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Posted By:  Nomad Jan 10, 2005 - 01:07 pm |       | I agree, we need some of the mainstay actors to pull off any transition to other B5 universe characters. They NEED to have our original Galen in it to begin with.
| Posted By: Sindatur Jan 10, 2005 - 01:45 pm | | Well, unfortunately, Galen is a legitimate cast replacement, as Peter Woodward is apparently unavailable.
| Posted By: Nomad Jan 14, 2005 - 03:47 pm | | Geee, will just any bald headed techno-wizard dpo? I donth think so.~!
| Posted By: ZimNova Jan 14, 2005 - 07:22 pm | | Well since the announcement that Peter Woodward can not join the project I've thought up a couple of possible replacements.
Michael Chiklis from *The Shield*.
Emmy winner and great actor, problem is he's contracted to *The Shield* for it current season coming soon on FX.
Willem Dafoe.
I loved this actors work in films such as: *To Live and Die in L.A.* (1985), *Platoon* (1986), *Wild at Heart* (1990), *Amercian Psycho* (2000), *Shadow of the Vampire* (2000) and currently in The Aviator (2004).
He always brings intensity into any part he plays and would thus make a fine "Galen".
Jake Gyllenhaal.
OK a little young for the part but a favorite of mine based on his work in *Donnie Darko* (2001) which is one of my all time top 10 films.
Nathan Fillion.
Yeah right, Captain Mel Reynolds from *Firefly*.
Great actor, good looking (ladies?) and has history in the SF genre.
I can picture him as Galen although it would be a departure from his role during *Firefly*.
And last but not at all the least.
Ben Browder.
Fan fav from *Farscape* (1999) this guy can act doing any role.
What we need here is a "Techno-Mage" who can carry the main part of the story and I believe Ben could make this part work.
The actor who lands the job has to have the same "presence" on screen as Peter Woodward had and that will be a "tough roe to hoe" as we say in Idaho.
Peter's "Galen" was superior to normal Humans but was never condescending because of that.
He had abilties normal Humans lacked but during interactions with either Lockley or Gideon he always took the high road because they could not understand his kind, his Order or their motives.
It will be interesting to see whom is in fact cast as Galen in the movie.
I have offered my choices.
ZimNova
| Posted By: Aldan Jan 14, 2005 - 10:15 pm | | Yeah, it WOULD be tough to hoe roe, since roe are sturgeon eggs... I think you meant row as in a row of potatoes...
| Posted By: Iznardi Jan 18, 2005 - 08:22 am | | Zim--think you missed some obvious possibilities:
Bob Newhart, especially with his famous phone routine: "Hello, Technomages, Inc. You send em, we'll blend em. Who? Capt. John Sheridan? Right. The dead guy. Oh, you're better now. Good. How's the wife. I see. So she's dead now. Second time? Really."
or
Don Rickles: "Hey, could we hurry up with the smoo here? Who they got running this place, Zathras?"
| Posted By: Nomad Jan 18, 2005 - 02:27 pm | | Spoo!
| Posted By: Sindatur Jan 31, 2005 - 07:32 am | | JMS has come out of his hidey-hole for a minute and said the following. Some are interpretting this is an acknowledgement of the "Fan mail campaign against recasting" and that the studio may be seeing it our way.
I know I've been hunkered down a bit of late, and there have been very good
reasons for it...which someday I suspect I will be able to tell, perhaps in the
form of another fairy tale....
So in the interim, a quick roundup.
I'd say that the next two weeks are going to be critical for the future of
TMoS. There have been a variety of conversations about a variety of things and
people, and some offers are starting to go out to various individuals...so we
shall see what we shall see.
On the subject of the Crusade DVD commentary...I see another fairy tale looming
in the future...WB has agreed, after quite a bit of noise, to remove the
commentary that I did from all future pressings of the set, since that was the
deal that we had made: use it all, including the explanation of what happened,
or use none of it. So those of you who have your DVDs now, and for the next
bit, will have that commentary. Those afterward won't. I don't know when the
next pressing will be, but whenever that is, is when the change takes place.
AOL as some have noted is closing down its newsgroup system, so I'm going to
have to retrench. Consequently, I may be offline for a bit...though I'll
likely be off regardless for the next bit while the dust settles on TMoS.
If you are interested in purchasing Crusade on DVD do so now. Apparently, JMS has succeeded in having his commentary removed from the DVD set. JMS had struck a deal with WB that he would provide commentary for the DVD set as long as WB included the entire commentary and did not edit it. WB agreed. When the DVD's came out JMSs' commentary was on it but it was greatly edited. WB had removed all of JMS comments on how the show was messed with. JMS was pissed.
The next pressing of the DVDs will come out without JMS commentary. Which means that the sets out now will become a bit of a collectors item. So, if you have not bought Crusade yet but are planning on doing so, now is the time.
Whoops, Sindutar beat me to the punch. Sorry
| Posted By: ZimNova Feb 27, 2005 - 07:23 am | | Frell. As they say; "Better luck next time!".
Quote:Offically dead 26 Feb 2005
"I'm putting this here because the new message threader I sent eaerlier is taking a while to move through the system. So this info will repeat soonish on another subject.
jms
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The rule of thumb in Hollywood is that for every thousand scripts that get written, only a few dozen get into development, and out of those, only one will ever get made...if that.
A little over a year ago, I was approached by a company that wanted to make a Babylon 5 movie. They optioned the rights, and commissioned a script. (It's worth mentioning that I, not WB, own the rights to a B5 movie. When we were negotiating the original B5 deal -- by whose terms I will never see a dime in profit -- the one thing they did let me have were the movie rights, figuring they'd never be worth anything in the long run.)
Anyway...on December 27th of 2003, the script for "The Memory of Shadows" was turned in, and the process began of trying to make the deal work with all the various forces involved. It is, to say the least, a very difficult process on any movie where the studio does not directly take the financial reins. In terms of B5, Warner's position was esssentially, "We only do big-budget movies with big names, so you're on your own." If there were big-name movie actors in the film, they'd get behind it; without that, things become very problematic, especially as far as the financing was concerned. You much have to put together a consortium of international interests and business plans rivaled in complexity only by the Allied invasion of Normandy Beach.
Nonetheless, every attempt was made by the people involved to get this deal in place. This was not being done by Doug or myself, but rather by the company/individuals who approached us and optioned the rights.
At times, it seemed we were inches away from a deal...stages were reserved at Elstree, actors were contacted, a director was in place, the script went through many revisions, a few key staff were hired, again not by me...it was really a year-long roller coaster ride.
During that time, the people involved, with every good intention, tried very hard to pull the necessary pieces together on the deal. The option expired in late December 2004, but I renewed it without cost, to give those involved more time to try and make things work.
In the end, however, the deal could not be put together, and it did not look as if that was going to change at any point in the foreseeable future. So the option has reverted, and to all intents and purposes, the project has dead ended. Nor do I think this particular incarnation will arise again at any point in the future, though prognostication has always been a tricky art, especially if you have to do it without the benefit of hindsight.
This was not the first time someone's taken a run at a B5 feature film, and it will not be the last. Eventually it will happen, because such things are simply inevitable. If they can do a Brady Bunch movie, you can be sure that sooner or later, somebody's going to do a B5 movie.
The only thing I can say without equivocation is that when that day comes, as the rights-holder, I will make darned sure that it's done right, because I'd rather have no B5 movie than one that doesn't live up to what fans and I myself would want to see.
To that end...I can wait.
Anyway, just thought you should know the story.
jms
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Sad. 
With all the dren being pumped out of the Hollywierd machine which is obviously out of new & original ideas we can't get even the chance for a Babylon-5 feature film and to see if it could hold it's own in a market crowded with endless sequels ad nauseam. Oh well.
ZimNova
| Posted By: Bmat Mar 14, 2005 - 02:03 pm | | Well this is a shock. I am very disappointed.
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