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posted by chromas on Tuesday September 28 2021, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-shoes-are-too-tight dept.

‘Babylon 5’ Reboot in the Works at The CW

Original series creator J. Michael Straczynski will pen the script for the update.

The CW is heading to space.

The younger-skewing broadcaster is teaming with original series creator J. Michael Straczynski for a reboot of Babylon 5.

Described as a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of the original, Straczynski will pen the script for a new potential version of the former syndicated drama from Warner Bros. TV. The new take revolves around John Sheridan (originally played by Bruce Boxleitner), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.

From Gizmodo:
Babylon 5 Is Getting Rebooted, With J. Michael Straczynski at the Helm

Variety reports that Warner Bros. has ordered a reboot of Babylon 5, produced and written by Straczynski as part of a deal between Warner Bros. TV and Straczynski’s Studio JMS. The series is not a continuation of the show, but a “from the ground up” reboot of the cult classic 1993 series, which ran across five seasons and seven made-for-TV movies until 1998.

[....] The series was beloved for its dark sci-fi plots and its approach to a massive, intertwined narrative over the course of its seasons and movies [...]

If only we could see the original vision of B5 as it would have been if no actors would have had to leave the show.

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. -- Emperor Turhan


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday September 29 2021, @11:25AM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Wednesday September 29 2021, @11:25AM (#1182696)

    I don't really have a good reason for why they couldn't do say "Babylon 5 - the next generation", or whatever the equivalent would be from a Star Trek perspective. People liked TOS and people liked TNG, one sort of built on the other in that it shared a continuing universe. There should be ample threads about in the story etc to continue. Make a skip a hundred years into the future or something. They could build a Babylon-6 by then if they wanted to or some other thing. Instead of trying to update and reinvent (or retell) the same thing again with the same characters just played by new people. Find some new people. Make new stories. Isn't that what they are supposed to do.

    But as noted now a few times, I guess we wait and see. After all this won't make the screen for at least another year or two or however long it takes.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday September 29 2021, @05:12PM

    by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday September 29 2021, @05:12PM (#1182826) Homepage

    Yeah, that's about the long and the short.... haven't seen the other extended bits, but I loved Crusade, and it showed how the universe could easily expand with new characters and ideas. Babylon-6 would be a great title, instantly obvious what it is to anyone who ever saw the original. Build on the old to bring us something new, don't break it with a reboot.

    But yeah, it's all speculation at this point, so we'll see in due course.

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