Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming
| Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming | |
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| Directed by |
Richard Hatch Jay Woelfel |
| Produced by |
Johnnie J. Young Sophie LaPorte Richard Hatch (executive producer) |
| Written by |
Richard Hatch Sophie LaPorte |
| Starring |
Richard Hatch John Colicos Terry Carter Jack Stauffer George Murdock Richard Lynch Phil Brown Mickalean McCormick Ali Willingham Szilvia Naray Nicholas Walker Jere Jon Don Hughes Athena Demos Frank Ruotolo |
| Cinematography |
Dean Cundey Scott Spears |
| Edited by | Eric Chase |
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30 min. (pilot film) 4 min. (trailer) |
| Language | English |
Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming is a 1999 science-fiction action film. It was a project to create a pilot film for a proposed new Battlestar Galactica television series that would pick up where the original 1978 series left off. All continuity related to Galactica 1980 would have been completely ignored.
Co-created, co-written, executive produced and co-directed by Richard Hatch who starred in the original series as Captain Apollo, the pilot film was conceived to convince Universal Studios, the owner of the Battlestar Galactica franchise rights, to greenlight a new project based on this concept. The pilot film was written by Richard Hatch and his then girlfriend, writer Sophie LaPorte, directed by Richard Hatch and Jay Woelfel and produced by Johnnie J. Young and Sophie LaPorte.
Richard Hatch was able to get many stars from the original series including Richard Lynch (in place of Patrick Macnee as Count Iblis), John Colicos (Count Baltar), and Terry Carter (Colonel Tigh, now President of the Quorum of Twelve) to appear in the film. Many others declined for fear of upsetting Glen Larson, the creator of the original series, as the ownership of the rights to a new film or series was in question at the time. Hatch himself also reprised his own role of Apollo (now Commander of the Fleet). The original character Starbuck was chosen not to be recast and instead, a new character was created as his daughter, a bold and brazen Viper pilot not unlike the now female Starbuck character in the new series.
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