Inspired by LOTR's how would you view a BG movie trilogy. Epic in scale with large sweeping battles, plenty set pieces, multi-storyarcs and alot of old and new characters in the trilogy to play with.
How would you set up a three movies back to back to back? i.e. plot of one is expanded in the first sequel then finished in the last. The Battlestar Galactica Universe has a huge canvas to work from. So if Universal exec off his or hers rocker came to you and said make me a movie out of the old series what would you do? We've all got fanboy ideas about a Galactica story to tell, i still have the second part to my long over due fanbased BG outline from early last year to tell!!!
If you could come up with an idea of the top of your heads, this is how it should be done.
- First Re-Introduction and solid plot, Beginning of journey, adventure with the characters and villains leads to a cliffhanger.
- Second, Continuation of plot and expansion on the overall storyarc, add more subplots, twists and turns in the story A.K.A. redherring etc.
- Third, Resolution of most arcs, closure of journey, loose story plot threads along with unsolved subplots for spinoffs and possible continuation of franchise in another story.
Beginning, middle and the end, what could be a epic enough of a story for the Galactica crew to end up on the big screen as a trilogy of movies. Or would you expand on the TV episodes al la Wrath of Khan style and make a trilogy of of the best two part episodes, "The Living Legend", "War of The Gods", "Lost Planet Of The Gods", "Gun On Ice Planet Zero".
Any thoughts.
KJ