Battlestar Galactica reboot to get new reboot from Mr. Robot creator
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One thing that really didn't help is that apparently RDM got jerked around by Syfy on how many seasons he was getting. He was originally planning for 4, then they pushed him for 5, then they changed their minds and went back to 4. AFAIK this is why season 4.0 drags--he was trying to coast to a fifth season without dramatically changing the overall arc of the show--and then 4.5 goes at a breakneck pace. The mutiny was supposed to be more like a half-season arc, for example, not just three episodes.
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Firefly with different characters? It’s all about the characters!
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The Telepath War, the Drak, the fall of Centari Prime, the Techno-Mages, Delenn and Sheridan's son, what did Ivanova do for 20 years, what did G'Kar and Lyta do out on the rim. Yeah. There were lots of story lines left dangling. Even still, it was a great show with a wonderful cast done on a shoestring budget and shown on a 3rd rate network.
Straczynski wanted to cover those dangling story lines in the follow-up show "Crusade" but TNT screwed that show up SO BADLY with draconian budget cuts and script meddling and moving the show around in the schedule and broadcasting it OUT OF SEQUENCE that he could not stand it and he gave up.
Evidently Straczynski owns the rights to Babylon 5, but Warner Bros. owns the BROADCAST and VIDEO rights and won't give them up to him even though he has offered to buy them multiple times.
That, and so many of the original cast have died (and Straczynski has moved on to other things) that a resurrection/re-imaginging of the show just won't happen.
You just have to watch the re-runs on COMET and be happy we even get those.
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Some of the Centauri were cute, but you know they'd focus that on the Narn just to @#$% with us 
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E.E. "Doc" Smith was the father of Space Opera, and his Lensmen series would be a huge hit (IMO)if done properly today. JMS knew this, and wrote a movie script, but funding fell through in 2014.
They would need to get the rights back from the estate, but I'd love to see JMS's take on the story!
Don't watch the Japanese take on it, though, that was awful.
They would need to get the rights back from the estate, but I'd love to see JMS's take on the story!
Don't watch the Japanese take on it, though, that was awful.
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Yeah it starts with a D then an S, pretty sure there’s a number in there too somewhere.
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I loved the 2004 BSG reboot then it went to crap after the writers strike and they rushed the ending and blew it. Plot holes galore... This time they better have a beginning, middle and finale written then fill up each season with filler episodes so the plot actually you know, works! Esmail is someone I trust to pull it off. That is very good.
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Harrington would be difficult to do well because of the wildly varied pace and tone of the stories, and because she does so much herself in the early books. It might work done as a series of movie-length stories, but the divisions couldn’t match the books and some events would need to be reshuffled. Still, with a really good cast and crew the action sequences would be amazing if they can build the tension properly (and they can make the treecats realistic.
I’d quite like to see some of Peter F Hamilton’s books done for TV, though several of them would be all too easy to make a mess of. Great North Road and the Mandel series would make good TV (though GNR would seem rather derivative now), while the Nights Dawn trilogy would almost certainly be a disaster because the world-building is better than the A-plots.
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