As the Telepath War popped up at one of the B5 Facebook pages I thought I should raise the issue here as well. I did find a rather old thread on failed B5 project in the backlog of old posts, but unfortunately the link to an article on the subject was dead. So I'll start a thread on the Telepath War here ...
And it might be a wee bit spoilerific regarding the fates of some characters.
The Telepath War have become somewhat of a mythic movie that never happened, sometimes also referred to as the Telepath Crisis. And it was set up during season 4 and 5, as well as influencing both how the B5 novels could be written and the set up of Crusade. But the movie it self is still very absent. And I for one would very much like to have seen it made.
To find out what was actually said about it I turned to the Index of the JMS scriptbooks which points us in a few directions.
The TV movies book, in the Questions about the Legend of the Rangers section, tells us what happens to Lennier and Lyta during the War as an explanation to what G'kar mean with "She's gone now". Sadly the book does not give any information about where the questions originated from or if it is actually JMS who answer them. It also contains a short premise on Wars of the Mind, a Psi-Corps feature film about the war.
The Artifacts from Beyond the Rim book gives us more information in the Editor's note to the: Babylon 5 motion picture treatment. (Perhaps that is you Jason?). It tells us that JMS worked on an idea about the Telepath war in 1996, which appears in the TV-movie book. And that a new version, in 1998 perhaps?, borrows an premise that appeared in the early treatments for Crusade (see the What the Hell happened book).
But most interesting I found the statement that: Sadly, Warner Bros. chose not to pursue the concept and this storyline was abandoned when JMS briefly partnered with other producers to develop Babylon 5: The Memory of Shadows ...
That is an interesting clue indeed. And it would be fun to look into this more, but this post is way to long already, so I'll stop for now. Perhaps someone here have a lot more insight in the question?
And it might be a wee bit spoilerific regarding the fates of some characters.
The Telepath War have become somewhat of a mythic movie that never happened, sometimes also referred to as the Telepath Crisis. And it was set up during season 4 and 5, as well as influencing both how the B5 novels could be written and the set up of Crusade. But the movie it self is still very absent. And I for one would very much like to have seen it made.
To find out what was actually said about it I turned to the Index of the JMS scriptbooks which points us in a few directions.
The TV movies book, in the Questions about the Legend of the Rangers section, tells us what happens to Lennier and Lyta during the War as an explanation to what G'kar mean with "She's gone now". Sadly the book does not give any information about where the questions originated from or if it is actually JMS who answer them. It also contains a short premise on Wars of the Mind, a Psi-Corps feature film about the war.
The Artifacts from Beyond the Rim book gives us more information in the Editor's note to the: Babylon 5 motion picture treatment. (Perhaps that is you Jason?). It tells us that JMS worked on an idea about the Telepath war in 1996, which appears in the TV-movie book. And that a new version, in 1998 perhaps?, borrows an premise that appeared in the early treatments for Crusade (see the What the Hell happened book).
But most interesting I found the statement that: Sadly, Warner Bros. chose not to pursue the concept and this storyline was abandoned when JMS briefly partnered with other producers to develop Babylon 5: The Memory of Shadows ...
That is an interesting clue indeed. And it would be fun to look into this more, but this post is way to long already, so I'll stop for now. Perhaps someone here have a lot more insight in the question?
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