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My wife just SMS'd me this, since I've never had one of those Tweeter things . . .
BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today.
JMS posts . . .
And just to be clear, this brand new original animated movie is already finished and in the can. So it's 100% real, happening, and coming out very soon.
Not what I imagined or wanted, but I'm not opposed to it. I would very much like to know more about the original story plan before JMS had to use some of his "trap doors" due to cast changes.
What animated movies would you like to see made? Alternatively, are there some stories that you think an animated movie would spoil as far as your are concerned? [JR]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Friday May 05, @11:00PM (3 children)
I am not against such a move but I do not applaud it either.
Frankly, reusing "proven" content is a marker of cultural stagnation or even decadence, it indicates there are no fresh good stories to pick from when business calls for additional money.
I will pass this one.
Oh, and I almost forgot: a neat idea for suggestion to woke activists: Cancel Star Wars!? Too much privileged masculinity over there. And slavery.
The edge of 太玄 cannot be defined, for it is beyond every aspect of design
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Saturday May 06, @08:16AM
Counterpoint: Western culture has been reusing the plots from Greek tragedies for about 2000 years. (Or if you prefer it, recycling Shakespeare for 500 years)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06, @06:09PM (1 child)
How enticing would it be to you if they 'freshened" it up, say, with something like a baby Yoda or some cute Ewoks?
Jar Jar FTW! If they can't work a character like him in, I'm not watching.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday May 06, @07:38PM
While Jar-Jar was a very annoying character, who know what they were thinking when they created him -- but I suspect they thought he would bring in lots of or Yoda level toy-merch-money, one probably can't underestimate what Grogu (or Baby-Yoda even tho it's not Yoda) have done for the Mandalorian in terms of pulling in the audience and selling a lot of merch from dolls to toys to shirts to whatever else they can print his cute little green face on. Ewoks while cute and such probably didn't sell to many teddy bears beyond how ever many teddy bears are normally sold. If anything the ol' classic Star Wars Ewok Holiday special probably murdered the sales of them as toys. Best let be forgotten.