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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. revenue? by TheWordOfB · · Score: 0, Troll

    The profit margins just weren't there. Normal movies made for guys at least have girlfriends to drag to the movies.. so they get double the revenue.. But scifi dorks, who will probably pirate the movie anyway.. just can't bring in the numbers without the "girlfriend who was forced to go" crowd.

  2. Re:If you don't get it, you don't get it by oftheapes · · Score: 0, Troll
    i disagree completely...it's cheesy, and looks dated, because it was made in 1994. that doesn't mean it isn't at the core a bad show. plenty of "dated" looking sci-fi is still enjoyable and entirely watchable - even 30 years later.

    Babylon5 relied too much on CG and not enough on decent acting, character development and interesting plotlines...it was at it's core just a bad show from the start. Z-list actors, Z-list writers do not make a good show. and the CG was pretty bad, even by 1994 standards.

    you can hate the message, but don't hate the messenger.

  3. Re:If you don't get it, you don't get it by oftheapes · · Score: 0, Troll

    yes i am painfully aware of that, but does it even matter? people change in their abilities over the course of a lifetime. some improve, some get worse. some go from a-list to z-list, some go from z-list to a-list.
    remember when coke changed it's formula? not so good. remember when they changed it back? much better...
    i stand by my assertion that B5 is one of the worst sci-fi shows to grace a television screen in the past 30 years.

  4. Re:If you don't get it, you don't get it by oftheapes · · Score: 0, Troll
    if you've been watching b5, you've definitely missed something. this isn't a pissing match of who has the cooler show list - it's an assesment of a single show on the merits of that single show. b5 was not worth the betamax is was recorded on.

    i'm not going to play this game

    but i'll add this - the star trek cartoon series was a better series than b5, and i think we know how bad that was.

  5. Re:If you don't get it, you don't get it by oftheapes · · Score: 0, Troll

    i justified my statements well enough to not have my judgement be the issue at hand...and i see that more than enough people agree with me completely to further solidify my statement as being valid.

    if you hurry, you might be able to catch bruce boxleitner selling oranges along the freeway.

  6. Re:It wouldn't be the same anyway... by fm6 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You mean you can't find another actor who can't spout pretentious crap?