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It's possible that he's just not in the trailer, too. If he actually isn't in the movie, I think we can rest assured that we'll get a plausible reason as to why. This isn't a Star Trek movie after all.
All they'd really have to say is that they dropped him off somewhere for [insert futuristic preacher reason].
New info: According to my colleague, Book is in some of the cast photos for the movie.
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Looks like he's at a refugee camp of some kind in the gallery photo they have. Perhaps they drop him off there close to the beginning of the movie with the idea that they'll be back to pick him up later.
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Hmm, I was re-watching the trailer again (can't get enough of it now!), and I noticed what I think might be a rather familiar ship in a couple of the shots:
It's hard to tell for sure, but I'm pretty certain that the longish ship on the right of the image is either the Varro community ship from the awful VGR episode "The Disease", or else a pretty close copy. Anyone else got a better look than my poor computer and the mid-range quality?
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I thought that as well at first, but we get a much closer look at it later on and it's a completely different design. It just looks similar because it's long and segmented with a "head" and "tail" section.
Book AKA thingybob Glass is listed on IMDb as being in the movie, so maybe they're keeping his scenes secret in the trailer. This trailer was mostly "action, action, ACTIONY", so his scenes might not have fitted in well anyway.
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Keep in mind that IMDb is based on fan-posted information. It's not always accurate.
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Of course he's in it. Didn't someone post a link in this very thread to the promotional stills which feature him? (Yes, not ten posts above me, I now discover, but who has the time to look up when they are rushing off a response?) Or to Whedon's acknowledgement somewhere or other that the trailer shortchanged Kaylee and Book? (No, as it turns out.) (Though I would imagine the film will as well. I mean, nine characters is an awful lot.)
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In that first screenshot MM posted, that ship in the lower left is the Reaver ship from the episode "Serenity". You know, the two-part episode that was supposed to be shown first but got shown last instead. I know this because this past Friday I happened to tell my wife that the DVD set has 3 unaired episodes, and she very quickly "insisted" that we buy it immediately.
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I think Joss should come out in public denunciation of the airing of the series on FOX and tell people that if they want to really know what's going on, they need to buy the DVD set and watch them in that order because the movie will assume you have done so.
FOX angers me. The two-hour pilot was gold. The episode they aired as the pilot was good too, but it retread alot of the ground that was much more subtley covered in the original pilot. Mal's problem with religion, and his apparent connection to Inara for example. There was time in the two-hour epsiode to be nice and subtle with these issues, but they really had to work to get them into the one hour episode.
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