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J. Michael Straczynski Says Paramount is Driving the Franchise into the Ground

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By GustavoLeao / 09:47, 6 June 2005 / Enterprise

BABYLON 5 creator/producer J. Michael Straczynski was a guest of honor at Wizard World Philadelphia convention, and talked about his current TV and comics projects, his future plans and his opinion on the current state of the STAR TREK franchise.



Straczynski said he still loves the original STAR TREK and would like to see the franchise regain its luster. "They're driving that franchise into the ground because they don't understand what it is," he said.

Straczynski said he and Bryce Zabel (creater of THE CROW and DARK SKIES television series) prepared a STAR TREK pitch, a treatment for a reboot of the franchise, but Paramount has a bad taste in their mouths over what has happened to the franchise over the years, so the studio is giving the franchise a couple years rest after the cancellation of ENTERPRISE. "When the door is open again, I'll be there, (not in a contractual sense, but willing to work if called)" he said.

As for BABYLON 5, he said that he told the story that he wanted to tell, and plans for a feature film based on the property never really came together. Right now, there are no plans for B5 for film, television, or books, according to the creator.

The full reports from the Straczynski panel can be found at Comics Continuum and Newsarama.



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RE: It'd be good, not. | Report this post to moderator
By: Sabotman (Odo's file, contact) @ 10:52:13 on Jun 07, 2005

more complex eh?
How about the time the doctor went on a "walk about" the station?
Certainly a high point of B-5.
All I can say is this space station really needed to have more securtity or something because there were lot's of homeless just living around the station.
How many homeless live in military bases w/o molesting?
Whatever.

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RE: It'd be good, not. by Sennik @ 12:01:32 on Jun 07
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