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Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954), known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms, is an award-winning American writer/producer. He works in a variety of media, including films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, former journalist and author of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, a well-regarded tome on the subject. He was the creator and showrunner for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, its spin-off Crusade, and Jeremiah. Straczynski wrote 92 out of the 110 Babylon 5 episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through all of the third and fourth seasons, and all but one episode of the fifth season. He also wrote the four Babylon 5 TV movies produced alongside the series. Since he sold the Changeling screenplay in June 2006, Straczynski has become an A-List movie writer, working with such stars and directors as Clint Eastwood, Ron Howard, the Wachowski Brothers, Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks, John Malkovich, Joel Silver, Wolfgang Petersen, Paul Greengrass and Brad Pitt. Straczynski has also been a long-time participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums (including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online) since 1984.[2][3] He is often credited as being the first TV producer ("showrunner" in Hollywood parlance) to directly engage with fans on the Internet,[2][3] and have their comments affect the look and feel of his shows (see Babylon 5's use of the Internet). Two of the more prominent areas where he had a presence were GEnie and the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.[4] Some of these fans call him The Great Maker (based on a Centauri deity).[5][6] Straczynski is a graduate of San Diego State University (SDSU), having earned Bachelor's degrees in psychology and sociology (with minors in philosophy and literature). While at SDSU, he wrote prolifically for the student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, at times penning so many articles that the paper was jokingly referred to as the "Daily Joe." Straczynski currently resides in the Los Angeles area.
[edit] Early yearsStraczynski (pronounced stra-zin-ski[7]) was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Evelyn (née Pate) and Charles Straczynski, a manual laborer.[8] He was raised in Newark, New Jersey; Kankakee, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Chula Vista, California, where he graduated from high school; and San Diego, California.[9] Straczynski's family was Catholic and of Belarusian, as well as Polish, ancestry.[10] His grandparents fled to America from the Russian revolution; his father was born in the US, but lived in Poland and Germany.[10] According to the jacket bio for the first edition of his scriptwriting text (see Print below), Straczynski had a play produced when he was 17, a sitcom produced when he was 21, and sold his first movie script when he was 24. By the age of 28, he had credits that included television and film scripts, radio scripts for Alien Worlds[11] and the Mutual Broadcasting System, a dozen plays, and more than 150 newspaper and magazine articles. He had also been teaching his craft for several years at various lectures and seminars in California and elsewhere. He also spent five years co-hosting the Hour 25 radio talk show on KPFK-FM Los Angeles with Larry DiTillio. [edit] Television and radioStraczynski started in television in 1983, working on various animated shows and then in live action, quickly working his way from staff writer to executive producer, culminating in his most famous television work, Babylon 5, which won two Emmy Awards, back-to-back Hugo Awards, and dozens of other awards. He wrote 92 out of Babylon 5's 110 episodes, as well as the pilot and five television movies. The character-driven space opera is also notable for its five year story arc, emphasis on realism, and its pioneering, extensive use of CGI for its special effects. Straczynski was also creator and executive producer of B5's thirteen-episode sequel series, Crusade, for which he wrote 10 of the 13 episodes. He also ran Jeremiah, loosely based on the Belgian post-apocalyptic comic of the same name, writing 19 of the 35 episodes. A partial chronological list of Straczynski's other television credits:
Additionally, Straczynski was involved in Spiral Zone, from which he removed his name and used the pseudonym Fettes Grey (derived from the names of the grave robbers in The Body Snatcher). He also wrote an episode of CBS Storybreak (an adaptation of Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek). In 2004, Straczynski was approached by Paramount Studios to become a producer of the Star Trek: Enterprise series. He declined, believing that he would not be allowed to take the show in the direction he felt it should go.[citation needed] He did write a treatment for a new Star Trek series with colleague Bryce Zabel.[13] In 2005, Straczynski began the process of publishing his Babylon 5 scripts.[14]. This process ended in June 2008, with the scripts no longer being available from the end of July of that year. His scripts for the television movies are expected to be published for a limited time in January 2009[15]. He has also written considerably for radio drama, including the series The City of Dreams for scifi.com and an original 20-part radio drama series entitled The Adventures of Apocalypse Al for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that was to debut in 2007. [edit] FilmStraczynski has also worked on feature film and television movies. In addition to six (as of 2008) Babylon 5 films, he wrote the award-winning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he also produced. In 2006, Straczynski was hired to write a feature film based on the story of King David for Universal by producers Erwin Stoff and Akiva Goldsman.