I'm ready for my close-up

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

TGIF, everyone!  I hope you are all having a great week, and that those of you with a long weekend coming up will be able to relax and have some fun :)

For today's discussion, I was thinking of a panel interview with RDM and the actors I once saw, where someone asked if they would be interested in making a BSG movie once the TV show was over.  RDM said he thought that would be difficult because BSG was such an ensemble show, while a movie would have to focus in on just one or two characters.  And Jamie Bamber, bless him, said leadingly, "Which two characters?" :)

So, if you were given the budget, the actors, and full creative control, how would you make a BSG movie starring Kara and Lee?  What kind of story would you want a movie to tell?  Who would you ask to write, to direct?  Where in the timeline would you set it (prequel, early seasons, post-finale, totally AU)?  Would you want to come up with a new story, or is there some work of fanfic already out there that you think is just perfect for adaptation to the big screen?

Tell us your ideas, make us a promotional poster, write a bit of dialogue -- whatever you're in the mood for!

Movie stars in the making.

Comments

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I would definitely want to see a BSG movie about Kara/Lee.
I guess there's two ways they could go about it. They could set it during the series portraying a mission in the war we never heard about. It'd be an excellent opportunity for us to get more of bodycops pilots being awesome together, hopefully saving/rescuing each other and being all heroic. In short, a big adventure piece with lots of banter and eyefrakking and probably UST (unfortunately I guess RST would have make this an AU movie). Or they could set it after the end of the series, showing the hardships of survival in a new no-advanced-technology world. Kara would have to return somehow, of course. Unless they decided to go Dallas style and make the poof a dream. LOL. I wouldn't object to that. ;)

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I would watch either of those movies, but I think I could really love the first one -- it would be basically like Razor, jumping back in time to an interesting moment in the war and learning something new about Kara and Lee's battle decisions and relationship. I'd love to see that.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

Unless they decided to go Dallas style and make the poof a dream. LOL. I wouldn't object to that. ;)

As long as the dream ended with Kara kicking Lee awake the morning after the groundbreaking. "Get dressed, Apollo. We've got shit to do today."

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I'd like this too! Maybe the classic "Kara and Lee get sent on a mission together and get lost/stranded" for the original setup and then all the action/saving each other/getting sexy goodness could be attached.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

This is only tangentially related I guess, but someone actually asked Katee about a BSG movie in an interview for Longmire (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-katee-sackhoff-20120527,0,3406797.story) that posted yesterday. Her answer actually kind of surprised me because honestly I don't think she'd want to go back and play Starbuck again...ever.


What fans will probably not see, though, is the return of Starbuck. Not for Sackhoff anyway. There's a long-gestating feature film in the works at Universal, but Sackhoff said she heard that it will be based on the original "BSG" story from the 1970s in which Starbuck is a man.

Sounding wistful yet resigned, Sackhoff said the "BSG" cast and crew "gave it our all — we created something really beautiful." And it's a shame to not be able to continue with a feature film, she said, but "it is what it is."

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Ha! Switch that 'kicking' to 'kissing' and I'm right with you! :)

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm with you in being surprised that the possibility has been discussed so recently. I got the impression all along that no one was really interested in going back to do a movie(except maybe EJO? He's the only one who has seemed to want to tell about his character's further adventures, anyway).

I understand completely that the younger actors want to go out and establish themselves rather than being re-identified with the same roles; it's probably a good career decision for them right now. But still, it's great to hear that she's so proud of the work they did in the series.

It's funny, I was just reading an interview with Hugh Laurie now that "House" has finally gone off the air, and some of the things he said really made me think about Katee and what she's said about Kara:

Hugh Laurie: "I don't feel he was my character; he's not like me, or I'm not like him, but I do love him. I think it's part of an actor's responsibility to love the character you play, and I found him endlessly unpredictable and funny and self-loathing and unhappy. I was attracted to and moved by his unhappiness," he added, "and by unhappiness in general. Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help."

[winegums.livejournal.com]

A pilots movie? Of course!

I don't know what stories a movie like that could explore (though I love the idea of making the poof a dream, as n_e_star says , but I do know that it cannot be some Nicholas Sparks-type rubbish. As for directors, I think I would probably love Alfonso Cuaron, because he is so good at really getting friendships and love stories, and Kara and Lee's relationship of course is both :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I don't even know why this movie is being planned anyway, it feels like such an obvious cash grab and I hate Bryan Singer's work as a director.