Babylon 5 to return with a secret project featuring original cast

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

One of the greatest science-fiction shows of all time is coming back next year.

A secretive new Babylon 5 project featuring all surviving members of the show's original main cast, its creator J. Michael Straczynski has revealed.

Straczynski, better known as 'JMS' to his fans, took to Twitter to casually drop information about the project, saying that it has already been produced and will debut at the 2023 San Diego Comic Con. "It's the closest thing to the original B5 in tone of anything we've done since. As if no time has passed at all," he wrote on Twitter (opens in new tab).

More at: https://www.space.com/babylon-5-return-original-cast

[shelshaw]

1. Interesting

I had a chance to speak with Bruce Boxleitner about this topic several years ago and he swore it would never happen. Guess we’ll see.

[exboyfil]

3. I loved his episodes with his wife

That was nice to see the Little House girl grown up and becoming demonic. Added to the show.

[exboyfil]

2. Unfortunately Mira Furlan has passed

It is hard to imagine B5 without her especially since her character Delenn was featured in the final episode as outliving everyone else. The mortality tables on B5 cast are off the charts. The actors who played G'Kar, Sinclair, Garibaldi, Franklin, Vir, and Zack Allen.

Still it would be great to catch up with Bester, Lennier, Sheridan, Londo, Ivanova, Winters, and Alexander.

[shelshaw]

4. Yeah, there aren't many of them left

[The Blue Flower]

5. Jeff Conaway passed too soon, too

Looking forward to the new iteration.

[Deep State Witch]

6. Most of them are dead

Andreas Katsulas. Mira Furlan. Steven Furst. Richard Biggs. Jerry Doyle. Jeff Conaway. Peter Jurasik, while still alive, has retired from acting.

I mean, how are they going to do this? Ouija board? Necromancy?

[LessAspin]

7. HBO Max

Quick #Babylon5 thread 🧵.(1/3) This show changed my life in incalculable ways and it leaves HBO Max on 1.25.

@inversedotcom
I clumsily tried to explain why it was so important as a confluence of all mainstream science fiction both before and after.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Wow! Thanks for posting this.