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Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie Falls Through

Posted by Zonk on from the only-the-shadow-knows dept.

duck2ducks writes "According to a post from JMS, the Babylon 5 feature film has been cancelled. This is sad news indeed for all fans of one of the best sci-fi stories ever produced." From Straczynski's post: "In the end, however, the deal could be put together, and it did not look as if that was going to change at any point in the foreseeable future. So the option has reverted, and to all intents and purposes, the project has dead ended."

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  1. Huh? by bconway · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is sad news indeed for all fans of one of the best sci-fi stories ever produced.

    I really don't see what this has to do with Firefly.

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  2. I blame Rick Berman! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the Enterprise Effect.

    1. Enterprise gets very low ratings.
    2. Enterprise is sci-fi.
    3. B5 is sci-fi.
    4. B5 will get low ratings (attendance)

    Behold, I have become Rich Berman, the destroyer of sci-fi.

  3. "one of the best sci-fi stories ever produced" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    expect some weird confusing letters from our IP rights dep.

    - yours, george lucas.

  4. Law of Conservation of Suckiness. by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 3, Funny

    In canceling Enterprise, the powers that be eliminated a great source of suckiness. Now, to balance that, a great source of anti-suckiness must also be eliminated.

  5. Check the end of the message! by Karellen+!-P · · Score: 4, Funny

    (message content (c) 2005 by Synthetic Worlds, Ltd. Rights to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine)

    I love JMS!

  6. Ow, my ears. by Celestial+Avenger · · Score: 2, Funny

    No wonder I heard a bunch of nerds screaming in unison earlier in the IT division at college.. Ears are still ringing.

  7. And I just blew my money ... by Skapare · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I just blew my money on a new 100 GB hard drive to hold the digital theater version of it.

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  8. Re:That's okay by smchris · · Score: 2, Funny

    Paramount is expected to announce a new Star Trek movie unrelated to previous Star Trek characters on Monday.

    That's what I mean!!!

    Enterprise gets cancelled.
    The B5 movie falls through.
    _And_ the next ST movie gets announced.

    THREE bad things in only a couple weeks!

    Seriously. I have established cross-cultural friendships with people who _don't_ spend their vacation in full Klingon costume and I've actually taken me one or two of them fancy college film courses. Trust me. _All_ the ST movies can be lined up in a range from Sunday afternoon mall fodder down to the embarassing.

    B5, no. ST, yes. Fate, where is thy justice?

  9. Faith Manages by munrom · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even if it takes a thousand years, we will have our movie :)

  10. Re:We respect your opinions by Snaller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Believe it or not, Slashdot is a forum where readers are occasionally allowed to disagree. :-)

    Since when? Usually you get modded down for that.

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