator Joss Whedon's short-lived 2002 Fox TV series Firefly.
- Having Redbull as a sponsor is a play on their media campaign slogan: "Redbull gives you wings".
- Tony Shalhoub dubbs fans of Antonio Scarpacci "Scarpacciosos".
- As a promotional incentive, top donors were promised to receive gift. However, the only gift listed were a pair of pilot's wings for every for donation tiers ($25, $50, $100, and $500 levels).