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Skriven 2006-07-23 00:05:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5028.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: JMS's Spotlight at SD
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On 22 Jul 2006 19:39:01 -0700, Jan <janmschroeder@aol.com> wrote:

>Hijacking this thread since the SDCC thread I started this morning isn't up
yet.
>
>Here’s the news in the order JMS gave it at the panel.  I’m posting it pretty
>much simultaneously to the moderated newsgroup and to JMSNews.
>
>--JMS sold a movie to Ron Howard.  It’s a thriller/mystery movie set in the
‘20s
>in Los Angeles.  They want to get it into production as fast as possible and
JMS
>is flying up there on the 3rd to meet with Ron Howard and those guys to go
over
>the script and make sure everything is where it needs to be.  

Very cool. I wondered about Ron Howard doing the work but it sounds
like that is a done deal. This is great news for JMS. 


>--JMS was up in Toronto recently and they did a 12 episode radio drama series
>for the CBC called the Adventures of Apocalypse Al.  It’s kind of a film noir
>style comedy drama science fiction supernatural series a la Men In Black or 
>Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  It’s in little 5 minute chunks and it’s
>fall-down funny.

Too bad we probably won't get to hear it in the states. :(

>--A pilot for Touchstone has started for a dramatic prime time network series
>called Borrowed Lives.  It was actually sold last year but it was too late to
go
>into development but now they’re actually in the script stage.

Interesting.  Would like to know more about the concept, but JMS tends
to do good work so it should turn out well.

>--Rising Stars is in development with Sam Raimi’s production company for a
>series.

Even more interesting. So it looks like we could have a new JMS series
and a feature film in 2008. That would be an overload. :)


>--Midnight Nation is being bid on by two different studios for a movie.  

Wow.. They must be very interested for two studios to put up bids.

>--He pitched Dream Police to a major studio, they want to do a motion picture
>and they’re negotiating now for JMS to write it.

Wow.. How is it that all of this seems to be hitting at once? It's not
JMS suddenly gained some amazing talent but it seems like they all
just noticed he does some great work at once. Maybe it's that
Hollywood studio logic of "JMS has a movie picked up and may (now
will) be working with Ron Howard on it so we need him to do something
for us,NOW!"

>--And there’s something else…WB came to him as they do periodically wanting to
>do something with B5.  They asked if he wanted to do a feature film but JMS
>declined mainly because he can’t yet picture structuring a B5 movie “…as long
as
>Andreas and Rick insist on staying dead.ö  Maybe in a year or two he’ll be
able
>to but right now he can’t do something big.  What JMS suggested was a bunch of
>short films—little mini-movies, an anthology show set in the Babylon 5
universe.
>They said, “Okay.ö  There’s a network already interested in carrying them but
>they’re also planned for direct to DVD.  This will be “Babylon 5 – The Lost
>Tales’, a lot of small stories that never made it into the series that he’s
>rediscovered notes for.  And JMS wants no interference, complete creative
>support – in writing.  They said, “Okay.ö  And JMS wants to direct them.  They
>said, “Okay.ö  The first will be three individual stories about three of the
>main characters (to be determined).  The plan is to shoot in September,
>post-production Oct.-Dec. and they’ll probably come out the second quarter of
>2007.
Even Better news! Excellent.  I can see why JMS isn't ready to tackle
major Babylon 5 work, and while I'm sad that we won't see it any time
soon, I am VERY HAPPY we will be getting some new B5 work. Any work is
better than none.

>I’ll attempt more of a transcript later on but that’s the highlights.


thanks for the update and "Woo Hoo!!!!" indeed!
                                                                               
         
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