Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 15

Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski #15

by J. Michael Straczynski

Note: This is a special volume given as a gift to those who purchased the rest of the series. As such, it was never issued an ISBN.

• Final production draft for "The Gathering."

• The infamous lost draft for "Soul Hunter."

• The even MORE infamous practical joke script
featuring G'Kar and Londo as lovers.

• Alternate draft of "And the Sky, Full of Stars"

• Babylon 5 “Writer's Bible”

• The memo from JMS to Warner Bros. describing the 5 year arc with Sinclair still present.

Genres: Babylon 5, Science Fiction, Reference, Fiction

446 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Joseph Michael Straczynski is an American filmmaker and comic book writer. He is the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Studio JMS and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998) and its spinoff Crusade (1999), as well as the series Jeremiah (2002–2004) and Sense8 (2015–2018). He is the executor of the estate of Harlan Ellison.
Straczynski wrote the psychological drama film Changeling (2008) and was co-writer on the martial arts thriller Ninja Assassin (2009), was one of the key writers for (and had a cameo in) Marvel's Thor (2011), as well as the horror film Underworld: Awakening (2012), and the apocalyptic horror film World War Z (2013). From 2001 to 2007, Straczynski wrote Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man, followed by runs on Thor and Fantastic Four. He is the author of the Superman: Earth One trilogy of graphic novels, and he has written Superman, Wonder Woman, and Before Watchmen for DC Comics. Straczynski is the creator and writer of several original comic book series such as Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, Dream Police, and Ten Grand through Joe's Comics.
A prolific writer across a variety of media and former journalist, Straczynski is the author of the autobiography Becoming Superman (2019) for HarperVoyager, the novel Together We Will Go (2021) for Simon & Schuster, and Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer (2021) for Benbella Books. In 2020 he was named Head of the Creative Council for the comics publishing company Artists, Writers and Artisans.
Straczynski is a long-time participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums (including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online) since 1984. He is credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with fans on the Internet and to allow viewer viewpoints to influence the look and feel of his show. Two prominent areas where he had a presence were GEnie and the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.

Reviews

[This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For · Rating 3 out of 5]

This final volume of the scripts series was a bonus companion book given for free to those who'd bought the entire series. Rather than primary scripts, it contains alternate early drafts of a few key scripts, a practical joke revenge script, and some very early descriptions which outline the plan for the entire series. These last are in some ways the most interesting aspects of the book, since they show not only what aspects of the show were planned from very early on, but also what early parts of the plans were completely abandoned and changed.