ATTN JMS: Crusade - The Whole Story

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From: Dimitrios Dalagiorgos <dnd at csd.uoc.gr>
Date: 10 Sep 2000 08:23:44 -0700
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Greetings,

After finishing your latest novel on Friday, wanting more, I read your
script "End of the Line". I was astonished! It reminded me of B5's
fourth season: dark, intense, intriguing. In a word, excellent! Wanting
even more, I searched the net for the conclusion of "EotL" and stumbled
upon your interview with filmforce.ign.com. There I read your vision of
Crusade, of what it was supposed to become. I must admit I was saddened
to realize what we are missing.

If I understood you correctly, B5:Crusade is never going to be made
because TNT is holding the rights and won't sell them in a reasonable
price, thus not allowing anyone else to make it. On the other hand, from
your description, and your script, Crusade must be a hell of a story. So
my question is, will we ever get to hear it? Is there hope that someone
might pick it up and produce it? Can we expect more scripts that depict
the main story? Should we expect a novel?

It does seem like a great story, and it would be a pity if it didn't get
told.
-- 
Dimitrios N. Dalagiorgos
MSc student
Department of Computer Science
University of Crete, Greece


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Sep 2000 18:32:17 -0700
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>If I understood you correctly, B5:Crusade is never going to be made
>because TNT is holding the rights and won't sell them in a reasonable
>price, thus not allowing anyone else to make it

No, that's not quite it.  WB owns the rights to Crusade, not TNT.  SFC wanted
the rerun rights to B5 *as well as* Crusade because it seemed counter
productive to have the one without the other.  TNT, not wanting Crusade to
succeed elsewhere -- in the past movies they'd passed on went on to earn emmys
elsewhere, something that annoyed them no end -- asked for a huge sum of money
to pry loose the reruns of B5, far more than anyone would pay.  That was the
final sticking point in the deal, not the Crusade part.

> On the other hand, from
>your description, and your script, Crusade must be a hell of a story. So
>my question is, will we ever get to hear it? Is there hope that someone
>might pick it up and produce it? Can we expect more scripts that depict
>the main story? Should we expect a novel?

No, no novels are planned, because I wanted Crusade to be a TV story, and
again, WB owns the rights, which is standard for all TV series.  Now, there's a
lot of the Crusade story covered in the technomage novels, so that's one place,
but a pure Crusade novel, no.  As for the rest, only time will tell.

 jms

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