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I was reading through the current EW article, "The Powers That Be" about the awesome new series "Heroes", which my husband and I currently into. Lo and behold, JMS is directly quoted!! The creater of "Heroes" ,Tim Kring, has approached Damon Lindelof (creator of "Lost") about the series idea. And I quote from "Entertainment Weekly":
However, Lindelof suggested that Kring might want to check out the similarly themed comic book Rising Stars by J. Michael Straczynski, who also created Babylon 5. So Kring picked up a copy, read the jacket summary, and put it right back down: "I was like, "This is the same idea! I'm not reading this!" For his part, Straczynski says he's not ruffled: "Everybody in comics...looks to what came before and builds upon it," says the writer, who's now-in a circuitous turn of events-shopping a Rising Stars series with Sam Raimi. And what if the networks say,"Sounds too much like "Heroes"? "Well, there's always seppuku," jokes Straczynski.
You can read the entire article at: http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1553770_3_0_,00.html
However, Lindelof suggested that Kring might want to check out the similarly themed comic book Rising Stars by J. Michael Straczynski, who also created Babylon 5. So Kring picked up a copy, read the jacket summary, and put it right back down: "I was like, "This is the same idea! I'm not reading this!" For his part, Straczynski says he's not ruffled: "Everybody in comics...looks to what came before and builds upon it," says the writer, who's now-in a circuitous turn of events-shopping a Rising Stars series with Sam Raimi. And what if the networks say,"Sounds too much like "Heroes"? "Well, there's always seppuku," jokes Straczynski.
You can read the entire article at: http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1553770_3_0_,00.html
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