 In an interview on February 17, 2011, with Entertainment Weekly, Nathan Fillion joked that: "If I got $ 300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet". This quickly gave rise to a fan-run initiative to raising the funds to purchase the rights. On March 7, 2011, the organizers announced the closure of the project due to lack of endorsement from the creators, with $ 1 million pledged at the time it was shut down.
