I nicked named this "The Search for Dirk," during production. They think they know where he is being held prisoner, They fight their way to get to his cell to find it emtpy except for a torn part of his uniform and a half smoked cigarette.
@@roberttbrockway The episode where Starbuck was marooned on a desolate planet with a cylon buddy was my favourite episode ever. He was found by a space angel female and they had a Jesus Einstein baby that led the Galactica fleet to Earth.
@@roberttbrockway Well, perhaps even before that...Remember that the Imperious Leader who started the sneak attack that led to the Battle of Cimtar got destroyed at Carillon and that there was a new Imperious Leader after that, who spared Baltar and also seemed to have a more benevolent attitude towards humans. New Imperious Leader = a new type of Cylons on the rise = civil war with the old types of Cylons still remaining. The quest for Starbuck could have been an ongoing theme of the series, with the twist being that he turns out to have joined the beings of the Ship of Light. I remember in the two-parter episode involving Count Iblis, the beings in the Ship of Lights said that Starbuck had promise, although he was a little impetuous; and they stressed how important the friendship with Apollo was. But it could actually be the other way round - that Starbuck is a moderating influence on Apollo; for some time I thought he might have been named after the character in Moby Dick, who attempts to be the voice of reason against Captain Ahab. The Apollo in this version comes across as much more vengeful than the one in the original series, perhaps that's why I'm thinking this now.
@skoshman1 as far as the "what we got instead", amazing is hardly what I would call it. I LOVE the original Battlestar Galactica. That crap that came one in 2004, that should be flushed down the toilet along with all the other fecal matter.
I'd hate to break it to you but this existed prior to the reboot, so actually the reboot may have borrowed from this one, if ever any borrowing did take place.
@@Species5008 Yes. I was mentioning the ones actually in the vid who are now gone... but really Greene was in it too if only by old footage, so yes RIP to him as well.
This is a great classic battlestar galactica short 🎥 film. I've read all the Richard hatch/battlestar galactica continuation stories and 📖 books. It would have been great if this was made by universal pictures with Glen Larson connected with this. Richard hatch will always be remembered as an amazing talented actor. But as he always said: "I'm keeping the faith." I miss him and the classic original Battlestar Galactica.
In another timeline, THIS version happened!!! Too bad it didn’t come to pass 😢😢😢 I saw this at the San Diego ComicCon in the early 2000s AND got to meet Richard Hatch on the same night. THAT was a night I will never forget!!! May he Rest In Peace. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I met him at that same time as well. He signed his book for me. Still have it. He was a class act, and meeting him did not disappoint the little kid in me who idolized him and the rest of the cast when the original show was airing and my entire imagination fuel in the late 70s
I feel that even though many of the original cast is no longer with us this would still make a great movie especially if they stick to much of the original props but make them look more modern and have it take place 24 years after the original. I know it would be an awesome movie.
There was a time that Richard Hatch had this reel tightly in his grip, and showed it on the con circuit. Before the revised Battlestar Galactica series came to be. He got a lot of interest in it. Like everything, it eventually made its way to the internet. If there hadn't been an original Battlestar Galactica in the 70s, the new series would have held up on its own. It comes up as a worthy successor, there were no weak links in the cast. But it wasn't our Battlestar. This is what many of us wanted to see. The fact that he got other actors on board with it could have gotten it going.
i've always thought Pegasus should have returned. Cain as a concept was a good counter to Adama. Cain always pushing testing almost mutiny or coup of the council lots of moving parts on BSG. it to me wasn't just about the quest
I remember sending Mr Hatch an email asking for a continuation of the show back in the late 1990s. Believe it or not, his assistant replied and told me that he was working on it! What we got was not at all what I expected but I enjoyed it all the same. However, I feel like it could have stuck closer to the original now.
I had the great pleasure of hanging out with Sophie and Richard at the little house he had back when this was being made. Richard was such a warm and friendly person. We even got to tour the ISS training facility together at NASA sometime after this. Sophie was also one of the nicest people I ever met. I wish I could find out what happened to her.
@@jaywoelfel9228 I hope so. Someone contacted me a couple of years ago and said she was very sick and was asking for donations. Sadly, my number for her no longer worked so I couldn't confirm anything. I hope she's doing well.
I was lucky to have met Richard Hatch. There was a small business meeting at his house. When he heard I was a fan but never seen this trailer he STOPPED the meeting. And showed this trailer to us at the biggest TV he had. And he put one of the Vipers from the show in my hands! He was a really great guy. Charismatic. IRL he was actually more like Starbuck than Apollo. And I've heard Benedict is the opposite, More like Apollo than Starbuck.
Love the OG BG designs returning. I always preferred the original series to the remake. Starbuck is meant to be an ambrosia swillling, cigar smoking, womanising, hotshot MALE pilot. Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict were an awesome team.
Needs updated effects and sets; however, the story looks compelling to gain interest as a continuation of the original series. LET US HAVE A MOMENT OF SADNESS THAT GALACTICA 1980 WAS ACTUALLY MADE INSTEAD OF AN ACTUAL SECOND SERIES WE WANTED. I wonder whatever happened to that rumored series of the original version continuation.
You're welcome Donald. There were various real low quality versions on youtube, some recorded during conventions with heads in the frame and crowd noises. I wanted to post a proper version, for Richard and especially for all those who helped us make it in the first place.
