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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Name recognition?
What name recognition did Avatar have? Alien? Terminator?
Howard may not be Cameron but he doesn't exactly cook up turkeys.
(sheesh.) 
That said, movies is the wrong medium for Lensmen.
They need to get Showtime involved and pitch it as the answer to Game of Thrones.  |
Avatar had Cameron's name recognition, and neither Alien nor Terminator were originally big budget films - the bigger budgets came in with the later installments.
All I know is that I asked JMS about it on Twitter and got the following response.
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JMichael Straczynski @straczynski
@dcrwrites On hold at Universal they feel the Lensman title doesn't have enough name recognition value to justify 100+ million budget
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