B5 News

[Cheryl Martin]

This is from a B5 related FB page:

A remastered Babylon 5 is .being discussed in the highest quarters. at
Warner Brothers, according to George Feltenstein - Senior Vice President
for Theatrical Catalog Marketing.

For those that don.t know . and up until around 10 minutes ago that
included me . there.s a podcast Mr Feltenstein runs where he discusses
some of the stuff which Warner Home Video is up to . including remastering
classic movies and tv shows. Here.s an extract right from the end of this
weeks highlights.


.Babylon 5 is an extraordinarily important franchise to all of Warner
Brothers. So much so that it is of course very much on the minds at
everybody at Warner home video, and bringing Babylon 5 to a next
generation shall we say, is very much on the minds of everyone involved.
The fact that the show was post produced on video tape and FX were done on
video tape makes bringing another iteration a very expensive proposition.
But it is being discussed in the highest of quarters..

So are like you saying there might be a blue shift in the stars.

.There might be hope, but there is nothing to report that.s a fact. Lets
just say that the powers that be are very smart and they know the fan
desire is out there..


Here.s the link . B5 is mentioned right at the end in reply to a question
sent in by a listener.
http://podcaster.fm/podcasts/viewEpisode.aspx?podcastitemid=13480836&title=MGM+and+TNT+Dynamite

Genuine thanks to Paul Ryan, for highlighting that link and what was
discussed.


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[Lance Corporal "Hammer" Schultz]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 16:12:30 -0700, Cheryl Martin wrote:

> ... another iteration a very expensive proposition.

No kidding!

> But it is being discussed in the highest of quarters..

Of course it is; it's quite a franchise they own.

I don't think it will happen, for all of the reasons already
discussed. TNG did it (and it is going very well). But they had most
of what they needed to remaster it without having to reproduce
extremely large amounts of the shows. And they have a much larger fan
base from which to derive profit. Given the amount of work that will
have to go into a B5 remaster -- they will have to rebuild *all* of
the effects shots *from scratch* -- it just won't happen. And given
that the last B5 direct-to-video release didn't generate enough
revenue to get more made, it's pretty tough to see a path where it
would work.

Now, having said that, I did not expect the rumored TNG re-mastering
project to become reality as it did, so hopefully, I am wrong again!
Because I would love to get B5 on BD!

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Hammer

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From: "Lance Corporal \"Hammer\" Schultz" <star...@gmail.com>

On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 16:12:30 -0700, Cheryl Martin wrote:

> ... another iteration a very expensive proposition.

No kidding!

> But it is being discussed in the highest of quarters..