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Netflix Picks Up Wachowskis/ Georgeville Sci-Fi Drama ‘Sense8′ With 10-Episode Order

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 27, 2013 @ 8:00am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Georgeville Television, J. Michael Straczynski, Netflix, Sense8
Nellie Andreeva

The Wachowskis’ new sci-fi drama project Sense8 has landed at Netflix with a 10-episode order for a debut on Netflix Instant in late 2014. The series is produced by Georgeville TV, Reliance Entertainment/Motion Picture Capital’s TV studio, in association with J. Michael Straczynski‘s Studio JMS. This marks the first foray into TV series for the Wachowski siblings, the masterminds of The Matrix franchise, who are teamed with sci-fi veteran Straczynski (Babylon 5). Sense8 is described as “a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted” that incorporates the Wachowskis’ storytelling style. “Andy and Lana Wachowski and Joe Straczynski are among the most imaginative writers and gifted visual storytellers of our time,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. Added the Wachowskis, “We’re excited to work with Netflix and Georgeville Television on this project, and we’ve wanted to work with Joe Straczynski for years, chiefly due to the fact his name is harder to pronounce than ours, but also because we share a love of genre and all things nerdy.” The duo, repped by WME and Circle Of Confusion, also shed some light on how the series was conceived. “Several years ago, we had a late-night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us, and out of that paradox Sense8 was born.”

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J. Michael Straczynski To Write Film Based On Valiant Comic ‘Shadowman’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 12, 2012 @ 1:07pm PDTTags: J. Michael Straczynski
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Valiant Entertainment and The Mummy producer Sean Daniel are teaming up to turn the Valiant Comic Shadowman into a live action feature. They’ve made a deal with J. Michael Straczynski to write the script.

Straczynski’s work ranges from writing/producing TV series that include Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, scripting films that include Thor, Ninja Assassin, Underworld Awakening and the Clint Eastwood-directed Changeling, and hatching comic books that include the Amazing Spider-Man and Superman: Earth One.

Shadowman has sold millions of comic books sold and spawned two multi-platform video games. The film’s logline: the forces of darkness are determined to claim New Orleans as their own, and Jack Boniface must accept the legacy he was born to uphold, in order to stop them. As Shadowman, Jack is about to become the only thing that stands between his city and an army of unspeakable monstrosities from beyond the night. He must pay a high price and master his new abilities before Master Darque brings down the wall between reality and the eldritch darkness of the Deadside.

The film’s producers are Jason Kothari, Dinesh Shamdasani, Sean Daniel and Jason Brown, with Straczynski the exec producer. The movie action comes as Valiant launches a new Shadowman comic book series to be released November 7, with Patrick Zircher (Thor, Captain America) and Justin Jordan (Strange Talent Of Luther Strode) at the helm. Read More »

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R.I.P. Michael O’Hare

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday September 29, 2012 @ 9:40am PDTTags: Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski

Julliard-trained actor Michael O’Hare who helped launch the Babylon 5 sci-fi TV series by portraying Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in its first season, passed away Friday night from complications of cardiac arrest. He was 60. The show’s creator J Michael Straczynski … Read More »

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Comic-Con: J. Michael Straczynski Hatches Multi-Platform Studio JMS

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 3:29pm PDTTags: Babylon 5, Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Comic-Con, J. Michael Straczynski, Thor
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Comic-Con fixture J. Michael Straczynski will launch a new media company here to handle his prolific output in comic books, digital, TV series, feature films and video games. Studio JMS is designed to bring his output under … Read More »

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DreamWorks Hears ‘Voices From The Dead’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: DreamWorks, Harry Houdini, J. Michael Straczynski, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mike Fleming

DreamWorks has acquired Voices from the Dead, an original script by Changeling and Thor scribe J. Michael Straczynski. The thriller is based on the friendship between magician Harry Houdini and mystery author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They were actually friends, but the script is a fictional account of how they … Read More »

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Kate Beckinsale Back For ‘Underworld 4′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 23, 2010 @ 5:07pm PDTTags: J. Michael Straczynski, John Hlavin, Kate Beckinsale, Movies, Screen Gems
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Kate Beckinsale has signed on for a fourth installment of Underworld. The new pic has been written by John Hlavin with a rewrite by J. Michael Straczynski. No director yet. Screen Gems, which distributed the first three, is back … Read More »

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