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"Galactica" movie web site now on-line !!!
Glen here...
...with a follow-up to a HREF="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=3247">previous article about Todd
Moyer & Glen Larson's recently announced plans to resurrect the Battlestar Galactica
mythos as a feature film franchise.
Said article indicated plans for the April 1 opening of the "Battlestarmovie" website, which
would chronicle the development, pre-production, production, post-production, and theatrical
release of this new Galactica project. The site was supposed to open April 1, but some
technical glitches and setbacks delayed the site's unveiling until last night.
But now, the site is on line at www.battlestarmovie.com. There's not a lot there at the moment: a few graphics and an
interview with Galactica creator Glen A. Larson is about all you'll find. But it is
online, clearly indicating the wheels of progress are indeed turning.
As a side note: if anyone has access to screenwriter Mike Finch's recently completed first draft
of the Galactica feature film script...or the FX-heavy teaser / promotional trailer recently
completed by No Prisoners 3DFX (which will now be shown to investors in the hopes of securing
financing for the project), please note the P.O. Box address below. We promise to keep it
contained (unless you state otherwise), and we'll be responsible with it all. But these items would
very much help us to put what's going on with this project into some kind of context...
Glen
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May 20, 1999 2:15:11 PM CDT
this means nothing....or at least I **HOPE** it means nothing
by mckracken
securing a website means nothing towards the bigger picture of making a movie. Richard Hatch has had his site up for many years nd still the wheels are still turning slow...If indeed this is Moyer's plan to make a Battlestar Movie, I'll visit their site but I WILL NOT hold my breath waiting for their version of this movie...if all they have to show for themselves are Wing Commander, Barb Wire and TimeCop, folks this AINT quality....this is shit on a stick, rushed movie scripts and one hell of a crappy portfolio. I'm still holding out for Richard Hatch. --Mck
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Wing Commander, Barb Wire, Timecop and that disaster that I am waiting to see on Video... VIRUS!!
Wow...what an AWESOME portfolio of Movies! (I'm joking here folks) These "wait-for-video" films suck frog farts (well I still like Timecop)...If this is the route that Battlestar Galactica is going, its going to crash and burn.....if Todd Moyer can produce movies with his crap portfolio, why CANT **I** find work in this stupid industry?? UGGGH... Mck -
I would pay to see this movie only if they could somehow resurrect Lorne Greene through the magic of CGI and show him having threeway sex with a daggit and that wonderful little robot from the Buck Rogers series. Oh joy!
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I've got fond memories of going to Universal Studios in sunny California with my family in 1979 and visiting the backlots where "The Six Million $ Man" and parts of "Jaws" was filmed. While there, I saw a few "extras" walking around in the Cylon Raider/Warrior outfits, you know the chrome helmets with the red light pulsating back and forth? I remember the fondness I had for the show then. That was then. This is now. Please for the love of all that is right with the planet, PLEASE, DON'T MAKE THIS FILM!!!!!! I don't want the dignity of the original series to be scarred like so many other films have done to their television counterparts (My Favorite Martian, The Beverly Hillbillies). As all Civil War battle reinactments just never quite capture the reality of what an actual battle was like, neither shall a film version of Battlestar Galactica will capture the magic of the television series.
Bottom line, this is a BAD IDEA. 'nuff said.
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somebody Alert all these people who are posting her and tell them to post their complains at the battlestarmovie guestbook when it arrives...hAHAHA!!! that will show the financial backers!!!!!!!!
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somebody Alert all these people who are posting here and tell them to post their complains at the battlestarmovie guestbook when it arrives...hAHAHA!!! that will show the financial backers!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, bunky. This is just the start. They'll bring back Galactica and a whole horde of awful sci-fi retreads just to ride out this latest fervor... Doesn't really matter. Once the tallies are in for Ep. 1 (which I really enjoyed, but nonetheless) and expectations are dashed, they'll drop their rockets like hot potatoes.
