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Skriven 2006-05-25 07:48:00 av Robert E Starr JR (926.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Anything new going on
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"Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "Canon" in this contect means "an accepted part of the whole" - As JMS
> has defined it, a story that is considered every bit as much a part of
> the "Babylon 5" story and universe as the filmed episodes.   He's very
> particular about that designation.  At one time he declared "To Dream
> in the City of Sorrows" to be 100% canon.  He later backed off that a
> bit, and dscribed it as about 95% canon.  "To Dream" was publiished
> while the show was still in production.  He may have changed some of
> his thinking about the Sinclair story in a way that invalidated some
> small details of the book.  As he has also said what's on the screen
> trumps everything else, including his own usenet posts.


> Unlike the Del
> Rey books, the Dell novels were based on outlines by JMS...

Oops, JoeD, you need to flip Dell and Del Rey there.  That's exactly
backwards.


> and written
> with some input from him in the form of e-mails or phone calls from
the
> writers.  But these also are not 100% canon, as he has said he does
not
> feel bound by every detail in all the books.

Well, I HOPE he feels bound by ~95% of it because that's how much of
them (the Del Rey trilogies) that's good, IMHO.  .....

(JoeD, please read the entire rest of the post before you respond, if
you respond, OK?  Just read it once through before you respond with all
the reasons why not.  I know it'll be tough, but try.)


..... The Technomage trilogy would make one helluva set of blockbuster
summer films IF they stuck closely to what's in the books, and fixed the
one big mistake (where a certain ship explodes and who sees it).
There's plenty of action that would look GREAT on the big screen in a
mid-to-big budget feature film, and that would appeal to blockbuster
summer film fans, IF they saw a kickass trailer.  Too bad Warners has
that stupid policy.  Were it not for that, and if somebody at Warners
could actually read (the books), they might see the potential for
kickass translation to the visual medium of feature films.  And that
would help jumpstart the whole B5 universe back into high gear.

Allow me this....for a moment, forget all the roadblocks and just
**IMAGINE** (Turn on your mind's eye, and see.) all the elements of the
Technomage trilogy (e.g. all the Technomage effects, Shadow effects,
Elric, Alwyn, Galen and Isabelle, Gideon, Elizar and Razeel, Thenothk,
Z'ha'dum, etc.) up on the big screen with feature film budget CGI
(faithful in form to the B5 and Crusade series, but higher res., which
could then be used in any subsequent TV series).  How many people do you
think would be find certain characters that they'd love to hate (I'm
thinking of a certain mage whose name begins with H.?  How many
blockbuster summer film fans do you think would be sucked in by all that
ACTION?  Wouldn't that make an amazing sight and a spectacular summer
blockbuster?  It could give the entire B5 universe a shot of Adrenalin.
Right now, a set of defibrillator paddles and/or a shot of Adrenalin is
what the B5 universe desperately needs.  CLEAR!

Trouble is, even without a world full of naysayers (which is what we
have), what I described above would, at best, be a year away (i.e.
Summer 2007).



> Should he ever do another
> film or TV project set in the "B5" universe and he'll contradict the
> books if he thinks it best for the story.

Well, I hope he doesn't contradict them much.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.
                                                                               
       
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