While at SDCC2023, Screen Rant spoke to Babylon5 creator J. Michael Straczynski (straczynski) and Babylon5TheRoadHome director Matt Peters about exploring animation and accessibility for new audiences:
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT In Babylon 5: The Road Home, John Sheridan is transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities and must try to find his way home. Babylon 5: The Road Home is the seventh movie and first animated installment in the Babylon 5 canon.
There's a line in the Bible, I'm an atheist, but there's a line in the Bible of make a joyful noise and I want to make a joyful noise with this thing. That was also a love letter to the fans. I figured, let me show them things that they've heard about but never seen. Let me pull this into a tapestry, into a bigger story, have some fun at our own expense from time to time, and just make a celebration of the show and the fans.
Matt Peters: And then he was always giving us the freedom to really tell the story that we wanted to do, which was really fantastic. Myself coming to Babylon 5 is I was actually set and queued up to work on another movie with executive producer Rick Morales, and when Babylon was brought to his attention, he was like, "I know Matt loves science fiction. I'm going to talk to him about this," and so I ended up watching the show. I ended up binging all five seasons.
J. Michael Straczynski: And that goes for the station too. I gave them freedom to just play and it has some fun with it. So I said, "If there's a way of making the station look different, the ships look different, it makes them look cooler or more interesting or more accurate, go for it. Don't feel you have to sort of be tiptoeing around me.
J. Michael Straczynski: They fell right back into it. They knew those characters really well and just like a pair of familiar shoes just put it right on, and there were also actors brought into play our fallen friends and because people say of showbiz shows and TV series, "Well, we're like a family," and 98% of the time that's not true, unless you're like the Manson family or the Borgias, but here it really is.
Matt Peters: Yeah, there's also... When you're working with voice acting, there's a lot of thinking involved and it's like a lot of people just... We're always on the other end of it. We see the performance, but we don't actually see the thought process that goes into it, and those actors really were applying that. There would be times where we would be stopping and have to discuss a little bit about how a line read should go.
That's so amazing. Matt, you've done a ton of superhero animation films. Can you talk to me about maybe sci-fi being a different challenge for you? J. Michael Straczynski:All right, Bugs Bunny as Captain Sheridan and Daffy Duck as Garibaldi is perfect. Egyptian god of frustration as you pointed out.
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