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On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:38:22 +0000, Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:

> Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Lance Corporal
> "Hammer" Schultz said:
> 
>>> With all the things his studio has in productican, he should be able to
find in
>>> vestors for a B5 feature film.
>> 
>> Again, hard to believe.  WB has lots of money and all the rights to B5
>> outside of feature films, and if they don't think the franchise is
>> worth the risk, that will be a really tough sell to someone else.
>> Just my perception, of course.
> 
> Feature film first.  If it does well, WB will wake up and smell the
> money.

Sure, but you have to finance it.  And since whoever is going to
finance it gets no rights outside of the feature, and WB is unwilling
to do it despite already having the opportunity (and 25 years of
private data), that just doesn't seem likely.

Not that I don't want it to happen -- I do!  I would love to see a B5
feature.

-- 
Hammer


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