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By Baltar's Beard!! Universal Plotting Big-Screen BATTLESTAR GALACTICA??
I am – Hercules!!
Universal is apparently plotting a new “Battlestar Galactica” movie for cinemas – but not from Ron Moore, the “Star Trek” vet who masterminded the current acclaimed SciFi series.
Instead Universal is turning to TV vet Glen A. Larson, who created the 1978 original and its sequel, “Galactica 1980.”
The movie apparently will have nothing to do with the continuity of the current series, but will feature the characters of Adama and Baltar, according to James Hibberd’s Live Feed blog.
The SciFi series manifests evidence that a “Galactica” movie could be something truly wonderful if they hire the right guy or gal (COUGH*JaneEspenson*COUGH) to write it.
Larson’s many other small-screen credits include “Knight Rider,” “B.J. and the Bear,” “Sheriff Lobo,” “Buck Rogers,” “Quincy, M.E.,” “Manimal,” and “Automan.”
Find details in James Hibberd’s story here.
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...but it sure smells good!
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Rats!!!!
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It's about frakkin'time.
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Cool!
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Just another rumor that never happens. Fool me twice, can't get fooled again!
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some things are just mean to stay on TV.. This will either be mediocre or a steaming pile of poo... The studio will fuck it all up trying to make it appeal to the masses, but suceeding in appealing to no one..
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I can just see this now, Starbuck back to being a man, cheesy as fuck. With new Trek here there's no place for it UNLESS it's Eddie Olmos, James Callis, Katee Sackhoff etc. and it's taken seriously.
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WTF? ... Seriously ... no way you can re-cast and rewrite the newer (coughBETTERcough) series ... fuckin' Hollywood(ifshecould)
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FFS DO SOMETHING ORIGINAL HOLLYWOOD!!
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For better or worse, depending on your perspective, I believe the new Moore series has changed the "canon" of BSG for it's fans. And what is the point of doing such a movie if not in service of fans and their fan bucks?
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SOMEONE WHO HASN'T WRITTEN A MOVIE SINCE 1988!!!
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I like the Sci Fi series and they should do a film based on that instead. And not from this douche who brought us Sheriff Lobo.
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....the Bryan Singer "Battlestar Galactica". Who cares, just do a "reboot". It's all the rage these days! Make Starbuck a dude again, prominently feature Boxey! Make the Cylons machines again! Bring back Imperious Leader! Go CRAZY!!!!!
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Feb 20, 2009 6:16:43 PM CST
Welcome Back Glen Larson & The Galactica Theme Music, I Can't Wa
by media messiah
I want to see Battlestar Galactica as it was originally meant to be, original transcendent theme music, opening narration, and all. Ron Moore's show is excellent, but it is Galactica in name only. They should have just given it a different title, and went with it instead of cannibalizing the original show for ideas. Bring back the ancient astronaunt focas of the series, the Egyptian style pilot helmets, Vipers with thruster chemical trails...that can reverse on a dime...and fly backwards...and a male Starbuck who is a womanizing misogynist, who really has a heart of gold, and truly loves women and people but is just to afraid to show it, fearing people will see him as being week. That is why I loved that character, he was a bold badass, who was really shy...but hid his shyness under the cover of brash roguish exploits and manner.Ron Moore and the female head of The Sci-Fi Channel didn't get it, and never understood the character...and the fact that he really respect women, so they emasculated him, and turned him into a female??? If you can't understand that character, how can you truly understand the other nuances of the original show...or even try???
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Galactica has already been done better than the original series. I call bullshit on this rumour.
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Welcome Back!!! Your theme music, which you composed, is perfect Glen...and really sets the mood of the show!!!!! Bring it back, please!!!!
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Making Brown Bunny seem like a Disney production.
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What's the point when they can in no way replicate the coolness of the show in a mere two hours or so. Utter codswallop i think. I tell you what though, seriously, how good is BSG???!! I haven't been into a tv show as much since The Prisoner
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You ask the millions of fans who give a fuck about the characterisation of the original Starbuck and they will say "who gives a damn?"
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Hey, comeon, they did something really cool with the Starbuck Character by changing the gender. It makes her relationship with Lee about ten times more interesting. And P.S. Katee Sackhoff is pretty damn sexy in uniform. What's not to like?
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C'mon. Enough already. I love the show, but we don't need a movie.
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And I do too. Leave Lobo out of this.
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Leave it alone. Or make more TV stuff with the same tam.
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Yes, let's just confuse the hell out of everyone younger than Generation X by throwing another BATTLESTAR GALACTICA take at them while the current version is still fresh in everyone's minds. Way to go, mendicants.
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70's cheese all over again. Wonderful.
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Every couple of years some newbie entertainment reporter gets taken in by Glen's BS about a new movie being in the works. Those are the only rights Larson retains, so he makes shit up about it every so often. Ignore this story.
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and I'm being open minded here, it could be good for the franchise. Especially if Caprica bombs.
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What we need is a kooky reboot!
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Haven't seen the show...been meaning to check it out, anyway... They are going to make a BG movie that has nothing to do w/ the series, yet features two characters from the series, they are not not going to involve the hugely popular (and acclaimed) show's writers, instead they will put the production in the hands of a has been 70's TV writer? Am I missing something here? This seriously makes no sense...guess that's why I'm not making the big bucks.
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Bill Adama: The Rock
Saul Tigh: Harrison Ford
Starbuck: Kristen Stewart
Lee Adama: Shia LaBouef
Boomer: Kelly Hu
Number Six: Dakota Fanning
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While the current series is good...it's totally different. Too much spiritual mumbo jumbo.
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The current series is a reboot, remake? So what will this movie be? Reimagibootquel? Holy mothers of gods!
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... are fucking morons. That 80's show was corny and bad. It was made to capitalize on the success of "Star Wars". It's like you a-holes would rave about "Bibleman" over the infinetly superior "Dark Knight". The new "Galactica" is amazing and has redefined the genre. Glen A. Larson needs to stay away from Galactica. Ron Moore is the true genius behind Galactica.
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And you can find him in the current series of BSG.
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http://tinyurl.com/cf4xlo
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A Manimal vs Automan movie...
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... based on a TV series meant to capitalize on a movie. Hey Larson! Look! A QUARTER!! YOU BETTER PICK IT UP!! Seriously, it has to suck being Larson. He ripped off the excellent movie Star Wars to produce something that sucked, and now he's trying to cash in on an excellent TV series to produce something that will likely suck as well.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HA. HEH. Sigh. I have to pee.
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What a stupid, stupid idea.
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...I sometimes wonder why they bothered to base the brilliant new show on the old one. It's like rebooting BAZOOKA JOE comics and turning them into THE CATCHER IN THE RYE...
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Terrible idea with absolutely no chance of being any good.
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He owns the big screen rights. Throw enough cash at him and he will let Ron Moore and Company do their thing.
The Only way this is viable as a big screen property is to do a Cylon War I movie. With twenty battlestars against twenty to thirty base ships and a ground assault.
