Battlestar Galactica: The second coming - Promo 

there was a second coming just in a different way.

I nicked named this "The Search for Dirk," during production. They think they know where he is being held prisoner, They fight their way to get to his cell to find it emtpy except for a torn part of his uniform and a half smoked cigarette.

Starbuck being missing and Cylons evolving were both concepts explored in Galactica 1980.

What we got instead was amazing, and to be fair... proof that Richard Hatch could actually act. An under-rated actor for sure.

It was reviewed by studio echelons; they didn’t give it the green light and may have been underwhelmed.

I met him at that same time as well. He signed his book for me. Still have it. He was a class act, and meeting him did not disappoint the little kid in me who idolized him and the rest of the cast when the original show was airing and my entire imagination fuel in the late 70s

Well played.

Richard told that was the case too, as far as their personalities in real life were the opposite from theirs on the show.

You're welcome Donald. There were various real low quality versions on youtube, some recorded during conventions with heads in the frame and crowd noises. I wanted to post a proper version, for Richard and especially for all those who helped us make it in the first place.

They need to make this real as a way to honor the orginal show and actors, I bet its sales or viewing points or whatever would make the remake series look like a fail project. Hated the remake it was took dark and all the shows were about paranoid mindset, Which one of my friends is really a cylon clone. The orginal show was all about finding hope in the worst of situations, and staying strong in your beliefs and in yourself.

@@lonknight3197 That won'r happen since Universal owns the rights and blocked Richard Hatch from proceeding - and he has since died, in 2017.

Actually he pitched it as there was no Earth found season. That season never happened the network balked at that idea and canned the pilot.

Robert yeh may richrd rest in peace

Sophie moved to Vegas for several years, last I heard she had moved back to France.

@@jaywoelfel9228 I hope so. Someone contacted me a couple of years ago and said she was very sick and was asking for donations. Sadly, my number for her no longer worked so I couldn't confirm anything. I hope she's doing well.

Blaze rocker wel thiscwas picth fkr TV show not anbfmv game

Sal Avenu well richrd hacth did I later turn this concept into a series of novels

Richard tried to get Herb Jefferson in his/our project and at first he was going to do so, and we kept pushing him to get Dirk Benedict in it. There was a feeling that if you appeared in this it might ensure you DIDN'T get a chance to be in a new series. Of course what happened was Richard ended up in the new series and no one else, and that was because of Richard doing this trailer and invigorating the fan base. Early on in the new series they offered small roles to both Richard and Dirk, essentially one scene parts where they'd get killed. Neither of them cared to do that. Dirk was supposed to be the guy in the opening scene of the new show with the Cylons coming to supposedly sign a peace treaty but instead blowing everybody up.

I go into a bunch of the production details in the film section of my website. There used to be full info on Richard's own website about it but that all got dropped once the new series got going and he was into trying to get another series of his own off the ground. www.jaywoelfel.com

Most of the actors from the original are either a) dead or b) simply too old. This cannot be made. The old series was a lot like the first Star Wars. Models and 35mm film. The new show used computers and digital. You'll never recapture the old look of the first show fans remember. It's a bygone era. Nobody uses film or models.

Back when we made this Amazon and Netflix didn't exist as production companies as they do now. So we didn't have them to approach.

I'll second that!

So say we all!

@@scottwalker6947Er…no we don’t. I loved the old BSG and a rebooted version would have been fun genre tv. But the reimagined BSG was one of the best tv series of the last twenty yahren in any genre.

@@jonathanhough2203 One of the best TV series (any genre) in the last 25 years? Sorry, don't agree. I like the show overall (but hated the human cylon idea) but it was at best an "OK" sci fi series. Shows like The Ark, and B5 as well as others are/were better IMO.

Sadly, including Richard himself.

@@BrotherDerrick3X didn't like richrd have a fight with universal over the funds for this and that's was why it was scrapper

Rudolf so did Richard send you a copy of this film or was the the only copy ever made of this film beuce wasnt this relsed later on as DVD extra on one of the bsg 2004 DVD sets

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 NO Richard never sent me a copy of anything.

@@rudolfrothemund2269 yeh richrd did return in the 2004bbsg series which did acthully borrow some ideas from this rejected concept pitch

That’s a stretch.