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Swiss cheese for sale! Expensive (or so they say), full of holes, smells when put under heat, turns to s--t in your system and made from curdled milk. Now you ask what does this have to do with BG? Well think about it, all of the execs are going to try and capitalize on the release of the new Star Wars and its craze. So what better than to recycle (or churn-out) older sci-fi shows. The execs balked when B5 Crusade was supposedly to expensive and to sci-fi. Seems the writer wanted a quality show that would have some moral integrity to it. Ah theres the problem , no one in show business knows those two words, integrity and morals. So they would rather come out with a churned-out, series that will be full of holes because of either bad script writing, poor producing, inadequate acting or all three. It will stink when it sees light, turn the original premis to s--t, and will curdle the most staunch sci-fi fans milk (or in my case Irish whiskey). Don't get me wrong, the idea or theme of BG is very good and very workable. Its just it looses something in the transition between creative thought and the screen. What it should loose is the incompatants who think they now how to put a good show together.
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Look...Dirk Benedict's been doing a ton of promo work on the road for his upcoming "A-Team 2000" series on UPN and, of course, the feature film, "The A-Team: The Legend of Clubber's Gold". He has NO time to waste on a new "Galactica" project, so LET IT GO, WILL YA??? The man needs his rest!
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Harry, we have not had a true update on the news since Monday. Someone told me that Rollerball is being remade? If this is true that is two Norman Jewison films on the recycle list Rollerball and Thomas Crown Affair.
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People are far to quick to dispell any chance of this movie being good. Being in England,
I admit that some of the people behind it may not have the most impressive track record, however in an industry like this it doesn't mean too much.
I've not yet seen Wing Commander (Is it even coming out here? so I'm not sure what to expect really.
However, the TV premise was a good one. The early episodes of BG were good, but as we know the show degenerated into inaneity and suffered at the hands of the then current trend to put clumsy robots, cute kids and stupid uninteligable comedy aliens into everything. Glad people don't stoop to those levels these days...(cough)
Basically I've always thought that the fundemental nature of this show has been something a cut above the rest. The actual show itself is fairly mediocre affiar after the initial episodes (apart from the impressive Enemy mine-esque final episode). Battlestar 1980 doesn't even bear talking about.
Upto now, a lot of the shows that have been turned into movies are all 60's shows that are so hokey that they had to be changed so much to even make them workable. I
Essentially, pre-starwars affairs with attrociaus effects. Are people really serious when they say 'lost in space' was ruined?
What the hell was there to ruin?That show became a travesty almost imediately.
As far as I am aware this is the first post Starwars SF show that is being considered for film treatment. BG had some good episodes and the concepts behind it are very strong. This is one of the first shows to hsve a decent background for building a movie on. Movies like mission impossible were brought down by their lack of consideration for the basic TV Show. It tried to be clever and twist the show on it's head, when what people wanted was basically a modern, longer, more impressive episode of mission impossible. With Glen A. Larson writing it there is no danger of of such a grotesque move away from the original remit of the show.
In fact this movie will finally make it clear what Larson was trying to do with the show. Becaue it will stick to what he thought was important. In the interview he hinted on personal situations over effects and the joke about the daggits, suggest they are aware of the things people hated about the show.
I'm not saying it isn't a cash in on starwars (because in the end thats what it's always been since '78), it is. I'm not saying that movies based on TV shows have all been good, they havne't most have been pretty mediocre.
However I'm not dismissing this one straight off. there is a 90% chance it'll be derivative bullshit I know. but The story and premise are there for something a bit better than the avarage SF yarn.
Obviously they have to keep the BG itself the same. It's still a classic design today, I daresay more interesting than a lot of TPM seem to be. However I think everything else needs a design overhall. Also it'd be important to show the whole fleet and the conditions for the refugees, like they did in the early episodes.
oh and it can't be any worse than Inspector Gadget, which they have completely butchered!!!