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Someone from NBCU might want to visit the nursing home and tell the senile old fuck that Lorne Greene and John Colicos are dead.
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So we're gonna just keep swapping continuities? The ONLY thing remotely recommendable about this is a return of the original musical theme. Otherwise, I'm not at all interested in revisiting this lesser incarnation of a great current series. I'd rather they gave the big screen to the current writers and producers.
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No continuity? They are smoking some serious crack.
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I never got tired of hearing Jack Klugman give a self-serving, over-the-top speech at the end of every episode.
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I love the original. I've come to love the remake. I think both are great. I don't know why you would make a movie now though unless it's based on the new one. I know Larson created the original, and I can understand him wanting another shot at his masterpiece, but I just don't think it will sell. Especially because it will probably be seen as a lame attempt at being like Star Wars...and that would doom it from the beginning. Let's just stick with the new series ending, and look forward to Caprica...No more remakes!!
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All these TV shows have happened before, and all of them will happen again. Can't wait till 2020 when we will have the reimagining of Lost recasting Hurley as a big fat chick.
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Ron Moore and his team recreated and transcended the source material in such a way that it left the original show in the dumpster of history. If Moore and Co are not involved, neither am I.
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Nobody younger than Gen-X will know what the hell I'm talking about...
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oh im sorry i forgot no one here knows who they are as everyone posting was born in the fucking 80s
"dur...there was a 70s BSG?!...dude i just thought it was the new one...what else has there been out before i was born in 1989?...eh? there was a 60s Star trek??!! was there even television back then??! I though you was all fighting Hitler or saddam back then...what?! Someone besides Tom Welling played superman??! in a film with Marlin Brandy??! ROTFLMAO Who the Fuck is that?....and who the fuck was that real old guy in that Shia LeBeouf film last summer?...hang on...now your telling me there was a batman movie 20 years ago with some guy called Jack Nicolson in Heath Ledgers role?! This is ridicolous!! NOTHING HAPPENED BEFORE I WAZ BORN IN 1989!!'
fucking 80s kids....they know FUCK ALL about Jack and Shit...and Jack just left town
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...I'm freezing my ball bearing off...mmbeedy, beedy, beedy, beeeedy...
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Feb 20, 2009 7:45:50 PM CST
I wonder what Ron Moore & the cast are thinking rite now??
by boomers_lips
if they've heard about it already, are they pissed off?
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fuck "the original series" piece of kitchy crap!
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they know FUCKING FUCK ALL about Jack and shit too..but in their case both Jack AND Shit left town.
Jesus no wonder HW is remaking/rebooting etc etc EVERYTHING...Most of the fucking audience has NO CLUE about the previous films/shows..
like some 90s kids will look at the new Star Trek trailers and think 'hey that looks cool..we shud see that!' without ANY notion that saying they wanted to see a star trek movie 20 or even 10 years ago would result in immediate laughter and piss taking from their friends..
and when they do see it they'll be like 'man that old guy who played the old version of quinto was so old looking - they did a good job finding an old lookalike....who was he? some old guy they found in a hospital?...wait a second! that the william shatner guy my granddad keeps saying should have been in the movie right?!'
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then they will do this. I'd personally rather see a new and improved Conan the Barbarian movie than a rehash of something that has just been rehashed on the SciFi channel.
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after they visit Utah.
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the whole Cylon thing is a bit lame..spit and hiss like the pussies you are
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Really? abandon most of the cast? Galactica 1980 was excruciating mostly.
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What're they gonna do? Haul Lorne Greene outta the ground and give Richard Hatch his dream from all those years of lobbying for a new series? Flashbacks to 1979 when they released the tv pilot to Canadian theaters and then tried it here - I was a Saturday afternoon sucker and got that double feature with Laser Blast. WooHoo!
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I really see BSG as something that should be continually remade...but every 15-20 years at least. And each incarnation should be something different. You have the campy adventure of the original series, the intense and dark drama of the current series- the next one should be something in between like B5, Farscape, Stargate or Firefly. Something that can bring the intense moments of drama and character development, but also isn't afraid to work in the adventure and occasional moment of humor into an episode (the current BSG experimented with humor and adventure back in the first season with episodes like Tigh Me UP Tigh me Down and The Hand of God, but never really followed up on it in the subsequent seasons).
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Even if this does see the light of day, I don't care. If it doesn't follow Moore's continuity, then it doesn't exist.
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This is no suprise
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do you really want to see old farts and has-been's in the movie? NOPE! Chris Pine (new-Kirk) as the new Apollo! hot piece of ass AnnaLynne McCord (from the new 90210) as the new Athena!!
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In the series, a one-minute scene with Adama having a drink would have more impact than you could build up with what will essentially amount to an one-hour space battle and one hour of scrabbling to introduce and build characters.
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Hollywood is a Sh!t hole of bean counters without a creative bone in their body.
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I'm not sure i get this... a double reboot? c'mon... i used to think people were stupid for saying this, but i think i've changed camps: Where have the days of new movies with new stories gone? It seems like most of the movies coming out are adapted from something... A LONG time ago, i remember this director said he had rights to a battlestar galactica movie, but no one thought it'd get made because of the success of the reboot, so the idea kinda fell under the radar. I do agree that they should have not called the new show 'battlestar galactica' and instead just blatantly rip off the parts of the show that are still in the reboot. Bsg2003, with a title other than 'battlestar galacica' would have, without a doubt, had far, far more viewers--writers on other shows (south park, the office) reference battlestar 2003, and while the reference itself is a show of respect, it is also an EASY joke to people who haven't seen bsg2003. People laugh when they hear it, and are reluctant to give it a chance. But back to the title issue, if they're gonna do a movie like this, with an old director who can't seem to move on with his life, they should call it something else and rip off elements of the original and the reboot... it would have been more suited to change the name of bsg2003, but you can't change the past, but you can change the name of this movie (which i'd bet alot of money doesn't get made).
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I'll admit i never saw the original show, but it sounds like the original guy starbuck was a bad ass, kind of a rebel, and a womenizer... those elements of the female starbuck are all intact... starbuck the chic is interesting because she is such a bad ass, you can't really call her a slut--she just sleeps around... i admire that about the show--starbuck sleeps around, but gets away with it... i don't think you see many women characters who pull that off--its a testament to both sackhoff and moore's vision of the character.
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The whole world cried foul when the RDM BSG Mini series was over. I actually got into an argument with my inlaws, with them telling almost exaclty what Media Messiah said about how Starbuck has to be a womanizer because.... uh.. that's a deep respectable character...?? I have to sit back and smile now that the success of the new BSG has almost literally turned the old series into something quaint and interesting, rather than the untouchable revered franchise it supposedly was. This BSG movie will be silly. What's the point.