I co directed this. The long version runs about 35 minutes, if finished with all the special effects it would require it would probably run about 45 minutes or so, basically the same length as an hour long television show without commercials. You can read more about it at my website jaywoelfel.com just look up Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, there are photos there and a whole fuller history of Hatche's who attempt to bring back the show.

@@jaywoelfel9228 Wow! Pleased to meet you, and thank you for replying! That’s fascinating! I will go check it out now! I’ve wondered about this for decades! Sorry for all the Exclamation Marks, but I’m just really excited!

Richard liked the new character they created for him to play and thought it, his character, was well written. But, he didn't understand why they did a reimagined show and not a follow up series, or like the way the characters from the original series were changed either. That's what he told me pretty much word for word. I think he just played the new character and divorced himself from any idea that this was whe he thought Battlestar should be about. He played it as a whole new role. He told me he never was told where his character was going as far as in the whole series or even when they'd use him again, or if they would use him again, so he did it day by day. He said he just played the character as someone who believed in what he was saying and doing, but he had no idea if ultimately he'd be a villain or a hero in the role.

I'm not one for self promotion--but that was my idea! I'd always wanted to see Galactica have some big main "guns" and use them!!! Mike Mcadams who designed the Galactica we used, got on board with that idea. I also wanted the ship to have some areas where repair work was being done, some visible new panels and so forth--that's in there but probably too subtle to be seen. But I really really insisted on the Galactica having, like a battleship big obvious guns and I wanted the recoil on them to emphasis that. Does it make sense in "real space" probably not for those who are into hard science fiction---which Galactica isn't. Thanks for noticing.

@@jaywoelfel9228 thanks for replying.much appreciated

​@@jaywoelfel9228 Any hope that this will get green lighted a new series based in the orginal universe , sad that some of the orginal cast is no longer with us , but good script writers could still pull it off.

Hey Tim: If it's not clear I'm the co-director of this and the principal production crew were essentially "my" crew from various features I did around that time. I've posted it here on my channel, there is a short clip of behind the scenes stuff posted to my channel as well. Richard moved on from this after he got his part on the new series and spent his energy on another original sci fi series of his own that I was briefly involved with. He worked on that off and on the rest of his life but it was never finished. He was approached about finishing his Galactica version which does exist as a 30 minute edit which with completed FX would basically stand as a pilot episode for his new series. Richard said he'd support that effort as long as he didn't have to put more money into it. Unfortunately that was shortly before he died. Various people came forward interested in finishing it then, but various complications among various parties in and around Richard meant it didn't happen at that time. It could still happen at some point, I have the script and much of the material that would be needed.

Tim: I didn't answer part of your post. This is the only version that ever showed at any conventions. Richard at Comicon that year did show some pages from a Battlestar Comic book he was involved with, but this is/was the only trailer that showed at various conventions he went to. It was last shown at the Egyptian theatre as part of a memorial night shortly after his death.

No Dirk. He did not participate, nor would he do a sequel series.

@@dankylecanada did you ever wacth the 200ps bsg series

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 Yes, it was not the same experience for me though as I was 25 years older, though it WAS a much more adult-oriented show, so.....

He may have actually died before the new series got up and running. The last thing he said to me when we finished working with him was. "This had better bloody well go!" Meaning the new series.

This was proof of concept, made in the late 1990's.

One part is yes, but the music is from various other things including the original TV series as well.

@@jaywoelfel4780 you ever herd of Bryan singer's aborted battelstar glactic pitch

I kind of mentioned this to another comment. There are two pieces of music from the original Battlestar series and a piece from ID 4 as well. Most trailers use music from other sources, I wanted to use more Battlestar Music in the trailer but Richard wanted Crimson Tide--a cool piece of music but one that, at the time, I felt was overused in trailers.

Probably my favourite Zimmer soundtrack, so no complaints here.

Richard told me that he go permission from someone at Universal to shoot a proof of concept piece--which is what this is. Richard showed the trailer around the world and made good money from doing so as a convention guest. The trailer got raves at those conventions and that fan interest is what got the series brought back. Ultimately Richard was hired by that show for multiple episodes playing a character. So his goal to bring back the show himself didn't work out, but he did bring the series back in some form and made good money off of being on that show and from conventions. I think those are more than enough reasons for him to have done it.

Pretty normal for Hollywood, especially at the time. Make a trailer, maybe a pilot. I used to be on the list for pilots. They'd send VHS tapes of various shows and we'd send in our responses.