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A remastered Babylon 5 is “being discussed in the highest quarters” at Warner Brothers, according to George Feltenstein – Senior Vice President for Theatrical Catalog Marketing.
For those that don’t know – and up until around 10 minutes ago that included me – there’s a podcast Mr Feltenstein runs where he discusses some of the stuff which Warner Home Video is up to – including remastering classic movies and tv shows. Here’s an extract right from the end of this weeks highlights.
“Babylon 5 is an extraordinarily important franchise to all of Warner Brothers. So much so that it is of course very much on the minds at everybody at Warner home video, and bringing Babylon 5 to a next generation shall we say, is very much on the minds of everyone involved. The fact that the show was post produced on video tape and FX were done on video tape makes bringing another iteration a very expensive proposition. But it is being discussed in the highest of quarters.”
So are like you saying there might be a blue shift in the stars.
“There might be hope, but there is nothing to report that’s a fact. Lets just say that the powers that be are very smart and they know the fan desire is out there.”
Here’s the link – B5 is mentioned right at the end in reply to a question sent in by a listener.
http://podcaster.fm/podcasts/viewEpisode.aspx?podcastitemid=13480836&title=MGM+and+TNT+Dynamite
http://freebabylon5.com/war-room/
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Ooh, this would be a great show to give the same high-def remaster treatment to as the Star Trek series. IIRC, it was even shot for a 16x9 aspect ratio.
Unfortunately, the SFX were shot for 4x3, which would make an upgrade of everything to high-def difficult and expensive.
I think that's the proposed idea, if Warner Bros are committed to the project. It was done for Star Trek, why not Babylon 5? They must think there's life in old dog. lol
To do an upgrade would cost more then PARAMOUNT spent on doing TNG BLU-RAY Upgrade..
They can afford it, but the question is do they want to spend the $$$$$..
The best reason to do it?
So they can syndicate it to TV stations in HD and do Blu-Ray releases.
The question will the market support it so they can turn a profit.
I don't know.
Ford A. Thaxton
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