A month ago we reported about Warner confirming the making of a new Babylon 5 movie that will go directly to DVD. B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), who wrote the screenplay and is directing Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, as the DVD movie is titled, announced on his B5 blog (which features updates on the filming process and pictures from the set) that filming wrapped in the beginning of December.
He also offers some insight into the movie’s plot: “This first DVD, entitled “Voices in the Dark,” covers the same 72 hour period of time as Sheridan travels on board a Presidential Cruiser en route to Babylon 5 from Minbar for a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Interstellar Alliance. One part of the story follows Sheridan as he picks up an unexpected visitor on the edge of Centauri space, Prince Regent Dius Vintari, and a warning about what will come afterward delivered by the techno-mage, Galen. The other part of the story is set aboard Babylon 5, as Colonel Lochley summons a priest from Earth space to deal with a problem that may have dark supernatural overtones. The two parts of the greater story intersect at certain key plot and thematic points, so that they overlap and complement each other while telling separate, but simultaneous, stories.”
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