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23 February, 2001
Battlestar Galactica
Producer Tom DeSanto talked to Smilin' Jack Ruby about the surprising news that he and director Bryan Singer were planning to revive the 70s sci-fi show.
"We were on a plane going to the X-Men press junket in early July before X-Men comes out. Before that, Bryan said, what do you think’ll be the next big thing? When he said, what’ll be the next big thing and I said Battlestar Galactica, he got it instantly. His face lit up and he knew exactly what I was talking about. Battlestar Galactica is a sleeping giant. It’s the number 3 science fiction franchise on the planet behind Star Wars and Star Trek. It’s the number 2 internationally, I think, surpassing Star Trek just out of fans behind Star Wars. I brought him the DVD of the original one-hour movie and he watched it on the plane going out there. Afterwards he said, you know, let’s do it! So then we started to sketch things out at that point, seriously, as opposed to me doing it with books in private. When we took it to Studios USA, (USA Television Production Group president) Dave Kissinger and (USA senior vp of drama programming) Dan Pasternack got it immediately. They were really enthusiastic about doing it with us."
"The main thing we want is for the fans to give us a chance. The same thing with X-Men. I understand the passion. I’m a hardcore fan. I know the Battleship Pegasus and I know Commander Cain, Count Iblis, and all those things, but allow us to work our story and not for the hardcore fans to jump on anything in a negative way until they see it. I think everybody’s going to be happy and people who haven’t seen Galactica before will find it accessible and it will get a whole new generation of fans."
