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Part of me is afraid of the what Warners might do with a B5 movie
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Nah, no need to worry. If a
B5 feature were to be done anytime in the next 5 to 10 years it would mostly have the original cast. One of the advantages of its being a cheap, "nothing" little show to WB over the years has been that they left JMS alone to tell his story. The result has been that, much more than most TV shows, including
Star Trek,
B5 is one man's vision, and almost has to be approached that way. WB owns the show, and legally they can do anything they want with it, but they understand that there would be huge fan backlash if they were to do a feature film without JMS and the bulk of the original cast.
For his part JMS has always said that he viewed the big payday a feature film would offer as a way to reward the original cast for all their hard work. If they could do
B5: The Motion Picture for a comparatively mosdest budget, WB would probably leave JMS alone to do the film however he wanted. Given what they were able to produce on the small screen in the way of week-to-week stories on a budget less than half of a contemporary
Trek series (and TV movies for about the per-episode cost of
TNG or
DS9) imagine what the Babylonian crew could do with a budget of even 30 or 40 million (about what a romantic comedy goes for these days if it has a couple of "name" stars in it.)
Regards,
Joe