Sci-Fi Storm

JMS just posted in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated – I’ve included the whole article below. But, in short:

• Sci-Fi Channel has picked up the 13 episodes of Crusade for airing this summer
• Fiona Avery’s new comic, No Honor from Top Cow/Image, debuts Wedneday the 21st
• JMS will write a one-off graphic B5 novel for Wildstorm
• DVDs are coming in July!!!!!! (and yes, they will be at the
  B5 Store as soon as possible…)
• One other project closed, another on the table, and a third coming up – more details later

In a word…YAY!

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OK, now its time for the Internet-at-large to pick its own awards. Nominations are now open for the following awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Special Effects, Cheesiest Effects, Biggest Disappointment, and Great Maker Forgive Us. In addition, one All-Time award will be given this year. This time, it will be the Desert Asteroid award, the genre movie that you’d most like to take with you…

Read below on how to send in your nominations. Nominations will close on January 24th, and voting will begin February 1st.

Update 2/20: Sorry, but the awards are cancelled due to lack of interest…

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Gene Roddenberry’s Genesis II TV movie, about a scientist in cryogenic suspension awakening over 150 years later and finds the world is now primitive after a cataclysmic war and starred Alex Cord, was a pilot for a series – it didn’t make it. He resurrected it a year later with Planet Earth, kind of a second episode with John Saxon replacing Cord. It still didn’t get picked up (although the premise was good). Now, it may get a third try…

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Warner Bros. has placed the order for Pern, a live-action series based on Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern novels. Ronald D. Moore, former writer for the Star Trek franchise and current writer for Roswell, is heading up the production. Moore, in a conversation with Sci-Fi Wire, said that it finally can be done “…because of the technology.”

The Soft Science Fiction Writer’s Association sponsors an annual contest (top prize: $100) for the year’s best “Soft SF” – defined as where character, emotion and artistic effect take precedence over plot(?) and science. The winners for 2000 were just announced. Read more for the list of 2000 winners.

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Disney/Pixar’s latest all-CGI movie, Monsters, Inc. will hit the screens two weeks earlier than expected on November 2nd. Seems they don’t want to go head to head with the highly-anticipated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, due out for Thanskgiving…

The Hollywood Reporter is saying that the BBC and A&E are jointly developing a 3-hour TV movie of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, using a combination of animatronics and CGI. It will probably be shown stateside in the latter half of 2002 – this time the Brits will get it first…Isn’t there a syndicated series already?

I thought I had already posted about this, but couldn’t find it. Seems a lot of people – including the director, Robert Wise – thought the original film was, well, boring. It didn’t have the feel of the series. Wise aims to change that on a new DVD coming out…

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Various tidbits, mostly from Science Fiction Weekly: Ethan Phillips says Neelix is not in a hurry to reach Earth; Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) will be shooting extra scenes for Episode 2 as late as November; Boxleitner doubts a new B5 series; Denise Richards would like to be a Trooper again; Akira is to be re-released to theatres, DVD, and VHS; and Jurrasic Park 3 promises to be much darker…

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Science Fiction Weekly is reporting that author Gordon R. Dickson, best known for his Childe Cycle stories, passed away on January 31st.