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Anything Larceny touches sooner or later, turns to garbage! May Glen Larson die like the dog he is! Painfully and a real, ugly, slow death! Burn, Larson for all the people you've stolen from and hurt in the past!
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May 21, 1999 2:55:27 AM CDT
Anyone that had anything to do with Wing Commander should not ma
by zubalove
Honestly, I can't get excited about this project because it stinks of money-making scum. The truth is Hatch's project seems to have the heart that I could enjoy in a feature. What's happening with that project? As far as I'm concerned, if it doesn't have Starbuck, it just isn't good. If you'll excuse me I've got to go feed my Daggit. Oh yeah, and Episode One rocked! Jar Jar loves you!
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Can you imagine? How freakin' cool would that be?
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I was interested in this project, then I checked out the web site and saw that "giant 40 foot tall battle daggits are being built."
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...Zubalove, I have to disagree. I think anyone who did "Wing Commander" is UNIQUELY QUALIFIED to make a "Battlestar Galactica" movie. Forty-foot tall "battle daggits" -- shudder... as if the regular-sized one wasn't annoying enough.
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Lucky that was just a joke, because I thought all my worst fears and nightmares had finally been realized. Also, is it too late to jump on the "PLEASE DON'T MAKE THIS GODAWFUL SERIES INTO A FILM" bandwagon? If not, then scoot over, I'm gonna drive for a while.
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Do we really need this ?
Does the world really need another Galactica production ? One without Dirk Benedict, yet ??? Okay, the original can be considered a classic for its time, but you just KNOW they'll change everything we ever liked about the original ! (Like not casting Dirk Benedict)
They always do !
Learn from "The Avengers"
Learn from "Maverick" "My Favorite Martian" "The Beverley Hillbillies" "Bilko" "Lost in Space"
Every time "they" get their hands on a classic tv property......they.......just.........have..........to...........fuck it to death !!!!!!!!!
Death to the suits !
A pox on middle management wherever they may be !
Peace to everybody else though !
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This web site has taken far too long to appear and contains absolutley no information whatsoever other than a completely unrevealing interview with Larsen. The site clearly exists just to convince backers and other interested parties the project is actually going ahead. But is it? Richard Hatch seems pretty convinced his own project is the winner.
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Lorne Greene is dead. That's all I have to say.
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This has to blow! The show sucked why wouldn't the movie. The TV show was a lame easy way to cash in on Star Wars and now the movie is trying to cash in on the renewed interest in Star Wars. Crap.
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Anyone remember Galactica 80?
Interesting idea, bad execution.
I would embrace this idea, eventhough it`s another attempt to cash in on Star Wars fever, if the original cast could be involved. Would Star Trek of worked if a new cast would of been assembled? Glen Larson do what you must do. I`m sure when the film is released everyone who is badmouthing it will go see it out of curiousity and it will make some money because of it and you will deem it a success and then make another and another just like everyone else in Hollywood who thinks when a movie does well it should have a sequel or next installment because they thought the first one was good. The Matrix 2? Don`t get me started. But that`s just my opinion and it don`t mean shit. -
"A Team 2000"? UPN? Dirk is going to be out of work again real soon. Besides, we all know that UPN has taken the TNT way of programing. WCW or WWF or WWW or WACO or WIERDO or whatever. Two whole hours every Thursday! I guess it beats more Voyager.
BTW McK and DWD, I agree all the way. WC should be shown to people in intarigation or indoctrination situations. The scene on board the Kil. ship is bad enought to break even the toughest mental conditioning. -
May 22, 1999 12:47:28 AM CDT
Dirk Benedict-the most likeable guy on the "Galactica" series.
by uncapie
Hey, the guy has talent. "Legend of Clubber's Gold?" Is Mr. T in it? "Clubber" was his name in "Rocky III":"Clubber Lang". Can't they think of anything original anymore?! Damn, Hollywood! Dirk is an excellent actor too! Also, everyone liked "Starbuck" better than "Apollo" anyway and the only decent "Galactica: 1980" episode was the one he was in. I have a feeling, Dirk is going to make a comeback in a film, maybe as a detective(He'd be great as a cop!) and be given the success he has sorely missed. Look at what Tarantino did for Travolta! Benedict's star will shine brighter!
