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JMS - Something in TV - Insanely Successful
JMS: Pending contractual negotiations and formal pickup by the networks involved, I've been offered two different series, so we'll see which goes first. They could both be very cool to work on, but one of them could be insanely successful. I should know more about this situation in late October. (Neither is Trek-related, just to nip any potential rumors in the bud.)
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
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I was at the Emmys tonight for the presentation of the B5 Emmy, and
in the visual efx area, more than one shoe can get an Emmy. So we got one,
DS9's pilot got one, and Lucas' Young Indy show got one. (We sat at the
next table to Lucas and his bunch, in fact, and noted that he watched the
B5 footage with considerable interest.) So when you come right down to it,
here we were, our first shot out of the box, and we ended up on the same
level of appreciation as Trek and Lucas. Not too dusty....
jms
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Hardly relevant, as that was written eleven years ago.
Worf
[B]If George Lucas was impressed with the footage he saw, I think he would remember, especially if he decided to follow the show.
Worf [/B][/QUOTE]
Lucas never said he was impressed. JMS just said that he noticed that Lucas watched with "considerable interest". Big difference; and it was 11 years ago.
[B]Hardly relevant, as that was written eleven years ago. [/B][/QUOTE]
I'm sorry, but in the context of this thread it IS relevant.
shakiroz asked, if someone knew what George Lucas thought of B5, and that was the closest thing to that. If you know anything better, i'd say post it.
As to "eleven years old"... that was when B5 was revolutioniary. So if anyone had thoughts other than "another SciFi show", it would have been then.
[B]Sam, the eternel pessimist. Maybe Lucas has a long memory. [/B][/QUOTE]
I'm not a pessimist. I'm a realist.
[B]I'm sorry, but in the context of this thread it IS relevant.
shakiroz asked, if someone knew what George Lucas thought of B5, and that was the closest thing to that. If you know anything better, i'd say post it.[/b][/quote]
That's what I'm talking about. The quote you cited was JMS' observation of Lucas' watching a 30 second clip (at most) of B5 during the Emmy Awards. It says nothing about what Lucas thought of the show. I wouldn't be surprised if Lucas liked it a lot, however JMS' observations of Lucas watching a short clip of the show doesn't quite cut it.
[b][quote]As to "eleven years old"... that was when B5 was revolutioniary. So if anyone had thoughts other than "another SciFi show", it would have been then. [/B][/QUOTE]
B5 is still revolutionary. But that's neither here nor there.
Yeah, it's just an observation by jms. But it's the best thing we have... I do agree that Lucas probably liked what he saw, as B5's effects were probably as revolutionary for TV as many of the stuff ILM did for Movies (well, probably not as revolutionary as the motion control camera, but still)
Worf
...though I'm not sure how excited I'd be to see Jay and Silent Bob in the SW universe...
Jake
Worf
>Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Jerimiah) he is the only person with TV
>Experience that I can think of who could pull it off and get the scale of
>it.
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I think it'd be a great idea, it would certainly be the job of a lifetime...I
just don't think the friendly folks at ILM know me well enough to think of me
for this. But if anybody over there reading this wants to put in a good word,
feel free.
jms
(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)[/quote]
a) that's not really a denial, is it?
b) ILM's not responsible for hiring a EP, but LFL... might be a simple typo, but still... That could be a hint that he is under a NDA..