They need to make this real as a way to honor the orginal show and actors, I bet its sales or viewing points or whatever would make the remake series look like a fail project. Hated the remake it was took dark and all the shows were about paranoid mindset, Which one of my friends is really a cylon clone. The orginal show was all about finding hope in the worst of situations, and staying strong in your beliefs and in yourself.
I wish, that, they had made this into a movie, so I can enjoy it because it reminds me of a newer generation of Warriors being led by the classic Captain Apollo.. It will remind me of the Classic Battle Star Galactica, that I watched in the late 70's early 80's...
This was by far a classic Battlestar Galactica trailer and it was awesome then and it still awesome now too bad though it never got made into an actual film I would love to sing the original cast come back in the second coming as well as Richard hatch himself but I've got my books and I love my Richard hatch Battlestar Galactica books I miss that man he was a great actor
As an original fan of the show, this would have been awesome to see the old cast reprise their roles. The new series was a bit confusing. Still, all in all, it's all good.
It's really great to see that this Battlestar Galactica project managed to get some of the actors from the 1978 classic series. Like George Murdock (Dr. Salik), Terry Carter (Col. Tigh), Jack Stauffer (Lt. Bojay) and even Richard Lynch (Wolf) I wonder if the producers of this Battlestar Galactica project, tried to get Herb Jefferson Jr. to reprise his role of "Lt Boomer", or Tony Swarz to come back as Flight Lt. Jolly?
Richard tried to get Herb Jefferson in his/our project and at first he was going to do so, and we kept pushing him to get Dirk Benedict in it. There was a feeling that if you appeared in this it might ensure you DIDN'T get a chance to be in a new series. Of course what happened was Richard ended up in the new series and no one else, and that was because of Richard doing this trailer and invigorating the fan base. Early on in the new series they offered small roles to both Richard and Dirk, essentially one scene parts where they'd get killed. Neither of them cared to do that. Dirk was supposed to be the guy in the opening scene of the new show with the Cylons coming to supposedly sign a peace treaty but instead blowing everybody up.
Shame the Original Battlestar Galactica doesn't come back as a continuation at a more hard edged level. What ever happened to the Galactica's Sister Ship, the Battlestar Pegasus ? Last i remember it was on a Suicide Mission fighting a number of enemy ships.
It has been hypothesized that the Pegasus, and the legendary Commander Cain survived his suicidal attempt against the Cylon basestars, and once again headed into deep space. I also saw, or read somewhere that the return of the Pegasus was going to be seen in season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Unfortunately for us all, the wonderful executives cancelled the show before season 2 got any chance of being made. Stupidity at its finest.
Richard Hatch, I think Battlestar Galactica went to his head a little bit, but he was the best actor for that role... And I dare say, he would be literally ashamed of Battlestar Galactica 2005, it was literally horrible. I love the chemistry between Apollo, Boomer and Starbuck, there was just a great relationship... and they covered each other's asses too.
The Trailer for a Sequel Show that never was, to be fair it made for a compelling storyline, well made, original cast and so much potential - AMAZON or Netflix should pick it up...... it has a huge fan base that would support it
Most of the actors from the original are either a) dead or b) simply too old. This cannot be made. The old series was a lot like the first Star Wars. Models and 35mm film. The new show used computers and digital. You'll never recapture the old look of the first show fans remember. It's a bygone era. Nobody uses film or models.
Richard made money from showing this at conventions, got himself brought into the new series in a recurring role. It wasn't all for nothing, though it's true most of the crew who made this for and with Richard didn't benefit much.
@@scottwalker6947Er…no we don’t. I loved the old BSG and a rebooted version would have been fun genre tv. But the reimagined BSG was one of the best tv series of the last twenty yahren in any genre.
@@jonathanhough2203 One of the best TV series (any genre) in the last 25 years? Sorry, don't agree. I like the show overall (but hated the human cylon idea) but it was at best an "OK" sci fi series. Shows like The Ark, and B5 as well as others are/were better IMO.
@@jonathanhough2203excuse me sir, but im going to have to ask you to put the crack pipe down, place your hands on top of your head, lacing your fingers together, and bury your face in the sand. The 2004 version is a JOKE! Trouble is, it's not even remotely funny. The casting, horrible, the scripts, I might use them to wipe my behind after a fresh pooh, and the shaky camera work....crews must have been drunk while filming. Bsg 2004=GARBAGE
First time in a long time watching this. It looks good really good. Few things that I don’t like it the laser sounds. I hate that they replaced the laser pistols on the reboot with pretty much guns. Same with the lasers on the vipers. I really liked the effects on the og bsg. This one doesn’t have the same effects either. But I think this one could be very good even with a new cast and a new mission. I like the new basestars and the new cylons. The ones in the reboot do nothing for me. They seem to spend more time looking for the cylon infiltrators than they really do fighting cylons. To me the reboot could have been called starworld or something take out the bsg references and it would just be fine as a show. Bsg 1978 that is and to me will always be Battlestar Galatica. Still would like to see this as a bsg reboot.
Well, you must take into account that this was made for purposes of pitching the story and the general concept so a lot of the stuff may be technically rudimentary still. Like a prototype will never be quite as perfected as the finished product.
I'm a fan of both renditions of BSG.... However having read original book and seen original as it aired I'd like to go back to original story. The Cylons, their war(s) with the 12 Colonies, their destruction by their creations, 12 Colonies own internal feuds & wars, their unification. And so on. I think that today THAT framing of story(s) can be done.
