In late 1991, Warner Bros. contracted with Doug Netter and Straczynski as partners to produce the show Babylon 5 as the flagship program for the new Prime Time Entertainment Network.

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

He quit journalism after working for People, and in 1983, he wrote a spec script for the show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and the producers of He-Man bought it as well as other scripts and then hired Straczynski as a staff writer.

While working on Jayce, Straczynski was hired to come aboard the Len Janson and Chuck Menville project to adapt the movie Ghostbusters to an animated version called The Real Ghostbusters.

They hired Straczynski as executive story editor to fill in the remaining number of needed episodes.

Initially wary, Straczynski finally did and was hired on as story editor under Jeri Taylor and David Moessinger.

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder, She Wrote, he offered Straczynski a job as co-producer.

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.

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.

They also hired J. Michael Straczynski as story editor and, later, co-producer.

Straczynski wrote many of the scripts himself.

Straczynski 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.

Straczynski believes that the series failed to gain a 1995 Hugo nomination due to " too many solid episodes " causing a split.

* Although it has been claimed that this episode was inspired by the series The Prisoner, and many other sources, J. Michael Straczynski has explicitly denied drawing inspiration from any other source.

The Centauri Republic reflects many imperial cultures of Earth, though J. Michael Straczynski specifically makes the comparison with " the British Empire once upon a time ...

The series was sold overseas and broadcast in the USA, Canada and Australia, and in spite of the very low budget — which meant that sometimes the shadow of a puppet could be seen behind a " TV Screen " before the communication device was supposedly turned on — the show rated strongly with young audiences in many regions ( including New York City ) and garnered a huge following, with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski stating that it was his favourite TV show as a child.

Produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski with creative input by Harlan Ellison, this show attempted to create a series long epic tale that avoided many of the clichés of the television genre.

Straczynski had long participated in many online forums since the 1980s, and is widely credited as being the first notable artist and celebrity to interact with fans online, even before the advent of the world wide web.

In 1994, a birthday card for Straczynski was sent around the U. S. to many of the avid posters on the rec. arts. sf. tv. babylon-5 newsgroup.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

Straczynski then developed a show called Spiral Zone but left after only one script when his concept for the show was drastically altered and took his name off the series, substituting the pseudonym " Fettes Grey " ( derived from the names of the grave robbers in The Body Snatcher ).

Moessinger and Straczynski moved the protagonist, Jessica Fletcher, from the sleepy Maine town of Cabot Cove to New York City to revitalize the show.

Straczynski ran the series for two seasons but was frustrated with the conflicting directions that MGM and Showtime wanted from the show, and even used the pseudonym " Fettes Grey " for the first time since Spiral Zone on one of the scripts.

It is also noted for featuring early script-writing work from J. Michael Straczynski, later the creator of Babylon 5 ; Paul Dini and Brynne Stephens, both of whom who would go on to write acclaimed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series ; Beast Wars story editor Larry DiTillio ; and David Wise, later the head-writer of the TV version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

It is also noted for featuring early script-writing work from Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, and Paul Dini of Batman: The Animated Series fame One episode, " Battle Cat ," was written by Star Treks D. C. Fontana.

Straczynski claims to have always intended the Battle of the Line storyline to be resolved in early season two: " I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one season before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin Peaks situation where * nothing * is resolved ".

Straczynski decided not to recast the Franklin character, and rewrote the script to remove the character from the story.

According to the DVD commentary for the final episode of Babylon 5, " Sleeping in Light ," Straczynski decided not to have David Sheridan appear in that episode, partly because he hadn't figured out how he wanted David to look, and partly because he feared that debuting an important character would detract from the story he wanted to tell in that episode.

Midnight Nation is a religious-themed twelve-issue American comic book limited series, created by J. Michael Straczynski and published from 2000 to 2002 by Top Cow Productions under their now defunct Joe's Comics imprint.

In June 2005 the imprint's third title, J. Michael Straczynski's Dream Police was launched, followed in September by The Book of Lost Souls, also from Straczynski.

The story was not put back into the production pipeline until Straczynski could obtain a signed legal release from the fan.

In the recent DVD release, series writer J. Michael Straczynski reveals that the planned end for the series was Lord Dread learning of OverMind's hidden agenda, and Lord Dread teaming with Captain Power to free all of humanity from OverMind.

This is screencapture from the episode " Midnight on the Firing Line ," of the television series Babylon 5, created by J. Michael Straczynski, copyright 1993 Warner Bros.

Straczynski was then offered the position of story editor on the syndicated live-action science fiction series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.

J. Michael Straczynski has stated that the character of Captain John Sheridan in the Babylon 5 television series was intended to be a direct descendant of General Sheridan.

But DiTillio, a first season staff writer who became story editor when J. Michael Straczynski ( Starlog # 111 ) left the position for a similar post with the revived Twilight Zone, claimed that ramrodding the script side of Captain Power hasn't been easy.

The team first appears in Supreme Power # 1 ( Jan. 2003 ) and was created by writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Gary Frank.

An unrelated nine issue series titled Ultimate Power, written by J. Michael Straczynski ; Brian Michael Bendis and Jeph Loeb with art by Greg Land, features the Squadron in a crossover into the Ultimate Universe.

She also wrote scripts for two other shows Straczynski worked on, She-Ra: Princess of Power and The Real Ghostbusters.

Gary Frank ( born 1969 ) is a British comic book artist, notable for pencilling on Midnight Nation and Supreme Power, both written by J. Michael Straczynski.

In 2003, Frank re-teamed with writer J. Michael Straczynski on Supreme Power, a revamp of Marvel's superhero team Squadron Supreme, published under their mature-audience Marvel MAX imprint.

Following the first issue, Straczynski wrote team-ups between: Barry Allen and Blackhawk ; the Joker and the Atom ; Hal Jordan and Doctor Fate ; Batman and Brother Power ; Aquaman and Etrigan ; and Barbara Gordon, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna, one that served as a companion piece to Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke graphic novel.