Mal volunteered for the Independents army during the Unification War against the Alliance, gaining the rank of sergeant during that time. Though Mal usually seems more practical than intellectual, he occasionally surprises his friends by displaying familiarity with disparate literature varying from the works of Xiang Yu to poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mal was raised by his mother and "about 40 hands" on a ranch on the planet Shadow. That's always been the mission statement of what the show is - getting by." In Serenity, Mal says of himself: " Wind blows Northerly, I go North." As Firefly writer Tim Minear stated in an interview: "It's just about getting by. Malcolm's main mission is to keep his crew alive and to keep his ship flying. As with the gun, replicas of Malcolm Reynolds' coat have also been made available commercially for fans. The Number 1 coat's bullet hole is drawn in, while The Hero version has a detailed cut and sewn repair. Two coats were made for the character, one called "Number 1" coat and another called "The Hero" coat. The cuffs are actually the sleeves folded back, evoking the style of Oriental robes with their silk linings. Trpcic sketched her idea and a cloth mockup was created before the final was made with domestic-farmed deerskin.
The character's coat, a relic of his time as a Browncoat, was a collaboration between Firefly costume designer Shawna Trpcic and Jonathan A. GBB Custom Gunleather was tasked with creating Mal's gun holster, which was made out of oak-tanned carving leather. Nonfunctional replicas of the gun are commercially available for fans and collectors. Since this version was quite heavy, a resin replica was also constructed, which in addition to being less tiring for the actors to carry, could be thrown or dropped with less fear of injury.
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On the TV series Firefly, a cast bronze pistol was used, but for the film Serenity, a more detailed replica was created which had moving action and a blank pistol hidden inside, so that it could be fired in close-ups. The biggest challenge was masking the shape of the original revolver and still keeping it operable. Erikson researched American Civil War-era revolvers for inspiration and the final mockup had a brass or bronze look, with the revolver a little elongated. Erikson provided a foamcore conceptual mockup and the base guns, one of which was a five-shot. Los Angeles prop shop Applied Effects was approached by Randy Erikson to create Mal's main gun, a "Moses Brothers Self-Defense Engine Frontier Model B", and gave them a week and a half. It was my first lead and I was pretty nervous, but I really wanted that part and I wanted to tell those stories." Costume design Fillion was called back several times to read for the part before he was cast. Whedon approached Nathan Fillion to play the lead, and after explaining the premise and showing Fillion the treatment for the pilot, Fillion was eager for the role. The role was originally written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Nicholas Brendon (who played Xander Harris) however, the shooting schedule conflicted with his commitment to Buffy. Everybody represents a facet of himself that he has lost and that's why he keeps them close and safe, and yet at arm's length." Casting "In Wash, he has a lust for life and a sense of humor he's lost. Mal has lost so much that each character in the crew he has gathered on Serenity represents an aspect of himself he no longer has. įillion shares his view on the motivations of the character he portrayed. For the second episode (" The Train Job"), Whedon created a more "jolly" Mal Reynolds. Fox network executives objected, and asked that Mal be "lightened up".
In the proposed pilot, Mal was much darker and considerably more closed-off. He wanted a hero, but not a hero in the classic sense someone that is "everything that a hero is not."
Conceived by Joss Whedon, the character Malcolm Reynolds was the only definite character he had in mind when formulating the ensemble cast.
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