Firefly may be dead, and Serenity may not have been the box office hit that Joss Whedon was hoping for, but it looks like he’s giving the Browncoats at least one more thing to look forward to in the near future. A special edition DVD of Serenity is in the works, and to be honest, I’m not that surprised considering the existing Region 1 DVD is a bit thin on extras. (Thin for a movie with as rabid a following as this one, at least.) The box art I have attached is not necessarily what the new package will look like, but it was taken from the Australian DVD release of Serenity, which also has a bunch of extra goodies that will most likely be included in the S.E. (such as a Joss Whedon Q&A Session, extended scenes, script to screen featurette, tour of the Serenity ship, and an expose on cinematographer Jack Green).

Over on the Whedonesque forums, the Lord of the Fanboys also hints that he would like to get an audio commentary track with the cast, in addition to an alternate ending (if you turn it off early, that is… yuk yuk), and something about Greedo shooting first. Oh, and new key art? I guess he didn’t like the old artwork. This new 2-disc edition of Serenity is expected to be released sometime in the summer, so stay tuned for more details.