This post from JMS just came up on the newsgroup (in response to a post about “The Changeling”, the film he wrote for Clint Eastwood.)
From a general article on Clint Eastwood came the following:
TOUR DE FORCE
Next month, Eastwood starts filming “The Changeling” starring Angelina Jolie, about a woman whose child is kidnapped. When the child is returned, she suspects a swap has taken place.
“It’s a great tour de force for a woman … with John Malkovich and a lot of very good actors,” Eastwood said.
Here’s the other part of it.
For the last year, very much under the radar, I’ve been working with two film makers who have created some of the biggest SF movies in the last twenty years on a television project. (I can’t reveal their identities, but pick any three of their movies and you have box office of over two billion dollars.) We’ve been quietly writing and creating the first three scripts for a new SF series that would pretty much revolutionize the form, and which have gone out to the networks for auction. Offers are coming in. Whether or not the offers are enough to make the project work — it’s huge — remains to be seen. Where this goes will be determined in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
jms
I know it’s not the Lost Tales news we’ve been waiting for, but pretty intriguing, none the less. Let the commenting and speculation begin!






I remember JMS saying that around this time of the month, we should start “watching the skies” for a major announcement regarding what I believe was a TV project. Sounds like the same thing…
I wonder if it’s the live Star Wars feature that’s been thrown about?
Speilberg and Lucas? Cameron and Scott? I have mixed feelings, of course- I want more B5, but if it will “revolutionize the form” then if anyone can do it, it’s JMS.
Isn’t this bad news, if he gets into other projects then there won’t be more B5, unless they are working on new B5 and that is what he is taking about
Not necessarily a problem…JMS is always working on several projects at once, and he would only be writing the script for a new B5 release.
To be fair, Joe always said that he wanted to write, direct, produce (etc) the first Lost Tale as a way to set the tone of the project, and then step back. Perhaps he can “exec produce” future Lost Tales whilst actively working on this new project.