( I would like to see some more viper action in RDMs series though... odd that DS9 has such amazing "war" arc and he didn't do this with BSG. Id's say that's what's deeply missing from this last season and the 3rd... some really awesome action episodes and an ongoing war arc. -
dont mind me kids - im just an old ageist...(like a racist only more acceptable)
regarding a Larson BSG movie...just make it a sequel to the original tv show...same style ships etc etc..cast Hatch and Benedict as Apollo and Starbuck in supporting roles (like Nimoy got cast in the new film)...and have their 20 something kids as the main stars. I mean what else could they do?..another reboot? and recast Appollo and Starbuck AGAIN...aint gonna happen..esp with Larson callin the shots.
oh yeah and forget Galactica 80 existed (although The Return of Starbuck was pretty cool)
The current TV BSG exists in its own universe completly.
Man i bet Hatch and Benedict and praying to the gods of Kobol this movie happens and they get called up...like Nimoy did..
From 'hey didnt you used to be in the old BSG' or 'heys its the big brother guy!' to starring in a $70-$100 million Sci Fi movie...
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I think one of the not so talked about but cool things of the reboot is the way the ships fly--the way the manuever seems so real, and i do NOT think the ability to reverse would make them cooler--i think the way they kinda flip to change directions looks awesome, and also more realistic.
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make it so.
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another newboot with a young cast is probably what it will be. UNIVERSAL would want to keep the young people coming back to watch this movie.
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(by the way, i read through the talkback and respond to the comments i read when i read them--that's why they're so many posts in a row by me, which is often the case when i join a thread) But if they're going to do a new take on the show--a crazy idea would be: fuck it--make it a comedy! I thought this when i read the will ferrel comment. Fantasy/Scifi -> Military Drama/scifi -> Comedy/Scifi...... seems like a logical progression to me. ;)
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LEAVE IT ALONE.....
Battlestar went from a cheezy but enjoyable late 70s show to a well written, acted and compelling series for the new century.....why in god's name would you want to tarnish the great job that Moore and co have done? oh yeah....bastardizing my childhood again for money,....that's it.
PHFFFFTTT!!!!- Bill the Cat. -
Adama: Peter Cook
Lee: Dudley Moore
Starbuck: John Candy
President Roslin: Hillary Clinton
Tigh: Marlon Brando
Ellen: Courtney Love
Boomer: Audrey Bitoni
Cavil: Dean Stockwell
Baltar: Uri Gellar
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Charlie_Allnut said: "This seriously makes no sense...guess that's why I'm not making the big bucks." No, you're right, it doesn't make sense... it's not because you're not the one making the big bucks--its that this director who has nothing but a show that has completely out-done his original creation--its that this guy doesn't have the big bucks and has no other means of making the big bucks...and he probably leaked this himself, and he probably will not end up with the big bucks whether or not this gets made.
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This is in no way like serenity. Serenity had a very clear purpose--to make a good movie with a reletively low budget that tied up the loose ends from a great show cancelled before its prime... i always felt serenity was for the fans first...and if it made lots of money--great, the show might have been revived. Whedon's great, we know this, but what he did with serenity is the biggest reason i respect the guy so much--he somehow was able to make a movie that finished his show, but the movie could be watched and understood by the average viewer who hasn't seen a minute of the show. I saw it with my little brother who i had to drag to come see it, and he completely understood it and was suprised at how much he liked it.
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...you know he can still bring the 'stash.
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This will end up like the Stargate sequel movie that was going to have nothing to do with the series: A poor attempt to cash back in on the success of a reboot that will never happen because the current fanbase are fans of the reboot and not the original.
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johnnyg korrupt said: "While the current series is good...it's totally different. Too much spiritual mumbo jumbo." Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't the original WAY more spiritual and fantasy-like???
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Whedon was so massively off the mark with the end of Serenity ( i.e. Wash )
That added nothing to the story and was so out of place it almost made the whole movie jump the shark for me. Bad call.
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Feb 20, 2009 8:51:05 PM CST
it'll be like the Will Ferrell "Land of the Lost" movie.
by boomers_lips
I am guessing. There's no way this reboot will be a serious movie. it might be like that Starship Troopers movie too. Young hotties all over the place.
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Bring back the REAL Starbuck and Apollo!
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Because Universal is going to want to keep the franchise alive in some form (and not just through Caprica). In principle I'm not opposed, since as a fan of the original series growing up I'd love to revisit that version of that world again. But like many others, I've been more than converted by the new show; I think it's possibly the best show that's ever been on television, period--and that's saying a lot for me, since I was an original "hater". So, we'll see. Personally, I'd be just as happy to see a Buffy, Babylon 5 or (yes, I'm saying it) TWIN PEAKS revival on the big screen...
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Feb 20, 2009 8:57:38 PM CST
no new Buffy movie cause Sarah M. Gellar is a giant bitch.
by boomers_lips
according to Eliza Dushku. Sarah is into ~serious~ roles now.
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Feb 20, 2009 8:58:19 PM CST
Larson owns the film rights not anyone associated with Moore
by jccalhoun
The SciFi channel version of Galactica won't ever be a in-theater movie because they don't own the rights. This is almost certainly Larson trying to con people into thinking it will happen. This is as likely to happen as a V movie at the same time as the V mini-series remake.
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That evil-faced rat bastard!
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He was an orphan and slept around as a mask for who he really was, he just didn't trust anyone to be close to him...but after the colonies fell, he began to change and settled into a relationship. What was cool about the dynamc iis it is one thing if a man is a womanizer, to see the conversion and the fact that that was not the real him, but a woman being a sleep around just doesn't have that same impact, given the issues of sexism that the character, as originally invisioned, represented. That is what was so cool about him. The female version of Starbuck was found in Sheeba, Commander Cane's badass daughter, who was the head of the Silver Spar Squadron. She eventually became Apollo's main love after his wife (Jane Seymour) died of Cancer. Sadly, they never used Sheeba in the new Galactica.
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Feb 20, 2009 9:03:27 PM CST
LOL @ people thinking the original cast will be involved!
by boomers_lips
yeah, cause that's what a reboot is about. if Larson & Universal want to make $$$, it'll be with new YOUNG actors/actresses. Sorry!
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C'mon Messiah-- Since you have a twisted view of morality, you can't see that Sackhoff's starbuck sleeping around does work, and does pull it off, and that is impressive. You also have a twisted view of alot of things, so i don't expect you to agree (cause agreeing is something you have a hard time doing) But Sackhoff's Starbuck also started out as a tough as nails pilot rebel who sleeps around and no one calls her on it because she's tough. But she goes through a much, much more complicated conversion that isn't just 'i slept around and now i'm settling down' You don't really know who sackhoff's starbuck loves, but it could be argued that she loves lee but also loves anders... she also struggles with the idea that she is special in some way, is called the harbinger of death by the hybrid, disappears then reappears in a new ship, finds her dead body and old ship that crashed on earth thousands of years ago, so she has to cope with that, and then she is also basically a daughter to adama (i challenge you to find any character in old/new bsg that makes a facial expression that says more than the smile she gave adama when she crashed and comandeered a cylon ship to get back to galactica.) Sackhoff's character has unbelievable amounts of depth, and she pulls off a role that is not easily pulled off... another actress could have done so miserable as the character starbuck is meant to be now, that the entire show could have failed because of one actress not being able to pull of one difficult role. Messiah, i think you just like to stir up trouble, and you show up here so often claiming to a) be a writer, but refuse to prove it and b) an actual influence on shows that you give opinions on. You are pretensious yet aren't smart enough to be truly pretensious... you keep showing up with opinions and suggestions that NOBODY likes... the only thing everyone thinks about you is that you are delusional and diluted.
