What wouldBattlestar Galacticalook like if it were launched today?
I was approached to do the project just a months after the 9/11 attacks.
I wanted the show to talk about who we were at that moment.
Dirk Benedict, Brock PetersUniversal TV/Courtesy Everett Collection
I want it to be recognizable as Battlestar Galactica.
Its about their society.
What are the pieces of their civilization they chose to carry with them?
Whats important to them?
What does it mean to be a democracy?
I just had this believe.
I was gonna do it.
Once he turned in that script, I fully believed it was going to sell.
I was like, just kind of waiting for the call coming any day now.
Its such a stupid thing to say, but it did work.
But I didnt have any logical reason to believe it would.
