J. Michael Straczynski’s ‘Babylon 5’ Series Reboot Performs On The CW – Deadline

A new take on the Emmy-winning Space Opera TV series Babylon 5 is under construction. The CW has developed Babylon 5, described as a “reboot from the ground up” to the critically acclaimed 1990s series from original series creator J. Michael Straczynski and Warner Bros. Television.

Written by Straczynski, the reboot revolves around John Sheridan (played by Bruce Boxleitner in the original series), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in the neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and foreign diplomats in a time of precarious peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival sparks a fate beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory venture of Earth accidentally sets off a conflict with a civilization a million years before us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew. in the sights as the last, the best hope for the survival of the human race.

Executive Straczynski produces through his Studio JMS. Warner Bros. Television is the studio.

Created by Straczynski, the original Babylon 5 debuted in 1993 with the pilot film The meeting. A future story spanning the years 2257-2262, each year corresponding to a season, Babylon 5 was the first series to introduce viewers to the concept of a five-year arc, with a defined start, middle, and end. The series premiered in 1994 and ran for five seasons and 110 additional episodes. The cast included Bruce Boxleitner, Michael O’Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Andrea Thompson, Bill Mumy, Jason Carter, Tracy Scoggins, Stephen Furst, Patricia Tallman, Peter Jurasik, Andreas Katsulas, Jeff Conaway and Robert Rusler.

Straczynski has won over a dozen awards for his work on the series, including two Hugo Awards, the Saturn Award, the Space Frontier Foundation Award and the Ray Bradbury Award. After the original series, Straczynski continued to tell stories in the Babylon 5 universe, with the TNT series. Crusade, seven subsequent feature films and a series of DC novels, novels, short stories, and comics.

Straczynski recently created, wrote and broadcast (with the Wachowskis) the Netflix series Sens8 and was nominated for a Producers Guild Award for his work on the series’ final film. He also created the Showtime series Jeremiah. His screenplay for the feature film directed by Clint Eastwood Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie, was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay. His other film credits include Underworld: Awakening, World War Z, Thor and Ninja Assassin.

In addition to his film and television work, Straczynski is an acclaimed comic book writer for DC and Marvel, receiving the Eisner, Icon and Inkpot Lifetime Achievement Awards for his books, which have sold over 13 million. exemplary in the world. His new novel, Together we will go, just published by Simon and Schuster, and he heads the creative board of a new comic book publishing house, Artists, Writers and Artisans (AWA). Straczynski is replaced by A3 Artists Agency and Gendler-Kelly.