Battlestar Galactica to the Big Screen?

[ernie90125]

From a BSG movie deal.....to nurses uniforms....poor Gemini1999 is going to have to write an essay long post in orange !

[Darrell Lawrence]

Not a good idea to take a "dig" at one of my moderators for doing his job

[Gemini1999]

Originally Posted by Warrior

Not a good idea to take a "dig" at one of my moderators for doing his job

Yeah, I get to "put up" with him in two different forums - this one and over at the New Voyages/Phase II forum. He's no bother to me. I just consider the source...

[Dawg]

Originally Posted by CBSG4ever

Boy...you people will do ANYTHING to get a part! Sheeesh!

*walks away wearing only a...thong...*

Oh, my.... The mental picture.....

Tell Mrs. Dawg I'm not going to be interested in dinner...... For at least a week.....

*urp*

I am
Dawg

[oldwardaggit]

Originally Posted by Lord Kingjason

LOL!



what the...! You guys.

KJ

Well hay, you know when you least expect it, I'll make this kind of post.
We are getting hurricane Bill right now here in Nova Scotia Canada but it's just a tropical storm so I can actually sit out on my Deck and drink beer in it. COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.

OWD

[oldwardaggit]

Originally Posted by Reaper

good thing I'm auditioning for Bojay. I have to wear the Socialator dress though.

Go work it. lol

OWD

[oldwardaggit]

Originally Posted by martok2112

Nurses uniform? What nurses uniform?

They only told me about the garters and thigh highs!

Curses!!!! The world conspireth against me!

Actually you just have to fire your agent because everyone knows about the nurse thing. lol

OWD

[oldwardaggit]

Originally Posted by Damocles

Which one of you was told to show up with a gorilla suit, a bikini, and a box of chocolates for your interview?

This is a Bryan Singer film, not Tim Burton. lol

OWD

[oldwardaggit]

Originally Posted by Warrior

*trips in high heels*

...what are you guys looking at?

That's the first time I ever seen you trip in high heels...........well unless you count that time on the cat walk but I promised you then that I would never speak of that again.

However, I do believe it's on youtube somewhere but it looks nothing like you.
even though we all know it is .

OWD

[oldwardaggit]

Originally Posted by CBSG4ever

Boy...you people will do ANYTHING to get a part! Sheeesh!

*walks away wearing only a...thong...*

Hey anyone in the business will tell you that thongs are for getting commercials only.

But the main thing is that I'm Starbuck in the new movie. I'm also Batman but that's besides the point.

OWD

[monolith21]

I leave for a day and everyone is in drag!!!


Seriously though whomever took my mascara I'm going to need that back. I have an interview...

[Aphrodite]

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

That's the first time I ever seen you trip in high heels...........well unless you count that time on the cat walk but I promised you then that I would never speak of that again.

However, I do believe it's on youtube somewhere but it looks nothing like you.
even though we all know it is .

OWD

I think you just did speak of that again...hehehe

[CBSG4ever]

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

Hey anyone in the business will tell you that thongs are for getting commercials only.

But the main thing is that I'm Starbuck in the new movie. I'm also Batman but that's besides the point.

OWD

Wellllll... MY agent mentioned something about a casting call for a Triad Scene??
Does anyone have a parka? I'm feeling a bit of a draft.

[AlternityOrange]

Originally Posted by CBSG4ever

Boy...you people will do ANYTHING to get a part! Sheeesh!

*walks away wearing only a...thong...*

But why did you wear the thong on your head? You set casting back weeks!

[jewels]

Originally Posted by CBSG4ever

Wellllll... MY agent mentioned something about a casting call for a Triad Scene??
Does anyone have a parka? I'm feeling a bit of a draft.

Triad: Those were speedos, darling. Not thongs. Think Mark Spitz, not Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan, et all.

Parkas? Um, yes the closet where we keep the Arcta gear is to your left, behind you. The other left.

[jewels]

Plugging my own threads: http://colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17160 fantasy cast

There's also one with a similar title for possible storylines.

Just something to do (other than dress up) while we aren't hearing production news for a few months.

[Damocles]

Originally Posted by jewels

Plugging my own threads: http://colonialfleets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17160 fantasy cast

There's also one with a similar title for possible storylines.

Just something to do (other than dress up) while we aren't hearing production news for a few months.

Basically, instead of an Egyptian (Erik van Danniken^1) feel with a Mormon history overlay, I want to try a more Homeric (epic) quality with a bit of the Aeneid thrown in.

