Only 14 episodes of the television show “Firefly” aired more than 20 years ago, but the sci-fi series has such dedicated fans that an effort is underway to reunite the cast in a new format, and four of the program’s original stars will be in central Iowa this weekend to talk about it.
Ben Penrod is founder of Des Moines Con, which will hold its fifth annual event in Iowa’s largest city starting tomorrow.
“We are going to have Alan Tudyk, Jewel Staite, Summer Glau, and Sean Maher, all from ‘Firefly’,” Penrod says. “I’m a huge fan of ‘Firefly’, it’s one of my favorite shows of all time. Being able to do this is really exciting, especially after they announced that they’re trying to put an animated series together.”…