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Why in the world would they throw away the built-in audience loyalty to the current show?
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Look at those other credits!!! A list of the worst dreck anyone ever saw on the frakin' toob!!
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...one of the worst ideas I've ever heard.
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tonight's episode is completely lifeless.
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Larson dislikes the Ron Moore show and maybe resents that it gets all the critical respect, when in strictly business terms Larson's original was a much bigger achievement on a major network when being on a major network meant something.
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Unfortunately he seems VERY reluctant to give up creative rights to a movie. This is very unfortunate
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He's pretensious because he thinks he's a critic yet his punctuation suggests that english is not his first language.
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In the OS of BSG, Jane Seymour was killed by a cylon, not cancer.
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Damn you Universal! The only reason why the re-imagined series worked is because of RDM and co, otherwise BSG will not work. An RDM free BSG will be rejected by the masses!
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...but she was dying of cancer, I think that is accurate, but it has been a while. I won't dispute her being killed by a Cylon...I seem to recall something...but again, ih has been a while???
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What the heck is this story? It doesn't make any darned sense. I'll ignore it as "Grando Calrissian" rubbish.
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Boy, ain't that appropriate now?
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What, about 4 days ago, when you were trying to get my writing samples, you complimented my morality as being of a high standard, now I have a twisted sense of morality, according to you??? Remember, I said that the Sopranos is immoral, and so is Sex In The City because their characters are shown as heroes, and that inspires people to follow their corrupt lead. Now if you think that any of those characters is positive...morally speaking, then it is you who have twisted morals. In the past, about 1 month ago, I got into a debate with a satanist and you guys attacked me, instead of him...calling me crazy...and not the satanist--please??? As for the new Starbuck, all I am saying is the gender didn't need to be changed, all they had to do is introduce Sheeba from the old show to play the female echo of Starbuck...as was with the original. Sackoff could have played Sheeba. This isn't an attack on Sackoff, it is a questioning of why the character of Starbuck or even Boomer were unnessarily changed. They changed them, clearly for authorship reasons...and to rip extra royalty points from Larson and company, the reason why Larson is now giving them, Moore and company, the finger. You and many others are angry because I won't pander to you the way you each glad hand and pander to one another, with the "hive mind" view of, "Let's all think alike, and those who have a contrary view to the mass opinion we shape...must be attacked, and called names and branded an outsider!" And you are still not getting my email address, or writing samples!!!
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So they're going to endanger a hit franchise by watering it down with a confusing, unconnected movie version, not produced by the guy who turned the property into a valuable hit? I kind of don't believe this story.
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Then you misread me. I never EVER have complemented your morality. I said 'twisted' form of morality... not that your opinions are immoral or moral, its that your morals are all over the place, that's why you have a twisted morality. You call people who go to wine country alchohalics. You view a female starbuck that sleeps around kind of a slut, but when a man sleeps around it's a cool character trait. You say that Dollhouse needed a more sexual element... i forget them all, but you seem to pick and choose what you view as moral or immoral with no ryhme or reason. I'm not gonna dig up all your moral-related posts, but there are a ton of them out there. Entertainment is escapism... sopranos was a deeply complex, well written, and yes a morally ambiguous show--that's what made it great. The way tony cried when his son tried to kill himself, and the sadness he showed visiting his son in a mental hospital is an unbelievably human, relateable plot point. There as alot of goodness in the sopranos, loyalty to friends and family, and it just so happened tony was a gangster, but nobody sees the sopranos and wants to kill people or become a gangster--it exposes alot of the terrible things that come with being involved in the mob... if sopranos inspires such evil, would you say the same about Frank Miller's comics? The columbine shooters were obsessed with miller--how many killers have been influenced by the sopranos??? Sex and the City is full of sluts, but it also is full of a bunch of human truths, but yeah, they're sluts, but at the age they are, them being sluts makes alot more sense and isn't nearly as bad as a group of young 20 year old girls sleeping around. But here's where you get twisted: dollhouse needs more sex, according to you. Nothing you will ever say will get me to change my opinion of you, and i know i'm not the only one--you lose all credibility when you are so convinced your opinion impacts a show or movie... i mean, to think that is really, and literally, insane. And don't call yourself a writer when you try to say college writing majors don't help someone write better--its all within you apparently... geeze... and you refuse to let me read something you wrote, even though i meant then, and still mean now, that i will give you an honest, unbiased opinion of it. You're a joke, and you need to realize that when people call you delusional, they literally mean it--you are delusional, and probably should see a psychologist--and that's coming from an honest to god functioning schizophrenic (seriously, i am schizophrenic, and my doctor would either put me on a ton of medication or put me in a mental health hospital if i told him that i believe what i post on a message board has an impact on what a showrunner does with his show.)
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I never wanted your email--i told you to create a new one and only use it to send me a SAMPLE, JUST A SAMPLE of your writing. And if you won't let anyone read a sample of your writing, that's FINE. but DON'T CALL YOURSELF A WRITER and think it means something if you refuse to back it up. loser.
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I wouldn't call those shining endorsements in one's career. The man is 72 and has done nothing but television - a lot of it crappy 70's shows. He'd better take a back seat to the feature film experts here. If indeed this is going to happen, which I kind of doubt.
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Don't talk to him anymore. It's not worth it.
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I love BSG and won't see this ridiculousness.
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Not that clone show?
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Feb 20, 2009 11:27:24 PM CST
Christian Bale as B.J. and Travis the Chimp as "the Bear"
by conspiracy
My god...think of the greatness that might have been.....
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Is the amount of time they spend on political bullshit. Like the new Star Wars movies it's grating after a while. Shut the fuck up and fire a gun already! Also the limited tv budget keeps the new Galactica from showing the scope that's needed at times. The Cylon Basestar interior shots with that girl in the goo-filled bathtub are kinda cheap looking. And the Centurians still look VERY digital at times and get almost no screen time. A movie could remedy these problems. I'm a fan of the new show btw...Just getting tired of the drawn out subplots that have been going on for YEARS. Season 1 was the best IMO.
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this is nothing more than a cash grab. The new BSG has wiped out the memory of that old show, and good riddance. It was great when I was 9 years old, but it's time to put it to bed. The show was cheesy 80s crap with cardboard characters. If you're really nostalgic for it, watch the dvds. And figures Media Messiah would somehow celebrate this. Fucking idiot.
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Enjoy you evening. I hope you saw tonight's Dollhouse...it rocked. I write in a similar fashion. Goodnight!
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I doubt Kristen Bell would be interested but she'd probably play the character of Buffy quite well if Veronica Mars was anything to go by.
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B.J. could give the Bear a Xanex.
Bear flips out and rips B.J.'s face half off.
Cops shoot Bear dead when he goes after them.
Asshole at New York Post draws racist cartoon about it.
