‘Battlestar Galactica’ Would Have To Look Different If It Were Produced Today, Says Ronald D. Moore
deadline.comWhat would Battlestar Galactica look like if it were launched today? That was the question posted to Ronald D. Moore, the uber-producer who returned to his native habitat on Thursday — San Diego Comic-Con — to discuss his life’s work with former muse Mary McConnell.
McConnell, who played President Laura Roslin on the sci-fi series, wondered if Moore’s 2004 reimagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series would look and sound any different today given the state of politics and our culture. “I mean, the story itself would probably be different because I wrote it at a specific moment in our lives and in our history,” said Moore. “I was approached to do the project just a months after the 9/11 attacks.
As it was developed, it happened and then there as Iraq and Guantanamo Bay and we were dealing with the Patriot Act and a lot issues of freedom versus security with terrorism in the modern world and fundamentalism.
I wanted the show to talk about who we were at that moment. So if I were creating Battlestar Galactica from scratch today, I don’t know ….
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