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NBCU Maybe Producing BATTLESTAR GALACTICA TV-Movies This Summer??
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From the fabulous Maureen Ryan at the Chicago Tribune:
As Galactica Sitrep noted Thursday, an internet radio show, The Doctor and Mrs. Who, reported last night that up to three “Battlestar Galactica” TV movies may get made later this year. Several sources at the show confirm that those films are indeed being discussed right now.
Executives are now doing number-crunching for these proposed films, and any deals for these movies are far from done. However, it would make sense to make more “Battlestar” TV movies while the show’s creative team and actors are still all in one place, as it were.
Ryan further notes that series mastermind Ron Moore is currently writing the series finale, that as many as three movies could be made, and if the movies do get made they'll get made this summer.
I’m guessing the plan being bandied about is to air the movies this autumn, before the final 10 episodes of the series finally hit NBC-Universal’s SciFi Channel.
I’m also guessing the TV-movies will, like “Razor” and the soon-to-shoot Cylon-genesis project “Caprica,” serve as prequels to the current season-four storylines. Moore has, in a David Chase-like manner, repeatedly rejected the notion of continuing the “Galactica” story beyond its coming series finale.
Ryan's story also tells us a new set of webisode shorts will link the first and second halves of season four.
Read all of Ryan’s story on the matter here.
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Executives are now doing number-crunching for these proposed films, and any deals for these movies are far from done. However, it would make sense to make more “Battlestar” TV movies while the show’s creative team and actors are still all in one place, as it were.
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That is all. And no "First!" from me.
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good to hear that Ron Moore's writing the series finale... i certainly wouldn't say no to more Galactica movies if they enhance the final season... one wonders what these movies would be about? probably individual character studies, like Razor... maybe one dealing with the Cylons, or one about the final Cylon (if he/she is revealed by then)... good news, we'll see if it comes together
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Tell me they're seriously not still entertaining the notion of holding Galactica eps 11-20 for 2009? The suits at Scifi keep managing to surprise me with their awesome direction for the network and complete lack of caring for their viewers.
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I hope Moore doesn't kill everyone off, that would be a pretty crap ending. And after all the shit Moore talked about Voyager, they'd better not reach Earth in the final few seconds of the last episode...
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i honestly can't decide!
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Well everyone else is saying it.
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you know, the ones that live on the cylon homeworld.. or are we to believe that the ENTIRE cylon race upped and left to hunt down galactica?
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Loved Razor but how many loose ends can they tie up in TV movies? One focusing on the Cylons would be awesome. Following the Cylon decision to attack Earth would be interesting. Anything set in the First Cylon War would be awesome. Hmm.
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sweet news indeed
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Razor had its moments, but it ultimately felt forced and I found it difficult to get back into a s2 mind-set at the end of s3. 3 more of backwards-looking TVM's might be pushing it. It sounds like some exec has realized BSG is a decent show just as they're reaching the end, and is trying to squeeze extra mileage out of it while they still can. Still, I trust RDM to make it work and take heed of lessons learned from Razor (i.e, make the TVMs less confusing and straightforward).
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More movies! More movies!
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I'm with you Gotham, I thought Season 4 would go more in that direction, old school cylons /centurions fighting the skinjobs. What is happening instead is a bunch of convoluted BS.
If caprica goes through as planned, the whole timeline of cylons is f'd up. It's the case of trying to squeeze blood from a turnip.
Stick to the lore of BS Galactica, Humans created cylons as shiny toasters, they rebelled, they disappeared, they evolved on their own. Easy right!! that is more than enough to keep us entertained.
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prequel hugs! yay!
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Am I the only one who prefers the original series to this new soap opera in space?
hey fellow sci-fi fans check out this hilarious blog on blogspot. it's from a disgruntled network producer. it's at thebitterproducer.blogspot.com -
May 16, 2008 6:54:30 PM CDT
Appeasing us for the year-long gap between eps 10 & 11
by performingmonkey
We won't see the end of this show until July 2009 because Sci-fi are fuckers, but if we get TVMs that will at least tide things over a little. Fucking hell.
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Sorry for hijacking this TB, but somebody in the last TB about The CW series renewals predicted this:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121089546043097065.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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with effects out the wazoo. there's enough drama in the tv show this year, give us a first contact or wrath of khan-esque movie.some episodes (particularly the episode where they bust out of new caprica and the first episode of season 4) leave me dying to see them go all out sci-fi blockbuster.
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Pleeeeeeeeeze
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I'm not saying I deserve any credit or anything. That is unless Sci Fi and Universal just want too credit me -- then of course, I'll glady accept it. :-)
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...could afford a chance to go deeper and give explanations behind the mythical aspect of the show which has so many unanswered questions. We are still unclear about the Temple of Jupiter, the Final Five, the In-Heads, Kobol, Lords of Kobol, the 13th tribe and its journey to Earth, along with the Cylon religion.The movies can fix that in a way the final episodes cannot.
