Someone lose the Lost Tales?

[SpiritOne]

It's been quite some time since we had any updates on the next Lost Tales. Jerry Doyle and Peter Jurasik are supposed to be in one coming up right?

Still going through the seasons with my wife when she wants to watch it. She likes what she sees, but she wants to watch it with me, and our time together was short during last semester, so were only at season 3, War Without End. Either way, watching it all again makes me hungry for new stuff.

You hear that JMS, WE NEED NEW STUFF. Or at least some info on it. I was pruning some old posts out of the AQM forums and came across this link. Oh what might have been...

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7515

[Chaosed]

I'm hoping for the comics to fill my need. They better come out!!!

[Konrad]

I don't know what to make of the news black out. I kind of expected a flurry of new momentum after the writters strike. It has yet to appear ~ at least to those of us out of the loop.

[Falcon1]

I hope its just down to JMS being busy in the lead up to Cannes.

[Chaosed]

I would like to see JMS train an apprentice to take over the B5 universe. Something that should take years.

[JanMSchroeder]

I don't know what to make of the news black out. I kind of expected a flurry of new momentum after the writters strike. It has yet to appear ~ at least to those of us out of the loop.
FWIW, at the Emerald City Comic Con last month, JMS said that WB seems to be leaning toward a feature film but JMS is holding out for total creative control. The Direct-to-DVD division hasn't lost interest but the two divisions can't seem to decide which should be done.

Meanwhile....

- He's signed a deal to adapt the Lensman books for Ron Howard. They're looking at doing three films of those.

- He also did a complete re-write of Ninja Assasin for the Wachowskis.

- He sold a spec script to Tom Cruise.

- He sold another, called "Flickering Light" to Universal.

- He's adapting "Midnight Nation" as a screenplay and hopes to have it done by August or September.

- Another big producer is interested in "Dream Police" and "Rising Stars"

- There's another project for Wolfgang Peterson called "The Grays" based on the books by Whitley Strieber.

- and finally, he's going to have two new comics titles coming from Image Comics, probably in the fall.

Man, I get exhausted just listing all of that!

Jan

[Chaosed]

Too many distractions from B5.

[Biggles]

Man, I get exhausted just listing all of that!

We're going to get even more exhausted watching/reading it all!

[JanMSchroeder]

One other item came up at SDCC about the Lost Tales. The budget for the first disk was only 2 million dollars.

Jan

[Seafroggys]

to be honest, I'm glad that JMS is hitting the mainstream more and more now.

But yes, tons of Lost Tales, please.

[Chaosed]

At $2 million JMS could just finance it him self. If he were to just go on line and sell it like in the 'Old' version of the producers. (I never saw the new version) He could make so much money!

Ok I'm repeating my self too much.

[Seafroggys]

If you self-finance, you run into distribution problems.

Plus, does JMS actually have $2 million he can just spend? You might be worth something, but that doesn't mean you actually have the money. If you fail, you lose everything.

[JanMSchroeder]

Even if he did want to go this route (I gather that he's doing that with a TV show he and some partners want to produce), he can't because he doesn't own the rights to B5, WB does. The only rights to B5 that he controls himself are the feature film rights.

Jan

[Chaosed]

I want to know how much B5 is worth now. Could the fans round up enough money to get it? If we did it would have to be run by a business manager or we would run it into the ground with demand for more product. More then JMS could manage and drain the creativenesses out of it too fast.
But still way more then were getting now!

[Seafroggys]

Considering a single 45 minute B5 episode cost about $800,000 to produce (including the fact that they had the infrastructure already in place) it will never happen. Getting 800 fans to donate $1000? Yeah right.

[croxis]

The value of the entire B5 ip would probably be in the millions. Not something obtainable.