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Type
  
Private

Founded
  
May 30, 2012

Industry
  
Entertainment

Studio JMS

Founder
  
J. Michael Straczynski (CEO/Owner)

Headquarters
  
Woodland Hills, CA, United States

Divisions
  
Joe's Comics (co-owned)

Studio JMS is a studio started by J. Michael Straczynski in June 2012, announced at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International, to deal with the large volume of his written work. The new studio will be to handle comic books, TV series, feature films, and games. The studio was run initially with Patricia Tallman.

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Films

The Flickering Light is a movie about how Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl used Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp during the day who then returned to the camps at night. This filming became their reality and the camps became the nightmare. The adaptation was scheduled for production in the Fall of 2013 but has since languished in Development (2017).

Web series

  • The Adventures of Apocalypse Al is the result of a deal that has been signed with MTV.com to produce a web series to follow on with a graphic novel. The novel is appeared in February 2014 in individual issues from MTV, and was collected into one volume in June 2014
  • Living Dead the Musical is a self-financed web series where the living dead after death would follow their passions, in this case, dance. To break this news at ComicCon 2012 he had a group of people dressed as zombies come in to his panel to dance.

    • TV Series

  • Epidemic, working with Will Smith and James Lassiter Overbrook Entertainment for a new TV series.
  • Vlad Dracula, working with Sam Raimi for Starz.
  • Sense8, working with the Wachowskis, a TV series now in its second season on Netflix.

    • Comics

    Studio JMS has partnered with Image Comics to breathe life into Joe's Comics. Launched in 2013 were:

  • Protectors, Inc., a 21-issue maxiseries launched in November 2013.
  • Ten Grand, drawn by Ben Templesmith, an ongoing series which debuted in May 2013.
  • Sidekick, another ongoing title which was first published in August 2013.

    • In 2014 the newly announced titles included:

  • Alone, a six-issue miniseries which was to be drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz. It was never published.
  • Dream Police, an ongoing series drawn by Sid Kotian, originally published as part of Marvel's Icon Comics line
  • Book of Lost Souls, a sequel to the 2005 mini series previously published by Marvel/Icon. The sequel was never published.

    • Due to diminshing eye sight, JMS quit comic books in 2016.

    References

    Studio JMS Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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