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Note: This page is out of date.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