10 Most Notorious Battlestar Galactica Urban Legends
7. Was The Reimagined Series The First TV Reboot Attempt?
As the reimagined series is the iteration that has went down in history, it is easy to think of it as the only reboot of Glen A. Larson's original show. However, Ronald D. Moore's acclaimed creation is in fact not the first attempt at reviving Battlestar Galactica for television (nor will it be the last, as revealed in 2020).
Larson himself was talking about a continuation of the show as early as the 1980s, but it took another ten years for the prospect to get any closer to becoming reality. In 1998, Richard Hatch - who played Captain Apollo in the original series - tried to revive the show himself with a sequel titled The Second Coming. Hatch racked up at least $50,000 of debt trying to get the project off the ground, and even released a trailer, but the project never got any further.
Larson meanwhile was working on his own reboot, focused on the Battlestar Pegasus. It was set to be produced by Todd Moyer, but when Moyer's 1999 adaptation of Wing Commander bombed at the box office, the idea was abandoned. Pegasus would later play a key role in the reimagined series from the second season onwards.