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<h1>What JMS is up to now</h1>
<p><b>Note: This page is out of date. The best place for the current scoop onJMS's projects is the<a href="http://www.worldsofjms.com/projects.htm">Straczynski Project Watch</a>page at the<a href="http://www.worldsofjms.com/">Worlds of JMS</a>site.</b>
<p>The following are JMS's notes about his current projects.  The projectsinclude:
<ul>
<li> Writing for Marvel's<a href="http://www.marvel.com/comics/characters/spider-man.html">"Spider-Man"</a>comic.  JMS's issues should start appearing around March or April 2001.
<li> His own <a href="http://www.jmscomics.com/">comic series,</a>"Rising Stars" and "Midnight Nation," both on sale now.
<li> A feature film based on "Rising Stars."
<li> A possible TV series, "The World on Fire," developed with Chris Carter(creator of "The X-Files").
<li> A new series for Showtime, based on the European comic "Jeremiah."JMS and director<a href="http://us.imdb.com/Name?Dante,+Joe">Joe Dante</a>producing.
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<dl><dt>September 30, 2000<dd>Boy, has this been a week....
<p>As most folks know by now, the news about Marvel entrusting me with theirflagship title The Amazing Spiderman broke on the nets Monday/Tuesday.  As alongtime Spidey fan, this is something I'm looking forward to enormously.  Youcan expect to see the first jms-written issue of TMS probably around March orApril of next year.
<p>On Wednesday Rising Stars 10 came out (and Midnight Nation 2 is due out in 2weeks).
<p>Also this week...after writing my first pass on the outline for the RisingStars feature film (tentatively entitled "Born in Fire"), MGM read the outline,loved it, had a couple of very smart suggestions...and as of Wednesday, I'vebeen put to script.  
<p>On Thursday, some friendly folks at Warner Bros. asked if they could take upthe banner of my project The World On Fire (formally with Chris Carter) andtake it out in the Spring to sell it as a series.  
<p>I also turned in the outline for the pilot TV movie this week, and today,Friday, was put to script on THAT project as well.  With that hurdle passed, Ican now talk a little about it.  The network is indeed Showtime, as some havespeculated, with Paramount Television the studio attached, and it's for anhour-series (debuting with a two-hour pilot movie) slated for their Sci-FiFridays slot.  The project is based on an outside source, though I can't yetcomment on that.  I'm on as executive producer/show runner.  In addition,feature film director Joe Dante is aboard also as executive producer, and hewill be invaluable in setting the visual and directorial tone of the series. It's been an absolute pleasure working with Joe, and if we get past the nextfew hurdles -- every series has to go through the stages of pilot outline,pilot script, decision to produce the script and then the go-order on a series,same as with B5 and every other program -- I'm *really* looking forward toworking with him on the series.
<p>The Rising Stars movie screenplay will probably be turned in sometime middle orlate November; the Showtime TV movie screenplay will probably be turned inaround November 1 for production reasons.
<p>It has been just an *astonishing* week....
<p>jms
<p>(jmsatb5@aol.com)<br>(all message content (c) 2000 bysynthetic worlds, ltd., permissionto reprint specifically denied toSFX Magazine)
<p><dt>October 1, 2000<dd><em>You've mentioned a project with [Joe Dante] before, but gave theindication that you'd passed on it... Something make you change your mind?</em>
<p>Yeah, three words: Total Creative Freedom.
<p><dt>October 1, 2000<dd>Yeah, the projected per-episode budget is quite a bit higher than on Crusade orB5, and the salary is just a bit over double.  I'd been in syndie/basic cableso long -- ever since Murder, She Wrote -- that I'd kinda forgotten what *real*networks pay.
<p>It's also going to be nice, in the pilot, to really take things to the wall interms of content, something I could never do in syndie or basic cable.  
<p><dt>October 2, 2000<dd><em>How will the new show make it to foreign markets?</em>
<p>Those decisions are all way down the road; first gotta get the pilot written.
<p><dt>October 3, 2000<dd><em><a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2000-10/03/10.45.tv">Reports indicate</a>that the new series is based on the European SF comic "Jeremiah."</em>
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<h5>Last update:October 3, 2000
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