They literally told my agent "We have no plans, and no intentions, of letting anything else be done in terms of television with Babylon 5." And a kickstarter wouldn't pay for even a fraction of a season. “They literally told my agent ‘We have no plans, and no intentions, of letting anything else be done in terms of television with Babylon 5,’” he tweeted in 2018, and that seemed to be that. wanted nothing to do with the show ever again. In one sense, it’s pretty exciting because Straczynski told fans for years that Warner Bros.
So as a long-time fan myself, I have extremely mixed feelings! That’s pretty much a dead-on description of the original show, minus some big surprises. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race. In a from-the-ground-up reboot of the original 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. Television is now in development on a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of Babylon 5 with Straczynski as writer and showrunner, designed to air on the CW. He wrote the vast majority of the award-winning show himself, and it appears he may be about to do it again - Warner Bros.
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Babylon 5 told a single five-year story, filled with foreshadowing, deep political intrigue, and characters who grew and evolved, at a time when most TV shows still reset the agenda after every single episode. Michael Straczynski ( Sense8, Changeling ) brought the world a science fiction show like nothing we’d ever seen. Retrieved Novem– via Google News.In 1994, J.
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He was 44 years old.įilmography Movie Theater Year Death īiggs collapsed at his home in Los Angeles, and died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center of complications stemming from aortic dissection on May 22, 2004. They had two children, Richard James III and Hunter Lee. He married Lori Gebers on August 1, 1998. That award was the Soap Opera Digest Award for Supporting Actor.
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His final television appearance was as a guest star on a 2004 episode of the Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh, entitled "The Gary Grill" portraying an FBI agent, which was dedicated to his memory. Biggs' final film appearance was in We Interrupt This Program, a short film also featuring Biggs' Babylon 5 costar, Bruce Boxleitner, released as a companion piece to the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead on DVD. He also frequently guest starred as a local scientist on Tremors: The Series.
Īt the time of his death, he was a regular on the television series Strong Medicine following his death, his character was killed in an off-screen traffic accident. īiggs' stage credits include The Tempest, Cymbeline and The Taming of the Shrew. Īfter Babylon 5, he played roles on Any Day Now and Strong Medicine, as well as the recurring role of Clayton Boudreaux on the soap opera Guiding Light. Stephen Franklin on the well-regarded science fiction series Babylon 5 (1994–1998), reprising the role in the final aired episode of the spin-off show, Crusade (" Each Night I Dream of Home"). Marcus Hunter on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Career įrom 1987 until 1994, Biggs played the role of Dr.
He frequently used his celebrity status to raise money for the Aliso Academy, a private school in Rancho Santa Margarita, California that serves deaf children. īiggs was diagnosed with hearing problems when he was 13, and was partially deaf in one ear, completely deaf in the other. He briefly taught at a Los Angeles high school before landing his first major television role, that of Dr. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Biggs attended the University of Southern California on scholarship, studying theatre.