Battlestar Galactica
See also: Battlestar Galactica (homonymy)
Battlestar Galactica is a Franchise from Film S and televised series of Science-fiction, of which the first opus date of 1978. Several adaptations in the form of books, of news, cartoons or video games are also based on this frankness.
All the productions Battlestar Galactica share the same premise: in a part far away from the universe, a civilization the human ones saw on planets called the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies were in war against a cybernetic race, the cylon S. Thanks to the assistance of human called Baltar, cylons them launch a attack-flash on the Colonies, leaving devastated planets and their population. A few thousands of survivors flee in space on board first spaceship available. Of all this colonial fleet, the Battlestar Galactica seems to be the only military vessel having survived the attack. Under the commander of a famous military chief, the commander Adama, the vessel and his crew deal with the convoying of the fleet of survivors towards mythical refuge, the Earth.
Original series
Galactica
See also: Galactica
Glen A. Larson, the executive producer of Galactica , indicates in several interviews that it gave rise to the original concept of Galactica at the end of the years 60, qu ' it named first of all Adam' S Ark . However, it could not make pass the project of the phase of development to the phase of pre-production before several years.
Galactica was finally produced thanks to the success of the first episode of the saga the Star Wars of 1977. In fact, the Twentieth Century Fox continued Universal Studios (the studio at the origin of Galactica ) for infringement with the copyright, informant that thirty-four distinct ideas had been flights with the Star Wars . Universal counter-attacked, informant in his turn that the Star Wars had taken as a starting point the film of 1972 Silent Running (in particular robots “drones”) and by the series of the Forties, Buck Rogers . The lawsuit was finally abandoned in 1980.
At the beginning, Larson imagined Galactica like a made series of telefilms (a three hour old pilot and two two hours episodes) for the television channel ABC. A short version of the three hour old pilot, Saga off has Star World , was diffused with the Canada (before the series is not diffused there) and with the the United States (after the series is diffused there), and in the place of the two additional episodes, a weekly series followed.
In 1979 with the sixth Annual People' S Choice Awards , the series gained the price of the Best New TV Drama Series .
In the eight months which followed the diffusion of the pilot, seventeen original episodes of the series were diffused (five of them in two parts), adding up 24 hours of diffusion. Showing a fall of audience and costs increasingly important, ABC decided the cancellation of Galactica in April, its last episode The Hand off God was diffused on April 29th, 1979 on television.
Galactica 1980
See also: Galactica 1980
With the autumn 1979, decision makers of ABC met the creator of Galactica , Glen A. Larson for a revival of the series. An acceptable concept was to be necessary to attract the spectators, and it was decided that the arrival of the Colonial Fleet on a contemporary Earth should be the guiding line. A new telefilm entitled Galactica 1980 entered in phase of production. Again, it was decided that this new version of Galactica would be weekly televised series. In spite of the success of the first, the series did not succeed in reaching the popularity of original and was cancelled after only ten episodes.
In this continuation, the fleet finds the Earth and protects it from Cylons. This series was a fast failure because of its small budget (for example, one recycled material of the film Earthquake of 1974 at the time of a scene of attack cylonne), of a largely known scenario and a box-schedule not very conventional. The series was to also correspond to the restrictions of contents like the limitation of the acts of violence and was to include educational contents in script and the dialogs. To reduce the costs, the series primarily took seat on the Earth contemporaire, with the great disappointment of the fans.
Cinematographic diffusions
Attempts at republications
The original series maintained a fish pond of fans important which supported the efforts of Glen A. Larson, Richard Hatch and Bryan Singer (each one on their side) to revive the frankness. Hatch was until producing a video of demonstration in 1998 - 1999 which included several actors of the original series as well as special effects very last thing. This video, entitled Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming , was projected with conventions of science fiction, but did not lead to a new series.In 1999, the producer of Wing To order , Todd Moyer, and the producer of the original series, Glen A. Larson, revealed plans to produce a film based on the televised series.
In 2000, the realizer and an executive producer of the film X-men , Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, started to develop a télésuite Galactica with Studios the USA for FOX. Judicious being diffused as pilot disguised in May 2002, turning was programmed for November 2001. However, the delays of productions caused by the Attentats of September 11th, 2001 made conclude in Singer which it was to give up, because of its engagement to carry out X-Men 2 . The FOX then lost the interest which it carried to the project.
The réinvention of 2003
See also: Battlestar Galactica (réinvention)
In spite of the attempts to make revive the series during all these years, none bore its fruits until the réinvention in 2003 by Universal Television, in partnership with Sky One and Sci Fi Chanel with Ronald D. Moore like forces creative behind it. Edward James Olmos took the role of the commander Adama . A weekly series followed, starting on Sky One with the the United Kingdom and in Ireland in October 2004, then on Sci Fi Chanel with the the United States in January 2005.
Télésuite
See also: Battlestar Galactica (télésuite)
In December 2003, the American chain Sci Fi Chanel diffused a Télésuite which reinvented Galactica . This télésuite had as well success as Sci Fi Chanel decided to develop this version of Galactica in televised series.
Televised series
See also: Battlestar Galactica (televised series)
With the famous actors such Edward James Olmos interpreting the commander William Adama and Mary McDonnell playing the president Laura Roslin, the new series was diffused as from October 2004 on television with the the United Kingdom. Many fans of the original series were disappointed to see the differences in your, style and contain in this reinvented version. On many discussion forums, much from fans came from there to speak about the emission as GINO, acronym for “ Galactica In Name Only” (“ Galactica only by the name”). In the episode of the second season Pegasus , Ronald D. Moore named one of the characters cylons Gina in reference to the nickname of the emission.
