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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Revival Talk

While talking to Cinescape Online's Eric Moro, Executive producer Tom DeSanto, along with Dan Angel and Billy Brown, spoke at length about the coming BATTLESTAR GALACTICA revival pilot and TV series.

DeSanto revealed that the series to come will take place after the continuity of the original series, saying, "It's in continuity, but it's accessible to non-fans. The same way with X-MEN, fans can come in and not know anything about these characters or this mythology and find it accessible and feel the same way with GALACTICA. The great thing, too, is that people from my generation are with kids now. They all have their kids now, so its about them being able to sit down with their family and watch a science fiction show and not have it be inaccessible or so 'techie' that the families can't enjoy it. The great thing about GALACTICA was that it was Middle America science fiction."

Brown touched upon how they will be approaching the revamped version of the '70s TV series, saying, "It's not a niche show. It's more a broad canvas sci-fi show that really will be sort of a space opera. It's a little more STAR WARS than STAR TREK and yet with some of the sophistication, hopefully, of a WEST WING as well. I don't want to give too many details away, but I think it's going to take the best of the old show and be more sophisticated. At the end of the day, it's going to have all the bells and whistles and hardware, but its really going to be about characters. It's going to be sexy; it's going to have action and political intrigue; and we're going to see some new really cool worlds."

For more of what the three exec producers had to say about the fast developing project, follow the link below to read the whole story.