Rev. Al gets some pub.
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Feb 21, 2009 1:11:40 AM CST
Tomorrow's headline: "Universal NOT Plotting Battlestar??"
by flim springfield
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she is a woman. nice insight copernicus. should we all hold hands and talk about our feelings while we try to figure out who we are as people deep inside. starbuck being a woman is a gimmick. what part of her character is enhanced by being a woman as opposed to a man? Dirk's starbuck was conflicted he was just tough and held it in... still waters run deep. the chick starbuck is conflicted but she walks around yelling and cursing to show she's tough because she's a fraking chick and Moore doesn't have the balls to have someone punch in a woman's face when she runs her mouth like a man would.
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Frankly as much as I love the new series, there's still room in my heart for another reboot. Some flavor was sacrificed in the new BSG that would be great to see again.
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Why not, oh, I dunno, a movie that capitalizes on the WILDLY POPULAR SUCCESS OF THE NEW SERIES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Is it? Is it really?
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the original 70s movie was my favorite. Then they put on tv and it all went to shit. I liked it because dykstra's outer space shots were stunning to look at.
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Perhaps not more popular than Americorn Idle, but easily the most popular sci-fi show of the last decade or so.
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This is one of my favourite news stories ever.
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I'd say globally Doctor Who gets more viewers for the first run of each episode even if most of them are British.
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Inspires confidence, don't it?
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Not this old chestnut again. Glen A Larson, in his dotage, often talks about their being a Battlestar Galactica movie in the "ahem" works, meanwhile the nurses at the carehome just nod and say, "Of Course Glen. That's right. Now take your medicine".
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And the truth is: Universal can't legally make a BSG movie without him, as he retained the feature rights to all his TV show properties. Even the Razor movie was a subject of legal discussion cause it was feature length and stand-alone-
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...it is highly doubtful that this will ever happen.
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Please, please, please let this not be true.
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was on for lik 13 eps. and dies......fucking stupid show.
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The 00's series has transformed the image of a dodgy 70's star wars rip off (and yes I really dug the thing back in the day) into one of the greatest things in the entire science fiction cannon. This New movie is about as promising as Joaquin Phoenix's new career direction.
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And Cruise as Apollo. Put some gayish Volleyball in it and call it TOP GUN GALACTICA
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why cant they just continue the TV show? they will never be able to top that.
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.....almost as long as Hatch was trying to get the series back off the ground, long before 'new' BSG ever hit the screen. This is never going to happen. All of this never happened before, all of it will never happen again....I'm a fan of the old BSG, have been since it was first on tv back in the day. the new BSG is far, far better in almost everyway (except for Starbuck who is simply annoying). Going back to the original series continuity may be great for novels/comic books, but it's just not going to work on screen after Moore's Galactica. If Universal shell out money for this, colour me fucking surprised.
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he doesn‘t fit in a cockpit anymore
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with Automan as a recurring character (I think Manimal also crossed over with the 90's show Nightman). I love me some 70's and 80's cornball spec fic/genre TV. And to the kids who keep posting that BSG was an 80's series seriously are dumb.
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I'd love to see an updated version. Doesn't have to be exact, but more 'pew pew!' and less morose bleak drama would be nice.
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I drew a sillouette of a ninja (this was at the height of the ninja craze). Some jackass kid in class asked to see the drawing. He returned it sometime later, having traced my drawing, and embellishing it with armor. He then had the gall to exclaim, with a smug grin, "look, mine's better."This is the case with the new vs. OG BSG. It may or may not be superior, but it's still a rip off.
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it will be more fun than anything in cinema, like a summer blockbuster where only 5 gaters come to see the movie :(
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I meant to type.
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Just have to bring back John Colicos from the dead.
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"Based on the story by"? "Creatures based on"?
Larson flobbed it up and Moore ran with it...Cheers all around but Moore went to the end zone and if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
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this totally explains my parents.
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Look, I'm not arguing artistic value here, just laying out the legal facts. Larson "flobbed it up" means he is the creator of the property. At the time - in his contract - he maintained the rights to a theatrical version of it, while the producers naturally have the rights to TV incarnations.
Now Larson couldn't make a Feature based on new BSG, since - as you point out - it is Moore who created that - based on old BSG.
But Larson can always - legally - make a feature based on the concept, story, characters and such, since he can base it on old BSG. Moore (or whoever holds the rights there) can't, since the rights SciFi channel are holding only cover TV series.
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...Glen Larson and Ron Moore cooperating on a feature version. But that is even more unlikely than Larson getting it off the ground alone, as I know for a fact that Larson is not a huge fan of new BSG (for his own reasons). I'm speculating here, but I believe if SciFi (or anyone else) steps up and simply buys the rights from Larson, that would be the most likely scenario to see a BSG movie with the current actors.
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Almost probably i bet.
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WTF?
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BSG will never recover after that. but these two deserve a movie: 1. Stargate
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so it will still be canon lol
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absolute nonsense. BSG has been one of the finest shows to grace our screens for the past few years, drawing parallels in quality only from the likes of LOST and perhaps 24. Making a movie of an already hugely successful (an influential) tv show is ludicrous.
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Perhaps Battlestars vs. Basestars, military drama, Neat Cylons and some well created action would be a nice contrast to the "final five" / FTL aging/ Who is Daniel/ Gotcha retcon style writing that has dogged new BSG over the last two seasons.
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And it will happen again--as long as there is money to be made!!!!!!
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Feb 21, 2009 7:51:31 AM CST
Why not just focus on a new space opera movie?
by spifftacular squirrel girl
I understand it's mostly a name recognition thing but why not just come up with a different humans vs robot/aliens in space concept? A BSG movie just seems destined to fail. It's either going to get panned by people who love the new one or disliked by the original fans for not being close enough to the original BSG.
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he owned/owns the rights to a film KR...and he was/is trying to do a KR movie, but now theres the new tv show (which is set in the same universe) hes put it to the bottom of the pile and got out BSG again...
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Srsly, whut
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i'm all in favour of this but i doubt they will recast richard hatch and dirk benedict as both will be viewed as too old to carry a mainstream big budget movie..and of course lorne greene is dead anyway along with the great john colicos,so baltar and adama will have to be recast meaning this wont be the same Galactica fans want anyway. As much as i like the sci-fi's Galactica series it is so gloomy and depressing you wanna top yourself after watching it ! and the fx are rubbish too along with the awful theme tune (if you can call it a tune) I await more news on this with eagerness!
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also bring back erik estrada for c.h.i.p.s the movie..ace!
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Look when the President First Ladie bitch from ID4 starts the show off with a crapy she has cancer plot and we have to escape hot blonde in disguise Cylons and survive.. Fuck that!!!! Bring back the robot dog and get rid the Vato with the Swiss Cheese face... I cant stop staring at those face scars and blackheads....
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Why is it nobody who runs this site can write worth a crap?
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I love campy silliness as much as the next chronic pot smoker, BUT, the new BSG is actually GOOD -- smart, dark, interesting, and cool. Sometimes the melodrama is tiring, but, for the most part its a really intelligent, exciting, and insightful show.
