Washington DC, March 15 -- Star Nathan Fillion, who had been teasing some sort of revival of the cult hit series 'Firefly', is set to return as the animated show, reported Variety.

According to Variety, Marc Guggenheim and Tara Butters will serve as showrunners, and the show will take place between the TV show (which ran in 2002) and the 2005 feature 'Serenity.' Animation studio ShadowMachine will be handling the visuals.

Fillion was set to share the news at the AwesomeCon event in Washington, D.C., and also detail the news on the "Once We Were Spacemen" podcast, which he and co-star Alan Tudyk (Hoban "Wash" Washburne) launched in November, reported Variety.

In cryptic social media videos last week with co-stars Gina Torres (Zoe Washbu...