Babylon 5 Season 3 on DVD!

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Originally Posted by I, Brian

Funnily enough, I once toyed with the idea of writing for film - but figured that writing and publishing a novel would be a lot easier!!

Besides, at least when you write a novel, you expect it to remain fairly loyal to the original idea that you script. With film, you need to expect and accept that it almost certainly will be rewritten by the producers, director(s), actors, and even other writers hired just for the job. Moer than once a story has entered film production, only to come out the other end utterly unrelated to the original content ("The Fog" - supposedly an adaption of the novel by James Herbert, could possibily be a particular example of this - the novel: cloud of gaseous agent escapes from a UK military base, turning all those it drifts over psychotic - - - the film: ghost pirates seek revenge on a sleepy American fishing village - - - - - - Huh??).

Well, the way I see it, you have a few options. The first option, you could write it as a novel and if it becomes a bestseller, you and your fans will have the power to insist to the Big Suits to keep it true to the original, just like the classic book by John Steinbeck, "Of Mice and Men". The second option, get involved with people who love your novel and can get it financed within a reasonable budget. This in turn, will allow you to have total creative control. Or the third option, you could do what Straczynski did for Babylon 5, climb all the way to the top and become executive producer so no one will mess with your scripts.