BSG Movie Concepts

[Gin Rummy]

Possible concept art (not official) done by Eric Chu of the nuBSG concept team. Looks interesting to say the least. Article is ignorantly biased (probable GINO troll) but the art is done by a member of the nuBSG series. This shows that people who worked on that are actually excited about a more faith-full remake.

http://geektyrantsquared.squarespace.com/news/2009/9/10/concept-art-for-the-new-battlestar-galactica-movie.html

[David Kerin]

I remember seeing those a while ago, and at the time I believe Eric Chu said he did them for his own interpretations, and not necessarily for the Singer movie. He also did a similar updating for UFO (the old Gerry Anderson series). Personally I don't care for some of those designs. At least not for Galactica. Pretty much the same way I felt about the redesign of GINO Galactica.

Here's a link to the UFO art, which was not for the proposed movie of a year ago, but just to play around with some ideas.
http://www.cinemaspy.com/spotlight/drawing-on-imagination-ufo-the-movie-concept-art-4804/


And here's the original Cinemaspy article I read where he talks about designing for the show, and how these designs (BSG and UFO) are part of a "drawing on inspiration" series. So it does not seem like these are connected to the Singer project. But you never know for sure.
http://www.cinemaspy.com/spotlight/drawing-on-imagination-picturing-a-future-battlestar-galactica-4802/

[Punisher454]

I really like Chu's UFO stuff, not so much on the galactica stuff.

[David Kerin]

I actually like the UFO concepts as well. I think the style still fits more with the Gerry Anderson looks and design. But the BSG... ehhh. Eric is very, very talented, but I just don't think his approach hits that feel of Galactica, while giving it a nice update. But everyone has different tastes. Some people love the ribbed Galactica of the new series.

[martok2112]

Good artwork, but yeah, I'm none too keen on the Galactica interpretations. The Big G herself reminds me a bit of a Romulan Warbird (with the support pylons seeming to run top to bottom of the ship, the way the warp supports for a Warbird ran...almost bubble-like). And I never cared for the banana shaped Cylon Raider....which was seen in the Battlestar Galactica video game for PS2/Xbox.

[Punisher454]

Good artwork, but yeah, I'm none too keen on the Galactica interpretations. The Big G herself reminds me a bit of a Romulan Warbird (with the support pylons seeming to run top to bottom of the ship, the way the warp supports for a Warbird ran...almost bubble-like). And I never cared for the banana shaped Cylon Raider....which was seen in the Battlestar Galactica video game for PS2/Xbox.

If you look at the raiders in Richard Hatches second coming trailer they are also similar. Its just hard to beat the original model designs in the case of galactica, many other shows not so much.

[TwoBrainedCylon]

Eric did those on his own, without any connection to the project. I think he was wanting to get his name out early as I understand he'd been shuffled off of GINO as the series progressed.

This set of concepts isn't the greatest but a lot of his early work for GINO is top-rate stuff that would work well with a new film. All of what I thought were the good concepts were rejected for GINO because they looked too much like the original show and Ron and Dave wanted a totally new look. I think he lost the rights to those and so he was seeking yet another interpretation which seems to have fizzled in this case.

Overall, Eric's track record for concept work is pretty good but this seems to be a definite miss.

FWIW, he seems like a Hell of a nice guy from all my contacts with him.

All my best,


Russell

[Jubal]

What I would like to see remain in the next remake:

The usual...
The Viper's basic functional yet sleak look (reimagined was close, but too sleak)
Viper Pilot coats and warrior look.
Lasers or blasters, not bullets or guns.
Menacing, hulking, knight-like Cylons.
Daggits that are still sometimes cute but also hunters and swift robotic dogs.
Starbuck as a man.

Would want to see characters that for the most part try to do what is right, supportive of each other, and showing the dignity of human kind.

Would want good charactisation of Apollo and Starbuck, more from Boomer and Jolly (if these are the characters used) and more from Bojay as well and others. Wealth of characters made Galactica great.

More features of the military police.

More detail of Adama and Tigh as warriors.

[Jubal]

Hmmm... looking at the concept art (finally loaded on my on base internet which is slow)... it is workable.

I like the Cylons. Robotic knights. That is what I always saw them as. Those look close.

The Vipers... workable. I like the nose section, how it looks from behind, and the engine area is pretty good. Could use larger side wings however.