A classic family t.v. show--- forget about any modern day reboot-- The sci-fi channel reboot was interesting--any Battlestar Galactica reboot should be done ✅ like an anthology show like the twilight zone--- but to be honest-- I really don't know what their going to do with ,"Battlestar Galactica."
With finished special fx the mini movie/ pilot would run 45 minutes or so. No the fx were never finished for the full lenth version it was never shown or posted publically.
@@jaywoelfel9228that saddens me. I never got to meet Richard Hatch, but from everything I've seen or read about him, he actually LOVED the 1978 Battlestar Galactica. To see this finished would be an amazing tribute to him.
There was a much longer version of this trailer - allegedly about 20 minutes - that, to my knowledge, no one has ever seen. I knew a couple of the CGI guys that worked on it. They never saw the full thing either, but that there were sequences they did that aren’t in this one
I co directed this. The long version runs about 35 minutes, if finished with all the special effects it would require it would probably run about 45 minutes or so, basically the same length as an hour long television show without commercials. You can read more about it at my website jaywoelfel.com just look up Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, there are photos there and a whole fuller history of Hatche's who attempt to bring back the show.
@@jaywoelfel9228 Wow! Pleased to meet you, and thank you for replying! That’s fascinating! I will go check it out now! I’ve wondered about this for decades! Sorry for all the Exclamation Marks, but I’m just really excited!
Man this is the Battlestar Galactica we needed. Not that everybody's a cylon everybody's bad no hope. This had hope. Also watching the Galactica open up with her forward cannons was great
I'm not one for self promotion--but that was my idea! I'd always wanted to see Galactica have some big main "guns" and use them!!! Mike Mcadams who designed the Galactica we used, got on board with that idea. I also wanted the ship to have some areas where repair work was being done, some visible new panels and so forth--that's in there but probably too subtle to be seen. But I really really insisted on the Galactica having, like a battleship big obvious guns and I wanted the recoil on them to emphasis that. Does it make sense in "real space" probably not for those who are into hard science fiction---which Galactica isn't. Thanks for noticing.
@@jaywoelfel9228 Any hope that this will get green lighted a new series based in the orginal universe , sad that some of the orginal cast is no longer with us , but good script writers could still pull it off.
What I don't understand is where the longer version is. I had heard that this is just a snippet of a much longer piece which originally aired at a Comicon. I've never been able to find anything but this. Someone should put together a "making of" of this film. It would be cool to see out-takes and unused footage. You know there has to be some.
Hey Tim: If it's not clear I'm the co-director of this and the principal production crew were essentially "my" crew from various features I did around that time. I've posted it here on my channel, there is a short clip of behind the scenes stuff posted to my channel as well. Richard moved on from this after he got his part on the new series and spent his energy on another original sci fi series of his own that I was briefly involved with. He worked on that off and on the rest of his life but it was never finished. He was approached about finishing his Galactica version which does exist as a 30 minute edit which with completed FX would basically stand as a pilot episode for his new series. Richard said he'd support that effort as long as he didn't have to put more money into it. Unfortunately that was shortly before he died. Various people came forward interested in finishing it then, but various complications among various parties in and around Richard meant it didn't happen at that time. It could still happen at some point, I have the script and much of the material that would be needed.
Tim: I didn't answer part of your post. This is the only version that ever showed at any conventions. Richard at Comicon that year did show some pages from a Battlestar Comic book he was involved with, but this is/was the only trailer that showed at various conventions he went to. It was last shown at the Egyptian theatre as part of a memorial night shortly after his death.
I go into a bunch of the production details in the film section of my website. There used to be full info on Richard's own website about it but that all got dropped once the new series got going and he was into trying to get another series of his own off the ground. www.jaywoelfel.com
Coïncidence, I just learnt today Richard Hatch died from pancreas cancer at 71yo. My dad died from pancreas cancer last month at 71yo. Anw, anyone has noticed Hatch is running away a planet explosion at 1:21 ?! 😂
Richard liked the new character they created for him to play and thought it, his character, was well written. But, he didn't understand why they did a reimagined show and not a follow up series, or like the way the characters from the original series were changed either. That's what he told me pretty much word for word. I think he just played the new character and divorced himself from any idea that this was whe he thought Battlestar should be about. He played it as a whole new role. He told me he never was told where his character was going as far as in the whole series or even when they'd use him again, or if they would use him again, so he did it day by day. He said he just played the character as someone who believed in what he was saying and doing, but he had no idea if ultimately he'd be a villain or a hero in the role.
More cheese than you can possibly imagine! Just how is it possible to put more cheese into this than the original serias had, wish I was a kid again and didnt know duff acting when i saw it, BHA, love it.
Mr. Hatch tried everything he could do to bring back the OBSG. He wrote two novels and created this trailer. It's a damned shame the suits don't realize the gold that they are sitting on.
Rudolf so did Richard send you a copy of this film or was the the only copy ever made of this film beuce wasnt this relsed later on as DVD extra on one of the bsg 2004 DVD sets
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Yes, it was not the same experience for me though as I was 25 years older, though it WAS a much more adult-oriented show, so.....
He may have actually died before the new series got up and running. The last thing he said to me when we finished working with him was. "This had better bloody well go!" Meaning the new series.
