[B5JMS] ATTN:JMS Your thoughts on V

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From: "Douglas Nicol" <Douglasnicol at btinternet.com>
Date: 10 Mar 2001 12:13:47 -0700
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Joe

I am a fan of V and read this little extract, is this true?  If so I would
have been interested to see what you would have done.

"After the cancellation of the series, the story of V continued to live on
for a short time in paperbacks by Pinnacle and Tor, and comic books by DC
Comics. There were talks of a third final miniseries, but the farthest that
went was a script proposal by Joe Straczynski (of current Babylon 5 fame)
which was rejected by Warner Brothers. Straczynski has considered developing
his script into a novel, but there is no word when that will happen. "


Douglas




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Mar 2001 16:21:53 -0700
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>"After the cancellation of the series, the story of V continued to live on
>for a short time in paperbacks by Pinnacle and Tor, and comic books by DC
>Comics. There were talks of a third final miniseries, but the farthest that
>went was a script proposal by Joe Straczynski (of current Babylon 5 fame)
>which was rejected by Warner Brothers. 

Two corrections here.  It wasn't a script *proposal*, which is to say, a
proposal for a script, it was a full four hour miniseries script commissioned
by WB which I wrote and turned in.  It wasn't rejected, they loved the script,
but in doing the budget for what the series would cost, they ran into the same
problems they had with the original V, which damn near destroyed WB TV because
of cost over-runs.  Showing an Earth based war, with all the pyros, stunts,
huge cast and set requirements, location work, all that...was more than they
wanted to pay for a syndicated show, which was their intent at the time.

> Straczynski has considered developing
>his script into a novel, but there is no word when that will happen. "

I cannot develop it into a novel because I don't own the underlying rights, WB
owns them, and never intended to do any such thing.  It's what we in da biz
call "dead pages."

 jms

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