Babylon5 viable movie fanchise? Directed by Whom?,Type of M5 movie desired.

[Garovorkin]

Okay lets try this topic. A few years ago JMS tried to get a big screen feature film off the ground it did not haven for a lot of reasons and from what ive heard thank god that project did not happen. The question is is B5 still viable as a feature film franchise? If so what type of film would want to see, A film dealing say with Valen , B$ and the Shadow war 900 years before the events in b5? A feature film or series of films dealing with the telepath war? The Dillgar ,maybe a film dealing with the early years of the Centuri Empire or the Centuri , during Londo's ill fated reign as Emperor, The floor is wide open on this one. Now who would you want to direct this film suggestions? James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Alex Proyas,Peter Jackson, The Washowski Brothers, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven Steven Sommers, M Night Shymalan ,George Lucas or how about Babylon 5 a Michael Bay production . Maybe there are some other lesser known candidates? Again this one is wide open to any ideas.

 

[KoshFan]

While I would dearly love to see the story of Valen told, it would never do well as a big-screen movie; no humans! That one's gonna have to wait for a book, I think.

 

[Garovorkin]

Koshfan I agree Valen would be a challenge for a big screen film, but it If they actually did do a Valen story for movie purposes, ,which director could do the best job do you think?

 

[GaribaldisHair]

Michael Bay ... just ... No.

Nuff said!

 

[Garovorkin]

Yeah Babylonaggedion would not sit well with me either.

 

[Garovorkin]

Okay a feature film even a series of feature films might not have the level of detail or complexity that series has , so what these are going to be for the most part Stand alone films with sequels if possible, can any of one honestly tell me that they would not like to see a Babylon feature film? Imagine The Dilgar story being done by the likes of James Cameron or Ridley Scott, that would not excite you? lets actually have some discussions here instead of one line dismissals or opinions, because otherwise what is the point of these threads? or having them if there is no accompanying discussions? Lets talk what kind of films we would like to see that is also the purpose of this thread.

 

[vacantlook]

I think the topic of biggest interest for me for a potential film would be the telepath war. I wanna see Lyta go thermal!

 

[Garovorkin]

Vacantlook A telepath war movie or say trilogy would be cool, I would give the directors duties to the Washowski Brothers, we have Bester front an center, get the political intrigues of Psycore, vs the machinations Of Garabaldi's Evers corpation, which he funds Lyta's and his l little vendetta against the Core. there are so many exciting possibilities with this on, the second movie would be the final set up and 3rd movie would have all hell break loose, they film these movies back to back to back, to keep everyone interested. With the Washowski brothers the films would have an almost matrix like flavor to them it would be awesome to behold.