Amph For Justice, For Peace, For the Future- We Have Come Home: Babylon 5 (The Road Home animated film)

HBO Max ad has an art render I haven't seen before...

 

B5 Scrolls has another video posted that was rendered from the original scene files- this time including several seconds from the ends of shots that were trimmed in the edit for the final episode (including some details such as the Minbari cruiser's launch doors lighting up before deploying fighters), with potentially up to 6-7 seconds worth of frames in some instances. This is supposedly the most CGI trimmed in the series in a single episode.



Also, here it's very noticeable, but something that I never notcied is that the Tragati is a differently textured model from the standard Minbari cruiser- as if it has been in a state of disrepair and is sickly:

 

Follow-up on that CGI file tweet from JMS back in March...

 

Another CG file render test:



Not sure I ever noticed before how the smaller Vorlon craft maneuver in battle- they have the multi-axis movement of a Starfury but without the obvious thrusters and such, as if just manipulating gravity or some such (which is probably what the tech is).

 

JMS has continued to post some of his Patreon episode commentaries on his public YouTube, with Signs and Portents now up:



Also, the Blind Wave react channel has a TV show survey open to all viewers to gauge interest in what shows they may add into their react schedule over the next year or so. Even if you don't normally watch react videos, I'd like to advocate that folks here give B5 a vote anyways. My only interest is in further encouraging exposure to the show, and where Blind Wave reacts, other channels often follow.

I doubt it'll rank high enough to happen any time soon, but it's worth a shot .

 

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind…

B5 Total Reboot in Development at CW with JMS onboard under Studio JMS Banner.

The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?

 

It’ll be interesting to see a version of this story where they focus on a single main character and not have to swap out leads. Especially if it’s merging the whole Valen thing into a singular character arc. Perhaps we’ll get some rendition of the original concept of the B5 destruction vision not being a misinterpreted decommissioning but rather an escape.

Keep in mind that B5 launched on “known for Hercules, Time Trax & Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues” PTENN network and more or less finished on “known for… basketball, I guess?” TNT.

So it airing on “half of us previously made Voyager” CW shouldn’t be that much of a concern. I also don’t believe JMS would compromise things much in that dept (he’s a stubborn SOB ), even if he’ll definitely make whatever work.

 

JMS speaks in this thread:

 

Claudia chimes in too:

“I know some of you saw the announcement that WB is doing a B5 reboot series and I know you have lots of questions for me like “Are you playing Ivanova?” “Are there going to be telepaths?” “What year is it taking place in?”
Well folks, I know nothing…..zip…nada. Joe has kept us in the loop from day one on this, because he wants us involved with the show, but we have no idea at this time what's in the script or what the story is. Only Joe knows that for now, so you should go bug him about it. He won't tell you, but the results should be amusing. I personally am grateful that I will, once again, be uttering the great maker’s fabulous dialogue….but I know not what that will entail. Exciting, eh? ”​

It’s a total reboot, not a relaunch. Check his Twitter thread embedded above for his full explanation as to why (half the cast being dead is one reason, though).

But he says this will be a Westworld/BSG approach where you keep the evergreen elements and throw everything else into a blender.

He wants to approach it as if he were making B5 for the first time today, with all he’s learned and developed since then. And to hopefully make the series as predictive about our near future as the original series was about our present day. He also aims for the show to push the tech the same way B5 was the first to be shot in widescreen and have 5.1 sound mixes, use all CGI, etc.


EDIT- More from JMS: