[B5JMS] from jms: a few quick items

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From: "ArsenicMan" <ArsenicMan33 at hotmail.com>
Date: 13 Feb 2001 13:43:49 -0700
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"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010212223950.12344.00000765 at ng-fz1.aol.com...
> While I'm waiting for permission to talk about some of the big stuff
that's
> going on, some general news....
>
> As announced today in a press release from the SciFi Channel, the network
has
> picked up all 13 episodes of Crusade for broadcast this Summer.  This will
be
> the first time the series has been broadcast since its brief, original run
on
> TNT.

Halleluah!

Question, though: 4:3 or 16:9?

<snip>

> On the topic of comics...I will be writing a one-off B5 Graphic Novel for
> Wildstorm that will debut later this year.  I figure on writing it as soon
as I
> get out from under my current deadlines.

<gets off chair and dances a happy dance>

Another question: how many pages?

<snip>

> And finally...yes, it's true, B5 will be coming out on DVD starting with
The
> Gathering and In the Beginning, to be released in July.  The series will
start
> soon thereafter.  I've been going over the artwork and related issues for
WB
> Home Video, and though at this time there's no supplementary material
involved,
> at least as far as I know, it should be pretty cool.  (Don't know yet
which
> aspect ratio they'll be using, but my *guess* would be widescreen, now
that WB
> is correcting the earlier versions.)

Final questions: Will The Gathering be the original or the SE, and will it
be 4:3 or 16:9?

> All of that said...as noted well above, there's some substantial
TV-related
> news sitting out there waiting for me to talk about it as soon as I'm
given the
> go-ahead to do so.  Suffice to say that one very large deal has now been
set
> and closed, another is in heavy negotiations (with money now on the table
from
> those involved), and a surprise third project is also coming up fast and
> furious.

More, must learn more, more!

> More on these when I'm allowed to talk about them.  Probably sometime next
> week.

D'oh! I don't want to wait that long!

Andrew Timson
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It's our last best hope for peace? We're *so* screwed.

>  jms
>
> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
> (all message content (c) 2001 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
> permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
> and don't send me story ideas)
>
>
>
>



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:24:47 -0700
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>> On the topic of comics...I will be writing a one-off B5 Graphic Novel for
>> Wildstorm that will debut later this year.  I figure on writing it as soon
>as I
>> get out from under my current deadlines.
>
><gets off chair and dances a happy dance>
>
>Another question: how many pages?
>
><snip>

My last conversation with them indicated a length of about 100 pages, give or
take.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2001 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)




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