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The Austin Chronicle gave "Wing Commander" 3 stars. Then the same reviewer gave TPM 2 1/2 stars.
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Fleeing the cylon tyranny, the last of the battlestars, Starbuck playing poker with strange hexagonal cards, for cubits (at least I think they were cubits), and then getting called into action just when he had a winning hand... I hope the movie will be just as cheesy as the original TV series, anything else would be an injustice. The original cast must be involved, Dirk Benedict is essential to the films' success (IMHO). That knowing double-take he does at the start of the A-Team titles when a man in a cylon suit passes by him is priceless. Full power to thrusters!
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Well, while a wee-little part of me is interested in seeing a big-screen GALACTICA movie, a great big part of me says, "No fucking way!" Anyone want to bet how many scenes and scenarios Glen Larson rips off from EPISODE I and jams into BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, PHASE I: THE DARK THREAT? (Hey, he might as well use that title.) While I too have a soft spot for the BG t.v. show, that plus GALACTICA 1980 and "Buck Rogers" just goes to show you that Larson has NO DISCERNIBLE TALENT WHATSOEVER!!! (I can't believe, looking back, what a pile of crap "Buck" was.) Oh yeah, and A-TEAM 2000? PLEASE tell me you're kidding.
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Why is it the 90% of the posts to this site are just outright moronic and negative without any redeemable value at all. Oh yea, it is because 90% of the posters are just pre-puber punks that get a kick out of using bad, bad, naughty words in a public forum without having to worry that someone will shove a bar of soap, or a fist, down their throats.
Anyway, I hope BSG becomes a feature film, I hope it does the, rather good, series credit, and I hope it has some of the original cast (such as Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer, etc...). Most of all, I wish that people without anything constructive to say would just shut up.
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hey Jazzin, I'm 29 years old and I was about 8 when battlestar galactica first hit the tube. It replaced six million dollar man and I'd say the first 4-8 shows were really good (including the movie) at 8 years old I watched it every week. If Battlestar Galactica was a rip off of Star Wars, ABC wasnt getting any money from ME personally...they were geting it from the sponsors and advertizers. I was only too happy to watch a "Star Wars" TV show every week. I had (and still have) no problem with Daggits...I love em. Boxy? I thought he was cool (he was close to my age so I could relate better) Starbuck, AWESOME big brother, APOLLO, great fighter pilot and would someday become Commander. Boomer, likable. Cassiopeia, a BABE. Adama, a Strong leader and before that he starred in Bonanza!! Dont listen to these morons who bash the show. I LOVED IT. I just think that the Larson/Moyer movie is going to suck worse than Wing Commander. WHY? Because I've seen Barb Wire! I'm no fool, but this production company cant make it and make it right. I've MET Richard Hatch and I believe that HE COULD do a better movie or TV show. Personally I feel reviving the show on TV is a mistake, I would go the Alien Nation route only do several made-for-TV movies first not after, then launch the new show after. Oh yeah and one more thing....I am above swearing in my talkbacks.... :O)
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Yup, Uncapie's right on the mark, The only episode worth a damn of Galactica 80 was the Starbuck one.
It's the only one anybody remembers !!!!!
I hope Benedict does make a big comeback in something, again, Uncapie may have something here too..............Dirk Benedict as a cop, maybe a film noir type plot ?
Anyway, I digress (so what else is new ?) Galactica without Benedict is like Trek without Nimoy, Next Gen without Spiner,
essentially, you're losing the most memorable and interesting character.
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if this is being made, its the biggest best kept secret since the mythical X-Files:the movie script
IMDb title search: Sorry there were no matches for the title, A-Team 2000, years 1890 to 2005 -
The X-Files movie had a script ?
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...hehehehehe...cute.
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