languatron
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Glen A. Larson is the exact opposite of E.F. Hutton. When he talks, no one should listen. Glen Larson opened his mouth again this past week at a screening of "Buck Rogers In The 25th Century." This is never a good thing, as everytime Glen A. Larson opens his mouth, nothing happens that he claims is going to happen. For the UMPTEENTH TIME, Glen A. Larson has promised a continuation production of "Battlestar Galactica." A production he claims he wants to do, a production he claims the original cast wants to do, and a production HE CLAIMS he can do. Now, owning the rights to a production, and actually raising the funds to do it, are two entirely different things. Glen A. Larson may own the theatrical rights to a "Galactica" continuation movie, and he may have announced this past week that he intends to make this movie, but WHO IS ACTUALLY GOING TO PAY FOR IT? Who is going to pay for the 500 plus people necessary to make this movie? This includes putting a cast and crew of 500 people ON SALARY for 18 months to make this thing. Does Glen A. Larson have upwards of $40 million in pocket change lying around somewhere to make this moderately budgeted movie? If not, WHO is going to pick up the tab on this movie FOR HIM? A studio?? Does Glen A. Larson HAVE ENOUGH CLOUT to walk into the offices of New Line Cinema, or Paramount, or 20th Century Fox and persuade them to write him a blank check? What has Glen Larson done in the past two years to persaude a studio to do that?
Quite frankly, Glen A. Larson's track record with "Battlestar Galactica" over the past two and a half decades STINKS. He spent the 1980's making television shows for 20th Century Fox television. During that time, he expressed NO INTEREST in "Battlestar Galactica." Suddenly, in 1993, he appears at the 15 year anniversary of "Battlestar Galactica", and announces some deal with FOX television, that FOX wanted to revisit and reexamine the entire "Galactica" saga. We all know where that went. NOWHERESVILLE.
Glen Larson then disappeared for another seven or eight years, not doing anything (at least visible to public eyes) with "Battlestar Galactica." Suddenly, when Richard Hatch started pushing his revival project, Glen Larson "POPS!!" up from out of nowhere once again, and starts pushing his own revival plans out of jealousy and competition with Richard Hatch. WE ALL KNOW WHERE THIS WENT. NOT ONLY did Glen A. Larson NOT get his own revival project off the ground, but he also spent the other half of his time personally seeing to it that Richard's project wouldn't get off the ground either. When the smoke cleared, all that was produced was Richard's promo trailer seen in public, and Larson's trailer not seen in public. Larson disappeared for a few more years, and then his name popped up as a pseudonym on Ronald D. Moore's "CRAPPY STAR: GALACTICA" production. Larson then dispaaeared for a year or two more, where he currently announced a revival production at the "Buck Rogers" screening.
I don't know about you, but the prospects of Glen A. Larson even producing an "Infomerical for Ronco" at this point is EXTREMELY UNLIKELY. Glen A. Larson certainly has dreams for "Battlestar Galactica", but he has neither the CLOUT or FUNDING to make his dreams come true. Who is going to fund his production is a REALLY BIG TECHNICALITY at this stage of the game. And it's a big enough technicality to PREVENT any continuation production from happening.
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