So the President of The CW (a dedicated Babylon 5 fan, as well he should be) is keeping the reboot fires burning.
He worked for Warners when the show was first airing, and always made sure we got him copies of the episodes before they aired because he didn’t want to wait to see what happened next.)Ĭalling the pilot “a damned fine script,” he said he was taking the highly unusual step of rolling the project and the pilot script into next year, keeping B5 in active development while the dust settles on the sale of the CW. (I should mention that Mark is a great guy and a long-time fan of B5. However: shortly before that piece was published, I received a call from Mark Pedowitz, President of The CW. However-and it’s a big however-in this case, the situation was different: “When a pilot script is not picked up to production, 99.999% of the time, that’s the end of the road for the project, the script is dead,” Straczynski wrote. Straczynski detailed the behind-the-scenes twists in a post on his Patreon. Usually, this is a bad sign for the future of a proposed series. In February 2022, The CW announced the slate of pilots it was picking up for production, and Babylon 5 was not amongst them. WarnerMedia put The CW up for sale in January 2022, which sent the development of the Babylon 5 reboot into a bit of a tailspin. Once again, the WB was haunting Babylon 5 like so many Shadow Vessels. This was excellent news-until Straczynski’s pilot was delayed in development. Three years later, it was announced that Babylon 5 would see a “from the ground up” reboot of its original concept, rather than a continuation of plot events that wrapped up in the ’90s. had told his agent, “We have no plans, and no intentions, of letting anything else be done in terms of television with Babylon 5.”īut now our streaming, sprawling age of media appeared to offer that long-sought-after chance of revival. Michael Straczynski tweeted that Warner Bros. Back in 2018, Babylon 5 creator and writer J. stubbornly locking Babylon 5 into a vault and swallowing the key. Devoted fans rallied for decades to see more of the intricate space drama, only to have their hopes shut down by Warner Bros. In an era where it feels like any and every IP with nostalgic value is making a comeback, Babylon 5 seemed an obvious choice.
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