Since JMS seems to play more on the Facebook page lately, I thought I'd see if
he might give us the traditional year-end round-up over there.

>ME:  This may not work well if you don't have a chance to answer before it
>>scrolls off the front page but...
>
>It's time to ask for the usual year-end round-up of what you're working on,
>>what is finished, what might happen, what won't happen and all the things in
>>between or that we don't know anything about yet.
>
>Among other thi...ngs, people keep asking about Lensman and I've been
>wondering
>about Dream Police and Midnight Nation potential projects.
>
>Thanks!


>JMS:  Lensman is on hold at Universal, because they know it would cost a mint
>>to produce and they're not certain about the name value, if it's well enough
>>known to bring in an audience that will make the investment pay off...I'm
>>spec'ing out feat...ures now based on Dream Police and Midnight Nation, and
>>have an offer to direct the latter once it's done...I'm almost one-third into
>>the second volume of Superman Earth One, which is going really well...making
>>one last pass at Shattered Union and nearly finished with the outlilne for
>>Vanishing Point, both for Bruckheimer...I may have something to say about a
>>new home for Apocalypse Al in the next week or so...there's been an
>>interesting development on The Flickering Light, about which more later...and
>>two other feature projects have landed on my desk as possible assignments, so
>>we'll see where they go.

In answer to a question about Vanishing Point being a remake of a 70's car chase
movie:

>JMS:  Nope, same title, different film. (That title has been used a few times
>>elsewhere as well, but not quite as appropriately as in this case.)
>
>BTW, got word that Superman Earth One has gone back for yet another
printing. >I
>think we're getting very close to the 100K mark.

For those who haven't been there, JMS' Facebook Fan page is:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-J-Michael-Straczynski/139652459402959?ref=ts

Jan


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