Battlestar Galactica getting rebooted (again) for NBS's streaming service

[Phily B]

I love BSG but I don't think the demand or fanbase is there and I'm always surprised when it pops up as an idea. No one is nostalgic for BSG anymore, the spin offs for the 2003 were pretty shit too and went no where. I also think BSG was never a mega hit, it was popular but not mega popular and it being a critical hit is what kept it going while ratings dwindled.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I love BSG but I don't think the demand or fanbase is there and I'm always surprised when it pops up as an idea. No one is nostalgic for BSG anymore, the spin offs for the 2003 were pretty shit too and went no where. I also think BSG was never a mega hit, it was popular but not mega popular and it being a critical hit is what kept it going while ratings dwindled.

Demand?

Shit like this happens for a few reasons, that boil down to money.

1. Random dude, calls themselves a producer, picks up the rights for next to nothing, and has to make a product or sell the rights before they expire. Only cucks let rights expire.

2. A massive innovation in technology, that either reduces cost, or improves quality, or hopefully both, which lowers production costs or increases profit by unprecedented expectations.

3. A crazy person with delusions of grandeur who thinks that their superior vision can buck the system and break the odds, thus creating profit.

 

[137th Gebirg]

 

[Markonian]

I like the thought that every iteration of BSG that has ever existed, or ever will exist, takes place in the same universe.

Takes the "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" to a whole new level.

Good call! This was actually confirmed in BSG vs BSG.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have never heard of that. Is it a comic? Graphic novel?

I'm guessing there's time travel involved, as nuBSG takes place hundreds of millennia before the original..

 

[David cgc]

I have never heard of that. Is it a comic? Graphic novel?

I'm guessing there's time travel involved, as nuBSG takes place hundreds of millennia before the original..

Comic book series collected in a graphic novel.

I don't remember if the precise nature of the connection between the universes was explained. They were connected by a freak wormhole. It's not great. The artwork, in particular, gets muddled near the end with the artist drawing the wrong battlestars and making the action become fairly confusing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I have never heard of that. Is it a comic? Graphic novel?

I'm guessing there's time travel involved, as nuBSG takes place hundreds of millennia before the original..

Comic book.

So long ago.

The TOS BSG people react poorly and violently to meeting Nu Baltar.

It's more about parallel universes than time travel.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I read the books. They weren't that good. Horrible, in fact (IMO). The artwork had vast stylistic differences during the series run, not to mention getting the ships and the characters mixed up between the two, making it very difficult to follow the motivations of both crews as the story was unfolding. It's like the whole thing was written and illustrated by people who really didn't understand either TOS or NuBSG and were just coloring-by-numbers. It was a great disappointment to me.

 

[Markonian]

Wow, I didn’t realize the BSGvsBSG wasn’t well received.
I thought the conceit of uniting the universes into a shared continuity was clever.
With an ever-repeating cycle across timelines, it opens the door for stories where the Galactica and it’s fleet arrive in all sorts of interesting time periods.
Imagine an alternate reality crossover where modern BSG arrives at the reboot Planet of the Apes!

 

[137th Gebirg]

That might actually be pretty cool to see. Don't get me wrong, I love crossovers. It's just that the way that particular BSG vs BSG was handled left a lot to be desired to me.

 

[JD]

Wow, I didn’t realize the BSGvsBSG wasn’t well received.
I thought the conceit of uniting the universes into a shared continuity was clever.
With an ever-repeating cycle across timelines, it opens the door for stories where the Galactica and it’s fleet arrive in all sorts of interesting time periods.
Imagine an alternate reality crossover where modern BSG arrives at the reboot Planet of the Apes!

If Planet of the Apes can crossover with things like Star Trek: TOS and Green Lantern, I don't see why it couldn't do it with BSG too. But the rights have moved from Boom! Studios, who did all the crossovers, which also included Tarzan and Kong ones, and to Marvel now, and they don't seem to be as big on intercompany crossovers like Boom! was. Although they do have Star Wars too, and PotA/Star Wars crossover could be pretty fun.

 

[Markonian]

If Planet of the Apes can crossover with things like Star Trek: TOS and Green Lantern, I don't see why it couldn't do it with BSG too. But the rights have moved from Boom! Studios, who did all the crossovers, which also included Tarzan and Kong ones, and to Marvel now, and they don't seem to be as big on intercompany crossovers like Boom! was. Although they do have Star Wars too, and PotA/Star Wars crossover could be pretty fun.

Wow, I didn't even know about the Lanty/Ape crossover!
I guess Star Wars crossovers are precluded by its setting far in time and space. And having to avoid revealing anything about Human origins.
That being said, a BSG and Star Wars crossover would be mint!

 

[Nerys Myk]

I can't imagine Lucas Films signing off on a crossover.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Companies buy and sell subsidiaries all the time. If CBS/ViaCom/Paramount (or whomever buys them in the coming months) decides they want to buy Lucasfilm for a substantial offer from Disney (or Disney itself, the way its market share has been tanking lately), it can theoretically happen. General audiences are now fully indoctrinated in the concept of the multiverse - it would be a very easy pill to swallow at this point to get them to cross paths from a story-building POV. If the suits think a Trek vs Wars crossover film and/or series will rake in some crazy-ass bank to offset the initial investment, you goddamn right they'll go for it. Throw BSG into the mix with a merger with Universal, then it gets real interesting. In any scenario, Lucasfilm wouldn't have a say in the matter.

Question is, if all these entertainment conglomerates eventually merge into a single massive megacorp, will it eventually run afoul of Federal anti-trust laws? As the old Magic 8-ball likes to say sometimes, "Outlook Good".

 

[Guy Gardener]

Wow, I didn't even know about the Lanty/Ape crossover!
I guess Star Wars crossovers are precluded by its setting far in time and space. And having to avoid revealing anything about Human origins.
That being said, a BSG and Star Wars crossover would be mint!

Yawn...

Planet of the Cylons.

So sleepy.

 

[Chaos Descending]

It's dead.

Battlestar Galactica Reboot No Longer in Development at Peacock

A reboot of the sci-fi classic 'Battlestar Galactica' from Sam Esmail is no longer in development at Peacock — get the details.

tvline.com

 

[CorporalCaptain]

It doesn't say why, but cost is probably at or near the top of the list, I'd imagine. In other words, too much expense for too little return. No surprise whatsoever.

 

[Tosk]

I'm not terribly surprised after all this time. And to be honest, I'm not terribly disappointed either.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I’m not worried. There will probably be at least 5-7 more such announcements and cancellations within the next decade before they get around to actually making it.

 

[N-121973]

What about the new film?