I really wish somebody would post the full 30-minute actual pilot. This teaser is great, but it's still just a 4-minute teaser. Especially with all of those familiar faces, some of which are no longer with us, why can't we see the whole thing? With that said...of all the revival series that were pitched around that time, the one that we got was probably the best suited for a weekly series, as it was really more of an exploration of the human condition than a sci-fi series. When done well, those types of series can REALLY work (see also Breaking Bad, The Sopranos). My first thought was that Galactica was an odd property to choose to try that kind of series, but when you go "hrmmm" it makes sense - in a sci-fi setting literally anything is possible, and the show's setup already put our protagonists into a pressure cooker every week before the plot even hit. Not for nothing but it's also so different from the original that you can appreciate both side-by-side - they're doing different things entirely. I was 10 when the original series aired, and absolutely loved it, so I'd very much have enjoyed it if this had made it to air. I just don't think there's enough "there" there in the premise for a quasi-religious action-adventure-in-space weekly series. That problem showed up in the original series too. The episodes that everyone likes and mentions are the ones that really bent the formula - wow a second battlestar shows up, wow we're literally killing Apollo's wife that we thought was going to be a main character, wow out of nowhere we meet Satan, etc. And those were almost always 2-parters, which doubled the time permitted for every aspect of the production. There were a couple of standout single episodes that stuck with the show's formula, but they were the exception. (Top of the heap on those, "Fire in Space" - by far the best episode for Athena outside of the pilot, and one where Boomer gets to be the thoughtful hero, an idea the character was obviously built around but seldom got to show - and "The Man With Nine Lives," which is just perfect.) So...yes, I'd have loved this, BUT as a TV movie every 3 months or so, not a weekly series. That would give them time to come up with great script ideas, polish them in the writing, filming and special effects, let the cast members take on other acting jobs that just needed a hiatus of 1-2 weeks every 3 months, etc. As for the others - Larson's Pegasus pitch, and whatever the hell Bryan Singer was actually in pre-production for...yeah, glad they didn't take the IP in those directions.
Would have been great always loved the original BSG the best. Actually really liked Blood & Chrome aswell apart from the crazy lens flares it was the best balance between the classic and the reimagined version.
Great potential, Richard Hatch, even uses his own money to fund this project. But the big problem is he didn't own the rights to Battlestar Galactica?!😢
In today’s streaming environment, this might have gone forward. Rest In Peace, Richard Hatch.
there was a second coming just in a different way.
a cylon civil war, a new species of cylon. Starbuck is alive. They had the winning ideas back then.
I nicked named this "The Search for Dirk," during production. They think they know where he is being held prisoner, They fight their way to get to his cell to find it emtpy except for a torn part of his uniform and a half smoked cigarette.
Starbuck being missing and Cylons evolving were both concepts explored in Galactica 1980.
@@roberttbrockway The episode where Starbuck was marooned on a desolate planet with a cylon buddy was my favourite episode ever.
He was found by a space angel female and they had a Jesus Einstein baby that led the Galactica fleet to Earth.
@@aaronbarlow4376 did you know there was going to be a follow-up episode? The script was called "Wheel of fire" and can be found online.
@@roberttbrockway Well, perhaps even before that...Remember that the Imperious Leader who started the sneak attack that led to the Battle of Cimtar got destroyed at Carillon and that there was a new Imperious Leader after that, who spared Baltar and also seemed to have a more benevolent attitude towards humans. New Imperious Leader = a new type of Cylons on the rise = civil war with the old types of Cylons still remaining.
The quest for Starbuck could have been an ongoing theme of the series, with the twist being that he turns out to have joined the beings of the Ship of Light. I remember in the two-parter episode involving Count Iblis, the beings in the Ship of Lights said that Starbuck had promise, although he was a little impetuous; and they stressed how important the friendship with Apollo was. But it could actually be the other way round - that Starbuck is a moderating influence on Apollo; for some time I thought he might have been named after the character in Moby Dick, who attempts to be the voice of reason against Captain Ahab. The Apollo in this version comes across as much more vengeful than the one in the original series, perhaps that's why I'm thinking this now.
I remember when Richard was talking about this, and I was all for it. ...what could have been.
What we got instead was amazing, and to be fair... proof that Richard Hatch could actually act. An under-rated actor for sure.
@skoshman1 as far as the "what we got instead", amazing is hardly what I would call it. I LOVE the original Battlestar Galactica. That crap that came one in 2004, that should be flushed down the toilet along with all the other fecal matter.
Wow. I've been a Battlestar Galactica fan for more than 4 decades, and I've never seen this until now. It's a shame it never went into production.
It was reviewed by studio echelons; they didn’t give it the green light and may have been underwhelmed.
What a shame that this never eventuated.
To have seen some of the original actors again would have been truly wonderful.
This is a strange hybrid between the old BSG and the reimagined one.
Actually he pitched it as there was no Earth found season. That season never happened the network balked at that idea and canned the pilot.
I'd hate to break it to you but this existed prior to the reboot, so actually the reboot may have borrowed from this one, if ever any borrowing did take place.
@@wesxander4329 So it almost did get as far as being produced, and this was the only reason for it being not to? I did not know this...
@@christianealshut1123 Hatch gave an interview about it not sure if it still around if you search might find it.
RIP Terry Carter, Richard Hatch, and John Colicos.
You forgot to mention Lorne Greene, a.k.a. Commander Adama.
@@Species5008 Yes. I was mentioning the ones actually in the vid who are now gone... but really Greene was in it too if only by old footage, so yes RIP to him as well.
This would have been epic beyond words! This was the true and logical next step for Battlestar Galactica!
This is a great classic battlestar galactica short 🎥 film. I've read all the Richard hatch/battlestar galactica continuation stories and 📖 books. It would have been great if this was made by universal pictures with Glen Larson connected with this. Richard hatch will always be remembered as an amazing talented actor. But as he always said: "I'm keeping the faith." I miss him and the classic original Battlestar Galactica.
