Some original trial run animation from Bryan Singer ’s unsuccessful 2001 relaunch of Battlestar Galactica were present for the first prison term ever at Comic - Con , and we were there . The new - old BSG , which would have been a continuation of the original series , was eight weeks away from filming , with sets partially built – when Sept. 11 , 2001 happened , and meshwork White House panicked that the story of a Cylon sneak attack was “ too cheeseparing to home . ” point below .
The unfinished CGI animations look fabulously cool , but super video game - y and old - fashioned , coming from 2001 . There was a scene on an “ agro - ship , ” with plants in a giant hangar space . The shots of vipers and raptors flying around were made to attend like 16 - mm . newsreel footage , with a camera confiscate to the bum or front of the viper . And the vipers were design to be able to flip around . We go through footage of the New Caprica space settlement , with streets and street signs , on a planet . The show ’s reading of Battlestar Galactica had expectant battleship - type guns , like in a World War II film . The animatics look very clean and crisp , and the viper bet very nimble . And we saw vipers being launched through tubes on the side of the Battlestar , follow by a gunfight inside an asteroid field of battle and a game of Gallus gallus on a barren minor planet . And then there was footage of the Cylons , doing backflips and looking athletic , then hunker down down with their legs apart and shooting . There was even a funny snip of a Cylon lifting its leg , meander up , and throwing a baseball game .
The show would have had designs by Guy Hendrix Dyas , who also worked on Singer ’s X - Men movies .
In the abortive 2001 version , it was 20 years after the original series , and the man had taken a ballot and decide to abandon the lookup for Earth . They ’d find an asteroid field and set up the New Caprica settlement there , and over the following two decades they ’d gotten decadant and become taken up with glitz and pleasance domes and gambling . According to manufacturer Tom DeSanto , it was as if the Jews had stopped at Mount Sinai and set up Las Vegas . And then the Cylons show up and attack .
That was the part , with the cylon sneak onset on the colonies , that vex the Fox execs . They put the pilot on hold for a month or so , with hurtle only partially all over . And by the time the meshing regained its nerve , Bryan Singer “ had to do a Sophie ’s Choice ” and choose between BSG and decade - man 2 . He go off to work on X-2 , leaving BSG bare .
In the end ofpilot , we would go to the major planet Cylon , and the television camera would plunge through the secret clouds , down through a snarl of mechanized buildings , and you ’d learn the representative that has been instruct the Cylon attackers to begin with in the show . You would whizz along in on the reservoir of the spokesperson as it speak about the future and the need to convert humanity . And it turn out the Cylons are lead by a chemical group of humans who have been “ convince ” into Cylons . And the leader of this group is none other than Richard Hatch , aka Apollo . It turns out Apollo was captured and became part of the “ Cylon collective . ” ( Yes , just like the Borg . ) The serial would have been about the human relationship between Apollo and his son , who ’s the new Commander of Galactica . The son would have been struggling to save his father ’s humanity and bring him back from Cylon - hood .
Producer Tom DeSanto told Comic - Con Singer ’s output caller was working on a $ 13.5 million backdoor pilot for a newfangled BSG , which would air on Fox and then on the Sci Fi Channel . The episodes would have been letterboxed , and the repeat airings on Sci Fi would have had extra footage . DeSanto articulate the story of the humans “ forgetting their aim ” and endure in super - capitalistic degeneration on New Caprica mirrored what he was insure of his friends during the technical school boom around 1999 - 2000 , with people obsessing about their stock portfolio . And just like the Cylon attacks in the stillborn Singer pilot , 9/11 brought people back to a sense of purpose .
And here ’s some BSG 2001 concept art fromNathan Shroeder . More at the link :
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