Nix | February 23, 2009
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Battlestar Galactica: The Movie?

No, not the Sci Fi Channel reboot. Sorry, fans of depressing so-called sci-fi shows. We’re actually talking about the original Battlestar Galactica TV show, which according to IGN is currently moving towards an original theatrical movie over at Universal Pictures under the watchful eye of original creator Glen A. Larson, who will write and produce. Or at least, that’s the rumor.

IGN has more:

IGN Movies has learned that Universal Pictures is planning to turn the TV series Battlestar Galactica into a feature film with series creator Glen A. Larson being lined up to script and produce it.

Universal has denied the rumor, but IGN is sure that they’re right, and points to a casting rumor they reported a full year before the studio finally officially announced it.

So what do you think, BSG fans? You like the idea of the “old” show making it to theaters, or would you rather have the “new” one?

Below: I gotta admit, the new show’s got more eye candy. Even if it does make me want to take a shower after every episode to wipe away the stink of decaying humanity.


Category: Battlestar Galactica TV Series, Battlestar Galactica: The Movie, Sci-Fi Movie News, Sci-Fi TV News |
  • Jake Callahan

    YES! YES! YES!

    No more Battlestar Sex Opera.

    Give us the REAL Battlestar Galactica, With Starbuck with nuts intact, Boomer the same, Apollo not a whiney schmuck, Colonel Tigh who isn’t an alcoholic nutjob “cylon”, with divorce issues, and for the Lords of Kobol sake, give us our fraking king tut flight helmets!!!!

    Screw Ron Moore and his lame ass reimagined sex drama, and his botox candidate cy-broads.

    • Micheal Collins

      I agree. I just watched the entire DVD set of the new Battlestar Galactica and it SUCKS. I want the real thing back. The new Battlestar Galactica is not even really sci-fi, it’s the ‘Days of Our Lives’ in outer space. I am one of the biggest science fiction fans ever and have virtually every single important science fiction movie ever made plus over a hundred of the best novels in my collection. I also have my own novels in the works. There was nothing wrong with the original Battlestar Galactica. What I find most disturbing is that an extensive look through the websites in favor of the new series shows the incredible Gestapo like nature of the fans of the new series. Disagree for a moment that it’s the greatest TV show ever created in the entire history of entire ‘frakking’ world and suddenly there is something ‘wrong’ with you. I would submit that most of these people don’t know real, quality science fiction from the hole in their ‘frakking’ ass. One of the main purposes of quality science fiction has always been to expand the human imagination as to what might actually be possible. I can’t think of one single example from the new series that does that while I can from the old one even though it was much more short lived. Yes, the absurdity of it all. We are actually expected to believe that a society capable of intergalactic flight would still be using boom mikes, dial up phones, and guns on one of it’s starship. If that’s not ludicrous enough the flashbacks to Caprica just before the Cylon attack shows them driving around in modern day looking automobiles. A culture with starflight capability still driving around in automobiles?!!! These people have been separated from the humans on Earth for thousands and yet their wearing ties and clothing that could have come from you local Mall. If that’s not ludicrous enough one episode has Baltar quoting the Shakespeare. Please tell me you fans of this new series how Baltar could possibly have known any Shakespeare when they haven’t had contact with Earth for thousands of years. I’m certain that there are more people out there that we may know of who would agree with how inane it all is. Yes, I want the real Starbuck back and Apollo and Adama and a Tigh who’s not a wackjob, whiney old geizer and I even want to see those great Egyptian style helmets. After a smash movie I’d like to see a new Battlestar Galactica TV show re-re-imagined. One where Cylon’s are not getting raped, where we’re not supposed to be embarrassed to have traditional sci-fi technology like laser blasters and most of all where the damm camera is actually held still instead of being swung around all the time like it’s being held by some drunk like Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace!!

    • shawn

      frack you !!

  • Travis

    I agree. It’s high time for a big screen “reboot” of Larson’s original vision. With modern-day FX, better scripts and Stu Phillips’ awesome score, this could be a real winner. Check out Richard Hacth’s “Second Coming” trailer on Youtube and you can clearly see that a 21st-century update of the ’78 series could be actually quite awesome, and not at all “cheesy” like the original series. There are so many rich themes to explore, given the parallels between the Cylons and the Nazi regime etc etc.

    All the twentysomethings out there who weren’t even born in 1978 may prefer Ron Moore’s dark version of BSG, but us old-skoolers would like to see a return to the show we grew up with, in which values such as courage, bravery, honour and family love actually meant something. And how great would it be to see Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict playing their old roles again, but older and wiser, with kids of their own? That’d be fantastic. Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford and Sly Stallone have all recently proved that older action heroes can still cut it in today’s movie world, so why not these guys too? Bring it on, Glen!!

    • Dan Davidson

      I have to agree with the above comments, apart from the idea that all twenty-somethings prefer the new series. This is not entirely true. I am twenty (almost twenty-one) and I hate the new series of ‘BSG’ (which I call GINO), and am a very big fan of the old BSG, the only BSG. If this rumour is true, then that’ll be great, and I look forward to it coming out in the UK cinemas.

  • Bob

    I’m in my late thirties and a huge sci-fi fan. however, while I loved the original series it did not have a shred of the depth of the new BSG. Where the original series provided cheesy sexist stereotypes the new series provides us with actual, believable, characters. I cared about these characters in a way I never did for the originals. The new series may not be to your taste but it is well-loved for a very good reason – it is an excellent screenplay.

  • Richard

    Thank you Bob…

    When I was a kid, BSG (the original) was the hottest thing since STAR WARS (the year before). It will always be something special. The cast was good… the music, great… some of the storylines excellent. But… As you look back at it… it was pretty cheesy… and, yes, we all know about the budget of the show… if I saw the same effects shot one more time I think I might throw up. Also… keep in mind the GODAWFUL GALACTICA 1980… Enough said on that abomination and Doctor Zee (yuk).

    The “re-boot” is more real… with real characters… rich and complex storytelling at it’s best. The large cast is excellent. The effects better than most movies… and the scoring just awesome.
    The continued plots/situatons were brilliant. A true gem.

    Yes… the original was for kids (I was 13 when it started).
    Loved as a kid… and parts of it still love today.

    Yes… the “re-boot” is for adults. I miss it already.

  • bsg

    I bet you daggits to cubits that a movie based on the original bsg will never happen.

    who wants to see a 10,000 yaran old BS, plod through contrived crap, with inane plots that even the raunchiest socialator would dimiss as stupid.

    You people are trying to relive your youth. You are old now.

    it is time to man-up, and for the gods sake, move on…This train derailed 30 years ago…

  • Tina

    I dunno why people worship Star Wars and the original BSG so much. They don’t seem to have any deep meaning. I dunno why people think SW is so original. Star Wars basically rips off the hero archetype, replete with the “mentor” and self-discovery themes (Jung discusses such mythological archetypes). It’s basically has the same plot as many myths but it’s just set in space. Do they really have much to say? Nope. They’re just superficial rip, roaring adventures.

  • Chad

    Awesome news!! DEATH TO RON MOORE’S GALACTICA IN NAME ONLY!! Bring on the real thing!! STAR WARS AND THE REAL BATTELSTAR GALACTICA as created by Glen Larson rocks!! Screw SyFy and their imitation, watered down daytime soap opera garbage. They need to fire Bonnie Hammer, the ex-Lifetime Channel exec. She’s ruining the channel.

  • Rand

    It’s about time Glen Larson took back what’s rightfully his. Long fly the true:ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica. AND yes GIVE me BACK my FRACKING Egyptian STYLE helmet.