In another timeline, THIS version happened!!! Too bad it didn’t come to pass 😢😢😢
I saw this at the San Diego ComicCon in the early 2000s AND got to meet Richard Hatch on the same night. THAT was a night I will never forget!!! May he Rest In Peace. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I met him at that same time as well. He signed his book for me. Still have it. He was a class act, and meeting him did not disappoint the little kid in me who idolized him and the rest of the cast when the original show was airing and my entire imagination fuel in the late 70s
RIP Original Colonel Tigh actor, Terry Carter.
I feel that even though many of the original cast is no longer with us this would still make a great movie especially if they stick to much of the original props but make them look more modern and have it take place 24 years after the original. I know it would be an awesome movie.
There was a time that Richard Hatch had this reel tightly in his grip, and showed it on the con circuit. Before the revised Battlestar Galactica series came to be. He got a lot of interest in it. Like everything, it eventually made its way to the internet.
If there hadn't been an original Battlestar Galactica in the 70s, the new series would have held up on its own. It comes up as a worthy successor, there were no weak links in the cast.
But it wasn't our Battlestar. This is what many of us wanted to see. The fact that he got other actors on board with it could have gotten it going.
"A Shame, Captain, It Would Have Been Glorious"
Well played.
i've always thought Pegasus should have returned. Cain as a concept was a good counter to Adama. Cain always pushing testing almost mutiny or coup of the council lots of moving parts on BSG. it to me wasn't just about the quest
I remember sending Mr Hatch an email asking for a continuation of the show back in the late 1990s. Believe it or not, his assistant replied and told me that he was working on it! What we got was not at all what I expected but I enjoyed it all the same. However, I feel like it could have stuck closer to the original now.
I had the great pleasure of hanging out with Sophie and Richard at the little house he had back when this was being made. Richard was such a warm and friendly person. We even got to tour the ISS training facility together at NASA sometime after this. Sophie was also one of the nicest people I ever met. I wish I could find out what happened to her.
Sophie moved to Vegas for several years, last I heard she had moved back to France.
@@jaywoelfel9228 I hope so. Someone contacted me a couple of years ago and said she was very sick and was asking for donations. Sadly, my number for her no longer worked so I couldn't confirm anything. I hope she's doing well.
I was lucky to have met Richard Hatch. There was a small business meeting at his house. When he heard I was a fan but never seen this trailer he STOPPED the meeting. And showed this trailer to us at the biggest TV he had. And he put one of the Vipers from the show in my hands!
He was a really great guy. Charismatic. IRL he was actually more like Starbuck than Apollo. And I've heard Benedict is the opposite, More like Apollo than Starbuck.
Richard told that was the case too, as far as their personalities in real life were the opposite from theirs on the show.
Love the OG BG designs returning. I always preferred the original series to the remake. Starbuck is meant to be an ambrosia swillling, cigar smoking, womanising, hotshot MALE pilot. Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict were an awesome team.
Needs updated effects and sets; however, the story looks compelling to gain interest as a continuation of the original series. LET US HAVE A MOMENT OF SADNESS THAT GALACTICA 1980 WAS ACTUALLY MADE INSTEAD OF AN ACTUAL SECOND SERIES WE WANTED. I wonder whatever happened to that rumored series of the original version continuation.
I remember watching this at a con in Plano, TX. I miss Richard Hatch.
That Battle Star intro, always bring the Chills...
Saw this when RH showed it at a Con in 2004. Glad it is now available to view online! Thanks!
You're welcome Donald. There were various real low quality versions on youtube, some recorded
during conventions with heads in the frame and crowd noises. I wanted to post a proper version, for
Richard and especially for all those who helped us make it in the first place.
They need to make this real as a way to honor the orginal show and actors, I bet its sales or viewing points or whatever would make the remake series look like a fail project.
Hated the remake it was took dark and all the shows were about paranoid mindset, Which one of my friends is really a cylon clone.
The orginal show was all about finding hope in the worst of situations, and staying strong in your beliefs and in yourself.
@@lonknight3197 That won'r happen since Universal owns the rights and blocked Richard Hatch from proceeding - and he has since died, in 2017.
It's a pity this didn't go somewhere
aw damn....
this could have been.....????
i'm gonna go cry now....
Hatch payed for this promo out of his own pocket,,,,,,,
So he had about $340 in his pocket then?
This had so much potential!
I wish, that, they had made this into a movie, so I can enjoy it because it reminds me of a newer generation of Warriors being led by the classic Captain Apollo.. It will remind me of the Classic Battle Star Galactica, that I watched in the late 70's early 80's...
It was a missed opportunity for everyone.
This was by far a classic Battlestar Galactica trailer and it was awesome then and it still awesome now too bad though it never got made into an actual film I would love to sing the original cast come back in the second coming as well as Richard hatch himself but I've got my books and I love my Richard hatch Battlestar Galactica books I miss that man he was a great actor
Robert yeh may richrd rest in peace
Long long ago I heard about this and was really wanting it to happen and never did and some of the actors already died
As an original fan of the show, this would have been awesome to see the old cast reprise their roles. The new series was a bit confusing. Still, all in all, it's all good.
To bad it never happened. Richard Hatch was epic.
This would have been much better than the reboot.
This is a lost classic that never was !
