From today's B5JMS
--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." 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." 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." And JMS wants to direct them. They
said, "Okay." 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.
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Philip Ayres
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Turner" <chris@>
To: <chat@>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 6:12 PM
Subject: [
IFIS] B5: The Lost Tales
Woohoo!! New B5 stuff. Apparently JMS has been given the go ahead to
produce several short stories about existing characters that he never
managed to fit into the TV series.
