The weekend is ahead and the day of relaxing from coding furiously all week, should also be near. Given that most OS coders love sci-fi, here are some sci-fi movie and TV news: One of the most highly anticipated new sci-fi series, a revival of 70s cult classic Battlestar Galactica, has been shelved after director Bryan Singer jumped ship to direct ‘X-Men 2’.Created by Glenn A. Larson, the original Battlestar Galactica ran for 22 episodes between 1978-1979. The series was eventually cancelled because of high production costs – each episode cost $1 million to make, an astronomical figure for the day. A short-lived series entitled Galactica: 1980 followed, but was universally panned and cancelled after six episodes. Richard Hatch (Apollo in the series) and BattleStarGalactica.com are trying to save the series with petitions and by asking fans write letters to Fox.
In the meantime, Star Trek X (codenamed ‘Nemesis’), the 10th Star Trek movie and the 4th revolving around the Next Generation crew, is slated to be starting shooting in a few weeks. The story will introduce a resolution between the Federation and the long standing enemies (allies only for a short time in the DeepSpace9’s Dominion Wars), the Romulans. More news about Trek X (and full spoilers) can be found on TrekToday.com archives.
In the meantime, the long awaited Star Wars EpisodeII, which it will be released in May, it has a new promo video available to view in a QuickTime format.
thanks Eugenia. yet another reason to read OSNews
i was hoping that there would be a second X-Men as i really enjoyed the first and i hope that Galactica gets off the ground.
cheers
peter
I’m pleased to hear about X-Men 2. I did use to like Galactica so I still hope that it gets through finally (and No, I did not like the 1980 Galactica stupidity they did, that gets erased out of living history). This week I received the DVD of the X-Men movie and I tell you it’s really great.
There are so many extras on the disk it takes more than an hour to go through the extras alone, let alone the movie. Well worth the money. You even get to see covers of the comic book, Stan Lee himself is interviewed. There is even a ‘Fox News special’ extra – Mutant Watch giving you a ‘live’ report from the ‘US senate’.. Great stuff. Many trailers, cut footage which you can see as part of the movie or on its own… Well worth the price of the disk on its own.
How could you ignore the most important news about Star Trek X: Wil Wheaton (http://www.wilwheaton.net/), AKA Wesley Crusher, is back! Sure, we all hated Wesley, but Wil is a cool guy and he deserves a better send-off than he received in ST: TNG season 4.
With Singer being the driving force behind Battlestar Galactica, what did he expect to happen to it when he abandoned ship? Obviously he expects X-Men II to be better for his career than a Galactica revival, but this just shows us how committed he really was to the project in the first place… an act that might work against his future business deals… kind of like Be Inc.’s jumping from target to target… heh heh…
Well, I thought X-Men was a steaming pile, but I did enjoy Galactica when I was a kid. It might be interesting to see it come back. Hopefully, it will be a little more intelligent than it was.