This fits in with Galactica 80 return of starbuck someone should edit both stories together
It's really great to see that this Battlestar Galactica project managed to get some of the actors from the 1978 classic series. Like George Murdock (Dr. Salik), Terry Carter (Col. Tigh), Jack Stauffer (Lt. Bojay) and even Richard Lynch (Wolf) I wonder if the producers of this Battlestar Galactica project, tried to get Herb Jefferson Jr. to reprise his role of "Lt Boomer", or Tony Swarz to come back as Flight Lt. Jolly?
Richard tried to get Herb Jefferson in his/our project and at first he was going to do so, and we kept pushing him to get Dirk Benedict in it. There was a feeling that if you appeared in this it might ensure you DIDN'T get a chance to be in a new series. Of course what happened was Richard ended up in the new series and no one else, and that was because of Richard doing this trailer and invigorating the fan base. Early on in the new series they offered small roles to both Richard and Dirk, essentially one scene parts where they'd get killed. Neither of them cared to do that. Dirk was supposed to be the guy in the opening scene of the new show with the Cylons coming to supposedly sign a peace treaty but instead blowing everybody up.
I would have loved to see this, but I am still happy about the new BSG that we got and how Richard Hatch played Tom Zerek.
I would love ❤️ this.
BSG
4 Life.
Shame the Original Battlestar Galactica doesn't come back as a continuation at a more hard edged level.
What ever happened to the Galactica's Sister Ship, the Battlestar Pegasus ?
Last i remember it was on a Suicide Mission fighting a number of enemy ships.
It has been hypothesized that the Pegasus, and the legendary Commander Cain survived his suicidal attempt against the Cylon basestars, and once again headed into deep space. I also saw, or read somewhere that the return of the Pegasus was going to be seen in season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Unfortunately for us all, the wonderful executives cancelled the show before season 2 got any chance of being made. Stupidity at its finest.
So I take it that Hatch couldn't get Dirk Benedict to make a cameo in this? It would have been so cool to see an aged Starbuck, but alas.
What could have been it would have been as good as Star Trek next generation I think.
Or even better than ST: TNG. For the record, I own TNG on dvd as well as the original series
This looked so good. Starbuck here we come
Richard Hatch, I think Battlestar Galactica went to his head a little bit, but he was the best actor for that role... And I dare say, he would be literally ashamed of Battlestar Galactica 2005, it was literally horrible.
I love the chemistry between Apollo, Boomer and Starbuck, there was just a great relationship... and they covered each other's asses too.
The Trailer for a Sequel Show that never was, to be fair it made for a compelling storyline, well made, original cast and so much potential - AMAZON or Netflix should pick it up...... it has a huge fan base that would support it
Most of the actors from the original are either a) dead or b) simply too old. This cannot be made. The old series was a lot like the first Star Wars. Models and 35mm film. The new show used computers and digital. You'll never recapture the old look of the first show fans remember. It's a bygone era. Nobody uses film or models.
Back when we made this Amazon and Netflix didn't exist as production companies as they do now. So we didn't have them to approach.
It looks like this could have been a best-seller, late 90s full-motion video game.
Blaze rocker wel thiscwas picth fkr TV show not anbfmv game
BSG was and is a great concept from the original to the reimagining.
Look, it's Tom Zarek in a viper!
No, that is actually Commander Apollo. The version you're thinking of is another flight of fancy of the gay boys of hollyweird.
I would love to have seen it.
This would have been so much better than that "reimagined" series.
It certainly would've been better than GALACTICA 1980!
@@AllenJones-w3p Oh yes. I refuse to accept that as the sequel to the original.
Tragic that Richard Hatch pursued this for so long with no result
Richard made money from showing this at conventions, got himself brought into the new series in a recurring role. It wasn't all for nothing, though it's true most of the crew who made this for and with Richard didn't benefit much.
@@jaywoelfel9228 Thank you for elaborating... I'm glad Mr. Hatch benefitted from his efforts
This was so very awesome.👍👍👍 This is so much better than the vulger,over dramatic, reboot.
this would have magnificent...
2:40 Big, Big Miss! The right answer to his question is NOT 'Yes', but 'So Say We All!"
This could have been bigger than Star Wars. Apollo was the best.
That’s a stretch.
RIP Richard Hatch
Wish they showed a better view of the Imperious Leader
Sure hope Hatch’s evolution wasn’t them having sex with humans, like the reboot.
Unpopular opinion: I wish we would have gotten a version of this vs. the new Battlestar Galactica we did get.
I'll second that!
So say we all!
@@scottwalker6947Er…no we don’t. I loved the old BSG and a rebooted version would have been fun genre tv. But the reimagined BSG was one of the best tv series of the last twenty yahren in any genre.
@@jonathanhough2203 One of the best TV series (any genre) in the last 25 years? Sorry, don't agree. I like the show overall (but hated the human cylon idea) but it was at best an "OK" sci fi series. Shows like The Ark, and B5 as well as others are/were better IMO.
@@jonathanhough2203excuse me sir, but im going to have to ask you to put the crack pipe down, place your hands on top of your head, lacing your fingers together, and bury your face in the sand. The 2004 version is a JOKE! Trouble is, it's not even remotely funny. The casting, horrible, the scripts, I might use them to wipe my behind after a fresh pooh, and the shaky camera work....crews must have been drunk while filming. Bsg 2004=GARBAGE
First time in a long time watching this. It looks good really good. Few things that I don’t like it the laser sounds. I hate that they replaced the laser pistols on the reboot with pretty much guns. Same with the lasers on the vipers. I really liked the effects on the og bsg. This one doesn’t have the same effects either. But I think this one could be very good even with a new cast and a new mission. I like the new basestars and the new cylons. The ones in the reboot do nothing for me. They seem to spend more time looking for the cylon infiltrators than they really do fighting cylons.