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...at all. This movie makes no sense to me. I really hope it all just evaporates and goes quietly away.
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And Will Smiff as everyone else
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Larson just wants to stir it.
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I suspect it would be full of dogs rejecting broccoli.
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Larson is best known for cribbing theatircal properties and turning them in tv shows. B.J. and the Bear and Sheriff Lobo both camev out of the Smokey and the Bandit/Any Which Way but Loose era,
Buck Rogers and BSG were studio attempts to grab some Star Wars cash, Manimal was inspired by the prosthetic makeup advancements used in The Island of Dr Moreau and An American Werewolf in London, and Automan answered the question: what would happen if TRON could get out to the real world?
Larson's most original property, and probably his earliest was Quincy, M.E., a damn fine show in its day. Similarly, I can't think of a direct source for Knight Rider, so even though the show wasn't very good, I don't think he stole the idea directly off the screen.
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No way this happens. Glen Larson making a feature film? Not unless he pays for the whole damn thing himself and Tori get's to play Starbuck. Ooooooooooo...that sent a cold shiver...
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Multiverses are lame.
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Are you thinking of Aaron Spelling?
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wants to produce a cheesy 70's Galactica continuation movie? It's a well known fact that budget and NBC executives didn't allow Larson's true vision to make it to television in the 70's. He wrote the Cylons as a race of reptiles. Wicked looking humanoid reptiles. There were other grand idea that were never realized as well. This isn't 1978 anymore. I have no doubt a new theatrical Galactica would most likely be better than the last 3 Star Wars films. It would sure be more entertaining and less childish. The new series is awesome but starting to get stale FAST. Way too much drama that is no longer dramatic. They lost me at season 3. Making EVERYONE on the new series (you get my point) a Cylon was fucking stupid as well.
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It's already hard enough to get people to take a show named "Battlestar Galactica" seriously, without having this kind of bullshit reboot of a reboot injected into their memory.
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Because cheesy fare is all Larson has ever served up, even though the 1978 Galactica pilot (and the edited film version) was excellent in tone and execution for a tv production back then.
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doesn't he deserve to have his vision presented again? The angsty new show has its merits, but its ratings are tiny compared to what the original garnered during the 70's.
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As a fan of the original I actually prefer the new show- it's way better produced, far more intense and well-written and just flat out entertaining. It would be a shame to see all that get rolled back for a big screen version of the original's thinly veiled Star Wars rip-off. Larson's great for his day but his day is taking concepts meant for 9 year olds and spinning them out into a weekly yarn. Like Knight Rider, AirWolf, etc- it's all about the cheesy effects or hardware gimmick. Good story, not so much.
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Feb 21, 2009 11:18:36 AM CST
Silly idea!! BSG has a new face now. Reboot will fail
by col. tigh-fighter
When the glorious memory of the new BSG is still around. You'll have to give it 10 years or so.
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You can't compare the ratings of a show that was on at a time when there were only 3-4 channels to a show that is on today. I guarantee you if there was cable back in the day a whole lot of people who watched the original show would have turned that campy shit off. Including me.
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Just make a good NEW concept. People LOVE the new BSG, they love it so much they wont care much for a new film. REHASH! REHASH!! REHASH!!!
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space Las Vegas where the bugs eat people!
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this is not happening. Not even close.
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Though I do desperately want to see a CGI Muffit before I die.
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Just plain stupid.
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At least Glen Larson understands the concept of a show that has the word "battle" in the title. Season 1 of the current series was good, but since then it's been mostly blah blah blah, arcane mythology and chicks talking about their feelings. They should call it "Desperate Housewives in Space." With Larson, maybe we'll get back to some good old space battles and explosions.
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is rather good. i'd like to see a real movie on the big screen asap.
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They ran new BSG, I think on NBC, for a short time, it did not work. Monk blows new BSG out ratings-wise continuously. However, the old BSG had huge numbers, even for 1978.
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Until I read it wasn't Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica.
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that Star Wars made money. If 'Splosions is what you're looking for, I hope you'll get it. Monstertruck rally. Bayformers 2. A plane crash. Wherever. As for me, I'll still be laughing at this jackass Larson and his laser beams and furby R2D2s trying to ride the coattails of the New BSG all the way to the bank.
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...a kitschy joke again. Quality made people take it entirely too seriously, we need to make it funny and stupid again.
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Jealous much, Glen A. Larson? Jealous that Moore's new "Battlestar" kicked the crap out of your old series, both stylistically and dramatically?
If a "Battlestar Galactica" movie is going to be made, it must be set in some part of the new televion series.
Because no one thinks of the original characters anymore. No one knows Starbuck as a dressed-for-disco womanizing man. Edward James Olmos owns William Adama. And Richard Hatch was much, much better as Tom Zarek than he ever was as Apollo.
Larson is month-old baloney, whereas Moore is freshly grilled steak.
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There's no reason the role can't be recast with a better, hotter actress.
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Feb 21, 2009 1:24:09 PM CST
If luck is on his side Dirk Benedict will be in 2 big summer mov
by mr sulu
BSG and A Team (you just know he, T and Schultz will have cameos) plus hes bound to cameo in a BSG movie either as old Starbuck or as some other character (if they reboot…again) -
if its a sequel as he was lost in the Galactica 80 ep The Return of Starbuck...
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I refuse to believe he stayed stranded on that deserted planet forever!
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How many different versions of BSG can the marketplace support? Sci-Fi's series is probably the only version that most of the modern audience is familiar with. Other than middle-aged SF fans, who else fondly remembers the original ABC series, and more importantly, who will pay to see a new version of it in a theater?
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like katie holmes?
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plus shouldnt there have been an empty cylon craft on the planet someplace by the end? (SB and his cylon friend duke it out with the cylons at the end so they can get Zee and his momma into space..those cylons mustve come from someplace)
that was a good ep..the ONLY good ep of G80...they should really have put it on the BSG box set as a nice bonus ep and then not bothered to release G80 on dvd at all Star Wars Holiday special style...but no they wouldnt do that would they.
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fans of the old and new BSG will...im not really that much of a fan of either and id be there for a BSG movie...
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Feb 21, 2009 3:11:24 PM CST
Larson haters make me sick. This means you too, Herc...
by nosferatu jones
Ah, yes, snobs always like to bring up GALACTICA 1980, B.J. & THE BEAR, MANIMAL and AUTOMAN, but almost always never mention MAGNUM P.I., QUINCY, THE FALL GUY, McCLOUD... hell, even THE HARDY BOYS was a fairly decent show for its time. The man decidedly did NOT create all dreck all the time. Give him SOME credit, you cretins. GALACTICA is his baby... if Universal wants him to make a movie antidote to Moore's Gloom-and-Doom-a-thon, then I say more power to him!!!
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the one thing about the new one that i really like is the fx and the new cylon designs - the rest is very "hunt for red october" - i want space opera BG back - cheese and all
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just saying.
