An animated movie set within the “Babylon 5” universe is in the works from original series creator J. Michael Straczynski. In fact, it is already finished and done.
Straczynski confirmed the news via Twitter on Wednesday, offering a photograph of the script for the film, which he dubs “classic B5” and adds it will be “racuous, heartfelt, nonstop… a ton of fun… [and] a love letter to the fans”.
No information on a release date or title for the film was revealed, but Straczynski says it’s 100% real, happening, and coming out very soon. Further details are expected next week.
The original “Babylon 5” series was created in 1993 and ran in syndication and on TNT across five seasons and six telemovies. The series followed the officers and key ambassadors onboard the titular five-mile-long space station during a time of uneasy peace between the five major races.
Over the course of the series, both an intergalactic war with the ancient ‘Shadows’, and the rise of a fascist world government on Earth played out. Unlike most series (especially at the time), the original was conceived from the get go with the entire timeline mapped out before and after the events of the show – so right from the start it allowed for teases of story and character threads that paid off years later.
Straczynski himself, who also was co-showrunner on Netflix’s “Sense8,” wrote much of the show’s 110-episode run with the show starting out standalone, moving into heavy serialisation and then pulling back to more standalone again. He also built in ‘trap doors’ allowing for actors to exit and timelines to be squished where necessary.
The series won several awards during its run, including two Hugo Awards and a Saturn Award.
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