Babylon 5

[The Nth Doctor]

I anticipated some backlash to the recastings but so far there hasn't been any here yet.

Regardless, I was happy to see JMS tweeted this yesterday:

 

[Forbin]

Phil Lamarr's voice is just everywhere!

 

[Jan]

I anticipated some backlash to the recastings but so far there hasn't been any here yet.

Regardless, I was happy to see JMS tweeted this yesterday:

I've seen a few people around claiming JMS said he'd never recast any of the departed cast (he didn't) and that he'd said he'd never recast G'Kar (he did - while grief was fresh). I'm really glad he changed his mind and consulted the remaining cast and found a way to use them.

 

[JD]

I'm just curious to see how close to the original actors the new actors will sound. I'm not mad at all, it's just gonna be weird if they sound a lot different, that's all. But then again, there are plenty of people who came back decades later to voice characters they used to play, and sounded nothing like they did before, so I guess it's not to different from that.

 

[Booji]

Trailer, release date, and how/where to watch are coming mid June per a JMS twit.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The tweet in question.

 

[PsychoPere]

I kind of hope not...for me "War Without End" sufficiently closed the loop on that, pun intended.

I wonder, in fact, if "War Without End" and Sheridan's mishaps with the time stabilizer might be the framing device for the time and reality jaunts in this animated movie.

 

[DonIago]

Perhaps he'll see 14,000,605 that our heroes could lose the Shadow War...

 

[kirk55555]

All this news and general discussion is making me want to start rewatching B5. I think my last rewatch stopped at the end of Season 4, might have to try and go all the way again.

 

[Noname Given]

Sounds a bit like Babylon Five's riff on "What If...?" I can dig it, though it seems to be going rather far afield from basically everything we've seen in the B5 universe to this point.

I wonder whether the Great Machine is involved...

John Sheridan in the Multiverse of Madness...

 

[Ithekro]

John Sheridan in the Multiverse of Madness...

"The Unstuck Adventures of the One"

 

[Morpheus 02]

"The Unstuck Adventures of the One"

Captain Sheridan and the Multiverse of Zathras

 

[Ithekro]

But which one? There are three and nine?

 

[Tuskin38]

Oh huh that image of B5 on the cast announcement is a still from the movie

 

[Steve Roby]

So, JMS is back to writing comics, with his new series The Madness. Does that tell us anything about the amount of spare time he has on his hands? Does it suggest there's not much happening with B5 beyond the already completed animated movie? Or has he done TV and comic writing at the same time before?

 

[Jan]

So, JMS is back to writing comics, with his new series The Madness. Does that tell us anything about the amount of spare time he has on his hands? Does it suggest there's not much happening with B5 beyond the already completed animated movie? Or has he done TV and comic writing at the same time before?

Nope, it tells us none of that. He's always got multiple projects being written or in various stages of development including comics, audio dramas, novels, scripts, etc. That said, there is no movement on the reimagining because of the strike. Nothing can or will move foreward until that's over which is likely to be months.

 

[JD]

There are a few TV writers who also do comics on the side, Marc Guggenheim for example has pretty consistently worked in both TV and comics.

 

[Sketcher]

If you watch any interviews, or read his autobiography (if you can stomach the first couple hundred pages of a super dark childhood), you'll find JMS is, and has always been, a writing machine. Man won't quit.

 

[Jan]

The expected announcement that JMS will be appearing at SDCC has come out. Interesting last sentence there about the release of B5: THR (bold by me):

J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski is known for writing, producing and creating such shows as Babylon 5 and Sense8; writing Clint Eastwood’s Changeling as well as working on the first Thor movie, World War Z, and Underworld Awakening; and writing hundreds of comics for Marvel (Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, Supreme Power), Image (Midnight Nation), and DC (Superman Earth One). His brand-new BABYLON 5 animated movie is slated to make its worldwide debut at Comic-Con alongside a ton of other announcements in comics, novels, and other media.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Lucky bastards.