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you would never see a commander relieve the side arm of deck officer and then shoot that officer between the eyes with it... in the original BG - im no pussy, but im put off by such hardcore doings when i watch something called "battlestar galactica" - i was 12 when the original aired - it was dramatic, funny, action packed and kid friendly - the new one, great as it might be, is for a narrow audience that i would imagine never really cared for the original - i hope we never see an r-rated star wars
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i hope he is involved - he loves BG
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it has to be by the current guys. It has to continue from the current ongoing plot ala firefly. Otherwise it can go fuck itself.
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Look, I "get" why critics and some fans love it, but I too am put off by the sheer oppressive, glum moroseness of it all. Believe me, I've tried many times to get into it, but it's just not FUN, in any way, shape or form. I'll always gravitate to the more escapist fare of sci-fi... I don't need to watch the sci-fi equivalent of the Holocaust and/or terrorism on a weekly basis. There's enough to feel bad about in the real world as it is... I don't need Edward James Olmos and his one expression/delivery adding to my general depression, dammit!
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Feb 21, 2009 3:43:16 PM CST
What's next? a movie version of Fantasy Island or the Love Boat?
by labattsbleu
Honestly, the original BSG was a terrible show that did ok during a point in time where there was a lot more innocence in the viewing public...it will be a miserable failure at the theaters because the current generation of fans will see it as a spoof of a beloved show...If someone wants to finance this disaster, they should go ahead: it will be a train wreck in the theaters...
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I totally got an erection when I read that. She could totally pull it off AND she's crazy friggin' hot.
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'Nuff said. (Heh, I hate it when people do that too.)
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FUCK OFF, YOU DUMB ASS MOTHERFUCKERS. THE SERIES IS STILL OWNED BY UNIVERSAL AND UNIVERSAL APPROACHED GLEN LARSON TO DO IT.
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Could this be Hatch's big-screen version of the old series finally come to life? If they could re-work it to somehow get a bit of a tie-in to the new BSG as to how both universes could have existed as alternate histories or part of the "this has happened before and will happen again" theme the current BSG has ... it would be awesome. Also, Hatch has proven what a class act he is with the new BSG and giving him the Apollo role for this big-screen BSG would be a very, very cool thing.
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LOL!!!! That was hilarious to read. I always wondered how to spell 'pew pew!'
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Larson fans = cylons, RDM fans = colonials. WE'LL FRAK YOU MOTHERFRAKKERS UP!!!
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in addition to a previous post, Hatch said that they were under a constant battle with The network regarding the stories for the original series..i believe they were planning something a bit darker,though not as dark as the current show and the network got cold feet and went in another direction with some of the stories. Ive heard Hatch say at a con i watched on youtube that they were pushing to get better scripts and drama on the show and if it had been picked up for a 2nd season we may have seen the show start to improve..look at all the shows over the yrs what started out shit then got really good. Larson isnt to blame for the tone for some of the original shows flaws. I doubt this movie will ever get made as the new show is still fresh in everyones minds and it seems weird to have this now. It's like having buffy remade now!
I wish people would respect the original show for the acheivement it was..sure it was cheesy in places and had a dumb robot dog but the characters were cool..the fx ..(which largely still hold up to this day) were decent and had a wicked score and theme tune. The new series isnt the messiah it has some flaws..a largely bland cast..save for katte sackhoff and eddie olmos and oh Richard hatch!..crap fx, a terrible theme tune and those fuckin zoom and pull back fx shots which are so annoying..amd lastly why does every character have to say frak every other word..yes..we know what it means..so boring. -
Saw a 'trailer' that he came up with and showed at a con (before he got involved with Moore), and boy was it terrible. Hatch's work on the new BSG was incredible, but leave this man to his own devices and he'll produce some major crap.
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ash!
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I've never seen a bigger group of popmus, know-it-all, asswipes.
A BSG reboot by the original creators could be a great thing and FUCK, they have every right to take a stab at.
The new BSG is awesome, we all know that but it works in a way that in many ways is alien to the original spirit of BSG. A BSG inspired by the old aesthetic would take it down a nostalgic path. NOSTALGIA DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY EQUATE TO CHEESE! If handled properly, you'd get a clever continuation that carried the flavor of the original but with enough edge to remove the cheese.
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His entire resume:
BSG:TOS
A Sam and Dean TV Movie
And a TV movie where he plays a sleazy manager of a retarded body boiler who finds redemption.
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Richard Hatch and Body Builder.
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Ash to Apollo...'well hellllllooooo mr fancy pants!!...you aint runinn but two things here....'
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Do the people who argue that the original is better actually believe that? Or are they just caught up in the misty eyed nostalgia of it all. I am old enough to remember the original and even as a kid I thought it was idiotic. Do you people remember the first regular episode of the original after the (not half bad) pilot movie? When the colonials, after barely escaping with their lives decide to take shore leaves on a DISCO CASINO PLANET? I know that's what I would do when I am running for my life from a race of genocidal machines. Compare that with the first regular episode of the new version, 33. Do you seriously want to make the argument that the crappy original is better? Really?
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Will be played by the guy who plays Perry Cox in Scrubs and will put his hands on the back of his head when every Cylon Skinjob is admitted.
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The new one is immensely popular and the old one is not anymore. This makes NO damned sense.
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WHAT THE FUCK YOU LITTLE COCK SUCKERS. THE SCI FI SERIES WAS NEVER REALLY OFFICIALLY SANCTIONED BY UNIVERSAL.
THE ONLY REASON THAT SCI FI GOT THE SERIES WAS THAT THEY PAID THROUGH THE NOSE TO GET AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE SERIES.
YOU FUCKING RON MOORE PUSSIES ARE A BUNCH OF GEN X PUSSIES WHO BITCH, MOAN AND WHINE. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP. -
Owwwwww. Stop screaming. I need to rest my eyeballs for my AVATAR Eyeball fucking later this year. Actually Sciffy is owned by NBC / Universal so they did not have to pay anyone else for the TV rights just a little internal bookkeeping.
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Feb 21, 2009 9:09:25 PM CST
This is about as likely as Emmerich being put back in charge of
by wickedjacob
So, in other words, will be kicked around a lot but won't happen. (I hope)
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Damn it, when you run out of room the dialog box isn't supposed to let you keep typing!
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its the only possible explanation...really, it is...will we get Moffit (or whatever the hell that dog's name was) again?! Madness...
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No matter how good SciFi's BSG is, it has a limited fanbase. As long as it doesn't suck as much as Akiva Goldsman's rendition of Lost in Space, it could turn out decently.
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It was "Deadman's Curve", the story of Jan and Dean. And Richard Hatch and Bruce Davison kicked ass in the title roles.
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Feb 22, 2009 5:19:49 AM CST
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by citizen sane
I know all you geek boys equate this with the second cumming of Lt. Ohura. But as much as I watched and tried to enjoy that show.......... IT SUUUUCKED! Boring! Boring! Boring! I don't care what your hack god Kevin Smith thinks. This show was lame and as uninteresting as it could have possibly been. And if Bionic (whoafully bad) Woman didn't prove that Ron Moore doesn't know what the hell he is doing, then you all deserve to be duped by this Hack-Want-To-Be.