As for who could write it? I don't want Jane Espenson (though she is a decent protege of Josh Whedon) as a writer, basically because she was trained by Josh Whedon. She is too soap operaish to my taste. We need somebody who can write Space Epic for the big screen.

So its the X-Files crew, James Wong and Glenn Morgan, I tap for the screen writing duties; if someone has any brains at Universal.

^1 Not a person that I like at all.

[Damocles]

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

This is a Bryan Singer film, not Tim Burton. lol

OWD

Actually the gorilllla suit, as I discovered, was for the casting director. One of the lawyers got the bikini. I don't know who got the chocolates.

Originally Posted by oldwardaggit

Well I heard you wouldn't put the nurses uniform on during your meeting with Universal and everyone knows you must wear the nurses uniform. Hell, even Larson shaved his legs and dawned the uniform.

Don't you mean "mooned"?

Sometimes it's even further down because Hatch changed into his nurses uniform in the limo on his way to have lunch with Larson.

How did you find that out? Do you know the trouble he had with the hat?

Here is a little bit of how that meeting went.

As far as I know, I had the only copy of the blackmail; er videotape for record.....who gave you yours?

Larson = Nice Uniform
Hatch = I changed into it in the limo on the way over
Larson = I'm impressed, sign here please.

It was not exactly what they said.....

So now you know if you really want to get them to sway your way, you have to wear the uniform.

Or know a good technician.

Larson tried to hold out from wearing it for years but in the end, even he had to slap on that sucker to get this movie deal.

Better that, than the thomg.

I think he might have had to get it let out a bit though. It's been quite a while since he had to button up that little white number.

OWD

Somehow from that remark; I now understand the significance of


Mister Moose in the videotape.

[monolith21]

I think Jane Espenson is a fantastic writer, but she has written for Gino quite a bit. I think they need someone that could be a bit more original series oriented.

As I've said before David Hayter is my ultimate pick. He has demonstrated the ability to work well with Bryan Singer and adapt existing properties extremely well and true to the source.

Aside from Hayter I'd say Alex Garland who wrote "Sunshine" did a bang up job there.
I actually think would do a fantastic job would be Russel T. Davies!

He managed to pull Doctor Who out of mothballs and keep it true to form while updating it in a great way. Imagine what he could do with a big budget like this movie.

[Damocles]

Originally Posted by monolith21

I think Jane Espenson is a fantastic writer, but she has written for Gino quite a bit. I think they need someone that could be a bit more original series oriented.

Get a hold of a copy of the pilot episode for a certain series she is scheduled to do for SyFy. Can't say any more than this, but 10 seconds into it, you'll see what I mean about her unsuitability for the project in any capacity.

As I've said before David Hayter is my ultimate pick. He has demonstrated the ability to work well with Bryan Singer and adapt existing properties extremely well and true to the source.

Didn't he botch X-Men 2, and had to be bailed out by Zack Penn and Singer himself in major rewrites as they shot the thing?

Aside from Hayter I'd say Alex Garland who wrote "Sunshine" did a bang up job there.

Alex Garland botched the screen treatment for Halo. He had it rewritten by Josh Olsen and some other guy whose name escapes me; so that it could be shot within budget. That is not a slam on him, because he is a great writer, (28 Days Later) but it does show that he has a problem with writing within a limited FX budget.

I actually think would do a fantastic job would be Russel T. Davies!

He managed to pull Doctor Who out of mothballs and keep it true to form while updating it in a great way. Imagine what he could do with a big budget like this movie.

I have no argument with this. There may have been some casting gaffes with series 2 of the new Who (Doctor), but the writing is still very good.

[Kronus]

Originally Posted by monolith21

I leave for a day and everyone is in drag!!!


Seriously though whomever took my mascara I'm going to need that back. I have an interview...

Dude I told you you'll find it in your Gucci bag next to the divan under the lamp with the red and blue scarf over it. Besides, you better not scuff my nice new pumps I just got last week or you'll owe me $200 cubits!

I swear, you never listen man....you never listen!

[monolith21]

My bad man!

[monolith21]

Originally Posted by Damocles

Get a hold of a copy of the pilot episode for a certain series she is scheduled to do for SyFy. Can't say any more than this, but 10 seconds into it, you'll see what I mean about her unsuitability for the project in any capacity.



Didn't he botch X-Men 2, and had to be bailed out by Zack Penn and Singer himself in major rewrites as they shot the thing?



