B5 movie in production!
Hat-tip to PoliBlog for this welcome news: a new Babylon 5 movie is in production, entitled Memories of Shadows, and featuring Galen of Babylon 5: Crusade. It is not clear whether Peter Woodward will reprise the role, but I, for one, cannot imagine anyone else playing it.
Crusade, for the uninitiated, was a superb sequel series to the original Babylon 5, in which a starship scowered the galaxy in search of a cure for a biologically-engineered virus used by allies of the mysterious Shadows in an attack upon Earth. The ship, EAS Excalibur, had five years in which to find a cure before the plague destroyed all life on our planet.
Network politics and conflicts between TNT and B5 creator Michael Straczynski resulted in the cancellation of this truly excellent sci-fi series after only 13 episodes. It will be great to see Galen, one of its better characters, again- as well as to learn more about the fate of the Excalibur's mission. I've always felt a bit cheated in not getting the chance to see more of that story.
Crusade, for the uninitiated, was a superb sequel series to the original Babylon 5, in which a starship scowered the galaxy in search of a cure for a biologically-engineered virus used by allies of the mysterious Shadows in an attack upon Earth. The ship, EAS Excalibur, had five years in which to find a cure before the plague destroyed all life on our planet.
Network politics and conflicts between TNT and B5 creator Michael Straczynski resulted in the cancellation of this truly excellent sci-fi series after only 13 episodes. It will be great to see Galen, one of its better characters, again- as well as to learn more about the fate of the Excalibur's mission. I've always felt a bit cheated in not getting the chance to see more of that story.
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