Chris Springob
Regular
Thanks to crazybillyo for pointing this out. As it turns out, the July 7-13 print edition of TV Guide has a Rangers story that's completely different from the online story two weeks ago. Here's the text of the article:
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BABYLON'S GOT BACK
When Sci Fi Channel asked
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski if there were any aspects of his old show that he'd like to revisit, his biggest dilemma was picking just one. After all, for the sprawling, intricately plotted space drama that ran in syndication and on TNT from 1993 to 1998, Straczynski had backlogged stories from 1,000 years in the past to 1,000 years into the future. For the TV-movie Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, premiering on Sci Fi later this year, he chose to explore the elite fighting force introduced in Season 3 of B5, "a 1,000-year-old alien military organization of warrior-priests that has reluctantly allowed humans to join," Straczynski says. In The Legend, the Rangers have been charged with defending the Interstellar Alliance as it attempts to rebuild civilization in the wake of the devastating Shadow War.
Legend is set two and a half years after the next to last episode of B5, "Objects at Rest," and a couple of years before Crusade, TNT's short-lived follow-up to the original series. It stars Dylan Neal (Dawson's Creek) as a young human Rangers captain. "I don't want this to be a ship-bound show," Straczynski says of the movie, which completed filming in Vancouver in early June. "These are covert kind of guys, and [their ship] the Liandra is designed to get them in and get them out, fast."
Andreas Katsulas, reprising his role as the Narn hero G'Kar (left, between Neal and Alex Zahara, before the High Council), is the sole original B5 cast member onboard. But if the planets align just right, he may meet up with some old colleagues down the road. While Legends is not an official pilot, Straczynski says there's a "very good possibility" that a Sci Fi Channel series based on the movie will follow in 2002. If so, expect another epic saga, Straczynski says: "I'm basically a Russian by blood and disposition, so I can't tell short stories."-Mark Nollinger
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As the text indicates, there's also a picture of G'Kar, David, and Dulann before the Grey Council (which they erroneously call the High Council).
My fingers are tired from typing all that in (I don't see the article on TV Guide's website, so I couldn't cut and paste), but let me just say that this article has several interesting tidbits, like JMS's line "I didn't want this to be a ship-bound show", or the "expect another epic saga" line, which suggests that Rangers will have a story arc (which most fans have expected, by which I don't think has been confirmed).
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BABYLON'S GOT BACK
When Sci Fi Channel asked
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski if there were any aspects of his old show that he'd like to revisit, his biggest dilemma was picking just one. After all, for the sprawling, intricately plotted space drama that ran in syndication and on TNT from 1993 to 1998, Straczynski had backlogged stories from 1,000 years in the past to 1,000 years into the future. For the TV-movie Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, premiering on Sci Fi later this year, he chose to explore the elite fighting force introduced in Season 3 of B5, "a 1,000-year-old alien military organization of warrior-priests that has reluctantly allowed humans to join," Straczynski says. In The Legend, the Rangers have been charged with defending the Interstellar Alliance as it attempts to rebuild civilization in the wake of the devastating Shadow War.
Legend is set two and a half years after the next to last episode of B5, "Objects at Rest," and a couple of years before Crusade, TNT's short-lived follow-up to the original series. It stars Dylan Neal (Dawson's Creek) as a young human Rangers captain. "I don't want this to be a ship-bound show," Straczynski says of the movie, which completed filming in Vancouver in early June. "These are covert kind of guys, and [their ship] the Liandra is designed to get them in and get them out, fast."
Andreas Katsulas, reprising his role as the Narn hero G'Kar (left, between Neal and Alex Zahara, before the High Council), is the sole original B5 cast member onboard. But if the planets align just right, he may meet up with some old colleagues down the road. While Legends is not an official pilot, Straczynski says there's a "very good possibility" that a Sci Fi Channel series based on the movie will follow in 2002. If so, expect another epic saga, Straczynski says: "I'm basically a Russian by blood and disposition, so I can't tell short stories."-Mark Nollinger
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As the text indicates, there's also a picture of G'Kar, David, and Dulann before the Grey Council (which they erroneously call the High Council).
My fingers are tired from typing all that in (I don't see the article on TV Guide's website, so I couldn't cut and paste), but let me just say that this article has several interesting tidbits, like JMS's line "I didn't want this to be a ship-bound show", or the "expect another epic saga" line, which suggests that Rangers will have a story arc (which most fans have expected, by which I don't think has been confirmed).
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