The series was diffused in priority in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky One, and thereafter in North America in January 2005. Moore agreed to give early product of the emission to Sky because this chain had provided the financing to turn the first season. Contrary to NBC, Sky had faith in the success of the emission, mainly because the télésuite had made an excellent audience in the United Kingdom and in Ireland. However, because of massive remote loadings of the episodes by North-Americans, the later seasons were diffused in North America in priority.
A largely published version of the télésuite was diffused on the chain NBC — a sister company of Sci Fi Chanel — January 9th, 2005 on television five days before the beginning of the American diffusion. NBC in more diffused three selected episodes of the first season as an example, on television to try new American spectators before the first episode of the second season in July 2005. Unfortunately, these diffusions did not have the discounted effect. The episode of the second season shown this month reached the last place of the audience.
The series was largely acclaimed by several publications not centered on the science fiction. The magazines '' Time '' and Rolling Stone , as well as the New York Newsday called it better emission of the year 2005. Other publications like the NewYork Times , the New Yorker and the National Review gave to the series criticisms glorious.
In January 2006 on television, the diffusion of second half of the second season started in the United States, whereas the first episode of the second season ( the Whole for the whole ) was diffused on Sky One in the United Kingdom on January 10th, 2006 on television. This second season finished on March 10th, 2006 on television with the end of the double episode Posez your burden .
In spring 2006, a Peabody Award was decreed with the emission for its creative achievement.
The series renewed for a third season, and its production began in April 2006 with Vancouver. The diffusion of this season began on October 6th, 2006 on television, to stop running December 2006 on television, then on television to take again on January 21st, 2007 in a new time box.
This third season finished on March 25th, 2007 on television with the episode Croisements - 2 {{E}} left . Sci Fi had then already announced that the series would return for a fourth season. Relatively recent fact, the diffusion of the third season doubled in French on Sci Fi began little time after the end of the American diffusion to finish on June 17th, 2007 on television, that is to say less than three months after the last episode in the United States.
The fourth and last season to come must include twenty episodes, in more including one telefilm “préquel” two hours. Razor was announced and should be diffused on November 24th, 2007, then declined in DVD the following week. This telefilm telling the history of the Battlestar '' Pegasus '' and its crew before they join the Battlestar '' Galactica ''.
Webisodes
See also: Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance
The webisodes were a series of small episodes produced to promote the third season of the televised series. They covered some events between the second and third seasons and included some actors of the principal distribution. These webisodes was thus carried out not to reveal the history of the beginning of the third season. Season 3 had also been elaborate so that a spectator not having seen the webisodes does not feel not lost by seeing only the series.
Each of the ten webisodes lasted three minutes roughly and were diffused at a rate of two per week until the first of the season three in the United States.
Caprica
See also: Caprica (televised series)
Caprica is televised series suggested, described like the “family first saga of science fiction on television”. Caprica will take seat on fictitious planet of Caprica about fifty years before the events described in the reinvented series. This series will turn around two families (Adama and Graystone), the construction of the let us cylons and the beginning of the war against let us cylons. The production of this series is not yet certain in the month of May 2007.
Cartoons
See also: Battlestar Galactica (cartoon)
A series of editors of Comic S adapted Battlestar Galactica since the frankness exists.
Marvel Comics published a series of twenty-three numbers based on the series between 1978 and 1981. Other comics for summer have published by Maximum Close, Grandreams, Look-in magazine, Realm Close and, currently, by Dynamite Entertainment. Of all these series, only those of Marvel, Grandreams and Look-In finished their history. All the other series were cancelled in the course of diffusion, without the history not finding of end.
The cartoons of Grandreams and Look-In rather early take seat in the history of Galactica . The other series, based on the series of 1978, began after the last episode from the televised series and simply were unaware of Galactica 1980 .
The series of Maximum Close started with the discovery of a Ground completely depopulated, a few fifteen years after the conclusion of the televised series. The appearance and the sensitivity of the cartoons evolved/moved considerably since the original series, to give to the stories a feeling “plus the Nineties”.
The series of cartoons of Realm Close immediately takes seat after the conclusion of the last episode of the original series to try to present what they called the “season two” of Galactica . Dynamite Entertainment currently publishes cartoons basing itself at the same time on the original series and the news.
Plays
A video game '' Battlestar Galactica '' was published for the Playstation 2 of Sony, like for the Xbox of Microsoft.WizKids (a game manufacturer to be collected) produced the card deck to collect '' Battlestar Galactica '' based on the télésuite of 2003 and the televised series of 2004. The first set of charts of this play left in May 2006. After an extension, WizKids announced the cancellation of the play on March 13rd, 2007.
The original series inspired a play of plate Battlestar Galactica . The play takes seat at the time of a mission of drive where two of the four players play of Vipers colonial in order to capture a hunter cylon damaged. The play uses the ground and a good number of charts of special aptitudes for the advantage of the player.
A roleplay '' Battlestar Galactica '' is available since the Gen Con of August 2007. It is published by Margaret Weiss Productions.
A Simulateur of space flight created by a community on the topic of Battlestar Galactica is under development. It is called “ Beyond the Red Line ” and is based on the engine of play of Freespace 2. A version of demonstration multi-players, including/understanding three missions for a single player, left in 2007. Work on a continuous full version. The players can carry out missions of skirmish to the last survivor or of the missions of teams, the side of Colonial or of let us cylons.
Another Community play is under development. It is about a Strategy game in real-time called “ Battlestar Galactica: Fleet To order ” and consists of a modification of the engine of the play Homeworld 2. Versions of demonstration are available for Windows and Macintosh. They make it possible to the players to order the fleets human and cylonnes series original and current.
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