My head nearly exploded when I read this story at Coming Soon this morning. Not only is there a Babylon 5 movie in the works, but it’s been written by J. Michael Straczynski, will begin filming in April in the UK, and features the return of Galen, the technomage character from Crusade.
I actually found Galen to be a bit on the grating side on that show, although since the show was so mangled from its original vision who knows how much of that was intentional. In any event, Galen was a significant character in the post-B5 novels (not including the technomage ones, as I never read them), so clearly that’s a character JMS cares about quite a bit.
While I absolutely love B5 and always will, I’m a bit disappointed in this news, to be honest. Legend of the Rangers was such a steaming pile of poo, and actually, only one of the B5 movies didn’t suck, that I question how well JMS can work in such a condensed format.
Still, more B5 == ROCK, so I guess I’m happy. And I’m certainly looking forward to this more than Serenity/Firefly, because let’s face it people, that show sucked.