The Official Babylon 5 Thread

[Rick]

News and commentary regarding the television series: Babylon 5 and its spinoffs.

[Rick]

Warner Bros May Be Ready To Bring Babylon 5 To The Big Screen.

http://sknr.net/2009/01/19/warner-br...he-big-screen/

So JMS says that there is no more Babylon 5 unless it is a full picture and is ready to leave the series be rather than compromise it with on the cheap sequels. Seems that despite the series constantly selling better than Warner dreamed of, they always do it cheap. Well as he prepares for New York City Comic Con, JMS, series creator says that now that he is doing films, (The Changeling), and (Upcoming Forbidden Planet), and that he is getting award talk, Warner Bros has initiated contact to ask JMS just how “Big” does it have to be in order to bring Babylon 5 to the screen.
I confirmed this through a JMS source and we are breaking the news to you fans first. I will believe it when and if shooting starts, but I am happy to see that Warner Bros has initated the conversation rather than the other way around.

JMS: When I set out to write and create Babylon 5, it was with the intention of doing a five-year story and then you get out clean. We did
that. Everything we set out to do, we did. My error was in falling so much in love with that universe, and the cast and crew, that I was
tempted — and succumbed to that temptation — to keep it going. Some of the first TV movies were worth doing, such as In the Beginning. Others less so. Some of it added to the B5 legacy, some of did not, mainly because we were always fighting budgetary concerns that substantially limited where the story could go. But when you’re in love, you don’t see those things until later, in retrospect.

The first rule of subsequent storytelling is Do no harm to the original. So in terms of the future, the only thing that would compel me to return to the B5 universe would be if WB came around and said “Here’s enough money to make a Really Big Movie, go and write whatever you want.” I
don’t think the fans are owed more B5 sui generis, but I do think the fans might be owed more good B5. Ironically, WB never seemed interested in doing a big B5 movie just on its own terms, in recognition for what it is and was. But now that I’m suddenly doing all this movie work, they’ve started calling and saying, “So, how big a movie would it have to be for you to come back and make a B5 movie for us?” So we’ll see.

Gareth

[spacefan]

Babylon 5 was one of my all time favourate Sci Fi shows, far superior to the latter trek but not TNG. I would love to see a decent B5 movie but I guess there is as much chance of Time Warner coming through as Congress saving constellation. Oh well we can but dream.

[Rick]

B5 has to be the best series I've ever seen on TV. The plot lines, politics are timeless.

We've watched the entire series, movies etc. at least 6 times, start to finish.


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[spacefan]

B5 has to be the best series I've ever seen on TV. The plot lines, politics are timeless.

We've watched the entire series, movies etc. at least 6 times, start to finish.


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Yeah, you could easily do that its a show that definately rewards rewatching not to mention the epic space battles which have yet to be equaled.