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Skriven 2006-07-23 15:40:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5056.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: JMS's Spotlight at SD
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>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:58:22 -0400, Mark Alexander Bertenshaw wrote
(in article <44c36439$0$3516$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>):

> "Jan" <janmschroeder@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:e9ung502h9u@drn.newsguy.com...
>> Hijacking this thread since the SDCC thread I started this morning isn't
> up yet.
> 
>> --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.
> 
> Excellent news!  I've been waiting for something along those lines for ages.
> The really big gaps that need to be plugged are: What happened to Vir, what
> happened to Lyta, and what happened to Lennier.  I know that the former was
> covered by the CP trilogy, but it would be great if we could go straight to
> the end of that story, with the audience being given the backstory in
> pieces.  We would start with David's birthday and end just after the War
> Without End flashback, with Vir saving the day.  This was is important to me
> because we never got the feeling in Sleeping in Light that Vir was anything
> more than a buffoon, when in fact the CP trilogy told us that he was now an
> ultra-competent leader.
> 
> The only problem, of course, is with Andreas Katsulas no longer with us, we
> wouldn't be able to add extra footage showing him coming to Centauri Prime.
> Then again, if the story is told in the same way that War Without End added
> to Babylon Squared, telling the other side of the story, we could leave
> G'Kar and Londo's story as a bubble around which the other story surrounds.<<

I think it's a little soon for JMS to be writing something that requires him 
to work around Andreas's death - or Rick's, which I think was the point of 
that comment Jan referenced.

I'm as happy as anyone else that we're going to get more B5, but I'm also 
more than a little sad that it took WB this long to realize the value of 
original cast B5 -- the audience it draws, the money it brings in.  Just long 
enough for Andreas not to be able to participate in it.

I'm sure I'll love the new stories, but it'll be hard not to notice the 
glaring absences... 

Amy
                                              
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