Babylon 5 Reboot Being Helmed By Original Creator J. Michael Straczynski

Jaegs writes: According to many sources and the Babylon 5 creator/writer/director/producer himself, J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) The CW—partly owned by the original Babylon 5 producer and rights holder, WarnerMedia—will be rebooting the popular franchise. JMS will be writing and executive producing the series. Per JMS:

[W]e will not be retelling the same story in the same way... There would be no fun and no surprises. Better to go the way of Westworld or Battlestar Galactica where you take the original elements that are evergreens and put them in a blender with a ton of new, challenging ideas, to create something fresh yet familiar. To those asking why not just do a continuation, for a network series like this, it can’t be done because over half our cast are still stubbornly on the other side of the Rim.

The last part refers to the recent passing of Mira Furlan (Delenn), as well as the untimely deaths of other primary cast members after the conclusion of the original run of the series: Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Michael O'Hare (Jeffrey Sinclair), Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi), Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto), Jeff Conway (Zack Allan), and Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar).

A lot of spinoffs are possible

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The B5 universe has a huge number of possible spinoffs, and one thing that could be ventured a bit more into is the origin of the technomages.