The bad news: He was also responsible for Buck Rogers, Knight Rider, BJ and the Bear, Sheriff Lobo, Manimal, and Automan.
It's-a gonna be a big-screen suckfest.
Posted on 02/21/2009 5:56:47 PM PST by tlb
Battlestar Galactica is nearing the end of its run on television and it seems natural that someone out there might consider transitioning this thing to the big screen, especially considering the show’s rampant popularity among both fans and critics. So HR reports that Universal Pictures is working on a Battlestar movie. Except they aren’t using the version you saw on TV as the film’s basis. Nope, instead they’ve hired Glen Larson, the guy responsible for the original, extremely cheesy 80s version to make the film.
Larson has had very little to do with the new, much more popular version of his show. In fact he’s been just about the only vocal opponent to it. Unfortunately, Larson owns the movie rights to the franchise and for years now he’s been the road block standing in the way of getting a movie done. This news makes it seem that since he refused to budge, Universal threw up its hands and gave him what he wants since he, not the guy in charge of the current BSG incarnation Ron Moore, is writing and producing the new movie version.
So for those of you with dreams of seeing your current favorite BSG characters up on screen… forget it. Instead you’ll get a stupid robot dog and guys in shiny spandex, courtesy of Glen A. Larson. The movie version will have no connection to the series and by the mere fact of its existence erases any hope that the current, superior version of BSG will ever get its theatrical due.
Starbuck a man? Absurd.
Will Face be in it?
Meedie, meedie, meedie.
Maybe if they were using JJ Abrams or somebody with cred I mean come on Glen Larson? In that case the current TV show is almost guaranteed to be better.
Anyone remember a cartoon called the Thundercats? Would make a cool movie:
Preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk
Felgercarb!
The original was a fine series. The two are very different, though.
It’s gonna to be embarrassing to the original series. I like them both for what they are....but a new movie based on the original is not going to work at this point.
Oh, come on. Everyone who ever saw a single episode of the original BSG knows that the guys didn't wear shiny spandex, the hot babes did! :-)
Seriously, Richard Hatch cooked up a pretty decent short film to pitch the revival of the show to the studios, a few years before the "re-imagined" show was conceived. It was probably the last time John Colicos was in front of a camera, too. AFAIK, that short film has never been leaked to the internet. Too bad.
The bad news: He was also responsible for Buck Rogers, Knight Rider, BJ and the Bear, Sheriff Lobo, Manimal, and Automan.
It's-a gonna be a big-screen suckfest.
A version of BSG that is uplifting, affirms the intrinsic human yearning for life and liberty, that doesn't demean and debase concepts such as religion, faith, faithfulness, leadership and humanity? A version of BSG that is clear on moral principal? That celebrates both heroism and humility?
Why can't the arrogant little turd writing this article conceive of the possibility that American movie goers would prefer such a film?
One of my relatives worked on the original show. The actions of the director, producers, etc. are what convinced him to retire.
The original wasn’t too bad.
In 1980, they to resurrect it. That series ran 10 episodes only. It had turned into a kiddie program.
Without John Colicos and this being 10 years ago, I don’t see the point to reviving BSG TOS.
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