[16] Straczynski announced on February 23, 2007 that he had been hired to write the feature film adaptation of Max Brooks's New York Times-bestselling novel World War Z for Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B.[17] In June 2007, it was announced that Straczynski had written a feature screenplay for the Silver Surfer movie for Fox, the production of which would depend on the success of the Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Additionally, he has written a script for Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions and Universal Pictures called They Marched into Sunlight based upon the Pulitzer nominated novel of the same name and an outline by Paul Greengrass, for Greengrass to direct, should it get a greenlight.[18] In June 2008, Daily Variety named Straczynski one of the top Ten Screenwriters to Watch. They also announced that Straczynski was writing Lensman for Ron Howard (to whom he had also sold an original screenplay entitled The Flickering Light), that he was selling another spec, Proving Ground, to Tom Cruise and United Artists, and that he had written a draft of Ninja Assassin for Joel Silver (which he completed in just 53 hours).[19] In 2008, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment premiered Straczynski's feature thriller Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie. The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, since originally slated director Ron Howard declined due to scheduling conflicts. Changeling was one of 20 films placed in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. In October 2008, it was announced that Staczynski had been engaged to pen a remake of the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet.[20] [edit] Print[edit] Novels, short stories and nonfictionStraczynski is the author of three horror novels — Demon Night, Othersyde, and Tribulations — and nearly twenty short stories, many of which are collected in two compilations — Tales from the New Twilight Zone and Straczynski Unplugged. He wrote the outlines for nine of the canonical Babylon 5 novels, personally supervised the three produced B5 telefilm novelizations (In the Beginning, Thirdspace, and A Call to Arms), and is the author of four Babylon 5 short stories published in magazines, not yet reprinted (as of 2008[update]). Straczynski has also been a journalist, reviewer, and investigative reporter, publishing over 500 articles in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Writer's Digest, Penthouse, San Diego Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, the San Diego Reader, the Los Angeles Reader and Time. Straczynski wrote The Complete Book of Scriptwriting (ISBN 1-85286-882-1), often used as a text in introductory screenwriting courses,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27] and now in its third edition. [edit] Comic booksStraczynski has long been a comic fan, and began writing comics in the 1980s. His early work in comics includes:
In 1999 he started writing Rising Stars for Top Cow / Image Comics. Eventually he worked mostly under his own imprint, Joe's Comics, for which he also wrote the Midnight Nation miniseries, and the illustrated fantasy parable Delicate Creatures. Marvel Comics then signed him to an exclusive contract, beginning with a run on The Amazing Spider-Man, from 2001-2007. He has since written for many major Marvel titles, including Fantastic Four. Straczynski's work for Marvel includes:
His exclusive contract with Marvel has ended and he will begin a run on The Brave and the Bold for DC.[31] [edit] Graphic novels and collections[edit] Supreme Power trade paperbacks
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[edit] Plays[edit] Awards and recognitionHis personal awards include two Hugo Awards,[34][35] the Ray Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America,[36] a Saturn Award,[37] the E Pluribus Unum Award from the American Cinema Foundation,[38] the Eisner Award,[39] the Inkpot Award,[39] and an Eagle Award.[40]. An asteroid, discovered in 1992 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, was honorarily named 8379 Straczynski.[41] Babylon 5 received multiple awards and nominations during his tenure as executive producer. Babylon 5 received two Emmy Awards (Outstanding Individual Achievement in special visual effects - 1993,[42] and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series - 1994[43]) and six other nominations (Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Series - 1995,[44] Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series - 1995,[44] Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series - 1995,[44] Outstanding Cinematography for a Series - 1996,[45] Outstanding Makeup for a Series - 1997,[46] and Outstanding Makeup for a Series - 1998[47]). Babylon 5 received two awards from the Space Frontier Foundation. The Cast and Crew of Babylon 5 (Mr. J. Michael Straczynski, Creator and Executive Producer) received the 1994 Vision of the Future Award. Babylon 5, John C. Flinn III, Suzanne E. Sternlicht, Paul Beigle, and Ron Thorton received the 1996 Vision of the Future Award.[48] [edit] References
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