Babylon 5:n paluu?

JMS kirjoittelee filmiteollisuuden omituisesta maailmasta. Mielenkiintoinen viesti, ja voitaneen sanoa että B5:n tai minkä tahansa JMS:n tv-projektin mahdollisuudet toteutua ovat tätä nykyä entistä hurjasti suuremmat.

Nyt kun vielä saataisiin J. Whedonille samanlainen "status"...

 

Tietysti se vaara on olemassa että mies siirtyy tekemään elokuva kässäreitä pelkästään ja joskus jopa ohjaamaan ison budjetin leffoja ja sitten ei ole enään aikaa esim mahdolliselle B5 sarjalle jota olen tässä kaivaillut ties kuin kauan jo.

Viimeisten viestien perusteella ja eri elokuva aiheisten sivujen mukaan ison budjetin elokuvia on tulossa enemmänkin tulevaisuudessa jms:ltä eri studioille. Nyt vain odotellaan jonkin aikaa virallisia julkistuksia.

Mutta ei tässä B5 rintamalla mitään hätää ole sillä käsittääkseni noita Babylon 5 Lost tales sarjan julkaisuja tulee olemaan useampia ettei se kumminkaan jää tuohon yhteen DVD julkaisuun ellei myyntimäärät sitten kuse urakalla etc...

Ja jos olen oikein käsittänyt niin tuo Lost Tales ei tule olemaan ainoa B5 julkaisu sarja vaan tulossa on kenties mini-sarjaa ja tv elokuvia. Luultavasti teatteri elokuvakin tehdään 2-3 vuoden sisällä ainakin toivonmukaan sillä alkuperäis sarjan näyttelijät eivät ole enään mitään "kakskymppisiä" ja aika on jo monesta jättänyt.

Ja itse veikkaan että tuleva kanava joka esittää noita Lost Tales juttuja on joko CW tai Scifi channel.

 

Virallista vahvistusta siihen että sarjan alkuperäisiä näyttelijöitä on mukana tuossa Anthology systeemissä.





From J. Michael Straczynski
As many of you may already know, a few days ago as I write this, I canceled all of my convention appearances through February of next year due to the press of work, both in terms of finishing up work on my script for Ron Howard, and in order to free up room to begin the process of writing, producing, and directing the first in what we hope will be a series of new Babylon 5 anthology episodes for DVD.

The other result of this is that we are going to push back volume nine just far enough to make room for me to get these projects up and on the rails. It will not be much of a delay, it will be a September release, but the Babylon 5 scripts team and I wanted to make sure everyone knew about the delay, and that it is only a delay.

The good thing is that the delay is caused primarily by the creation of new Babylon 5 episodes, to be produced with the original cast, which is a cause for celebration on every level imaginable. We hope to follow up this with another announcement with the September publication date for volume nine as quickly as possible, so stay tuned, for as they say in the television business...there is more to come.

 

JMS ohjaa vain ensimmäisen jakson ja antaa tulevissa jaksoissa muiden hoitaa homman kotiin. Luulisin että parempi näin vaikka ei JMS:än Sleeping in light jaksossa ollut mitään vikaa.. päinvastoin. Mutta PRO director on aina yees.






Jan wrote:
> JMS,

> Back when B5 was being made, you seemed pretty indifferent to ever directing but
> you directed Sleeping in Light, seemingly at the urging of WB. At the time you
> didn't seem to have fallen in love with being a director even though SiL was
> just perfect (IMO, but also many other folks).

> Last month you announced that you told WB that you wanted to direct the Lost
> Tales. I just wondered what might have changed your mind about it?

I directed SIL because...well, I really kind of had to, in order to get
that one last note out just the way I wanted it. I've had no desire to
do any directing since (though I did a little uncredited second-unit
directing on Jeremiah when we ran short of people.)

I'm doing this first one for B5:TLT because it's going to be something
of a redesign in how we shoot B5, nothing major, just the feeling of
the shots and the CGI and to set a tone for the films. It's six years
after B5, and there are a number of tools available to us now that
weren't available then, there's been more openness and experimentation
in television directing, and I'd like to explore those in the capacity
of someone who is also kind of the caretaker of that universe to set
the tone for future installments.

Once that's done, and the tone is set, I'll probably pull back again
and let others pick it up. Again, I have no real desire to direct,
just to set the tone as it impacts the story.

jms

 

Luvassa kauan kaivattua TELEPAATTI SOTAA !

Nämä on jo ilmoitettu osakseen tässä threadissä aikaisemmin mainitussa Comic-conissa mutta nyt hieman tarkennettuna versiona. Lähteenä edelleen JMSNEWS.COM !

