Jan
Regular
After some confusion over the schedule, JMS had his spotlight this evening at NYCC. He brought some great goodies. There were 5 (I think) blogs he brought. The first was on his role as director, another about the sets, one with the 'reunion' of Bruce Boxleitner, Tracey Scoggins and Peter Woodward "together again for the first time", one featuring Keenan MacIntosh, the Centauri Prince Regent. One of them showed all of the 'respect' that the cast and crew affords JMS as he reported on the first day of shooting. I'm trying to remember if the one where JMS goes to his 'happy place' in the starfury was a separate one. Jeff? John? Somebody, help me out here. There were some instances of 'placeholders' where some CGI isn't complete in the blogs yet. And there was a shot of JMS taking a photo of Bruce holding a piece of paper...somthing about a jacket. <g>
Next was a look the tribute to Andreas which was stunning. I believe that this is both the set-piece that JMS spoke of before and the tribute. JMS showed two versions, one had the score complete but some effects not finished and another with the effects finished but the score not in. It features G'Kar's speech that begins "I believe that when we leave a place, part of us is left behind. Go anywhere on the Station when it is quiet and you will hear all of the conversations..." It works well as both and it'll be stunning when it's finished.
I asked JMS when we might see the second Lost Tales disk (I know, I know...haven't seen the first one yet, assuming that the first one is a runaway success and the reply was possibly early 2008. Sounds like some attention will be being paid to pre-orders. JMS confirmed that the release date for this one is July 27.
There was less time for questions because of the blogs but the main bit of news is that JMS is doing an adaptation of "World War Z" by Max Brooks. It's a post-disaster novel written as a series of interviews of survivors (but no main character) and JMS is going to stay as true to the book as possible by creating the interviewer.
There's also another secret project that he can't release any information on.
Sam Raimi's company is still interested in the Rising Stars mini-series but they're letting "Heroes" have it's day. They'll probably shop it around next summer.
JMS seems to be having a good time with the Thor comics.
Colleen Doran didn't have a date for when #7 of Book of Lost Souls will be out but said she thought they were going to have some issues built up first.
Anbd that's all I can remember at the moment. Unfortunately, my little recorder decided not to cooperate so I don't have anythong to jog my memory.
The con was reasonably well organized and had plenty of staff and volunteers available. There was an issue with JMS's schedule where he'd originally been scheduled to sign at 5:00 and have his spotlight at 7:00 but when the schedule came out it had the signing at 7:00 as well as the spotlight. When I got hold of a couple of staffers, they didn't know what the problem was but kept looking for somebody who would be able to tell us what the real schedule was. JMS ended up having an hour (instead of the original 1.5 hours) for his spotlight and he signed afterward, not requiring the tickets that the show thought. There was another panel (sparsely attended about Trek books) after JMS's so everybody trooped out into the hall for the signing. There were some technical issues showing the blogs but the tech guys showed up promptly.
So far I've gotten to meet Jahkneebee and Donald from JMSnews and Jeff and John from the newsgroup. Hopefully they'll chime in if I've misreported anything.
More later if/when I remember.
Your intrepid con reporter,
Jan
Next was a look the tribute to Andreas which was stunning. I believe that this is both the set-piece that JMS spoke of before and the tribute. JMS showed two versions, one had the score complete but some effects not finished and another with the effects finished but the score not in. It features G'Kar's speech that begins "I believe that when we leave a place, part of us is left behind. Go anywhere on the Station when it is quiet and you will hear all of the conversations..." It works well as both and it'll be stunning when it's finished.
I asked JMS when we might see the second Lost Tales disk (I know, I know...haven't seen the first one yet, assuming that the first one is a runaway success and the reply was possibly early 2008. Sounds like some attention will be being paid to pre-orders. JMS confirmed that the release date for this one is July 27.
There was less time for questions because of the blogs but the main bit of news is that JMS is doing an adaptation of "World War Z" by Max Brooks. It's a post-disaster novel written as a series of interviews of survivors (but no main character) and JMS is going to stay as true to the book as possible by creating the interviewer.
There's also another secret project that he can't release any information on.
Sam Raimi's company is still interested in the Rising Stars mini-series but they're letting "Heroes" have it's day. They'll probably shop it around next summer.
JMS seems to be having a good time with the Thor comics.
Colleen Doran didn't have a date for when #7 of Book of Lost Souls will be out but said she thought they were going to have some issues built up first.
Anbd that's all I can remember at the moment. Unfortunately, my little recorder decided not to cooperate so I don't have anythong to jog my memory.
The con was reasonably well organized and had plenty of staff and volunteers available. There was an issue with JMS's schedule where he'd originally been scheduled to sign at 5:00 and have his spotlight at 7:00 but when the schedule came out it had the signing at 7:00 as well as the spotlight. When I got hold of a couple of staffers, they didn't know what the problem was but kept looking for somebody who would be able to tell us what the real schedule was. JMS ended up having an hour (instead of the original 1.5 hours) for his spotlight and he signed afterward, not requiring the tickets that the show thought. There was another panel (sparsely attended about Trek books) after JMS's so everybody trooped out into the hall for the signing. There were some technical issues showing the blogs but the tech guys showed up promptly.
So far I've gotten to meet Jahkneebee and Donald from JMSnews and Jeff and John from the newsgroup. Hopefully they'll chime in if I've misreported anything.
More later if/when I remember.
Your intrepid con reporter,
Jan
