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@straczynski I was born warrior caste, but I see now the calling of my heart is #Babylon5reboot writer! War is over. Listen to @straczynski. Listen!
*just before the Starfire wheel consumes me, I shout out* Isil'zha! #Babylon5

[35YearsofDavidLynch @35YearsofDLynch]

Diane, it is February 24th, again. That can only mean one thing: we will enter the town of #TwinPeaks and eat a slice of #CherryPie for all those we have lost, including #AgentGordonCole @DAVID_LYNCH https://t.co/oR35jgXk7Y

[35YearsofDavidLynch @35YearsofDLynch]

Excuse my absence from making videos. I was taking care of my sick Mom, who recently passed away. My Mom was the one who first motivated me to fall in love with the films and art of @DAVID_LYNCH. And then hearing the Maestro had a similar decline in health and subsequent death…

[35YearsofDavidLynch @35YearsofDLynch]

Rest in peace @DAVID_LYNCH. A once-in-a-lifetime artist and wonderful human being. The candy-colored clown they call the Sandman. We will see him in dreams on the other side of the curtain….
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[35YearsofDavidLynch @35YearsofDLynch]

Happy #TwinPeaks Day everyone! February 24th forever. https://t.co/9q3nfrDEKb @DAVID_LYNCH

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie

[Michael Warren @MichaelWarrenDr]

Celebrate the life of Karen Rose Woolley Warren (1953-2023) at her #Funeral and #Burial service at 11:30 AM Saturday May 20, 2023 at #LiveOakCemetery in #MemorialPark at 200 E Duarte Rd Monrovia, California @MonroviaCA 91016. A casual reception afterwards for sharing memories.

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@leongreen @HaguPally @straczynski I will write an open letter to make a more thorough case for 8K, if you like @straczynski. @Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 shot and mastered visual FX in 8K and I think it will pay for itself several times over to keep #Babylon5 at the forefront of TV tech, not play catch up.

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@leongreen @HaguPally @straczynski Agreed. Upgrading to 8K shooting gear and post-production workflow is a good investment to make sure your show is NOT outpaced by home theater advances, again. #Babylon5 needs to feel like a show advancing the viewing tech, once more, ie CGI--not falling behind, ie SD to HD.

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We recorded this retrospective for #HobbitDay during #TolkienWeek! Celebrate with us by re-watching the #PeterJackson movie adaptations of #JRRTolkien's #TheHobbit and #LordOfTheRings @TheHobbitMovie How do they stand up a decade and two decades later? https://t.co/Gy55TdXPNB

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@straczynski I was born warrior caste, but I see now the calling of my heart is #Babylon5reboot writer! War is over. Listen to @straczynski. Listen!
*just before the Starfire wheel consumes me, I shout out* Isil'zha! #Babylon5

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

-- I hope to create additional new forms of storytelling that will further push the television medium to the edge of what’s possible.

Let me conclude by just saying how supportive and enthusiastic everyone at the CW has been and is being with this project. They understand the --

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

-- the concept of a five-year arc with a pre-planned beginning, middle and end…creating a brand new paradigm for television storytelling that has subsequently become the norm. That tradition for innovation will continue in this new iteration, and --

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

The original Babylon 5 was ridiculously innovative: the first to use CGI to create ships and characters, and among the very first to shoot widescreen with a vigorous 5.1 mix. Most of all, for the first time, Babylon 5 introduced viewers accustomed to episodic television to --

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

How do you telling continuing story of our original Londo without the original Vir? Or G’Kar? How do you tell Sheridan’s story without Delenn? Or the story of B5 without Franklin? Garibaldi? Zack?

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

-- put them in a blender with a ton of new, challenging ideas, to create something fresh yet familiar. To those asking why not just do a continuation, for a network series like this, it can’t be done because over half our cast are still stubbornly on the other side of the Rim.

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

So we will not be retelling the same story in the same way because of what Heraclitus said about the river. There would be no fun and no surprises. Better to go the way of Westworld or Battlestar Galactica where you take the original elements that are evergreens and --

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

How can it be used to reflect the world in which we live, and the questions we are asking and confronting every day? Fans regularly point out how prescient the show was and is of our current world; it would be fun to take a shot at looking further down the road.

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

if I were creating Babylon 5 today, for the first time, knowing what I now know as a writer, what would it look like? How would it use all the storytelling tools and technological resources available in 2021 that were not on hand then?

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

-- “You cannot step in the same river twice, for the river has changed, and you have changed.” In the years since B5, I’ve done a ton of other TV shows and movies, adding an equal number of tools to my toolbox, all of which I can bring to bear on one singular question:

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

The network understands the uniqueness of Babylon 5 and is giving me a great deal of latitude with the https://t.co/jnCj989Csd noted in the announcement, this is a reboot from the ground up rather than a continuation, for several reasons. Heraclitus wrote --