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Skriven 2006-07-23 15:34:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5044.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: JMS's Spotlight at SD
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All of these are GREAT news!



On 7/22/06 10:39 PM, "Jan" wrote:

> Hijacking this thread since the SDCC thread I started this morning isn't up
> yet.
> 
> Hereıs the news in the order JMS gave it at the panel.  Iım posting it pretty
> much simultaneously to the moderated newsgroup and to JMSNews.
> 
> --JMS sold a movie to Ron Howard.  Itıs a thriller/mystery movie set in the
> ~L20s
> 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.  Itıs 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 ³You hired my dad on Babylon 5, you can call me whatever you want.²
> 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.  Itıs kind of a film noir
> style comedy drama science fiction supernatural series a la Men In Black or
> Hitchhikerıs Guide to the Galaxy.  Itıs in little 5 minute chunks and itıs
> 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 theyıre actually in the script stage.
> 
> --Rising Stars is in development with Sam Raimiıs 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 theyıre negotiating now for JMS to write it.
> 
> --And thereıs something else~JWB 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 canıt yet picture structuring a B5 movie ³~Jas
long
> as
> Andreas and Rick insist on staying dead.²  Maybe in a year or two heıll be
> able
> to but right now he canıt do something big.  What JMS suggested was a bunch
of
> short films~Klittle mini-movies, an anthology show set in the Babylon 5
> universe.
> They said, ³Okay.²  Thereıs a network already interested in carrying them but
> theyıre also planned for direct to DVD.  This will be ³Babylon 5 ­ The Lost
> Talesı, a lot of small stories that never made it into the series that heıs
> rediscovered notes for.  And JMS wants no interference, complete creative
> support ­ in writing.  They said, ³Okay.²  And JMS wants to direct them. 
They
> said, ³Okay.²  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 theyıll probably come out the second quarter of
> 2007.
> 
> Iıll attempt more of a transcript later on but thatıs the highlights.
> 
> Jan
> Woo-Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
                                    
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