Jan hat sich im JMSNews.com-Forum nochmal mit ein paar neuen, kleinen Infostückchen vom JMS-Panel bei der Comic Convention gemeldet:

Hi, folks, I'm home!

I listened to the recording again on the way home and this was actually touched on. Somebody asked what tools (props, CGI, sets, costumes) he'd have available from the old show for the new show and he mentioned that when they'd closed B5 they'd turned over huge racks of uniforms and now there's a tiny fraction of those available due to the studio using them for other shows etc. He also mentioned how when they did the re-editing of The Gathering that they'd found that rats had leterally eaten some of the negatives. He didn't mention the loss of the CGI files that was discovered when they did Legend of the Rangers but of course we're aware of it. So basically, they'd mainly be starting over.

The fan then asked if the look and feel would be the same or reimagined and JMS said was that there are so many new tools available to them now that weren't available back when they did the show for CGI and virtual sets. He wants to keep the feel of B5 but make it fresh and new. Imaginge that he were making B5 today with the same cast but with the new techniques available today. The example he used was seeing Simon & Garfunkle in concert and how they sang the old songs but had reworked how they were performed.

Jan
Der Look der CGIs wird also wohl etwas anders werden, aber das war ja zu erwarten und war ja schon bei den TV-Filmen und Crusade so.