To me the reboot could have been called starworld or something take out the bsg references and it would just be fine as a show. Bsg 1978 that is and to me will always be Battlestar Galatica. Still would like to see this as a bsg reboot.
Well, you must take into account that this was made for purposes of pitching the story and the general concept so a lot of the stuff may be technically rudimentary still. Like a prototype will never be quite as perfected as the finished product.
wow, I heard of this but this was the first time I've seen it. Why was this never put into production? He clearly had the right idea.
I talk a lot about this on my website www.jaywoelfel.com Just look it up by name on my site I have some photos on there as well.
2:35 - Crimson Tide music!
I'm a fan of both renditions of BSG.... However having read original book and seen original as it aired I'd like to go back to original story. The Cylons, their war(s) with the 12 Colonies, their destruction by their creations, 12 Colonies own internal feuds & wars, their unification. And so on. I think that today THAT framing of story(s) can be done.
A classic family t.v. show--- forget about any modern day reboot-- The sci-fi channel reboot was interesting--any Battlestar Galactica reboot should be done ✅ like an anthology show like the twilight zone--- but to be honest-- I really don't know what their going to do with ,"Battlestar Galactica."
I’ve watched this teaser several times over the years, always thinking about what could have been
Battlestar Galactica:😮💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
So this is the promo.... but did the 30 min actual mini-movie ever get posted anywhere?
With finished special fx the mini movie/ pilot would run 45 minutes or so. No the fx were never finished for the full lenth version it was never shown or posted publically.
@@jaywoelfel9228 Sad. But there's always hope...
@@jaywoelfel9228that saddens me. I never got to meet Richard Hatch, but from everything I've seen or read about him, he actually LOVED the 1978 Battlestar Galactica. To see this finished would be an amazing tribute to him.
There was a much longer version of this trailer - allegedly about 20 minutes - that, to my knowledge, no one has ever seen. I knew a couple of the CGI guys that worked on it. They never saw the full thing either, but that there were sequences they did that aren’t in this one
I co directed this. The long version runs about 35 minutes, if finished with all the special effects it would require it would probably run about 45 minutes or so, basically the same length as an hour long television show without commercials. You can read more about it at my website jaywoelfel.com just look up Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, there are photos there and a whole fuller history of Hatche's who attempt to bring back the show.
@@jaywoelfel9228 Wow! Pleased to meet you, and thank you for replying! That’s fascinating! I will go check it out now! I’ve wondered about this for decades! Sorry for all the Exclamation Marks, but I’m just really excited!
A new species of cylon, a cylon civil war, they took some ideas from here for the Sci-Fi reboot.
Sal Avenu well richrd hacth did I later turn this concept into a series of novels
Man this is the Battlestar Galactica we needed. Not that everybody's a cylon everybody's bad no hope. This had hope. Also watching the Galactica open up with her forward cannons was great
I'm not one for self promotion--but that was my idea! I'd always wanted to see Galactica have some big main "guns" and use them!!! Mike Mcadams who designed the Galactica we used, got on board with that idea. I also wanted the ship to have some areas where repair work was being done, some visible new panels and so forth--that's in there but probably too subtle to be seen. But I really really insisted on the Galactica having, like a battleship big obvious guns and I wanted the recoil on them to emphasis that. Does it make sense in "real space" probably not for those who are into hard science fiction---which Galactica isn't. Thanks for noticing.
@@jaywoelfel9228 thanks for replying.much appreciated
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Any hope that this will get green lighted a new series based in the orginal universe , sad that some of the orginal cast is no longer with us , but good script writers could still pull it off.
What I don't understand is where the longer version is. I had heard that this is just a snippet of a much longer piece which originally aired at a Comicon. I've never been able to find anything but this.
Someone should put together a "making of" of this film. It would be cool to see out-takes and unused footage. You know there has to be some.
Hey Tim: If it's not clear I'm the co-director of this and the principal production crew were essentially "my" crew from various features I did around that time. I've posted it here on my channel, there is a short clip of behind the scenes stuff posted to my channel as well. Richard moved on from this after he got his part on the new series and spent his energy on another original sci fi series of his own that I was briefly involved with. He worked on that off and on the rest of his life but it was never finished. He was approached about finishing his Galactica version which does exist as a 30 minute edit which with completed FX would basically stand as a pilot episode for his new series. Richard said he'd support that effort as long as he didn't have to put more money into it. Unfortunately that was shortly before he died. Various people came forward interested in finishing it then, but various complications among various parties in and around Richard meant it didn't happen at that time. It could still happen at some point, I have the script and much of the material that would be needed.
Tim: I didn't answer part of your post. This is the only version that ever showed at any conventions. Richard at Comicon that year did show some pages from a Battlestar Comic
book he was involved with, but this is/was the only trailer that showed at various conventions he went to. It was last shown at the Egyptian theatre as part of a memorial night shortly after his death.
The way it should've been.
It would have been beautiful.
Das Raumschiff bei 0:22 ist aus Hypernauts - The Space Rangers. Ein Fabrikschiff der Triad.
BY YOUR COMMAND. 🤖
I would have watch this happily! then.....
I would gladly watch now if someone was to get a kickstart going
Would have been fun - in the appropriate broadcast era.
