BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

[Music] in the early 2000s a producer named david ike and a writer named ronald d moore began working together on a reboot of a 1978 sci-fi tv series much of the world didn't even seem to remember anymore by tapping into some of their own past storytelling frustrations as well as the fears and concern of post-9 11 america they began constructing what would become one of the most acclaimed series of the 21st century so far as well as one of the great science fiction stories of all time the road to battlestar galactica becoming a giant of 2000s television was not an easy one though its creators fought through uncertain early plans a fandom who hated the very idea of a reboot and a supposed plan that didn't really exist all to establish a new vision of sci-fi television in order to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the series's finale how they changed brings you some facts about battlestar galactica it was not the first reboot attempt talk of returning to the battlestar galactica universe stretched all the way back to the 1980s when franchise creator glenn a larson issued repeated promises that a continuation would eventually arrive by the late 1990s that promise began to look a little more likely though perhaps not in the way larsen had originally intended in 1998 original battlestar galactica series star richard hatch took it upon himself to try to revive the series with a project he called the second coming maxing out credit cards and spending more than fifty thousand dollars of his own money to fund a proof of concept trailer that he hoped would lead to a new life for battlestar galactica hatch completed work on the project in 1999 but the project never got beyond screenings for fans at conventions meanwhile larsen had begun developing his own new story centered around the battlestar pegasus which was set to get its own film from producer todd meyer when the 1999 adaptation of the video game wing commander which moya produced flopped at the box office his battlestar galactica project also evaporated the closet near mister battlestar galactica revival was yet to come though and it arrived when brian singer fresh of the success of x-men wanted to continue the franchise with a new television series which executives were eager to set up at the fox network according to production executive todd sharp that version which was described as relatively faithful to the original series compared to what was to come got as far as designing ships and building early sets when singer instead opted to return to the x-men franchise for x2 with the property up in the air yet again universal cable entertainment president angela mancuso took battlestar galactica back with an eye toward bringing it to what was then the sci-fi channel now spelled s-y-f-y for that man kiso turned to executive producer david ike it was inspired by 9 11. by the time battlestar galactica made its way to ronald d moore a veteran of three different star trek tv series by that point it was still only a potentially profitable property that universal was hoping to revive when ike had a general meeting with moore he was reluctant to even mention the prospect of yet another sci-fi series but this was late 2001 just months after the terrorist attacks of september 11 and more started to see parallels in the original series that he could explore there is a good chance the show would have happened even without 911 because they were just looking for someone to capitalize on the title in the library and it wasn't because of 911 that they saw value in it it was just a market title more recalled so i think that wasn't a separate track i believe that it definitely would have gone in a different direction no matter what if not for 9 11 and the aftermath they were in afghanistan and then iraq the patriot act and guantanamo and all those things were such a heavy influence in the show that if none of that had happened it's hard to imagine the show would have developed in the same way star trek frustration helped make it happen ironically the ark's concern was that moore wouldn't want to take on another sci-fi series after years of writing star trek part of the appeal for more was that he could make something that wasn't like the beloved franchise he just left though moore had spent many fruitful years working on both tv series and feature films for star trek it was his frustration with the franchise's storytelling restrictions especially deep space nine that got him excited to work on battlestar galactica all of that was the beginning of my thinking if i had to do this showing my way what would i do i would edit it differently and i would shoot it differently i would rough up these characters even more and i would be riskier in a lot of ways than what we were willing to do in star trek more sad and i'm tired of the big view screen and i'm tired of the captain's chair and i'm tired of the way the ships move in space why can't they move more like ships in space would really move it was a lot of that sort of thinking all through those years that later when i had the opportunity well now you really can do show all those things were ready i'd already thought deeply about them i was ready to just implement them the original plan was to explore the fleet more battlestar galactica returned to television at a time before streaming and dvrs were widely used and a time when network executives were still concerned that serialized storytelling would turn up viewers who would get confused if they missed an episode that meant that while moore and ike were interested in a serialized story the show's first season had to lean in a more episodic direction according to moore this originally took the form of episodes that would explore different types of ships in the colonial fleet there was just one problem sets are expensive the initial approach was that the show would bring the characters to a variety of ships in the fleet among them vessels that served as hospitals prisons schools and even malls we had the idea of the ragtag fleet as our world and our community and we could tell lots of different stories more told empire but for practical reasons that didn't work out we did the prison ship very early when we established tom's iraq and we almost broke our budget we quickly realized that we couldn't do that as much as we thought we could so suddenly all those stories and ideas were wiped off the board and we concentrated much more upfront what was happening aboard galactica moore kicked off the story with a manifesto with a new sci-fi property to work with and years of experience on star trek to pull from for inspiration moore wanted to make his intentions for battlestar galactica which began as mini-series before the network ultimately greenleaded as an ongoing series clear from the beginning to do this he included a three-page manifesto of sorts at the beginning of the mini-series script a document which has now become legendary to fans titled naturalistic science fiction or taking the oprah out of space opera moore began the document with a simple but grand mission statement our goal is nothing less than the reinvention of the science fiction television series the document was initially suggested by ike as a way of better outlining the show's speech to network executives but it ultimately remained attached to the script as it went out to actors though he didn't intend it moore's manifesto ultimately drew some of the show's most important stars including edward james almas to the series changing starbucks gender was key and controversial when he first began developing his new approach to the series moore began looking at ways to reinvent the series's original characters and quickly turned to the problem of what to do about apollo and starbuck the two pilots who were the stars of larsen's original series moore saw the friendship between a straight-laced pilot and a rule-breaking pilot as a cliche of genre television and was looking for a way to break through that then a simple idea occurred to him and the thought just occurred to me what if we made starbuck a woman i just realized that would change everything it would change the whole dynamic she would be an interesting character more recalled it was right at the point where we were starting to get familiar with the idea of women in combat in the united states so it was kind of a fresh and new character to play with that was an early idea that then came to be a big influence in the show the move which star katie sackov did not even realize was a switch from the original series when she was first offered the part would prove to be defining one for the series as well as a controversial one and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 03 2021