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Is Kara Thrace a toaster???
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Just wondering....
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the worst of all ...season 4 is terrible..'im probably the only person who thinks this
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Grand Idea, sir! If they do air them in the middle of the assine, ass-hole mid-season gaping rupture that has been sinisterly slashed into S4, it could at least suggest that one suit at SciFi might not be dumber than an amoeba.But they will likely opt to continue showing wrestling, so holding of breath is ill-advised.
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the cylonn religion is jewdaism/christianity/islam..come on have you not been able to work that out...its been blatant from season 1..have you not even worked out the referances to Baltar being a Jesus type figure
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I didn't know that the final decision had been made to delay the last episodes for another year. Hey Sci-Fi, a bunch of buddies of mine all started wathcing this show and I am the only one left watching cuase Im the only one that actually knows when it will be on anymore. Stop dicking us around before you lose more and more fans and viewers.
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and it might be, as NoHubris suggests, cool to see some detail about the Fictional Cylon religion, and how it came to be....And you neglected to mention the Greek and Roman mythologies which are just as blatant. (Apollo, Athena, Jupiter.... c'mon yourself, those are not Judaism, Christian, Islamic).don't be hasslin my HubrisFree Friend....
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no hassle intended to nohubris..the Greek and Roman mythologies are indeed blatant...as Judaism, Christian, Islamic beliefs overtook them in real life...they are now in Battlestar ..that is whole structure of the show and the whole point of the show
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that are weaved into the series
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I'm sorry, but when did he ever do a bunch of Sopranos prequels, as opposed to doing a sequel. Just because he concluded the series, and felt the need to not elaborate upon it does not its the same thing. If you need to draw a parallel between this and anything, it's to Lynch, with Twin Peaks, and Fire Walk With Me.
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Tahmoh Penikett will be on Dollhouse. So I asume that this means that the others will be out of contract as well.
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go backwards filling in plot holes? there is at least a season between the end of the trial and the "we're all cylons" moment..
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But cylon POV is lame.
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Sorry, but that's the only thing interesting to explore now. BSG for four seasons was deep enough to not NEED any prequel or parallel story lines.
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I am there. No more depressing shit.
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And a New Caprica movie. That's it.
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We're getting screwed over having to wait to see the end of the show till next year anyway. Just give us more and the masses will be much happier.
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Yeah, the actors will be moving on to other projects, just like the bulk of the casts of Twin Peaks, the various Star Trek series, Buffy, Angel, etc, etc.
BTW -- when Nicholas Brendon finishes washing your car, can you send him back over here with my laundry? -
I can type again now since I just stopped holding my breath (as blue leaves face). Although I will hope against hope that the right decision will be made about which movies get made and when they get aired.Thanks for the back up too (stepping forward), but I've got it from here. I've been known to dish out some good hasslin' myself when necessary. :-)
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Breathe, man, breathe!Yea, no backup really needed--semisaj was not really after you or anything, and I was in a weird mood. You got called out a leeeeetle bit, is all. Semisaj seems alright to me, so hope no offense was taken, as none was intended. It was sposed to be a humorous call-out of the calling-out....Let's have some good BSG talkbacking--and some good BSG MOVIES.
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I certainly see the similarities to the other religions you mention (which stems from TOS creator Larson). However, my thoughts are that RDM is also re-imagining that part of BSG too.Did you ever think that all this may not be about religion at all, but about man and machine both trying to be god-like and having major adverse implications on the BSG universe?.For example, it is possible that the Lords of Kobol were something other than what their mythic status portrays them to be. Think about it. If the tragedy at Kobol never happened and Kobol was never abandoned, the near destruction of the human race would have never occurred. Unlike Mt. Olympus in our universe, in the BSG universe Kobol is "real" and it would be interesting to see a movie that gives some explanation to it, even if TPTB keep some of the mystery around it (which they should IMHO).Just a thought.
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No offense taken toward semisaj. All in good fun (nothing weird at all about your post either BTW).I was just having some fun with the calling out, as well as with the talk about BSG MOVIES.This is a interesting TB and I was just jumping into the fray.:-)Regarding BSG MOVIES, bring it on!
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May 18, 2008 7:20:14 AM CDT
Anything made by that creative team about the BSG universe
by col. tigh-fighter
Has me there, Motherfrakkers!!!!!!!
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In the BSG universe, prequels are actually welcome. Cool.
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seems like RDM's well has long since dried up - it was fun while it lasted but surely if Trek has taught him ANYTHING it is the one about the dead horse and the whip...
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