Jetzt gabs Antwort von JMS:

From: joseph straczynski <jmsatb5@aol.com>
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

On Jun 20, 6:40=A0pm, Bill <feline_ran...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just came from a panel at Wizard World Philly with Max Brooks. He said that *as far as he knew* you were out as script writer and that the producers had chosen to bring in somebody else. Please say it ain't so! TIA
>
> Bill

One of the things that distinguishes film from TV is that it's the
norm for a script to go through many, many hands on the way to production, which is why you see so many writers' names on movies. (As a parenthetical, so you can follow the process better, when you see "Written by A & B" it means that A and B were actually collaborators on the film, whereas "Written by A and B" means that B was brought in separately.) Ivan Reitman, for instance, always has one writer do a pass for character, another does a pass for humor, another does a pass for action...and so on. This is just part of the feature business, especially once a director comes on board, who may have ideas of his own that he wants to incorporate and the original writer has gone through all the contractual drafts, so that either you re-hire the same guy, or bring in fresh eyes.

So yes, another pair of hands is now working to simplify the script, which has always been as much a political thriller as an action film, into something a bit more straightforward.

jms
Simplify into something more straightforward? Ich befürchte, dass Brooks Ärger vllt berechtigt ist.