WB is going to butcher Babylon 5- new actors?

Dork 01-16-2005 02:17 PM
This morning I swung by b5tv.com's message board for the first time in months and I came across a very disturbing thread. It seems that Warner Brothers is thinking of recasting some of roles from the television shows (B5 and Crusade) with 'name' actors for the upcoming Babylon 5 movie. Makes me sick to think about it. No one can play Londo Mollari but Peter Jurasic, Bruce Boxleitner was wonderful as Sheridan, and Mira Furlan practically is Delenn. Many of Delenn's lines in the Minbari civil war arch were writen with her history in Yugoslavia's civil war in mind.

And of course a grassroots campaign is already in motion.

Here's the thread I found on b5tv.com A Arm to Arms: Fighting for the Original Cast

And here's a website with mailing information to WB and writing tips for a campaign letter A Call to Arms

I'm normally terrible about writing campaign letters. But this isn't a matter of getting more screentime for a show I love, it's about Warner Brothers potentially tainting the wonderful original story.



muchlove
-dork
COHugh 01-16-2005 05:16 PM
I read this as well... Most disturbing. Frown