#BABYLON 5 SERIES#
Its cast featured some of the best and most underrated TV actors of its time, from Mira Furlan and Bruce Boxleitner, to Bill Mumy and Walter Koenig.īefore the series is reborn, it's definitely worth it to check out the original. The show ruminates on the aftereffects of war, never shying away from studying the heavy guilts of survival, nor the spiritual comfort of hope.
The future of our kind rests on the success of this diplomatic experiment, frequently teetering at the edge of failure. As the series opens, humanity is recovering from a war that nearly wiped them out. It paved the way for future successes like "Westworld," "LOST," and "Battlestar Galactica." It was an ambitious project for Straczynski, a screenwriter who's already made our childhoods special with "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" and "The Real Ghostbusters."īabylon 5 is a space station anchored in neutral territory, a place where ambassadors from across the galaxy can meet in relative peace. Michael Straczynski's experiment, a five year mission to tell one epic tale in a way that no other television series had yet accomplished. Television project."Babylon 5" is on its way back, and that's a big deal for science fiction. Straczynski - who most recently created, wrote and show-ran (with the Wachowskis) Netflix’s Sense8 - will write and executive-produce (through his Studio JMS) the new Babylon 5, which is a Warner Bros. Sheridan arrival triggers “a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined,” when an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting him and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race. Babylon 5 serves as a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. TVLine has learned that the reboot Straczynski is developing for The CW follows John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space. Straczynski won over a dozen awards for his work on the series, including two Hugo Awards, the Saturn Award and the Ray Bradbury Award.įollowing the original series’ five-season run, which netted five Emmy nominations and two wins (for makeup and special visual effects), Straczynski continued to tell stories in the Babylon 5 universe - with the TNT series Crusade, feature-length films, and a series of novels, novelizations, short stories and comics from DC. In doing so, Babylon 5 is regarded as the first TV series to introduce viewers to the concept of a five-year arc, with a defined beginning, middle and end. The original Babylon 5 debuted in 1993 and presented a future-history story covering the years 2257-2262, with each year corresponding to one season. Michael Straczynski is returning to outer space, with a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of Babylon 5 for The CW. Legacies Recap: Another Shadow From the Mikaelsons' Past Resurfaces Nancy Drew's Tunji Kasim on the Fallout From Nick's Sudden Disappearance: 'It's Going to Cause a Bit of Drama'