Cylon raider, not bad. Loose the banana look as was said earlier, and rather than a 1/3 moon maybe a 2/3 moon shape. (Heheh... basically the oval it was in the classic series.) One aspect that was kicking about the new Galactica series was having Cylons AS raiders.

Now honestly, I think it should be more of a robotic accessory. A Cylon attaches itself to a Raider for space combat much like dawning more armor. I remember in "Hand of God" how the Cylons were climbing ladders, going up ramps and ducking under a low entrance. And furthermore, why would a Cylon have LEATHER padded seats? :) Anyway...

But what I get from those concept pictures, we get the war over Caprica and the colonies. That gets me thinking...

What if the Cylon attack, and the forming of the convoy is more drawn out?

(Currently bored at work so having fun for a moment)
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Cylons get the first strike, catches the fleet off guard. Most of the forces are destroyed. Some remains.

Then you have episode after episode of heroic rescues while the colonial forces hold off the Cylon advances to give the evac efforts more time.

It looks like the Colonial forces are actually making headway. They start to press the attack and maybe get a bit over confident when other Cylons show and reduce the forces even further.

The humans in the end go three directions.

Some stay on their home worlds and flee to the mountains.
Some decide to fight the Cylons.
Some decide to flee into space.

A mission is made to scramble scanners and mask the human presence on the home worlds to give the humans a chance to escape and live.

Pegasus and other Battlestars attack the Cylon forces and divert the Cylons (who believe the humans are erradicated and no further reason to stay) into deep space, and continues the fight towards the Cylon homeworld.

Galactica is left to escort the colony members who don't believe it is safe to stay on the colony worlds, or at least until the Cylon threat is over. The alternate plan is plot a course through space to a world in a difficult to find part of the galaxy. A good hiding place from the Cylons if the humans can piece together the information from ancient times on how to get there.

As Galactica leaves the spiral arm of their galaxy for this ancient world, magnetic intergalactic space ends all communication with the other colonial ships. The last transmissions are not encouraging. (The last battle they hear is one that goes badly, but not the end of the rest of the fleet though they think it was.)

Galactica explores many worlds... many habitable but too easy to find from possible persuers. All of the worlds are also brothers of man, many of the locations help in some way or another in the recollection of how to find the remote, ancient world. Along the way as the colonial convoy flees from the Cylons they encounter dangers that make them wonder if the Cylons would not be easier to have remained and fought. But their peaceful colonial mission brings alliances with many enlightened races.


I always believed that a parallel story would be fun. The war story of the Pegasus. The Pegasus explores all it's own, works with remaining battlestars, and works to reclaim shipyards to build new weaponry and battlestars, many of which pieced together from the remains of fallen battlestars.

Pegasus continues it's war efforts, freeing worlds from the Cylons, some of which who add their forces to the Pegasus' war effort. Soon Pegasus has a convoy of it's a own. A ragtag war convoy steadily marching to the Cylon homeworld...

[Titon]

IF this thing progresses i can see Guy Dyas being brought on as the concept artist. His stuff for the 01 missfire was top notch.

[peter noble]

IF this thing progresses i can see Guy Dyas being brought on as the concept artist. His stuff for the 01 missfire was top notch.

Dyas as moved up the ladder from his concept art days and is now a production designer. He did Inception and is cirrently in preproduction Robopocalypse.

[TwoBrainedCylon]

There's really a movie being planned called "Robopocalypse"???

[peter noble]

There's really a movie being planned called "Robopocalypse"???

Based on the book and to be directed by Spielberg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse

[Punisher454]

even by the cornball standards of the original 'Battlestar Galactica', this is a frakkin’ disaster

Dang thats a little uncalled for.
But anyhow, I havent read it, but based on the book cover and the fact that is being produced by Spielberg it probably will get the cutesy touch. I'd like to see a robot Apocalypse movie where the bad AI can only infect computers that could actually run such a program. Terminator 3 was a good example where the female terminator could control cars. Sorry but the types of cars they were using dont have computer controlled steering or throttle, brakes yes (abs) and fuel injection yes. But the steering and throttle are completly non-electronic on those models.
I-Robot showed a much more believable computer uprising (sadly I still havent read the books). And honestly I think that GINO and Caprica have portrayed a robot uprising in a somewhat plausible way. Although I'd be happier if it was all AI and not being manipulated by "Spirits".

[monolith21]

I doubt the end results will look anything like these at all. They were independent artistic interpretations and that is it. I'm better reboot or not, we'll be seeing designs that harken back to the originals.