Ja LOTR:in kohtalona ei ollutkaan huonot katsojaluvut vaan sarjan omistus suhteet. Ainakin JMS:än mukaan.





Quote:
Q: My question is, there is still a great big gaping hole in the Babylon 5 story. Will we ever see anything of the Telepath War?

JMS: As I’m laying out these DVDs I’m thinking “We can do this story with Sheridan, this story with so-and-so, this story…ooh, Lyta…the Telepath War. So I’m starting to play with that for down the road. Here’s the deal, if these first DVDs sell well, if the broadcast get good ratings, these will be an ongoing thing. We will keep putting out ‘The Lost Tales’ and broadening that out until we’ve got ten thousand of them, whatever it is. If you want to get to the Telepath Wars, get the first ones. Eventually we do plan to get to that, yeah. Or I plan to get to that anyway.





Quote:
Q: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales. Thanks you first of all. Any chance of Ivanova?

JMS: Who can say? Who can say?





Quote:
Q: You trust them? After Crusade, after Rangers, you believe them?

JMS: Warner’s has never actually lied. What happened with TNT and Crusade was a different situation where they said, after we started making the show, they said they weren’t getting a new audience with science fiction and they wanted to get out of the deal at TNT. Which is a different division over here and they set about to sabotage the show. And then Rangers was a good show and Sci-Fi would’ve picked it up except that it wasn’t owned by Universal, it was owned by Warner Bros. and the deal was not something they wanted to get into. But Warner’s themselves have always been very stand-up. With B5 itself, starting with episode 2 of year 2, they never gave us any notes. They just brought in the guy who’d been our liaison on B5 the series, a guy named Greg Maday, to be our liaison on this as well. Greg’s a great guy, he’s a former Jesuit student, a scholar. Seriously, he’s a really smart guy and understands story and he’s coming back to be our liaison. Very smart guy. So Warner’s, yeah, I do trust them. They actually have kept their promises to me. The contract negotiation was a different scenario but that’s just business. Creatively they’ve been great.




Quote:
Q: Just curious, what actors have already consented to going into these Babylon stories?

JMS: We just now got the green light about a week and a half ago so we haven’t gone to the actors to make deals yet. We’re going to be in that process starting about ten days from now and see who’s available, what kind of deals can we make, who wants to do it, what the story is, that sort of thing. So once we have determined that we’ll know which ones we’re going to use.

 

Ensimmäisen DVD julkaisun nimi on Voices in the Dark :thumbsup:





Title: B5:TLT update from jms
Author: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: 3 Oct 2006 00:17:35 -0700
Message-ID: <1159859855.840954.223860@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>

I'm kind of up against it right now on an assortment of deadlines, so
this'll be quick, but I did want to address some of the questions that
have been asked.

Yes, we're shooting this HD, so this is going to be quite a learning
curve for me as a director, since I've never shot HD before. There's
also a HUGE amount of green-screen involved, so again, lots of learning
to be done.

For those who are getting the B5 scripts books -- and eventually the
B5:TLT scripts will be released -- you'll notice a substantial
difference between them and these scripts in that I decided to kind of
direct them on the page more than usual: calling out specific angles
and camera directions, locations and setups more than in any prior B5
script. It probably resembles an animation script more than a standard
TV script, because it incorporates my directorial notes, shot for shot,
as we go.

The first three-segment DVD is called "Voices in the Dark." We've
narrowed down the cast, and hope to have their deals closed this week.
There are already ten crew members working on this thing up in
Vancouver, pulling together stages, offices and other prep work. The
first day of shooting will likely be either November 13th or 14th (due
to a Canadian holiday). The last twiddlings to the script should be
done by this coming Monday. Storyboarding starts the end of this week.

It's balls-to-the-wall right now, but it should be fun in the end.

jms


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3 jakson sijasta tuleekin 2 jaksoa ja kestona 45 minuuttia per jakso. Luonnollisesti budjetti 2 jaksolle on siten isompi.

Ilmeisesti Eka jakso koskee Sheridania ja toinen Lochleytä. Kolmas jakso rakentuisi siis Galenin ja Garibaldin ympärille mutta on visuaalisesti ja teknillisesti haastavin joten jakso tehdään ilmeisesti näiden jälkeen ja mahdollisesti toiseen DVD julkaisuun. Mikäli oikein tulkitsin tuosta tekstistä.

Mutta kaikkein tärkeintä on että tätä nyt aletaan OIKEASTI tekemään eikä sitä pelättyä CANSELLAUSTA tullut.


:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:




Well, tomorrow I head back to LA for meetings on other projects for two
days, then it's back to Vancouver again on Sunday to continue prep. So
far everything's laying out very cleanly. We have an EFX house on
board now, which was the last big step to be undertaken. It wasn't
until the last day or so that we could really get into the CGI issues,
which are huge on these stories.

And in regard to that...the initial goal was to try and do three big
stories in one DVD. So I wrote three scripts, featuring Sheridan,
Lochley, Galen and Garibaldi. (I wanted to focus on the human
characters initially so we'd have more time for prosthetics R&D for the
next one.) The stories, as noted previously, were huge...all over the
map, from Minbar, to Earth, Mars, the future, the distant past, as well
as B5 itself obviously. We're also going to be trying some new
production technologies, again trying to stay ahead of the tech curve,
the way B5 has always stayed ahead on these things.

And over the last few days, as we began to bring on crew and lay out
the production, looking at just how complicated these mini-movies were
going to be, the idea of making three of these monsters began to become
a bit much for us to pull off on out first time out the gate,
especially since I'm still kind of new as a director. So we decided to
postpone one of the three to the next DVD, and lengthen the other two
to make up the difference. GIven that the Garibaldi story was the most
complicated visually and technically, also the most difficult from a
CGi perspective, that's the one that got pushed until, potentially,
next time.

And if the sales are anywhere near what WB expects, and I think they
will be, there's no question that there will be more of these down the
road. So we're gong to focus in on those two stories and knock them
out of the park. Same length, same running time, and now even bigger
than at first anticipated since the budget on number three will now be
applied to the other two.

Part of what we're doing is to re-think the look of B5 to some degree.
The show was created using 1993 technology, video toasters and amigas,
and was to some extent limited by the paradigms and production methods
we used in that. But it's now 13 years later, and while I will keep
the feel of the show the same, and the silhouettes and designs, there's
no reason to limit the look of the feel to what we could do six years
ago (from when we stopped). So we're going to invest a lot of time,
effort and money into really re-imagining some of the visuals at the
present level -- looking at shows like Battlestar and the like -- and
bringing those tools into B5 while still maintaining the feel of the
show.

I also managed to work in a nice nod to Andreas and Richard in the two
mini-movies.

So with that...the team is now in place, the last personnel have been
hired, and as soon as I get back to Vancouver, I get to take off the
producer's hat and put on the director's hat.

jms

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Kuulostaa hyvältä :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

:naminami: Eka jakso rakentuu sittenkin Sheridanin, Lochleyn ja Galenin ympärille. Olisivat vaikka laittaneet Ivanovan tuon Lochleyn tilalle...


BABYLON 5
THE LOST TALES
Lost Tales Productions Inc.
Exec. Prods: Douglas Netter
J. Michael Straczynski
Producer: Samm Barnes
Line Producer: Lisa Towers
Director: J. Michael Straczynski
DOP: Karl Herrmann
PD: Jill Scott
PM: Lynne Bespflug
PC: Fawn McDonald
Cast: Bruce Boxleitner,
Tracy Scoggins,
Peter Woodward
Casting: Candice Elzinga
Sched: Nov 13 - Nov 24/06

 

Virallinen nimi: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales

Hieman tietoa:
Warner Home Video (WHV) and Warner Bros. Television (WBTV) have announced the start of production of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, a made-for-video movie that will be targeted towards the "Babylon 5" loyal audience and science-fiction fans in general. The announcement was jointly made by Jeff Brown, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Non-theatrical Franchise, Warner Home Video and Gregg Maday, Senior Vice President, Movies and Miniseries, WBTV.

WHV will be the home entertainment distributor for this made-for-DVD release which will include two new "Babylon 5" stories collectively entitled "Voices of the Dark" in one film plus exclusive behind the scenes content. The stories will be written and directed by executive producer and original "Babylon 5" creator J. Michael Straczynski. Executive producer Doug Netter also returns in that role. Actors from the original series that have signed on to participate in the project include Bruce Boxleitner (President John Sheridan), Tracy Scoggins (Captain Elizabeth Lochley) and Peter Woodward (Galen).

"Babylon 5" is a top selling franchise on DVD to date with over $44 million in consumer sales. Launched in February 1993, the award winning series was a top rated show on television with more than 13.7 million viewers in its debut season. After its original planned five-year run &#8211; introducing the concept of a five year arc before other TV series began to use multi-season arcs -- the show went on to enjoy 9 successful years in syndication and cable on the SCI FI Channel and TNT. It also spurred the creation of five feature length movies based on the series including "The Gathering," "In the Beginning," "Thirdspace," "River of Souls" and "A Call to Arms," as well as the limited series "Crusade."

