The science fiction cult series “Babylon 5” is to receive a new edition. The US television station The CW is working on it, reported the US industry magazine Variety and series creator J. Michael Straczynski has confirmed it on Twitter.
The story of John Sheridan on the space station should be told again, but as Straczynski assures, not as a copy of the original, but as he would create the series today. He is currently writing the pilot episode. If the series is then ordered, he will be responsible for it. The fact that the new entry into the extensive universe of the former TV series is even possible is due to changes at Warner Bros, confirms Straczynski nebulously.
Groundbreaking original
Filmed between 1993 and 1998, Babylon 5 is one of the most important and popular science fiction series ever. Above all, with the telling of a continuous story and successive episodes, the series set itself apart from the most influential Star Trek series at the time. Some TV films and the TV series “Crusade”, which took place in the fictional universe, followed later. After that, the series became quiet, also because the responsible production company Warner Bros put up strong resistance to further projects, as the creator Straczynski confirmed on Twitter. Only when those responsible “dead or gone“That will change. Possibly is that the case now.
The fact that the return to the universe of Babylon 5 is now via a new edition of the original series and not a continuation is due to the fact that more than half of the original cast have already died, Straczynski explained. How should you tell the story of the characters when important characters can no longer play, he asks rhetorically. The author recalls that “Babylon 5” was “incredibly innovative”, for example thanks to the extensive use of computer animation (CGI). This willingness to innovate will be maintained and he hopes that he can introduce new forms of storytelling that will bring the medium of television to the limit of what is possible.
In relation to the US media, Warner Bros. has now summarized that the new series should be about John Sheridan, an officer of the earth forces “with a mysterious background”. He will be transferred to the five-mile long space station Babylon 5, which is placed in neutral territory: “His arrival triggers a fate far beyond anything he could have imagined.” Accidentally, a conflict with a million years more developed civilization is triggered and Sheridan and his team are the “only and last hope for the survival of mankind”. That is of course a perfectly fitting description of the content of the original series and it remains to be seen whether a new edition can repeat its successes.
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