"V": THE NEXT CHAPTER - THE "LOST" MINISERIES

Back in the late 1980s, Warner Brothers considered a new "V" miniseries that would potentially have led to a new series -- all in syndication. It was a time when shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation was booming on independent television stations around the country. The studio turned to J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5 among many other credits), who penned a four-hour script. In the JMS news archive, the writer addressed rumors that his script had been rejected.
   "It wasn't a script 'proposal,' which is to say a proposal for a script," he wrote. "It was a full four hour miniseries script commissioned by WB, which I wrote and turned in. It wasn't rejected, they loved the script, but in doing the budget for what the series would cost, they ran into the same problems they had with the original 'V', which damn near destroyed WB TV because of cost over-runs. Showing an Earth-based war, with all the pyros, stunts, huge cast and set requirements, location work, all that... was more than they wanted to pay for a syndicated show, which was their intent at the time."

Comments

[Donal]

I emailed JMS once about this V script, and he said he was going to release it through Cafe Press with production notes that Warners had drawn up for a possible series, but for some reason it never happen.

Maybe when this new V debuts, he might change his mind.