Joe Otterson TV ReporterA “Babylon 5” reboot is in development at The CW, Variety has learned.Original series creator J. Michael Straczynski is onboard to write the project.
He will also executive producer under his Studio JMS banner. Warner Bros. Television, which produced the original series, will produce the reboot.The new iteration of the sci-fi series is described as a “from-the-ground-up reboot.” In the series, John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war.
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