‘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
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 29 2021, @11:34AM
I disagree. The thing that killed B5 originally was that people in the '90s didn't watch TV shows by the season, they watched them by the episode. Networks moved the air time for B5 around and so you'd usually miss a few episodes every season and that was incredibly bad for understanding the continuity. I bought the DVD boxed sets when they came out and watched each season in a short time and it was far better than watching it on TV one episode a week. B5 got a little bit of a renaissance in the early 2000s from people first watching it for the first time in this format.
These days, 'binge watching' is a term: Most people watch shows on streaming platforms and will watch a season of a thing before moving onto the next one. There's a lot more appetite for shows that have whole-season storylines rather than a monster-of-the-week structure because most people watch a bunch of episodes in a row and a whole season in a few weeks rather than over the course of a year.
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