Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales DVD on July 31st
Babylon 5 was and is the finest Sci-Fi television series of all time. This isn’t opinion, it is an inarguable fact.
Warner Bros. has released everything B5 on DVD already, and the success was such that they decided that needed more B5 to sell. Enter: The Lost Tales.
Warner went back to JMS (the original creator and writer of Babylon 5) to write and direct all new, direct to DVD movies to satisfy some of the demand for B5 (and make WB some cash in the process).
The term, “direct to DVD movie” doesn’t exactly make you think of the greatest cinema of all time (cough, Starship Troopers 2, cough), but it really seems WB is getting this right. JMS is back to write and direct, with some directing help from Sara Barnes, who worked with JMS on the highly underrated series Jeremiah on Showtime, a good idea since JMS has only directed once before (the last episode of the original B5 series, which is amazing). They’ve also managed to get most of the surviving cast members to reprise their roles (with plans for all of them to return in future releases). All that and the effects team that has done some amazing work on Battlestar Galactica the last 3 years to handle the new visuals. Sounds good to me.
In fact it sounds almost too good to be true. Can the new films hold up to the original series, which has achieved cult status among fans? Or will it disappoint like the attempted spin-offs, Crusade and Legend of the Rangers?
Either way, as a huge fan of the series I am incredibly excited to rejoin some of my favorite characters in television history. I’ll be first in line to buy my DVD on July 31st.
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