Any news on the Battlestar Galactica movie?

[Greg Cox]

If your referring to Mockingbird Lane that actually did get a pilot, which aired on NBC shortly before Holloween in 2012. I actually thought it was pretty good, and was a bit disappointed it never went beyond the pilot.

I would have liked to have seen more of that, too.

 

[yenny]

Here is the lates news. It's news about gender swapped. I don't mind if they made Colonial Tigh as a female. I'm hoping they don't make Adama as a female, I think that character should stay the same. As well as Apollo, I think he should stay male as well.
https://screenrant.com/battlestar-galactica-movie-gender-swap/

 

[The Wormhole]

A female Adama does not bother me at all.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So apparently no continuation of either TV series, but will have nods to both in some fashion. I expect we'll see a token artifact of an original Cylon Centurion. The re-imagined Cylon Centurions in the reboot series were excellent... and I'd hope they'd utilize that design, if licensing permits. I was ambivalent about the reworked Battlestar ship design, though. I'd prefer to see that become some hybrid of the old and reboot designs.

I am seriously liking the idea that every iteration of BSG that has ever existed, or that ever WILL exist, takes place in the same universe. "All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" writ large.

Side note: I know that Dirk Benedict had some, shall we say, "less than kind" things to say about nuBSG (specifically, making Starbuck a woman) when it first aired. And I know that Katee Sackhoff was seriously pissed at him about this. Did they ever patch up their differences?

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Side note: I know that Dirk Benedict had some, shall we say, "less than kind" things to say about nuBSG (specifically, making Starbuck a woman) when it first aired. And I know that Katee Sackhoff was seriously pissed at him about this. Did they ever patch up their differences?

I guess so.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ So that photo was taken AFTER the kerfuffle between them had been smoothed over?

 

[Gary7]

^ Wow, Dirk has really held up well over the years! Great shot of these two.

 

[David cgc]

^ So that photo was taken AFTER the kerfuffle between them had been smoothed over?

I have a vague recollection that this photo op happened twice, once during production of the miniseries, before Benedict wrote his infamous op-ed, and then a few years later they did another "Starbucks in a Starbucks" shoot as a way to bury the hatchet.

(I always found it interesting that not only did Herb Jefferson have nothing to say about Boomer's race and gender being changed, it's also overlooked when the subject comes up. Everyone always talks about Starbuck becoming a woman in the remake, but not Boomer.)

 

[137th Gebirg]

Of the original cast I actually liked Boomer the most. Starbuck was too much the clone of Han Solo, the roguish hotshot pilot womanizer and Apollo was the humorless straight-laced Boy Scout who seemed virtually incapable of independent thought. Boomer was in between, complementing both of them and balancing the archetypes. He always had his friends' backs without question and seemed the most grounded and the one I would most prefer to hang out, have a beer with and shoot the shit. It is strange how there was virtually no freakshow about that recasting (or Tigh or Cain either, for that matter) compared to the Starbuck kerfuffle.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have a vague recollection that this photo op happened twice, once during production of the miniseries, before Benedict wrote his infamous op-ed, and then a few years later they did another "Starbucks in a Starbucks" shoot as a way to bury the hatchet.

Hmmmm. Well, in any case, I'm glad they got the chance to patch things up.

 

[Mudd]

It's not news about gender-swapping roles. It's news about a fan writer asking the producer would consider gender-swapping the roles.

 

[USS Firefly]

^ Wow, Dirk has really held up well over the years! Great shot of these two.

Isn't that photo from before the serie started, in 2003, 2004

 

[Gary7]

Isn't that photo from before the serie started, in 2003, 2004

Well even still, 15 years ago, considering Battlestar Galactica came out in the late 1970's... he was certainly doing well up to that point. Unless this wasn't just an informal gathering and he had a full makeup job.

 

[The Wormhole]

I always found it interesting that not only did Herb Jefferson have nothing to say about Boomer's race and gender being changed, it's also overlooked when the subject comes up. Everyone always talks about Starbuck becoming a woman in the remake, but not Boomer.)

It does come up in the first "Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbucks" thing that was included on the solo DVD release of the BSG mini. Towards the end, Katee Sackhoff just inserts "you know they also made Boomer a woman." Dirk Benedict reacts "are there any men on this show?"

 

[Noname Given]

It does come up in the first "Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbucks" thing that was included on the solo DVD release of the BSG mini. Towards the end, Katee Sackhoff just inserts "you know they also made Boomer a woman." Dirk Benedict reacts "are there any men on this show?"

^^^
And given the way both Apollo and Baltar were portrayed over the run of NuBSG2003 - the correct answer would have been: "One, Cmdr. Adama."