Joseph DeMartino
Moderator
Too late! And just to push any I might have missed over the edge into madness:
Even when this is over, JMS may not be able to talk about it. Win or lose it could be considered bad form and a slap in the face to the studio, and for professional reasons that may mean "no comment" is all we ever get beyond, "The movie has been cast, here's whose in it" with no explanation or reference to our efforts.
Scenario 1:
WB backs down, we get a mix of old and new characters with the old one played by the original actors. (Except where an actor(s) is unavailable or simply declines the role, which will be made clear in the announcement and probably confirmed by the actor(s)) Well, we've won, everybody's happy, and there's no point in rubbing WB's nose it in by publicly confirming that they wanted to do something stupid and we made them back down. So JMS says nothing.
2) JMS loses the fight, and either walks off the picture or continues as excutive producer to try to make it as good as possible. Some or all of the original character appearances are either cut or the roles are recast. It is obvious to all which JMS would have preferred (because we have years' worth of posts from before the time a feature film was a real possibility talking about how much JMS wanted to do a story with the original cast.) It is equally obvious that the studio wanted something else, and that both we and JMS failed to persuade them. Again, no point in saying anything. We lost, why pick at the scab?
Cheery thoughts, non?
Joe
