'Babylon 5' Animated Movie 'The Road Home' Announces Its Voice Cast

The film, looking at a summer release will see the franchise embrace the multiverse

A week ago, the return of the beloved sci-fi series Babylon 5 was announced with an animated movie from series creator J. Michael Straczynski, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. He also teased that “Movie title, release date, and other details” would come a week from that day. Now that week has passed, the news has and it ended up mostly correct.

The movie is called Babylon 5: The Road Home, and its logline reads “Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way, he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe.” When the movie takes place is unknown. Bruce Boxleitner returns as John Sheridan, with Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik as Centauri ambassador-turned-unlikely Emperor Londo Mollari, Bill Mumy as Lennier, Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley, and Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander all reprising their roles with him. Unfortunately, there are way too many of a handful of actors who have passed away since the show’s end, necessitating their recasting.

To start, Rebecca Riedy voices Delenn, the station’s ambassador from Minbar who lives as a Minbari-human hybrid for every season but the first, and eventually marries Sheridan. Mira Furlan, who played the character in the series, died in 2021. Mumy’s Lennier was her diplomatic aide with an unrequited attraction. Paul Guyet does double duty voicing Zathras, an alien of unknown origins that is central to the disappearance of Babylon 4, and Jeffery Sinclair, Sheridan’s predecessor as Commander of Babylon 5 during the first season, moved to an Ambassadorship when initially written out. Tim Choate, who played Zathras in the series, died in 2004, while Sinclair’s actor, Michael O'Hare, died in 2012. Anthony Hansen voices Michael Garibaldi, the station’s chief of security originally played by Jerry Doyle, who died in 2016. Phil LaMarr voices Dr. Stephen Franklin, the station’s doctor, originally played by Richard Biggs who also died in 2004. Andrew Morgado voices Narn ambassador G’Kar, originally played by Andreas Katsulas, who died in 2006.

Piotr Michael is voicing David Sheridan, who is presumably John and Delenn’s son and not John’s father who is his son’s namesake. With all the time travel, it does have that chance of being either. Finally the last revealed voice and roles, neither reprising nor recast is Mara Junot as Reporter and Computer Voice. Notably, characters played by the late Jeff Conaway and Stephen Furst, sergeant-turned-chief of security Zack Allan and Londo’s diplomatic aide Vir Cotto respectively, are not listed.

Babylon 5 was produced by Warner Bros. Television and ran on the Primetime Entertainment Network (PTEN) for four seasons before the network collapsed. It was rescued by TNT for the fifth, each running 22 episodes for 110 total from 1993-1998. There were also six TV movies after the pilot film and a spinoff series Crusade. Straczynski wrote the film and executive produced it. Matt Peters, who directed Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, directs this, and Rick Morales is supervising producer. Sam Register, who again is President of Warner Bros Animation, is the executive producer. Babylon 5: The Road Home is coming this summer, and that’s what makes the fulfillment of what would be revealed incomplete, as there’s no specific date, just the summer window.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter