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From: nanoflower@gmail.com
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:24:00 -0700, Anim8rFSK
wrote:
>In article ,
> Paul Harper wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:56:01 -0400, shawn
>> wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:21:13 +0100, Paul Harper
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >>On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:16:25 +0100, "Alison Hopkins"
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>Ah. You've just entered the realms of those whom rastb5m and jms would
>> >>>apostatise. :)
>> >>
>> >>It's kinda surprising, when you look around, just how many of them
>> >>there are.
>> >
>> >You are likely to really hate the next few years. :)
>>
>> If you're referring to the long list of vapourware that
>> Straczynski's peddling at ComiCon, you're probably right.
>
>Do tell?
Since you asked so nicely. :)
Here is the main text of Jan's message in the moderated Babylon 5
newsgroup:
Hijacking this thread since the SDCC thread I started this morning
isn't up yet.
--JMS sold a movie to Ron Howard. It’s a thriller/mystery movie set
in the ‘20s in Los Angeles. They want to get it into production as
fast as possible and JMS is flying up there on the 3rd to meet with
Ron Howard and those guys to go over the script and make sure
everything is where it needs to be. It’s going to be a big budget
film. Ron Howard is a nice guy. The first time JMS had a phone
conference with him about the script, JMS called him Mr. Howard and
the reply was “You hired my dad on Babylon 5, you can call me whatever
you want.” Possibly it could be in production by the first part of
next year.
--JMS was up in Toronto recently and they did a 12 episode radio drama
series for the CBC called the Adventures of Apocalypse Al. It’s kind
of a film noir style comedy drama science fiction supernatural series
a la Men In Black or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It’s in
little 5 minute chunks and it’s fall-down funny.
--A pilot for Touchstone has started for a dramatic prime time network
series called Borrowed Lives. It was actually sold last year but it
was too late to go into development but now they’re actually in the
script stage.
--Rising Stars is in development with Sam Raimi’s production company
for a series.
--Midnight Nation is being bid on by two different studios for a
movie.
--He pitched Dream Police to a major studio, they want to do a motion
picture and they’re negotiating now for JMS to write it.
--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.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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