New Battlestar Galactica sometime in 2020 on NBCU’s Peacock Streaming Service

[Rodney-2187]

Sam Esmail on What to Expect from the New ‘Battlestar Galactica’, Including an Experimental Release Strategy

https://collider.com/battlestar-gala...ail-interview/

“We’re still working on the pilot. Look, it’s a big universe, it’s a big world, I want to respect the Ronald Moore Battlestar. I spoke to him before I even took on the project to make sure that it’s all kosher with him, because the last thing I want to do is step on his toes, and the one thing we both agreed on is that it won’t be a reboot of what he did. Which I think we both wanted.”

“It’s still in the early phases of trying to figure out the world via the pilot. I think we’ve got the basic construction of the type of story we want to tell, the part of mythology that we’re gonna explore – because Battlestar does have a rich mythology and again I have to give Ron a lot of credit for that – and so now we’re sort of closing in on what that pilot’s gonna look like.”

“When I spoke to Peacock about it, and Mike Lesslie who’s an amazing writer – he’s the one who’s showrunning and writing the pilot – the one thing we got excited by is do we release an episode a week, [release all at once]? For me it was like let’s get in there and tell the right story and it will tell us how many episodes. We may dump three episodes in a row because it’s a three-episode-long battle sequence that needs to be dropped in a row even though they’re three signifying chapters, and maybe each chapter is switching a point of view within that battle sequence. There may be a 20-minute episode that’s the backstory of one of the characters that gets dropped right after that.”

“I want to shoot later this year. Again a lot of that is up in the air given COVID and just the lay of the land in terms of where the world is and where we can even shoot it. The other thing is this is gonna require a big production just to even start up production and build the sets and start getting the VFX fine-tuned. One of the things I always attribute to the Ron Moore Battlestar is the VFX is just outstanding and pretty groundbreaking… it will be tough to get it off the ground this year, but that’s my goal. I’m pretty impatient, again I’m a fan of this show so I want to see it as soon as possible, so I’m gonna push for 2021.”

[willbfree]

Originally Posted by Rodney-2187

Sam Esmail on What to Expect from the New ‘Battlestar Galactica’, Including an Experimental Release Strategy

https://collider.com/battlestar-gala...ail-interview/

“We’re still working on the pilot. Look, it’s a big universe, it’s a big world, I want to respect the Ronald Moore Battlestar. I spoke to him before I even took on the project to make sure that it’s all kosher with him, because the last thing I want to do is step on his toes, and the one thing we both agreed on is that it won’t be a reboot of what he did. Which I think we both wanted.”

“Reboot” originally meant making an entirely new version. But it later came to mean resurrecting an existing version. Quite a shift in meaning!

When he said “it won’t be a reboot of what [Ron Moore] did”, I believe he was using the later definition.

So it will be an entirely new version.

He will never be “stepping on [Ron Moore’s] toes” because they won’t be in the same universe. Which makes sense, since it opens up the creative opportunities and avoids the pitfalls that Moore created (cough the final five cough). He will never need to touch bases (basestars?) with Moore again.

Is that everyone’s interpretation of the remarks?

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by willbfree

“Reboot” originally meant making an entirely new version. But it later came to mean resurrecting an existing version. Quite a shift in meaning!

When he said “it won’t be a reboot of what [Ron Moore] did”, I believe he was using the later definition.

So it will be an entirely new version.

He will never be “stepping on [Ron Moore’s] toes” because they won’t be in the same universe. Which makes sense, since it opens up the creative opportunities and avoids the pitfalls that Moore created (cough the final five cough). He will never need to touch bases (basestars?) with Moore again.

Is that everyone’s interpretation of the remarks?

The problem is that the industry uses the same word for both meanings... hardly anybody uses the word "revival" like is what they should use, they use reboot which used to mean remake but now it means both to remake or to resume. They really need to get their act together and use correct terminology lol

He could also mean he's not remaking the exact show that Ron Moore did, using new characters and plotlines.