To that end, the writer said that the official movie title, release date and other details will drop next week. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Sheridan and Delenn's son, David, also has a role to play, and will be performed by Piotr Michael.BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Stephen Franklin and Andrew Morgardo as Narn ambassador G'Kar. New voice actors on "The Road Home" include Rebecca Riedy as Delenn, Anthony Hansen as Garibaldi, Paul Guyet as Sinclair, and Great Machine caretaker Zathras, Phil LaMarr as Dr. Sadly, several stars of the show have passed away since the show ended, notably Mira Furlan (who played Minbari ambassador Delenn), Jerry Doyle (security chief Michael Garibaldi), and Michael O'Hare (original B5 commander Jeffrey Sinclair). The fact the movie's animated means that many of the core cast have returned as characters they played a quarter of a century ago, without the need for the expensive de-ageing CGI technology that's been used to take Indiana Jones back to his prime.īruce Boxleitner is back to voice Sheridan, alongside Claudia Christian as B5 first officer Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik as Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari, Bill Mumy as Minbari aide Lennier, Tracy Scoggins as Earth Alliance officer Elizabeth Lochley, and Patricia Tallman as the telepathic Lyta Alexander. As a result, some elements of the story may have been left undercooked. The two decades between the show's end in 2262 and Sheridan's death in 2281 remain largely untapped on screen, while there are even gaps in the original five-year arc – not least because Straczynski rushed to cram as much as possible into the show's fourth year when he was unsure whether the final year of its five-year arc would be greenlit. Whatever the stardate, there's plenty of new ground to explore within the "Babylon 5" universe. It'll also be intriguing to find out what time period "The Road Home"'s time-travelling Sheridan hails from, seeing as the Earth Alliance officer incarnation was very different to the diplomat he later became. Whether it's an ancient being such as Lorien (Strazynski loves his Tolkien references) or the Great Machine located inside Epsilon III (the planet beneath the space station), there are plenty of forces in the B5 universe with the potential to send someone leaping through time – indeed, the station's predecessor, Babylon 4, was purposefully transported a millennium back in time to help fight a war against the Shadows. On paper, the summary above makes the movie sound like "Babylon 5"'s take on "It's a Wonderful Life" or even "All Good Things", the classic "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finale in which Jean-Luc Picard was bounced between three distinct time periods to fix a problem of galactic importance. Over the course of the series, he died on Z'ha'dum (the deserted homeworld of ancient antagonists the Shadows), but was subsequently resurrected so he could fulfill his destiny, eventually telling the Shadows and their eternal rivals the Vorlons to "get the hell out of our galaxy." When he died again two decades later, he was seemingly transported away to join the "First Ones" in some distant corner of the universe – much as Frodo left Middle-earth for the Undying Lands at the end of "The Lord of the Rings." Initially an Earth Alliance captain, he went from commanding Babylon 5 to president of the Interstellar Alliance, the show's answer to "Star Trek"'s United Federation of Planets. John Sheridan, of course, was the main protagonist of the show from seasons 2-5. "Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe." "Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home," says the official logline for "The Road Home", as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The writer has also confirmed via his subscriber-only Patreon page (reported by IGN) that it's "not a sidebar story, or an unrelated sequel, or a re-do of anything that came before", so how it connects to B5's original five-year arc is anybody's guess. While we know Straczynski has been working on a "Babylon 5" reboot with the CW network (a project that seems stuck somewhere in the outer reaches of hyperspace), "The Road Home" is entirely separate.
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