Re: Galactica movie a "Go"

Your Name <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Dec 2022 10:08:43 +1300
Newsgroups alt.battlestar-galactica
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2022-12-05 08:36:55 +0000, Daniel65 said:
> Your Name wrote on 5/12/22 6:57 am:
>> On 2022-12-04 08:40:05 +0000, Daniel65 said:
>>> Your Name wrote on 4/12/22 8:24 am:
>>>> On 2022-12-03 19:16:17 +0000, MummyChunk said:
>>>>>  > RT wrote:
>>>>>  >
>>>>> http://www.tracking-board.com/exclusive-michael-de-luca-boards-universals-battlestar-galactica-reboot/ 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > Michael De Luca has signed on to produce Universal’s feature
>>>>>  > adaptation of Glen A. Larson’s beloved series BATTLESTAR
>>>>>  > GALACTICA. The long-gestating project has reportedly been in
>>>>>  > development since 1999, but it was put on hold when the Sci-Fi
>>>>>  > channel picked up its series adaptation, which hailed from
>>>>>  > Universal’s sister company NBC Universal Television. Sci-Fi’s
>>>>>  > Battlestar Galactica ran for four seasons and is often cited
>>>>>  > as one of the net’s best programs, but the feature version is
>>>>>  > expected to be wholly separate from the television reboot,
>>>>>  > drawing instead from the original 1978 series.
>>>>>  > ....
>>>>> 
>>>>> And....  where is the movie?
>>>> 
>>>> As of January 2022, a movie (at least one, possibly two different ones) 
>>>> and another TV series were still in the works.
>>> 
>>> Memory failing ..... Hasn't Battlestar Galactica already had to T.V. 
>>> series starts already??
>> 
>> There has been Moore-Ron's awful "reboot" series and its spin-off 
>> TV-movies and shows.
>> 
>>> And now another one!! Sure, it's a movie but which series is it going 
>>> to follow on from??
>> 
>> There are multiple projects in various states of progress, but none 
>> remotely close to any casting or filming, and likely may never get made.
>> 
>> <https://collider.com/battlestar-galactica-movie-tv-show-shared-universe-simon-kinberg-comments/> 
>> 
>> <https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/battlestar-galactica-new-movie-tv-shared-universe/> 
>> 
>> There are projects that ignore Moore-Ron's version and "Galactica 1980" 
>> to be a follow-on to the original series (set decades later), projects 
>> that somehow magically link the original series and Moore-Ron's 
>> version, projects that completely re-boot the idea again.
>> 
>> Like "Star Trek", and the Marvel and DC superheroes, the Galactica 
>> franchise is now such a confused mess of conflicting versions thanks to 
>> talentless idiots with their own ideas of what it "should" have been, 
>> that it has been killed off entirely.  :-(
> 
> Are you, Your Name, typing about "Battlestar Galactica" or about recent 
> "Doctor Who"?? ;-) Shame how that can happen.

"Doctor Who" is another franchise that has been killed, but that was 
due to fools stupidly gender-swapping (and now race-swapping) the white 
male character simply to appease the "Politically Correct" morons.   :-(