Battlestar Galactica date announced! *UPDATED with bonus features!*
 

Universal's web page has this to say:

Battlestar Galactica: Complete Epic Series
Release Date: 10/14/2003
Discs: 6
Packaging: Box Set

Audio:
* English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
* English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Captions: English
Subtitles: French, Spanish
Picture: Full Frame (1.33:1)
Color

Disc 1 Run Time: 3 Hours 58 Minutes
Disc 2 Run Time: 3 Hours 15 Minutes
Disc 3 Run Time: 3 Hours 14 Minutes
Disc 4 Run Time: 3 Hours 16 Minutes
Disc 5 Run Time: 3 Hours 16 Minutes
Disc 6 Run Time: 2 Hours 27 Minutes

Keen! I cant wait for the final extermination of man to begin!



***EDIT*** The street date has changed slightly. They now list it as 10/21/2003 - one week later.

Cool news! Thanks for pointing this out.

I'll pick this up as long as the price isn't outrageous. It will go nice with the ST:TOS, ST:TNG, and ST: DS9 boxes. On the same self with Stargate SG-1 sets and B5, just under the Doctor Who DVDs. What can I say, I'm a sucker for box sets of SF TV series. (Though I've never gotten into X-Files. Go figure.)

-Videophile

P.S. I liked the 1st thread you posted where you gave credit to TVShowsonDVD.com (?) for the info.

Great news does include the pilot also?

Good. Since the SciFi channel is going to ruin the remaking of Battlestar Galatica this year - I can get the original and keep all my memories.

As far as I know, it should - the rumor mill says that the Saga of Star World, plus the other 23 episodes will all be released - and the discs running time would seem to bear that out.

yummy

Excellent news!

I don't know... since the last we saw of the Galactica universe was Galactica 1980 (or whatever they called that when they found earth) I can't imagine many things that would be worse than that ;) Have you heard something bad about it already? I was kind of looking forward to it considering what Sci-Fi did w/ Dune.

Well, it depends if you count Starbuck being a chick worse than G'80.

Here is a script review from Battlstar Galactica.com and one from Film Jerk.com. (Warning - all kinds of spoilers on that last one)

Neither of them sound too favorable. I hold out hope that the show will rock, but I'm preparing for the worst, too.

Yeah, Starbuck. You remember Starbuck right? The main character? Well, he is now a she.

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/askd...103.html#ask03

From a quesion and answer session with David Eick, the executive producer


Why did you choose to make Starbuck a woman, rather than just adding new female characters?

In truth, there was less agonizing over this decision than you might imagine. We wanted to demonstrate how men and women fight alongside each other in this world (which, to further my "contemporary reality" reference above, reflects a modern truth that's different than it was in 1978), and how their loyalty to each other as soldiers and warriors supersedes stereotypical relationship dynamics (sexual tension, etc.).

In the original Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck and Apollo are the quintessential "brothers in arms" — a nod to the great male/male relationship descendants of William Goldman's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. So changing Starbuck to a woman — while maintaining the nature and energy of the Starbuck-Apollo relationship — seemed an appropriate way to make our point about warrior loyalty in a new way.

Nothing against women -- but this changes everything.

I think most people just tend to ignore G:1980. I know I do.

Anyway, check out the following links and make up your own mind. I'm one of the slobs who grew up with the original and think the new producers are screwing around with the concept just a bit too much. Making Starbuck a women really isn't an issue for me anyway.

And what's up with the all-white cast?

http://www.gateworld.net/galactica/

http://www.genreonline.net/Galactica_3_Sci-Fi.html

http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/cast/

Good news about the dvd's though. Got my fingers crossed that they decide to actually include some features. A cast/crew commentary track and some behind the scenes stuff would be great.

I guess I can live w/ the Starbuck as a woman thing (although I agree it changes everything)... but do we really need yet another rendition of man's creation turning on them -ohbfrank- The original story of the cylons being their own race designed by someone else was much better.

Hmmm ... sounds like...The Terminator...hmmm

Actually Matrix was the first thing that came to mind but that's because I just saw Animatrix over the weekend ( :yack: ).

I wonder if they will include the scenes from the television version of the pilot that weren't on the VHS release? As I remember, it had quite a bit cut from it.

:up::up: Good news!

I've been waiting for this! And in 5.1 too, very cool.

The original pilot was three hours on television -- cut to about two hours with a theatrical release a year later.
The DVD should have the three hour version, if it is done right.

:thumbsup:

Great news!

Thanks for the info!

Yet another box set to add to the list...

ditto

Hey - where did that line go? How weird - I had some problems with my browser and had to repost, but I just cut and pasted the orignal text, or so I thought.

Very odd. . . .

Whoops - anyway, yeah. That's the orignal by-line.

The release date is now listed as 10/21/2003.

According to TVShowsonDVD.com, it does seem as though the pilot episode is the three-hour version.
The theatrical version is due to be re-released around that time as well, on a single DVD.

It's about time...
 

That is great news to hear and even better it's coming out in a collectors boxset I sure hope that there will be no delays in releasing this series in October. Now if Universal could release Miami Vice on DVD that would be really cool.

Re: It's about time...
 

They'll get around to that one as soon as they get all of the music rights issues cleared up, sometime around the year 2014. :D