Babylon 5 film

[vilakins]

I suppose everyone knows this already, but just in case...

Steven Beck will direct a big screen adaptation of the popular SF TV series Babylon 5. The movie, titled The Memory of Shadows, is intended for theatrical release and was written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski. Production Weekly reports that the project starts filming this April in the UK.

In Shadows, the technology of the ancient and extinct Shadow race is being unleashed upon the galaxy by an unknown force, and Earthforce intelligence officer Diane Baker, whose brother was recently killed in a mysterious explosion, is out to find out who is behind the intergalactic conspiracy. Joining her is Galen, a techno-mage who has been charged with keeping the technology out of the hands of those who would abuse it.

I'm not sure where this came from; a friend posted it to a mailing list I'm on.

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Oh great. My least favourite character in the entire JMSverse is the one they choose to revive.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Galen? I like Galen! At least, in the series and in his brief appearances in the 'Legions of Fire' trilogy. I couldn't finish the 'Technomage' trilogy--he'd had all his humour and charm removed.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I thought he was a narcissistic self-righteous prig, and the most annoying shipmate since Orac.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh. He was like that in the trilogy which I just gave up on as too much like hard work to read. I'd certainly rather have him than Orac.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well, that'll give me a target date for finishing my run through the series, I guess. (I'm currently one episode away from the end of S3. Yay!)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you've got a big cliff-hanger coming up, but, sadly, I think the best is now behind you--in general. There are some brilliant and very moving eps and some amazing character stuff to come, but when JMS thought he wouldn't get S5, he rushed through the plotty bits and I felt a bit short-changed with the whole Shadows and Vorlon thing. It gets wrapped up really quickly. :-(

BTW Greg just ordered Buffy S1-S4 in one collection so I'll finally find out what all you people are going on about.

Have you got e-mail back yet?

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I actually did see most of S4, back when it was originally on. And I remember finding the way the war was wrapped up terribly anticlimactic then, too. I'm kind of hoping that it'll work a bit better for me this time, having actually seen everything leading up to it.

I'll be interested to know what you think of Buffy. Like Farscape, it's one of those shows that evolves a great deal over time, so that by the end of the series the characters and situations are very different than they were at the beginning. Some people consider the first season somewhat weak, but it hooked me in very quickly.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Great, I look forward to it. Mind you, we have so many other DVDs to watch too. I must start some sort of 'one ep a night, each from a different series' regime, which I see others have done.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I tend to do one series at a time, where I'll watch an episode or two a day until I've finished a whole season of whatever it is, then go on to something else.