"We are very excited to be releasing this new made-for-video release filled with original content for 'Babylon 5,' one of the most successful science fiction series of all time," said Jeff Brown. "This popular TV show which has been off the air for a few years continues to have a strong loyal fan base that is hungry for more content. This is the first time we're utilizing one of our popular TV franchises as a made-for-video title, and we have a strong commitment to the growth of this sector."

"It's great to be reunited with Joe and Doug once again," commented Maday. "I have always been very proud to be associated with their wonderful work on 'Babylon 5' and I'm confident the 'Lost Tales' will add to the legacy of this very special franchise."

On an immense space station built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, the crew of Babylon 5 are charged with maintaining the peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers. The story of "The Lost Tales" picks up several years after the events of its original story, and follows several of its major characters in new adventures set against the backdrop of the Babylon 5 universe.

Lähde: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17528

 

Jep jep on vain pienoinen virhe tuossa pressi versiossa. Nimittäin koskee tuota DVD levyjen myyntisummaa jota WARNER BROS tahallaan tai tahattomasti pyöristelee muutamalla sadalla miljoonalla dollarilla alaspäin.

Keskustelua siitä löytyy monelta B5 saitilta. HALF BILLION DOLLAR alkaa olemaan oikealla tasolla ainakin JMS:än mukaan.

Muuten ihan kiva virallinen pressi tiedotus.

 

Letistä ja parrasta näkee jo että presidentin roolia Bruce vetää eka jaksossa. meinasin päivällä postata saman kuvan mutta ajattelin että enpäs laitakkaan ja tsekkaan illemmalla että kuka meilaa sen ja arvasin oikein eli MR.JTX

Ei siinä mitään hieno kuva sinänsä vaikka ikä alkaa jo painaa Mr Boxleitnerillä. Eikös tuo ollut BRITTI "FANEILLE" suunnattu kuva? mikäli oikein tulkitsin jmsnews saitilta.

 

Laitan viimeisimmän JMS:än postauksen tänne kun kerran JTX ei sitä postannut

Näyttäis olevan SG-1/Atlantis sarjasta näyttelijöitä mukana.


Just a quick hello direct from the set of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales.
It's 4:51 p.m. and we just finished lunch (crew call at 10 a.m. lunch
at 4). Bruce Boxleitner just completed a series of shots in a
Starfury, his first time back in the saddle. We're ahead of schedule
and might actually wrap filming a day early. (It always goes faster if
you don't actually put film in the camera.) We've introduced a new
Centauri character -- Prince Regent Vintari, third from the throne -- a
new ISN reporter played by Teryl Rothery, a priest played by Alan
Scarfe, and a character who may have come too close to certain dark
forces played by Bruce Ramsey. Part One of "Voices in the Dark"
wrapped on Friday, and we should have part two done tomorrow, after a
long sequence shooting in the hallway of a new Minbari Presidential
Cruiser built for the Interstellar Alliance.

jms

 

JMS on julkaissut kuvia The Lost Tales kuvausten valmisteluista (kuvausten nyt päätyttyä) osoitteessa:
http://babylon5scripts.com/TLT-JMS-photos.html

 

Babylonin erikoistehosteista vastaa Lost Tales jaksoissa Atmosphere VFX joka tekee myös Battlestar Galactican sarjan kaikki graffat joten hyvältä vaikuttaa tämänkin asian osalta.

http://www.atmosphere-vfx.com/

Sheridanin presidentti cruiserin sisävärit on kyllä aika järkyttävät.. Tipunkeltaista ja mustaa, ei oikein komea yhdistelmä. Olisivat suosiolla ottaneet tummat sävyt käyttöön tyyliin BSG.

Ja tällähetkellä tiedossa on 2 näyttelijää SG-1/Atlantis sarjoista. Toivonmukaan tässä on kaikki keitä palkataan kyseisistä sarjoista sillä B5 ansaitsee oman tyylisensä näyttelijät jottei sarja rupea muistuttamaan SG universumia liikaa. Toki tarinan puolelta tähän ei ole mitään mahdollisuuttakaan sillä JMS on kyllä parempi(fantasia-scifi) kässärin kirjoittaja kun yksikään tähtiportin kirjoittajista.

 

Pari uutta kuvaa:

"A new logo for a new beginning on Babylon 5."




Koskakohan saa nähdä ensimmäistä trailerin tapaista...

 

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

CGI ainakin näyttäisi olevan mukavasti päivitettyä, kuten arvata saattoikin.

 

Jotenkin näyttää yliterävöitetyltä tuo alempi kuva... Suttuisempi kuin mitä toivoisi...