Thread by @straczynski

I actually discussed this quite a while ago, over a year, I think. I've always been frank with the fans whether it's good or bad. The short answer is no, at least not in this form. The problem we ran into was three-fold: first, it's rare when network A picks up a show from--

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-- another network unless it's been a big hit or it has major talent attached to it. That wasn't the case here it was just a script. Second, the well-documented paralysis that would grip Hollywood for the next several years was already starting to make itself known and buying--

--was slowing down across the board. Third, that the project came from the CW was a liability with streamers who felt that a show that could air on the CW wouldn't work for them. But the studio believed in the project and felt it was important to try anyway. It took almost--

--a year for the studio lawyers to claw back the rights to the scripts (different entities, lots of legal aspects), then lay out a plan for where to take it and who at that place should see it. (One twatcaster said the other studios had said no at the very moment when I was--

--literally looking at an email with the last roster of names for submission in the coming months; meaning the other studios hadn't even *seen* it yet.) The studio took its best shot, but given the three issues noted above, we knew it was an uphill climb, and it bounced. And--

--I said as much. So what does this mean for the future? Actually, it doesn't mean anything one way or another. Lots of TV shows go through whole slews of pilot scripts before one breaks through. It's commonplace. But you kind of have to wait a while before going back to--

--the well. When that happens, there will be questions like: do we do a version of this that's network friendly, or for a streamer? Because as above, if you write for one you tend to preclude the other, as a CW script wouldn't work for one of them. Is THAT CW reboot script --

-- dead? Yes. Is the prospect of A B5 reboot with another script possible? Absolutely. Not just possible but likely over time. The TV business is slowly starting to pull itself out of the malaise that's gripped it for the last five years, and there are a lot of deck chairs--

-- being moved around on a lot of boats, and you don't want to sell something to an exec who gets replaced in a sale because the new order will kill --that project at once to put their own stamp on it. So there's merit in waiting. That said, do I think that the B5 universe --

-- will continue in one fashion or another, sooner or later, maybe sooner? Yes, I do. And when that should happen, I will break the news to the fans honestly and straightforwardly, just as I have for the last 30 years. Every post, every statement I've made for those three --

--decades is in a searchable database at , tens of thousands of posts, making me accountable for every word I say. It confirms that in all that time, I've always, *always* been straightforward with what's happening with the show, up or down, win or lose.jmsnews.com