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Interviews: Ask J. Michael Straczynski What You Will

Posted by samzenpus on from the ask-me-anything dept.

J. Michael Straczynski has written Thor, World War Z, and Changeling among many other films. He created Babylon 5 and has worked on numerous comic book titles including Superman and The Amazing Spider-Man. Most recently, he has teamed up with the Wachowskis for an original Netflix sci-fi series, Sense8 . He's agreed to take a break from his busy schedule in order to answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

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  1. Pleeeeeeeease? by doas777 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we PLEEEEEASE have HD Bab5? if you crowd-fund it, we will pay.

    1. Re:Pleeeeeeeease? by cold+fjord · · Score: 5, Informative

      CGI first introduced to TV in Babylon 5

      The July 1994 issue of Compute! magazine discusses the graphics used in Babylon 5. By today’s standards, it seems primitive, but it was innovative in its time. Each episode of the series used an average of 6,000 frames of computer graphic animation from Foundation Imaging. They used 24 Amiga 2000s, 16 of which were dedicated rendering engines. They had 32 megabytes of RAM, a Fusion-40 accelerator and the Toaster. The Amigas were connected via a Novell network and sent data to a 12 gigabyte 486 PC file server. They later upgraded to Pentium and Alpha-based systems.

      The making of Babylon 5

      Source of Amiga Video Toaster Software Released

      --
      much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
  2. How could you do it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why did you make a movie and then name it World War Z when it had nothing in common with the source material except for a title?

  3. B5 and season renewal by madopal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What would have been different with the last two seasons of Babylon 5 had you known for sure you had a full 5 seasons?

  4. actors across series by doas777 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've often noticed that if an actor played a speaking character in one scifi series, while looking mostly humanish, any other series they are in they have a pretty concealing costume. For Instance Mr Katsulas played a rather humanish Tomalok on Startrek, whereas his G'Kar had a pretty intense costume.

    Is this done intentionally, or just coincidence?

  5. The Questions by RDW · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who are you?
    What do you want?