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B5 movie scheduled for 2016

Started by davekill, July 28, 2014, 11:45:35 AM

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davekill

JMichael Straczynski Announced plans for a Babylon 5 feature film produced by his own studio, at the Saturday San Diego Comic Con.

'..So it's been a really big year for Studio JMS. And due to that, he can now look to doing a feature film for B5.

JMS recapped that WB owns everything about B5 except the movie rights and even though he holds the film rights, to take a B5 movie to another studio without holding the TV rights wouldn't work. There's one studio in LA that doesn't care about that – Studio JMS – and in 2015 JMS will write the script.

He'll give WB the opportunity to step up, but if they don't, Studio JMS will make it in 2016 on thier own with a $1-200,000,000.00 budget'
http://freebabylon5.com/babylon-5-movie-details/

Rico


ChrisMC

Oh my god...can this be real? Don't tease me!
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davekill

#3
Good news indeed :)

At 22:15 of the audio file JMS makes the B5 movie announcement at this weekends SDCC.
http://youtu.be/Nx02FBuKih8?t=22m15s


At 36 minutes he answers a few B5 questions from the audience.

Feathers

Love this idea. It's about the only way I can see it happening but it will be great!

I know it's unnusual here but I don't have a podcast of my own.

Bromptonboy

Do you have to buy the DVD to catch up with this series, or can it be streamed someplace?
Pete

davekill

#6
Quote from: Bromptonboy on September 28, 2014, 02:52:59 AM
Do you have to buy the DVD to catch up with this series, or can it be streamed someplace?

It will not be a continuation of the series, JMS is going for a  reboot.
http://io9.com/babylon-5-could-soon-be-rebooted-as-a-feature-film-1619026279

He has talked about a reboot in one form or another for the last few years.
In 2011 he was in talks with WB about a possible series reboot at that time... and [spoiler]to fully understand the context of his statement you have to know at the end of the series the station was destroyed.
[/spoiler]

"Despite what some folks say, the fact is that saying "reboot" is like saying "science fiction," it means what you're pointing at, and there are all kinds of permutations of what that means. It (and remember we're talking about something that is not currently on the boards) can't be a straight-ahead sequel because the market can't sustain it when the show hasn't been on the air in the US in over a decade. That's never, ever going to fly. It can't be called Babylon 5 if there isn't a place called Babylon 5, so the station has to be in existence, otherwise you can't use that name. You could do a show about the telepath war, but you couldn't call it Babylon 5 unless there's a Babylon 5 there, otherwise it'll confuse the hell out of new audiences (oh, that's named for a station that used to be there in another series you never saw).

The challenge I set for myself in this is very simple: knowing what I know now, having grown a lot as a writer since 1992 (or for that matter the late 80s when I started writing the pilot), having the experience of the original show in what worked and what didn't, and with all the technology available to us now that wasn't there in 1992, if I were to put the show together right now, what would it look like? That, for my money, is what a reboot is."