J. Michael Straczynski’s ground-breaking sci-fi collection Babylon 5 will lastly be launched on Blu-ray this December.
It could have taken a very long time to get right here, however Babylon 5 is lastly making the leap to Blu-ray. Warner Bros. Discovery House Leisure introduced immediately that every one 5 seasons of the long-lasting sci-fi collection might be launched on Blu-ray on December fifth.
Babylon 5 has beforehand solely been accessible on DVD and the picture high quality wasn’t all the time the most effective, so followers have been ready for this second for fairly a while. You possibly can try the official field artwork for Babylon 5: The Full Sequence under, which unusually doesn’t characteristic the titular house station.
All 5 seasons of Babylon 5 had been scanned and remastered from the unique digicam detrimental in 4K, with a color correction and the cleansing of grime and scratches as nicely. The numerous CGI photographs of the collection have been digitally upscaled to HD, and wanting an entire remaster, that’s in all probability the most effective we will hope for. After years of cropped, blurry episodes, it will likely be a thrill to carry this collection residence in HD.
The official synopsis for Babylon 5:
2258 CE. 5 hostile federations dominate the outermost areas of house. Heroes, thieves, and uncommon and unique beings discover refuge on this time of uneasy peace and the fixed risk of conflict on a lone house station — the final and finest hope for peace between 100 worlds, alien and human alike — Babylon 5
Babylon 5 was conceived as a “novel for tv” lengthy earlier than prime-time serialized story-telling was cool and collection creator J. Michael Straczynski wrote rattling close to each episode. The collection starred Bruce Boxleitner, Michael O’Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas, Peter Jurasik, Richard Biggs, Andrea Thompson, Stephen Furst, Invoice Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, Jason Carter, Robert Rusler, Jeff Conaway, Patricia Tallman and Mary Kay Adams. Babylon 5: The Full Sequence may even embody The Gathering, the unique pilot film.
Babylon 5 can also be slated to obtain a reboot, which is seemingly nonetheless in improvement over at The CW. Described as a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of the unique collection, the brand new take revolves round John Sheridan, “an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who’s assigned to Babylon 5, a 5-mile-long house station in impartial house, a port of name for vacationers, smugglers, company explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the fixed risk of conflict. His arrival triggers a future past something he might have imagined, as an exploratory Earth firm unintentionally triggers a battle with a civilization 1,000,000 years forward of us, placing Sheridan and the remainder of the B5 crew within the line of fireplace because the final, finest hope for the survival of the human race.”
As soon as once more, Babylon 5: The Full Sequence might be launched on Blu-ray on December fifth, with the SRP of $99.99.