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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: eagleclaw on November 02, 2006, 12:58:44 pm
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A new B5 series or movie is due out next year. I will post more information on this forum and my mine. When more comes. eagleclaw
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I don't believe you.
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Go to: www.imdb.com type in Babylon 5: The Lost Tales.
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Why not just put a link in your first post?
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1 movie. 3 short stories. So it's The Twilight Zone movie for B5. That fits with JMS (ex Twilight Zone writer). Won't happen of course. Give it 5 minutes and Fury will be here to agree. The clock is ticking.
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I'm not really usre what more B5 would achieve. They did the 5 year arch. What else is there ?
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Beating the **** out of WB until we get a proper ending to Crusade.
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I'm not really usre what more B5 would achieve. They did the 5 year arch. What else is there ?
Soap opera... IN SPACE
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aside from all the books?
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B5 died a happy and proper death, which is more than you can say for half the TV series out there. They ended the story nicely, everything was all wrapped up. And they even got a cool spin-off mini-series and movie out of it, to give the fans something to chew on. It was as graceful an exit as Hollywood has ever afforded a series, so I say let it be.
I'm against any moves to milk the franchise unless they could do a full new series, with proper budgets and a commitment from a major network, so that they would be able to create new show with new characters and story instead of dressing up all the B5 guys in their old costumes and trying to hide the passage of the years.
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so that they would be able to create new show with new characters and story instead of dressing up all the B5 guys
That would be hard considering that several major characters are dead.
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That would be hard considering that several major characters are dead.
CGI has come on leaps and bounds.
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And so has puppeteering.
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Sorry to disappoint you negative people, but this is going ahead.
http://www.jmsnews.com/
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well i hope its good :)
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B5 died a happy and proper death, which is more than you can say for half the TV series out there. They ended the story nicely, everything was all wrapped up. And they even got a cool spin-off mini-series
No. It had a cool spin-off series which was axed due to network stupidity before it had a chance to climb to the kind of levels of cool B5 managed leaving a large number of plotlines unresolved.
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Sorry to disappoint you negative people, but this is going ahead.
http://www.jmsnews.com/
1. Wait 6 months.
2. Insert words into mouth.
3. Chew.
4. Swallow.
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Yeah, what happened to the B5 movie that was announced last year ?
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the movie got canned
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You've got to wonder where JMS gets his zeal. B5 has been an uphill battle for him since the pilot.
Though he might have a chance to pull this off now. Maybe he manages to ride the BSG fame wave. Maybe this will kickstart the entire scifi genre in to a new glory! Mayb- t-re w-l- be Fr--sp-c- 3!-*_-.*- < transmission lost >
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I'm going to ingnore that ;)
Seriously though. if it happens, I'll judge it when I see it. For my part, I was really dissapointed in seeing Excalibur ended only a couple of series in. Iirc, the guy playing the Technomage was Edward Woodwards' son, (Big Ed did make an appearance in one episode, but despite the names, I've never heard the relation officially confirmed).
Excalibur was pretty good, but like all sci-fi programs, needed a couple of series to warm up. Most execs seem to forget that, in acting, feeling comfortable depicting yourself as a cannibalistic mass-murderer is a lot lot easier than feeling comfortable thinking of yourself as an Alien etc.
Edit : This is why things like 'X-Men' films always seem to have slightly 'self concious' acting, because people aren't just playing different roles, they are interacting with entirely different environments.
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Pardon me good sir. But I do belive you are talking about Crusade, yes? Excalibur was the name of the lawn dart, I mean ship.
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Arrgh.. That's the one, kept calling it Excalibur even when it was on. Excalibur was that dodgy movie with a Merlin who reminded me of a Technomage. :)
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Edward Woodward
wasn't he the dude who did those crime recreation programmes years ago ?
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Crusade sucked all kinds of cock.
As did Legend Of The Rangers.
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as does an0n
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Your wit amazes me.
Seriously. I think I'm gonna have to get naked and jerk off to the pure comic genius displayed in that post....
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Crusade did indeed suck. Godawful music, a lead cast straight out of D&D, a ship on loan from Starblazers, and an excruciatingly hackneyed "Everyone on Earth will be die in... oh I dunno... EXACTLY FIVE YEARS" premise.
Lord of the Rangers, of course, had the Kung Fu Lasers. Und ze ship... eet eez haaauunnted.
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you would have thought the same thing about B5 if your total exposure to it was the first seven eppisodes.
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My first exposure to B5 was Infection I thought far worse :p
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you would have thought the same thing about B5 if your total exposure to it was the first seven eppisodes.
Actually, no, I was extremely impressed by The Gathering, and thought the first seven episodes of B5 were quite entertaining (though granted Infection was quite cheesy). And the premise was pretty original for a TV show.
