ATTN: JMS New Showtime Series
Friar Chuck
hoping since it is cable, there will not be the restrictions placed
upon you as for "network" television. Can you give us any details yet?
FC
Pål Are Nordal
Geez, give jms a break, will ya? He just stated he couldn't say anything
more 4 days ago. When he can, he will. Ok?
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Pål Are Nordal
released the info:
Variety identified the pilot being written by Babylon 5 creator J.
Michael Straczynski for Showtime: Jeremiah, based on a long-running
European SF comic series of the same name. Straczynski had posted to a
Babylon 5 newsgroup that he was working on the two-hour pilot, but had
declined to name it.
Variety said that the SF pilot from Lions Gate Entertainment will tell
the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
reached puberty. Joe Dante (Small Soldiers) will executive produce the
pilot, which could develop into a Showtime series.
Otto Martin
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Pål Are Nordal <a_b...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Jeremiah, based on a long-running European SF comic series of the same
>name.
Hmm.. never heard of it.
>the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
>reached puberty.
Wow, isn't this, like, some sort of anti-thesis of "no cute kids"? :-)
Otto Martin
Claudia Mastroianni
: Pål Are Nordal <a_b...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
:>the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
:>reached puberty.
: Wow, isn't this, like, some sort of anti-thesis of "no cute kids"? :-)
Was Lord of the Flies about "cute kids"?
Claudia
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Patrick MARCEL
> >Jeremiah, based on a long-running European SF comic series of the same
> >name.
> >the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
> >reached puberty.
> Wow, isn't this, like, some sort of anti-thesis of "no cute kids"? :-)
Depends what that summary truly means. If the virus is *still* killing
people at puberty, it might be. In the comics series, though, there are
adults. I haven't read it in ages, so I guess the virus killing off
people beyond puberty was a once a time thing, and the series will
feature people who are at most 15 years older than puberty age.
It does have overtones of "Baywatch", in that regard, doesn't it? :-)))
The comic series, by Hermann Huppen (aka Herman), is basically a "John
Ford does Mad Max" series - western in a post-apocalyptic setting. I
liked the early books.
Patrick
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We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are..."
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Kevin L Curtis
> released the info:
>
> Variety identified the pilot being written by Babylon 5 creator J.
> Michael Straczynski for Showtime: Jeremiah, based on a long-running
> European SF comic series of the same name. Straczynski had posted to a
> Babylon 5 newsgroup that he was working on the two-hour pilot, but had
> declined to name it.
>
> Variety said that the SF pilot from Lions Gate Entertainment will tell
> pilot, which could develop into a Showtime series.
>
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> Pål Are Nordal
> a_b...@bigfoot.com
I hate to say this, but this sounds similar to an ST:TOS show. Kirk and crew
discover a planet populated by children, who at puberty, develop lesions,
go crazy and die. This had resulted from bio-engineering life extension
experiment.
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Iain Clark
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> > It appears I was wrong. According to SCI-FI Wire, Variety has just
> > released the info:
> >
> > Variety identified the pilot being written by Babylon 5 creator J.
> > Michael Straczynski for Showtime: Jeremiah, based on a long-running
> > European SF comic series of the same name. Straczynski had posted to a
> > Babylon 5 newsgroup that he was working on the two-hour pilot, but had
> > declined to name it.
> >
> > Variety said that the SF pilot from Lions Gate Entertainment will tell
> > the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
> > reached puberty. Joe Dante (Small Soldiers) will executive produce the
> > pilot, which could develop into a Showtime series.
> I hate to say this, but this sounds similar to an ST:TOS show. Kirk and
crew
> discover a planet populated by children, who at puberty, develop lesions,
> go crazy and die. This had resulted from bio-engineering life extension
> experiment.
"Miri"
But if the comic *isn't* about a virus that's still killing people at
puberty, and therefore doesn't focus on kids (the covers I've seen don't
seem to have kids on them) there's probably not much similarity. It sounds
more of a new frontier/rebuilding a world that's collapsed story.
Iain
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Richard Tibbetts
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Claudia Mastroianni <cma...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>Otto Martin <oma...@students.cc.tut.fi> wrote:
>: P=E5l Are Nordal <a_b...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>:>the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
>:>reached puberty.=20
>
>: Wow, isn't this, like, some sort of anti-thesis of "no cute kids"? :-)
>
>Was Lord of the Flies about "cute kids"?
I can see JMS's post now - "No it's not based on Lord of the Flies"
;-)
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Dave Mansell
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Are Nordal) wrote:
> the story of Earth 15 years after a virus has killed everyone who has
> reached puberty
Sounds a lot like the premise for 'The Tribe' - an sf program on aussie
kids tv.
Dave
Pål Are Nordal
>
> Actually, it was cute *robots*, not cute *kids*... as in:
There is the exception... Kids are allowed if they're killed before the
end of the episode.
Jms at B5
>crew
>discover a planet populated by children, who at puberty, develop lesions,
>go crazy and die. This had resulted from bio-engineering life extension
>experiment.
Very different, though. In the ST episode you're talking about, the problem
was ongoing, and the kids lived for something like a hundred years or so, then
died when they hit puberty. So nobody was over the "age" of 15.
In this case, this was a one time only problem, fifteen years ago, so you do
have a lot of characters in their late 20s or older. It ain't a teen angst
show.
jms
(jms...@aol.com)
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Brian Stinson
In this case, this was a one time only problem, fifteen years ago, so you
do
have a lot of characters in their late 20s or older. It ain't a teen angst
show.
jms
Well let me be the first to say ...
"Phew" !!