Script Book #14 - SPOILERS

[Jan]

With luck we'll be hearing soon that our volumes have shipped. Just wanted to get this ready for us.

Hard to believe that it's been 2.5 years since the series began even though we all complained when it would sometimes be several months between volumes.

I almost wish that JMS hadn't included Sleeping in Light in Volume 11 because Objects in Motion, Objects at Rest and Sleeping in Light make such a wonderful long farewell to the series.

Jan

[glindros]

With luck we'll be hearing soon that our volumes have shipped. Just wanted to get this ready for us.

Hard to believe that it's been 2.5 years since the series began even though we all complained when it would sometimes be several months between volumes.

I almost wish that JMS hadn't included Sleeping in Light in Volume 11 because Objects in Motion, Objects at Rest and Sleeping in Light make such a wonderful long farewell to the series.

Jan

I'm glad it did take that long, I might have missed it otherwise.

No matter what order you read it, the station still blows up in the end. <sniff sniff>

[Karen]

My order is still in production according to the CafePress website. Not updated since March 28. Sigh. Still waiting with bated breath.

[glindros]

My order is still in production according to the CafePress website. Not updated since March 28. Sigh. Still waiting with bated breath.

We're sorta like junkies waiting for our next hit, aren't we?

[Karen]

At least, so far that I know, none of us have knocked over the local liquor store for "fix" money.

[JoeD80]

So, I did skim through #14 before I went to Volume #15 (although I did read a lot of Volume #15 before going back to this one ). Here's some interesting notes about In the Beginning. In Volume #14 there is an outline that jms wrote for WB for the movie (well what he says he gave the studio in hopes of passing it off as an outline). Interestingly enough at the time of the outline, Garibaldi was going to be in the movie (I think I read somewhere that the contract for the movie couldn't be worked out for Jerry) and it appears that Ivanova was going to have more of a role:

Security Chief Michael Garibaldi was then a GROPO, short for GROund POunder...a grunt sent in behind enemy lines to try and rescue colonies, sabotage supply lines, and harass the enemy any way possible. With the Minbari closing in on his battalion, and no way for his unit to survive, he has the chance to escape, to leave them behind...but chooses not to, and ends up the sole survivor of the biggest firefight of his life.

Commander Susan Ivanova was a civilian for the first year of the war, her father forbidding her to join Earthforce. But with the death of her brother Ganya, Ivanova joins up against his wishes, goes through a rush stint at the Academy -- there wasn't time during the war to give everyone proper training -- and rushed out onto the front lines, where she first meets Lieutenant Sheridan, and the bonds of their friendship are created.

Also there is a shooting schedule for the movie included with the "producer's notebook", but it doesn't match the script included exactly. A lot of the scenes are off by 1 or 2 (Day 1 Scene 40 on the schedule is 39 in the script; scene 35 is 34; scene 29 is 28; scene 51 is 50; scene 46 is 45; scene 41 is 40; scene 167 is 165; scene 209 is 207). What's nice in the schedule is there is a description of every scene included, so it's not difficult to match to the script. Interestingly in the producer's notebook, Ivanova hadn't been cast yet, listed as TBA (jms mentions it in the intro to the notebook). I guess since she was supposed to be younger -- she's listed as Ivanova (age 18) -- that they looked at other actors, but cast Claudia in the end.

[Joe Nazzaro]

It's my understanding that Garibaldi had to be dropped because they couldn't come to an agreement with Jerry Doyle. I was around quite a bit at the time because I was covering 'Thirdspace' and the scuttlebutt on set was that he had maybe asked for too much money. The problem is, if you give in to one person's salary demands, it usually gets around very quickly, so the other people want more money, particularly if they had a favored nations clause in their contract, so things can get out of control very quickly. I would imagine that Doyle (or his people) made sure he didn't make that mistake again the following year, and thus managed to get into both TV movies the next time.

[nottenst]

It's my understanding that Garibaldi had to be dropped because they couldn't come to an agreement with Jerry Doyle. I was around quite a bit at the time because I was covering 'Thirdspace' and the scuttlebutt on set was that he had maybe asked for too much money. The problem is, if you give in to one person's salary demands, it usually gets around very quickly, so the other people want more money, particularly if they had a favored nations clause in their contract, so things can get out of control very quickly. I would imagine that Doyle (or his people) made sure he didn't make that mistake again the following year, and thus managed to get into both TV movies the next time.

I think Jerry Doyle said something like this at a Maryland convention afterwards. I think he said he was quite upset with the actions of his agents at the time and might have changed representation afterwards.

Neil