Babylon 5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski Developing Reboot for The CW...

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https://tvline.com/2021/09/27/babylon-5-reboot-development-the-cw/

J. Michael Straczynski is returning to outer space, with a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of Babylon 5 for The CW.

The original Babylon 5 debuted in 1993 and presented a future-history story covering the years 2257-2262, with each year corresponding to one season. In doing so, Babylon 5 is regarded as the first TV series to introduce viewers to the concept of a five-year arc, with a defined beginning, middle and end. Straczynski won over a dozen awards for his work on the series, including two Hugo Awards, the Saturn Award and the Ray Bradbury Award.

Following the original series’ five-season run, which netted five Emmy nominations and two wins (for makeup and special visual effects), Straczynski continued to tell stories in the Babylon 5 universe — with the TNT series Crusade, feature-length films, and a series of novels, novelizations, short stories and comics from DC.

TVLine has learned that the reboot Straczynski is developing for The CW follows John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space. Babylon 5 serves as a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. Sheridan arrival triggers “a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined,” when an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting him and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.

Straczynski — who most recently created, wrote and show-ran (with the Wachowskis) Netflix’s Sense8 — will write and executive-produce (through his Studio JMS) the new Babylon 5, which is a Warner Bros. Television project.

[Djgb13 2,338]

For the CW? Yea it’s going to be some woke garbage that will destroy the series. They have a problem with being more concerned about being “woke” than they do making an actual good story 

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3 minutes ago, Djgb13 said:

For the CW? Yea it’s going to be some woke garbage that will destroy the series. They have a problem with being more concerned about being “woke” than they do making an actual good story 

Yeah that is the only thing that is keeping me from getting excited about this...  B5 is one of my favorite TV series and with JMS involved I believe it would be good, but on the CW just makes me cringe...

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2 minutes ago, posty said:

Yeah that is the only thing that is keeping me from getting excited about this...  B5 is one of my favorite TV series and with JMS involved I believe it would be good, but on the CW just makes me cringe...

I’ve gotten to where I hate watching anything on there cause they do exactly that. They used to be ok. Nowadays, they’ve gone full blown liberal and all the shows are getting cancelled cause no one is watching them. You’d think they’d realize they need to stop that but they don’t. It’s pissed me off quite a few times cause they’d ruin a good show my wife and I were watching