Crusade was just cliched dreck. Technomages are seriously the dumbest idea JMS ever came up with.
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Not to put a dampner on your expectations,...................
But some of us are still waiting for the *cough* RED DWARF MOVIE *cough*
*retreats a few steps and braces for onslaught*
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I dunno, Decker. If they gave Red Dwarf an actual "movie" budget, it just wouldn't be the same. I mean, the vindaloo monster wouldn't be half as funny in CGI.
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Agreed, much of the appeal was the BBC-style special effects. If a film was made of it, they'd try to make it too 'Hollywood', they'd replace everyone with people who look like really bad carbon copies of the crew, only younger, and they'd remodel all the ships. It just wouldn't be Red Dwarf any more.
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You guys realise that they've been in the process of making a Red Dwarf film for a few years now, right?
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You guys realise that they've been in the process of failing to make a Red Dwarf film for a few years now, right?
Corrected.
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If a film was made of it, they'd try to make it too 'Hollywood', they'd replace everyone with people who look like really bad carbon copies of the crew, only younger, and they'd remodel all the ships. It just wouldn't be Red Dwarf any more.
Disturbingly, something like that was already done by the TV show itself. When the original Red Dwarf model was destroyed and they had to make a CGI replacement, I thought the new model was way too sleek and had little of the charm of the original gigantic bulky awkward ship.
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Must admit, I gradually lost interest after they all ended up in Starbug, I think even Rob Llewellyn was getting bored with it by then, the jokes just stopped being as funny, or started making multiple appearances, which is a sure way to kill a funny gag. I think the last episode I really enjoyed watching was the one with the alternate universe crew, end of series 4 or 5 iirc.
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The Lost in Starbug was season 5, I think. If I remember right it took about 5 years to go from season 5 to 6. And season 6 was basically wank. Season 5 did have some decent gags.
i prefer the original models to the later CGI too.
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Season 6 was good. It was the first series where they were all alone in starbug and it featured a bunch of cool plotlines and some of the funniest lines in the show.
Rimmer : Step up to red alert!
Kryten : Are you sure? That will mean changing the bulb!
:lol:
It was season 7 where it all went hideously wrong. They got rid of Rimmer, brought in Kochanski and turned Kryten into a whining little baby.
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Babylon 5 is going to be one of the shows that will be downloadable off of Xbox Live Marketplace on November 22. HD version of Into The Fire = awesome.
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Holy ****. Even when you think there's no possible way... wow. Deepblue, you are truly an inspiration to corporate whores everywhere.
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I was thinking that when I posted but did it anyway. News is news is news.
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Charactor information on Babylon 5: Lost Tales has been updated on www.imdb.com
or type in babylon 5 Lost tales in google and you will see more options.
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Rimmer : Step up to red alert!
Kryten : Are you sure? That will mean changing the bulb!
That's the exact same line I always quote. Funniest line of the whole series maybe?
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Holy ****. Even when you think there's no possible way... wow. Deepblue, you are truly an inspiration to corporate whores everywhere.
He's our very own google AdWords! :D
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So the next failed Babylon 5 project is Babylon 5, the lost tales. But what would your lost tales be? Discuss.
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Ivanovas first lesbian experience with that blonde psi-cop? :nervous:
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That's the exact same line I always quote. Funniest line of the whole series maybe?
"Good heavens! It's Marilyn Monroe!"
That's not really funny though unless you know the scene it's from.
How did that one line go... "We're in deep space, millions of miles from Earth... so where did I get this traffic cone?".
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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
This is already much further than previous canned projects. I'll spit that fruit out for now, thanks.
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Teryl Rothery RAAAAAAAAAAAAWRRRRRRRRR :D
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Exclusive pictures from the set:
http://www.babylon5scripts.com/TLT-JMS-Photos.html
.. It's real.
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I hate you, now you've done the impossible and resurrected my interest in B5. I'll go killing spree if the series fail.
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SWEEEEEEEET
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Dang it! I never thought they would look in the carcass of that dead show.
*moves team's stash of personal cylon models to another secret location.
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Those photos are all photoshop maniplulations.
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Yeah, well... you're a photoshop manipulation!
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You would have to be one hell of a photoshop crack to put those together just for one stinking problematic board!
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I hate you, now you've done the impossible and resurrected my interest in B5. I'll go killing spree if the series fail.
I know how you feel...i'm keeping my distance on this till the very end.
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"And so has puppeteering." - Aldo
Passerby sees Londo with a G'kar puppet (stand-in).
"I say, why does Londo have his hand up G'kar's arse?"
Zack Allen, "The Centauri are a bit excentric, just ignore it..."
:lol:
Babylon 5 meets Team America FTW!
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Still enjoying the acid, then?
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Not even close... Fumes from Injection molding...