Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
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DVD cover image from The Lost Tales – Voices in the Dark
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| Directed by | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Produced by | Sara (Samm) Barnes |
| Written by | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Starring |
Bruce Boxleitner Tracy Scoggins Peter Woodward Alan Scarfe Bruce Ramsay Keegan MacIntosh Teryl Rothery |
| Music by | Christopher Franke |
| Cinematography | Karl Herrmann |
| Edited by | Stein Myhrstad |
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| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Release date
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July 31, 2007 |
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Running time
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72 minutes (36 min per episode) |
| Country | US, Canada |
| Budget | $2,000,000 USD |
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Babylon 5 TV seasons and films |
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In order of series chronology: * The framing story is set in 2278. |
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales was intended to be an anthology show set in the Babylon 5 universe. It was announced by J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, at the San Diego Comic Con in July 2006. Straczynski has described the stories as ones he had for the Babylon 5 television series, but never had the time to produce.
The project consists of one direct-to-DVD production containing two stories. On July 13, 2008, Straczynski announced he had no plans to further develop the series. Each story is built around a single established character. The production uses cast members from the original television show. The show is shot in high-definition video with digital HD cameras. The visual effects are handled by Atmosphere Visual Effects, who previously worked on other science fiction shows such as the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis. The music is composed by Christopher Franke, who also did the music for the original Babylon 5 series.
The show was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Concurrently with the DVD release, an HD version was released exclusively on the Xbox Live Video Marketplace.Douglas Netter and Straczynski executive produced the DVD.
Straczynski is a fan of The Twilight Zone and the work of Rod Serling, saying of himself, "Rod is one of my icons, so believe me, I know his work far, far better than most people." The idea of doing his own science fiction anthology show is something that he has discussed in the past as a possibility and he first proposed the idea of a Tales from Babylon 5 anthology as the sixth season of the original show in 1997. He described it as, "an anthology series, to all intents and purposes, using our characters almost like a repertory group."
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