I go into a bunch of the production details in the film section of my website. There used to be full info on Richard's own website about it but that all got dropped once the new series got going and he was into trying to get another series of his own off the ground. www.jaywoelfel.com
Coïncidence, I just learnt today Richard Hatch died from pancreas cancer at 71yo.
My dad died from pancreas cancer last month at 71yo.
Anw, anyone has noticed Hatch is running away a planet explosion at 1:21 ?! 😂
RIP Richard Hatch but what we got was 10 times Superior to even the original and Richard knew it that's why he signed on.
Richard liked the new character they created for him to play and thought it, his character, was well written. But, he didn't understand why they did a reimagined show and not a follow up series, or like the way the characters from the original series were changed either. That's what he told me pretty much word for word. I think he just played the new character and divorced himself from any idea that this was whe he thought Battlestar should be about. He played it as a whole new role. He told me he never was told where his character was going as far as in the whole series or even when they'd use him again, or if they would use him again, so he did it day by day. He said he just played the character as someone who believed in what he was saying and doing, but he had no idea if ultimately he'd be a villain or a hero in the role.
I wish I had a chance at deserved. If only they gave it proper promotion.. that's the way you make a proper teaser trailer.
More cheese than you can possibly imagine! Just how is it possible to put more cheese into this than the original serias had, wish I was a kid again and didnt know duff acting when i saw it, BHA, love it.
Mr. Hatch tried everything he could do to bring back the OBSG. He wrote two novels and created this trailer. It's a damned shame the suits don't realize the gold that they are sitting on.
This is the Battlestar we need
I want to see the full version of this one
Adama's a force ghost?
Nice. I remember talking to Richard about this. He REALLY wanted to make this movie. It's too bad a lot of these people in this trailer are dead.
Sadly, including Richard himself.
@@BrotherDerrick3X didn't like richrd have a fight with universal over the funds for this and that's was why it was scrapper
Rudolf so did Richard send you a copy of this film or was the the only copy ever made of this film beuce wasnt this relsed later on as DVD extra on one of the bsg 2004 DVD sets
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 NO Richard never sent me a copy of anything.
@@rudolfrothemund2269 yeh richrd did return in the 2004bbsg series which did acthully borrow some ideas from this rejected concept pitch
I wish this could have happened?
100% would've preferred this over the reboot.
The helmets are way too pharaonic to be credible, but the rest of it is awesome! Too bad this never happened…
Richard hatch dirk benidict and John colicos? Would've been wonderful!!
No Dirk. He did not participate, nor would he do a sequel series.
@@dankylecanada did you ever wacth the 200ps bsg series
@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Yes, it was not the same experience for me though as I was 25 years older, though it WAS a much more adult-oriented show, so.....
❤my gosh.
❤I'm getting too old for this.
❤
How did they turn down John Colicos?
He may have actually died before the new series got up and running. The last thing he said to me when we finished working with him was. "This had better bloody well go!" Meaning the new series.
I really wish somebody would post the full 30-minute actual pilot. This teaser is great, but it's still just a 4-minute teaser. Especially with all of those familiar faces, some of which are no longer with us, why can't we see the whole thing?
With that said...of all the revival series that were pitched around that time, the one that we got was probably the best suited for a weekly series, as it was really more of an exploration of the human condition than a sci-fi series. When done well, those types of series can REALLY work (see also Breaking Bad, The Sopranos). My first thought was that Galactica was an odd property to choose to try that kind of series, but when you go "hrmmm" it makes sense - in a sci-fi setting literally anything is possible, and the show's setup already put our protagonists into a pressure cooker every week before the plot even hit. Not for nothing but it's also so different from the original that you can appreciate both side-by-side - they're doing different things entirely.
I was 10 when the original series aired, and absolutely loved it, so I'd very much have enjoyed it if this had made it to air. I just don't think there's enough "there" there in the premise for a quasi-religious action-adventure-in-space weekly series. That problem showed up in the original series too. The episodes that everyone likes and mentions are the ones that really bent the formula - wow a second battlestar shows up, wow we're literally killing Apollo's wife that we thought was going to be a main character, wow out of nowhere we meet Satan, etc. And those were almost always 2-parters, which doubled the time permitted for every aspect of the production. There were a couple of standout single episodes that stuck with the show's formula, but they were the exception. (Top of the heap on those, "Fire in Space" - by far the best episode for Athena outside of the pilot, and one where Boomer gets to be the thoughtful hero, an idea the character was obviously built around but seldom got to show - and "The Man With Nine Lives," which is just perfect.) So...yes, I'd have loved this, BUT as a TV movie every 3 months or so, not a weekly series. That would give them time to come up with great script ideas, polish them in the writing, filming and special effects, let the cast members take on other acting jobs that just needed a hiatus of 1-2 weeks every 3 months, etc.
As for the others - Larson's Pegasus pitch, and whatever the hell Bryan Singer was actually in pre-production for...yeah, glad they didn't take the IP in those directions.
Would have been great always loved the original BSG the best. Actually really liked Blood & Chrome aswell apart from the crazy lens flares it was the best balance between the classic and the reimagined version.
So hätte die Serie weitergehen sollen.
So Jay did you ever like talk to Richard abou this
Great potential, Richard Hatch, even uses his own money to fund this project. But the big problem is he didn't own the rights to Battlestar Galactica?!😢
Terry carter too
😢 now it would have great to bad it was never make!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What year would this have aired, roughly, if it had been made?