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From: "Jms at B5" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:26 AM Subject: various from jms > My apologies for the prolonged absence, but the loss of Richard Biggs kind of > took the wind out of our sails and it's taken a while for me to feel up to > saying anything about B5. This has also had the effect of slowing up anything > to do with B5:TMoS (which as some of you have guessed or inferred does indeed > stand for The Memory of Shadows), because in the writing we/I never imagined he > wouldn't be here to be a part of it. More on that another time. > > The funeral itself was a very moving ceremony. It was a point of some pride > that, although Richard had worked on a variety of shows, and all of them were > present to varying degrees, the largest contingent was from Babylon 5. The B5 > family gathered in full strength, because whatever internecine hassles may have > come up between anybody, there wasn't one person on that show who didn't think > Richard was just a nifty, nifty guy. > > There were many crew members present, from art department to camera and office > staff...DP John Flinn, directors Tony Dow and Jesus Trevino, and literally all > the major or minor cast members with the exception of Jeff Conaway (who was out > of town and couldn't make it), Peter Jurasik (who was attending another funeral > on the other side of the country) and Joshua Cox (ditto...it was a bad week for > a lot of people). > > So from the cast we had: Bruce, Jerry, Mira (and Goran), Andreas, Claudia, > Walter, Bill, Pat, Marjorie, Tracy, Stephen, Jason, Caitlin, and others I may > have missed or forgotten. From the writing/producing side it was me, Kathryn, > Larry DiTillio, Doug, John Copeland, Kevin Cremin, Skip Beaudine, others. > > Out of respect for the privacy of the family, I won't go into details of the > ceremony itself. Suffice to say that he was dearly loved by all, and his > family is held in that same affection by everyone who was there. > > I was going to go into more stuff here in general, but I don't seem to have it > in me at the moment. More later, then. > > > jms |
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From: jmsatb5@aol.com (jms at b5) Subject: re: various from jms To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Date: 6/15/2004 5:58:58 AM << Newer : List : Older >> No Thread Okay, let's try this again. Best to break the ice by just sort of doing a round-up of what's going on and what's coming and suchlike. I'll try to address some of the questions that have come up about what's coming up. On the movies DVDs, and what's inside: the main thing is that we've got commentaries on literally every one of them. Mike Vejar and I did a commentary on In the Beginning, I did one with John Iacovelli on The Gathering, and another with Janet Greek and Tracy Scoggins on River of Souls. I can't remember now if I solo'd on A Call to Arms or if Mike was there as well (it all blurs after a while...I've done something like fifteen of these things by now). There's a separate cast commentary on Thirdspace with, I think, Pat, Jeff, Jesus Trevino, and one or two others. On the Crusade DVDs, there's one commentary I did on the original pilot (once WB and I came to a meeting of minds, to wit, "I'm gonna say what happened to the show, what *really* happened...you got a problem with that?"). There's a second commentary track with Fiona, Janet, Peter Woodward and Carrie Dobro. (We interrupt this message with a coded message for our friends in England and Australia: keep your eyes on the horizon.) One oddity...constant readers will remember a while back when I was asked what TMoS was, and I provided a list of things it *wasn't*. The aforementioned oddity is...one of those things has come up as an adjunct to TMoS. Also, expect word fairly soon-ish about a new series of B5 novels. Elsewhere on the prose front...Straczynski Unplugged is out now, and Tribulations will be coming out in December. I've turned in all three final Rising Stars scripts, and the first issue of the last arc comes out in October, I hear. Next week a new arc and a new artist starts on Amazing Spider-Man, and it's a stinking cool issue. You can read a preview of the whole issue for free at: http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/spidey509/ On other projects...I'm making sudden progress with the medieval play I've been twiddling with for the last few years, and may have it done in the next couple of months. Once that happens, my plan is to do a limited, small production for two weeks or so here in LA, just to see how the text works with an audience, then take it away for another few months, twiddle with it some more, then go for a larger venue. I may do something similar in London, since I may be spending a bit amount of time there fairly soon. And for those who've asked, I won't be in attendence at San Diego Comic Con this year due to a variety of commitments. Oh...and I've been offered an EP position on a network series, and while I don't usually do that on shows I don't create or develop, when I heard what this project was, I had to get on board. We still have to negotiate a deal, and work out how that will interface with the stuff that'll be going on later in the year, but fortunately the start date for the series should work out, at least at this point. jms |
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| On the Crusade DVDs, there's one commentary I did on the original pilot (once WB and I came to a meeting of minds, to wit, "I'm gonna say what happened to the show, what *really* happened...you got a problem with that?"). There's a second commentary track with Fiona, Janet, Peter Woodward and Carrie Dobro. (We interrupt this message with a coded message for our friends in England and Australia: keep your eyes on the horizon.) |
| QUOTE (goth willow fan @ Oct 28 2004, 06:23 PM) |
| Just read in Dreamwatch that a production office for a B5 related film project is up and running in England :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Jun 15 2004, 11:08 PM) |
| Wonder what the series is that he mentioned the EP gig about ?? |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Nov 17 2004, 05:52 PM) |
| Of course, it's widely anticipated that Star Wars will go to series in 2006.... :whistling: |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Nov 18 2004, 07:18 PM) |
| All depends on how much creative freedom he'd get. I'd imagine that George would be a meddler :( |
| QUOTE (Angel @ Nov 19 2004, 06:15 PM) |
| Joe's hinted in a few places now that TMOS may well serve as a backdoor pilot. Fingers crossed. Re Star Wars, I'm sure George has said already that he plans on being more 'hands off' with any TV series, but you really have to wonder how that'll pan out. Think of all the obsessive tweaking he's done to the original trilogy over recent years ;) Besides, Joe's too good for Star Wars :lol: |