The long waiting

I think it would be most fitting if JMS was able to go with Weta. Consider his praise upon Peter Jackson's work with Lord of the Rings!
Personally I think it would rock the universe if Jackson and JMS somehow teamed up in the future. Can you imagine???

Cheers....Jendia

That might not be as cool as you might imagine. When two big names like that collaborate, sometimes their contrasting visions lead to all-out war.

I know JMS respects Jackson, but should the two collaborate and Jackson disagrees with something JMS finds important, they'd split in a heartbeat.

No, better let the lions go their own ways.

Perhaps so, KoshFan. They might go together like Shadows and Vorlons! Can't have that, now, can we?

Jendia

I realize this is probably a sexist comment.....But the thought "Two women trying to cook something in the same kitchen" occurs to me!! (I.E.-recipe for disaster!)

I realize this is probably a sexist comment.....But the thought "Two women trying to cook something in the same kitchen" occurs to me!! (I.E.-recipe for disaster!)

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Or two cooks cannot share a kitchen.

Or two cooks cannot share a kitchen.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Or two cooks cannot share a kitchen.

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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

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A watched pot never boils...bringing us back to the title of this thread!

Jan

I know JMS respects Jackson, but should the two collaborate and Jackson disagrees with something JMS finds important, they'd split in a heartbeat.

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Aahh, it couldn't be any harder for JMS to work with Jackson than with Ellison.
Now there's an opinionated collaborator.


Besides, sometimes those kinds of collaborations work out. Remember when Lucas (before he trashed his own franchise and reputation) and Spielberg got together and made Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Got a point there.

A watched pot never boils...bringing us back to the title of this thread!

Jan

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Yes. This is what I would call a smart observation.


Almir

Here is another vote for Weta. The LotR SFX are spectacular. ILM are also working hard on a SW movie at the moment to and will be for another 7/8 months, therefore any TMOS SFX work done in that time by ILM would be by a second or third team and not the main ILM team.

TMOS SFX work done in that time by ILM would be by a second or third team and not the main ILM team.

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Yeah....You might got a point. But we do not know if WETA will have another priority movie, having same situation. WETA second or third team.

Anyhow. Perhaps we are being too picky. Both SFX companies have shown excellent FX jobs in recent past. Above FX matter is JMS. He must be in the front and should choose an excellent director. I would go for Peter Jackson. Why? For sure it would be easier to SELL to the whole world. Peter Jackson got reputation around the world. JMS is hardly known. Unfortunatelly JMS is not a blockbuster selling name. So WB, as any company that is looking for PROFIT, will be more confident to spend millions of dollars if Jackson is in the team. Again, but the brains MUST be JMS. Peter Jackson should behave as he did with LOTR (which is from Tolkien). Besides, we could have better chances to have more Feature Movies....Who knows? The Telepath war (I want to see Walter Koenig working)

Have a good day...

CADU
Zahadum

Peter Jackson is only just startingPre-Production on King Kong now, and I believe I heard he's already got something lined up after that, so he probably isn't available until 2006 (at the earliest) to start a new project.

it will NOT be pete jackson....

probably a previous B5 director will take the helm - or someone with a previous track record who would give it a certain look or feel - say Ridley Scott , David Fincher etc....

Here is another vote for Weta. The LotR SFX are spectacular. ILM are also working hard on a SW movie at the moment to and will be for another 7/8 months, therefore any TMOS SFX work done in that time by ILM would be by a second or third team and not the main ILM team.

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JMS has said that he will be working in Britain and that this will fit in with TMoS. We do not know the end point but it could be Christmas or Easter. An Easter start to the filming of TMoS would fit in with ILM coming free in 7/8 months time.

He must be in the front and should choose an excellent director. I would go for Peter Jackson.

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Jackson would be a terrible choice, as he has already deomnstrated that he considers himself a better storyteller than Tolkien, which disasterous results (all the laugh-out-loud bad moments of TLotR were when Jackson decided he had the "better storytelling vision"). How could he not consider himself a better storyteller than JMS (who didn't even write the bestselling novels of the 20th century)?

Let Action Jackson do his thing. I for one would certainly hope that TMoS deserves better than the likes of him. There are plenty of good directors out there with the brains to utilize a good script to go along with superior special effects.

Dude I liked Lord of the Rings...all 3 of them. Jackson did a great job on them. Saying he isnt a good fit for B5 is one thing (which I agree with) but those movies owned and Jackson did a great job, so lighten up a tad.

JMS has said that he will be working in Britain and that this will fit in with TMoS.

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Where did he say that his time in England has anything to do with TMoS? Did I miss a post?

As for the assumption that both Weta and ILM are so small that they'd have to put some kind of "second team" on TMoS if they're doing another project - well, that's just plain silly. Both are large organizations with plenty of employees and usually have multiple projects in house at the same time. (Much as JMS usually juggles multiple writing projects.) Both companies also plenty of specialists on staff, and neither is a strictly CGI house. When specialists work they do their piece of a job and move on to another project. So the top model makers could well build minatures for King Kong or what-have-you, then move on to TMoS then move onto something else. With that kind of division of labor "the best" model makers can end up working on several films that are "simultaneously" being worked worked on, even though they actually work on each project in succession.

I don't think we need to worry about anybody doing slipshod work on a big project for Warner Bros. Why are SF fans such congenital "glass-is-half-empty" types, believing that every silver lining has its cloud? (Actually they're more like bi-polar types, being insanely optimistic about "saving" TV shows clearly doomed by low ratings, then crying that the sky is falling because they haven't heard anything new about a project still in development for a couple of days. )

Regards,

Joe

JMS has said that he will be working in Britain and that this will fit in with TMoS.

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Where did he say that his time in England has anything to do with TMoS? Did I miss a post?

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Yes. The line you quoted says JMS visit to Herfordshire is not TMoS.

Yes. The line you quoted says JMS visit to Herefordshire is not TMoS.

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I see. So when you replied to a suggestion that JMS's trip to the U.K. was connected to TMoS by saying:

JMS has said that he will be working in Britain and that this will fit in with TMoS.

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You meant "this will fit in with" to mean "this will not conflict with" with the schedule for the film, rather than "this will be part of" that schedule. In context that was ambiguous.

Regards,

Joe