Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Planned

[Bruce Banner]

There is only one Battlestar Galactica for me, and that's the 1978 version.

[Gorn Captain]

This is how I would handle it.
The story starts on a Cylon prison planet.
Humanity has been enslaved. Apollo and Starbuck have been in the prison for 20 years. Secretly, they are organizing an escape. Their plan is to get to the Cylon scrapyards, where the Galactica is rusting away, and use it to fight their way out.
This way, they can use all the original actors from the 70s series.


Btw, I really liked the "new" BSG, but to me it had little to do with the original concept of BSG. I just saw it as a new story.

[Hector]

Funny how many prefer the so called "original" BSG...a series that basically "borrowed" heavily off of Star Wars.

[johnmiic]

I remember when we had a member here named Starbuck and I posted that new BSG Starbuck would be a woman. I never saw someone have an aneurysm online before in a reply.

[Bionicfanboy66]

From my understanding Glen Larson will have more input in this version than he had in Ron Moore's version. Gut feeling says that Universal is finally greenlighting this because of SW Episode VII. Thinking 1978-79 all over again, hopefully without that useless lawsuit.

[Gorn Captain]

Funny how many prefer the so called "original" BSG...a series that basically "borrowed" heavily off of Star Wars.

True, it wasn't all that original, but to be honest, if Lucas hadn't made such a fuss about it, the whole "borrowing" thing would have blown over faster.
To me, I honestly don't see all that much borrowing in BSG. And let's face it, Lucas just stole a lot of his ideas from other sources. The list of his borrowing is much, much longer. Lucas himself is a Master Thief...

What let me down in Original BSG, was poor writing in the later episodes. Some of those were really really bad and very silly. That, IMO, killed the show.

[MegoCapnMike]

Battlestar borrowed no more from Star Wars than Star Wars did from Seven Samurai. Or Empire Strikes Back borrowed from The African Queen (at least the love story part of it). And no more than Return of the Jedi borrowed from The Care Bears.

[Hector]

The difference is that the first three Star Wars films rule, while the first BSG ...well...lets just say it belongs in another part of the city, lol.

Lets not kid ourselves here...if there had been no Star Wars, believe me...no BSG would've ever been made, that's just a fact.

BTW...the BSG remake >>>>> original BSG

[classicgalacticalover]

There is only one Battlestar Galactica for me, and that's the 1978 version.

AMEN!!! No more remakes! Do a continuation of the original period. I am very tired of all the gritty reality thrown in to "mature" things up. If that is want I want I will turn on the news or better yet go out in the world. I watch these shows and the other things I enjoy to escape the daily grind. Nothing wrong if that is what you prefer, but not for me.

[Bionicfanboy66]

Glen Larson wrote an early draft entitled "Adam's Ark" in the late 1960's, but wasn't able to get the funds to produce it at that time. IIRC, Universal also rejected the concept until mid 1977 shortly after SW hit theater screens. Lucas completed the original draft for SW entitled "The Star Wars From the Adventures Of Luke Starkiller" in 1974, a year after American Grafitti was released by Universal who had originally edited 5 minutes from the film. Lucas fought and managed to get that footage back into the film. Seems like GL had a few bones to pick with Universal by the time September 17, 1978 rolled around. I personally feel that whole lawsuit was a joke, but to each their own.

[Gorn Captain]

One of the reasons Lucas was angry at BSG, was because Dykstra (SPFX) made the jump to BSG. He felt that the FX would then be a copy of what Dykstra had done on SW.
But that's like saying your car mechanic can no longer work on any other car but yours.

Don't get me wrong, I love Star Wars, always will, but decades later I have watched all the original sources he borrowed from (the philosophy, concepts, names, scenes from other movies), and George sure knows how to borrow.
But when he does it, it's "a loving hommage to", when others do it, he sues them.
I have seen old war movies where every camera set-up has been "copy/pasted" into a scene from SW.

Star Wars is actually a combination of all his (and our) favorite scenes from other movies. And yes, that makes for a terrific movie, but very original, I don't think so....

[Bruce Banner]

Reputedly, Universal urged Larson to revise his original Adam's Ark concept to make it more like SW in certain ways. As a result, at one point the show was called "Star World" and featured a main character called "Skyler".

One major point of contention in the lawsuit were the ship-to-ship dogfights in Galactica, which were certainly heavily influenced by SW.
Many of the same technicians worked on both projects. Fox even leased a soundstage and John Dykstra's effects team to Universal.
In fact the techs used Galactica as a test bed to master the FX techniques they'd pioneered for SW, so by the time The Empire Strikes Back came around in 1980, they'd perfected them.

And the late great Ralph McQuarrie served as concept artist on both projects, resulting in certain design similarities.

Glen Larson and George Lucas/Gary Kurtz reportedly had an agreement prior to the lawsuit, in which Larson agreed not to use certain things such as the characters' hand weapons emitting laser bolts, and Muffit II could only be referred to as a "drone", not a "droid".

But Fox still decided to sue Universal in the end.
Universal counter-sued, claiming the Astromech droids in SW were ripped off the robots in "Silent Running". Universal lost, too.
Ultimately, only the lawyers' bank accounts benefited from those lawsuits.

But whatever the case, SW remains my all time favourite movie and BG to this day remains my all time favourite TV show.


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[Hedji]

But whatever the case, SW remains my all time favourite movie and BG to this day remains my all time favourite TV show.
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LOL. You can't deny that both are incredibly entertaining, right? Galactica was not perfect, or original, but gosh do I love it. And it is loaded with charm and warmth that is absent from the Ron Moore version.

[kennermike]

Better be a continuation like they are doing in Star Wars Epsode 7 .get the other Band back together Richard Hatch ,Dirk Benedict, Hebert Jefferson Jr

[acrovader]

With the upcoming Star Wars movies (with a new movie practically every year), I think a BSG movie would not fare well at the B.O. Frankly, it's too little, too late. If they were going to do a BSG movie, it should've been done within the last ten years. I liked the original BSG television show, but the best thing about it was the Cylons. The BSG movie is going to have to really distinguish itself from the Star Wars films.