JMS CIS Digest: 17-Jan-96 00:41:17 through 18-Jan-96 00:08:50 (8 msgs)
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Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
B5 Studio
B5 Hankies?
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Date: 17-Jan-96 00:41:17
From: Laurence Moroney <100546.50 at compuserve.com>
To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.433609 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.433353 at compuserve.com>
Thanks for the answer. Keep me posted? Still, has the shift to
'late' showing impacted the viewing at all? I read a fanzine where
the (rather paranoid) opinion was that this is how WB want to kill
off the show because it is too expensive! One problem with the arc
of the show is that it does lead to a certain level of Paranoia
('Why did Kosh say that?' 'What does Morden want?' etc. etc.) and
this is spilling over in the real world!!!
How would the movie hit the arc of the story?
And I wonder if we poor provincials in Blighty will get to see it
before the dawn of the third age of mankind?
:-)
Laurence "Under the Kosh"
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Date: 17-Jan-96 15:05:11
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: Laurence Moroney <100546.50 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.433899 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.433609 at compuserve.com>
Well, any time you move to a later slot it's going to affect the
numbers. As for WB moving the show into later slots for purposes
alleged in a fanzine...for starters, WB has *zero* control over where
the stations run the show. It's all determined locally. So for
starters the story is bogus. Second, on the "expensive" line, our
episodes cost just under $900,000 per, as opposed to $1.2 to $1.6
million per episode (or more) on DS9 and Voyager. Work it out.
jms
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Date: 17-Jan-96 15:23:50
From: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641 at compuserve.com>
To: J. Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
Subject: B5 Studio
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.433905 at compuserve.com>
Hello Joe,
I'll be taking a business trip to LA next week and Ill
have tuesday afternoon to look around. I was wondering if the
Warner Studios were open then for a visit? I dont get to LA very
often, It is usually San Diego. I just thought I would ask.
Thanks.
Mike
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Date: 18-Jan-96 00:02:09
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: Michael Zitaglio <102545.641 at compuserve.com>
Subject: B5 Studio
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.434212 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.433905 at compuserve.com>
We don't shoot on the Warners lot, so it's kind of a moot
question (the facilities we do have, across town, aren't set up for
tours, I'm afraid).
jms
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Date: 17-Jan-96 18:39:01
From: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104 at compuserve.com>
To: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.434082 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.433899 at compuserve.com>
> Second, on the "expensive" line, our episodes cost just under
> $900, 000 per, as opposed to $1.2 to $1.6 million per episode
> (or more) on DS9 and Voyager. Work it out.
Joe,
I recall that you said that season one came in at or under
budget. Was season 2 as well managed?
-Dupa T. Parrot [Tech Supp SysOp]
<OS/2 WarpConnect & GCP>
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Date: 18-Jan-96 00:02:10
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.434213 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.434082 at compuserve.com>
Seasons one and two both came in slightly under budget; we're
still into this season, but three is shaping up about the same.
jms
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Date: 17-Jan-96 19:34:09
From: Bill Hayes <75140.2265 at compuserve.com>
To: straczynski
Subject: B5 Hankies?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.434120 at compuserve.com>
I've been pretty lucky this past year, having 13 computing
articles accepted in PC Today and PC Novice magazines. You really
have to develop a work ethic to keep going.
However, I wasn't nearly as exhausted as when I wrote a six part
story arc for a SF comic I've had at various publishers. I
definitely wasn't prepared for the emotional cost, finding myself
weeping during the wee hours of the morning while writing
emotional scenes.
My stuff is pretty light-weight compared to a one-hour TV script.
The emotional cost must be staggering. How on earth do you keep
yourself in dry hankies? <grin>
Bill...
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Date: 18-Jan-96 00:08:50
From: J. Michael Straczynski <71016.1644 at compuserve.com>
To: Bill Hayes <75140.2265 at compuserve.com>
Subject: B5 Hankies?
Message-ID: <forum.sfmediaone.434229 at compuserve.com>
References: <forum.sfmediaone.434120 at compuserve.com>
You just have to brace yourself for the work, and burn through it
by being somewhat monomanaical and obsessive. It takes a toll, but in
the end, it is or should be worth it, otherwise why do it?
I've gotten used to handling work and deadlines, so it really
doesn't bother me too much, unless I'm really under the gun. Thus far,
I've written something like 170 *produced* TV scripts, maybe a bit
more, and by the end of this season will have written 49 B5 scripts.
This season, in writing 22 episodes, not counting first drafts and
revisions which would double the figure easily, I'll have written about
1,000 pages in less than 10 months. That's two full-sized novels.
I try not to think about that too much....
jms
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