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... and how incredibly fucking lame is it to substitue "fuck" for "frak" as if it is some sort of clever way to fucking cuss on a non-premium channel. Lame! Lame! Fucking Lame!
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... the original show was lame and boring as hell too; just like Star Wars I thru III, all post- Roddenberry Star Treks, all Will Smith action movies, (the fuckhead)Bruckheimer , every Speilberg movie since Schindler's List and anything Michael Bay gets within 1000 feet of! Leave the high-end story-telling to the smart one's that don't let dumbass studio brass harass them into making absolute shit (i.e. Tarantino, Favreau, Nolan, Jackson, etc.)!!!!!!
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Firefly, as well. Though Whedon doesn't seem to mind.
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I'm pretty sure Glen L. Larsen is the only idiot who wants to see that. The old show was awful except for the theme song, concept, and special effects. Dirk Benedict was pretty cool, but he was just a Han Solo rip off. I mean, you have kids who grew up with Starbuck as a woman. It sounds weird and also from a logistical standpoint, if you're going to do a "BSG" movie, just use the sets and designs you already have from four years of quality television. Ron Moore drank Larson's milkshake with the first fucking mini-series and I'm surprised the old asshole hasn't killed himself out of shame. Oh well, there's still time before they start pre-production.
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Nothing's more fun than unavoidable pop-ups that are nigh-impossible to close. Hopefully now you can switch to "shoot the ninja" or an ad for adultfriendfinder.com. Jackasses.
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I switched to Firefox, with the Adblocker extension, and haven't seen a popup or ad for years. Fight the power!
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What are you thoughts on Ron Moore?
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Who gives a fuck if Universal sanctioned it? That has nothing to do with the quality of RDM BSG. Nice job saying the fans of the New BSG only bitch and moan when you repeatedly post that RDM is a pussy. Are you Golen Larson, by chance? He probably says RDM is a pussy too, seeing as how RDM took his shitty and ridiculous Star Wars ripoff and turned it into one of the greatest shows of all time. And to whoever said that the VFX were shitty in the new series, you are out of your damn mind. There's nothing on TV that comes close to BSGs visual FX. I can't believe you said that with one breath and then praised the shitty shoe-string and tape FX of that godawful 70s1980 BSG. Anytime you want to compare that furby/monkey or the clearly-men-in-suit Cylons against the Battle of the Resurrection Ship, or the assault on New Caprica, or the attack from Hand of God, or the attack from Razor, you go right ahead and do that.
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Feb 22, 2009 1:57:18 PM CST
"the shitty shoe-string and tape FX of that godawful 70s1980 BSG
by bishop37
That'd be the Emmy Award-winning VFX by John "Star Wars"Dykstra then?
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From the 70s no less! What an amazing diversion. Gee, how much did Dykstra contribute to that show, again? And let's not pretend a name is any guarantor of success. Even Spielberg makes a "Crystal Skull" every now and again.
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I think I can speak for REAL BSG fans by saying that the televised excrement on the Sci-Fi Channel does NOT represent BSG as conceived by the great Glen Larson. That show has forgotten how to have fun by going for a "realistic" approach and lots of annoying shaky cam shots. For years the fans have waited for the return of their beloved epic, and this news has rekindled that hope.
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Unless they try some brand new story arc and new enemy. Just doesn't seem that interesting. I love the show and all, just don't see something worth doing unless they try to remake the entire series into tiny singular films with a different cast.
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I dont believe you do speak for REAL BSG fans, clearly you dont, not in the slightest. I'm a REAL BSG fan, both of the original and current series and if we are realistic for a sec, if the stories from the original were being aired nowadays it would be laughed at.
The new BSG is the best show on TV in the last 10 years (bar the Wire maybe). Now that's what a REAL fan might say. -
This should not be allowed to happen, if it does not have anything to do with the current cast or storyline on the show! It will fucking flop if they dont connect the two!
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Seems to me he might have been a fun choice to play Callum Keith Rennie's Cylon character. I like Rennie, but his Cylon was a little dull. Benedict could have maybe pulled off a performance similar to Lucy Lawless' "two-faced" Cylon. Like, in the company of humans he's good 'ol Dirk Benedict, and when he's in the company of Cylons he actually tries acting for a change of pace...
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Gary Larson would do with BSG.
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He's got a lot of geek cred.
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Also very proficient in martial arts I hear.
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No the new series is not. It is "popular" but not "immensely popular". At about 3 to 4 million viewers a week, it'd be one half to one third as watched as an episode of Doctor Who - even if most of those people are British.
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It's amazingly ambitious, it's not like anything else out there, and it shows just how far you can push genre TV. When the recession hits in and we are all back to watching shows like Charlie's Angels, people will look at BSG and be amazed (and grateful) that something with its scope was ever made.
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Doesn't matter how popular a show is. As we all know, it doesn't do us any good how many other people like something if you personally don't ...
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"ordinarily we'd use trained Daggits to guard our warriors while they slept at night in their encampments."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTjSckBBcHU&feature= PlayList&p=81E08D73648537E4&playnext=1&index=30 . Yeah. That's what a "REAL" Scotsman-er, I mean uh... BSG fan would say. That's why I hope to distance myself from such a label.
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Lost In Space: The Motion Picture?
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I'd like to see or read the whole interview. Could you point out where Dushku said this? Thanks
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I'm not sure I would bother listing some Tron rip-off than didn't even last 1/2 a season among the guy's credits. And yes, the current Battlestar is THE definitive version of the show. I would much rather see it go the way of Star Trek where they take a few years off and figure out a way to crank out some feature films with the same cast than to reboot it so soon.
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I'll believe it when I see it. I wonder if Universal has done their marketing research... will a continuation of the original series be accepted by the current built in fan base?
Obviously there are dedicated fans of the original (including myself). But, are here enough of us to make a feature film viable? I don't think so.
Also, I think with a recently concluded Galactica TV series and with a spin off in the works... a Galactica feature film that is not in the current continuity will just confuse non fans. Hell, Moore's BSG, while superb, is hard enough to follow as it is. -
Hey folks at Aint it Cool... I'm thinking "kenichi tanaka" is a fellow with another handle named "Spyderr" who used to appear on various SF web sites and post abusive material while shouting at other users. He was an ardent fan of the original BSG and would start his rants by using abusive language towards other on a site.
If SHOUTING didn't work, he soon starts to spam talkback sections of a site with Nielson viewer data using repeated posts of the information 20 or 30 times in a row.
I've noticed a similar pattern by this kenichi guy and similar complaints about his conduct from other users. be warned this dude may be a troll. -
the new bsg is hands down far more superior to that old hat show..
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for those of you who have not seen Richard Hatch's BSG: The Second Coming, here is the trailer he produced about 10 years ago while trying to resurrect the orifinal series:
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http://tinyurl.com/bxj4j7
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Was supposedly going to be a script adviser on the second season of the original BSG. Counter balancing that, some of the ideas in an outline (probably from Larson) for the season that were proposed were more than a bit suspect.
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