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By: GreginWA (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 21:28:06 on Feb 24, 2010 | (1)

While I was a big fan of the series, I have not been a fan of any of the post-series work (nor the TV films, save for In the Beginning...) The problem with doing a sequel film to B5 is that the story itself has already been told through the series. That story is over and it doesn't NEED anything added to it. Sure, there are 20 years between the end of season 5 and the finale, but I'm not convinced that a 2-hour film set in those years is going to appeal to a wide ranging audience (required for box office success) nor am I convinced that a 2-hour film could serve the B5 story as good as or better than that which has already been done. Most of the post-B5 stuff that has been done as simply been uninteresting. B5's strength was the fact that the show was a 5-year long series with a beginning, middle and an ending. What 2 hour long film could possibly be as good of a story as that series? Sure, the production values would be great, the script might be great, and the acting might even be great, but what about the story? How could it live up to what has already been done. Even if JMS decides to write a film that wraps up the Crusade storyline or the Telepath War, are either of those stories going to bring the audience that WB wants to see? Highly doubtful.

Personally, I'd much rather see WB spend some money on cleaning up the original masters of the series and budgeting new, wide-screen high-def visual effects for a Blu-Ray release. THAT would be something that would be very cool to see!

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By: Captain's Blog (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:07:11 on Feb 23, 2010

B5 doesn't have a big enough fanbase for a big budget movie.

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I'll believe there will be a B5 movie when I see it | Report this post to moderator
By: DirectorSloan (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:11:51 on Feb 23, 2010

As intriguing as it is to hear that Straczynski still has B5 on life support, my feeling is that it wouldn't break even. While die hard fans such as myself would probably go see it, the bigger issue is that, in my opinion, JMS had not demonstrated himself to be "fan friendly". By this I mean he has a bit of a track record of starting projects and then when he doesn't get his way he cries that they are stifling his creative liberties and walks away from the project. Unless the movie would do something like fill in gaps in the B5 universe such as the telepath war that took place between the end of B5 and the beginning of Crusade or gave the Crusade story line a dramatic conclusion, I don't know that it's going to draw anyone but the die hard crowd much as Serenity spoke to the Firefly die hard fan base. I'd be thrilled to see a real B5 offering on the big screen. I just think it needs to be handled properly.

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