Creator J. Michael Straczynski revealed that Babylon 5 will have a secret reunion project. The project has already been filmed with all of the surviving major forged members on board!
Straczynski updated the series status on his Patreon on the situation, talking about the series concept not being picked up. Guess he’s still not ready to give up on Babylon! “99.999% of the time, that’s the end of the road for the project.”
However, CW CEO Mark Pedowitz is not ready to throw dirt on it.
“I should mention that Mark is a great guy and a long-time fan of B5. He worked for Warners when the show was first airing,” Straczynski wrote. “Calling the [reboot] pilot ‘a damned fine script,’ he said he was taking the highly unusual step of rolling the project and the pilot script into next year, keeping B5 in active development while the dust settles on the [prospective] sale of the CW.”
“Here’s the bottom line: Yesterday, Babylon 5 was in active development at the CW and Warner Bros. for fall 2022. Today, Babylon 5 is in active development at the CW and Warner Bros. for fall 2023,” he wrote. “That is the only difference.”
Also, check out Straczynski’s tweets beneath.
The great thing is that the secret B5 project isn't one of those "maybe it'll happen/maybe it won't"…it's done, it has a '23 release date, and it's the closest thing to the original B5 in tone of anything we've done since. As if no time has passed at all. 100% crescent fresh. https://t.co/5N4yRKxvvD
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) August 31, 2022
Done as in done. Finished. And all of the main B5 cast members still around participated. I can't tell you what it is or even what form, because that announcement has to come from others, but I'm very proud of it (and Patrons will, as ever, be first to get the deets.) https://t.co/QZc0zpnY8M
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) August 31, 2022
The agonizing part is that, even though it's finished, the project won't be debuted until a big presentation at next year's San Diego Comic Con, after which it will be made available. https://t.co/C6Bogv4D28
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) August 31, 2022
About the Thriller Series Babylon 5!
The series first aired on PTEN on January 26, 1994, where it ran for four seasons. With the collapse of PTEN a fifth season and Straczynski’s 5-year story arc would look not to be completed. However, at the eleventh hour, TNT picked up the show for a final, fifth season.
The latter part of the thriller series, which is scheduled to arrive in 2023 follows a presentation at Comic-Con International: San Diego subsequent July. However, it will not be identified what the completed mission actually is. According to the makers, it may very well be a movie, documentary, or any variety of issues.
Described as an area opera, the sci-fi sequence takes place within the 23rd Century and follows the human and alien employees on an area station. Jerry Doyle, Michael O’Hare, Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Mira Fulan, and Stephen Furst star in the series. It ran for 5 seasons between the Prime Time Entertainment Network from Warner Bros. and TNT.
