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     Kommentar till en text av Kay Shapero
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 KS> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:32:38 +0000 (UTC)
 KS> Subject: an update from jms
 KS> From: jmsatb5@aol.com
 KS> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated



 KS> iplatizky@yahoo.com wrote:
 > JMS
 >
 > There hasn't been a full update in a little while of all things JMS. So
 > how about it. Pretty please.
 >
 > IP

 KS> Okay, I've given it some more thought, and there are a couple of
 KS> things that I can say...but again, I have to keep some of this close to
 KS> my vest for a while in terms of details, at least in the first regard.

 KS> I've just had a treatment purchased for series development by a major
 KS> studio/network.  (This is non-B5.)  The cool thing is that this is for
 KS> one of the major broadcast networks and, if it ends up going ahead,
 KS> would be for a prime-time series.  But I have to attach all the usual
 KS> caveats: the process is this...you write the treatment, then you write
 KS> the pilot, then if the network likes the pilot script, they produce
 KS> the pilot, and then if they like the pilot they give you the series. 
 KS> It's a very, very long process and like 90% of all development deals in
 KS> town it can stop at any given point.

 KS> But I'm very pleased about it because it's a major studio, major
 KS> broadcast network, and that's terrific.  More than that I absolutely
 KS> can't say because everything about the story being developed is
 KS> totally confidential.

 KS> Now, that said, there's a little something else....

 KS> For years, I've been at conventions and had fans come up with
 KS> photocopied scripts they'd purchased from script stores or dealers for
 KS> $20 a pop, many times in poor condition...with loose or missing pages,
 KS> hard to read, and thought, there has to be a better way for fans to
 KS> get these scripts without paying that much for copies that are often
 KS> inferior.

 KS> So now, at some point in October, we're going to fix this.

 KS> All 91 Babylon 5 scripts that I wrote are going to be made available
 KS> through an independent publishing firm in trade paperback form.  We're
 KS> still working out the final details in terms of how to put the scripts
 KS> together, but right now the plan is to do 7 scripts per book, each
 KS> volume released every two weeks or so, at a cost of about $29 per
 KS> volume if ordered in the first week or so it comes online) or $39 per
 KS> for those who buy later.  That's four bucks per script if purchased
 KS> early, about five per script if published later...which saves fans a
 KS> HUGE amount of money.

 KS> There will be 14 volumes in all, each again containing 7 scripts AND
 KS> newly written introductions and commentaries about each episode that
 KS> are thus far averaging about 30 pages per book, telling some of the
 KS> behind-the-scenes stories that have never been told before (and some
 KS> that have), talking about the writing process, how the arc was created
 KS> and maintained, anectodes about cast and crew, what went into the
 KS> stories...enough so that at the end, at 30 pages over 14 volumes you
 KS> get about 420 pages of new material on the making of B5...a book unto
 KS> itself.

 KS> On top of THAT...some of the books will contain rare b&w photos from
 KS> my own personal archives, taken by me on set, which have never before
 KS> been seen by anyone else.



        More paperbacks!...cool...let us know when this happens...

        (to folks here in the echo).


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