Alex Garland botched the screen treatment for Halo. He had it rewritten by Josh Olsen and some other guy whose name escapes me; so that it could be shot within budget. That is not a slam on him, because he is a great writer, (28 Days Later) but it does show that he has a problem with writing within a limited FX budget.



I have no argument with this. There may have been some casting gaffes with series 2 of the new Who (Doctor), but the writing is still very good.

The more I think about it the more I think Russel T. Davies would be the absolute man for the job! He's just coming off of four successful seasons of the relaunched Doctor Who not including the specials. He can definitely bring something back the right way and bring the long time audience along.

With David Hayter all I really know is that I really like the film she ends up working on. I'm not really aware of the behind the scenes stuff all that much. I loved the first two X-men films and thought Watchmen (love it or hate it) was a very loyal interpretation of the graphic novel.

Out of the writers Bryan Singer is known to work with Hayter is the one I think could do a decent first draft at the very least. I'd love for them to go for broke and bring in Davies. I think it would be a BRILLIANT move!

[TwoBrainedCylon]

I disagree with the dumping on Jane for Caprica. I thought the Caprica pilot was an excellent piece of work whose only limitation was that you have to put in a heavy upfront load to get the payoff. The first 30 minutes move at a crawl but it all comes together very well IMO. I thought Caprica was surprisingly good.

I also don't think its fair to say Jane is too soap opera-ish. Did anyone see X-Men? That was pure soap for both X1 and X2 (I didn't see X3). I'd argue a bit of soap is exactly what Galactica should have. Certainly, the original series bordered on that from time to time.

She did some quirky writing for GINO but as a writer, I think she's done some great stuff, with her FireFly work being foremost among the lot.


Russell

[Damocles]

Originally Posted by TwoBrainedCylon

I disagree with the dumping on Jane for Caprica. I thought the Caprica pilot was an excellent piece of work whose only limitation was that you have to put in a heavy upfront load to get the payoff. The first 30 minutes move at a crawl but it all comes together very well IMO. I thought Caprica was surprisingly good.

Different strokes. I find her writing style formula heavy, plot disorganized, and SLOW. She also spends too much time on caricature and not enough time on character and plot. Those are technical nitpicks aside from the fact that I just hated some of her last work product including the aforementioned Syfy pilot.

I also don't think its fair to say Jane is too soap opera-ish. Did anyone see X-Men? That was pure soap for both X1 and X2 (I didn't see X3). I'd argue a bit of soap is exactly what Galactica should have. Certainly, the original series bordered on that from time to time.

I don't want Days of Our Pirate Lives. I want epic, not moral farce.

She did some quirky writing for GINO but as a writer, I think she's done some great stuff, with her FireFly work being foremost among the lot.

I did not like Firefly.

http://runolfr.blogspot.com/2008/04/...ticism-of.html

Aside from the Babtech guy and the feminist critic wailing on each other, did you notice how thin the actual criticism was on a show episode that was all caricature?

Espenson had a hand in that garbage.

[Kronus]

Although I am not as soft spoken and gracious as Damocles regards Jane, (LOL) but I have to agree with the lastest work being nothing at all I would like to see with the new movie.

Although I loved FireFly, I don't care for her overall work.

[spiderr987]

Spiderr987 reporting in!

(They always come home)!

It took me a couple of days to read this entired thread on my cell phone and finally post this at the library, as I don't have an internet connection at home til next week, but...

CONGRATULATIONS TO US ALL, GLEN LARSON AND BRYAN SINGER!! (...and, hopefully, DeSanto, too)! After all the abuse and disrespect we've endured over the last five years, we so deserve this! Maybe all my posting over the years on various websites to counter all the dis-information SyFy stealth marketers have been attempting to spread, did do some good, if even a minute amount. I think it had more to do with GINO's 69% drop in ratings on SyFy and it getting the worst ratings NBC has ever had, when they aired it twice on a major network.

Oh, well, I came here to celebrate that the real Battlestar Galactica is finally getting its due by a director/producer, who really had respect for the source material and has Glen's blessing... not to mention, that's being helmed by the very talented Bryan Singer, who is almost batting a 100% at the box office. I CAN'T WAIT!!

Hello, all! Hi, Two-Brained! ...good to see ya again, and under such great circumstances!

[monolith21]

Welcome back Spiderr (that you Terrence?). Oh and love the new addition to your signature Kronus!

[spiderr987]

Hmmm... What other screennames do you go by on other boards, Monolith? I'm also Ginogoneforever on imdb and SyFy.

[monolith21]

I'm pretty much Monolith21 on all the boards I post on except the myspace boards where I post by my name...Mark.