Later, Richard Hatch joined the new Battlestar Galactica series cast as the recurring character Tom Zarek. However, Hatch never succeeded in getting Universal's attention, and a different project, the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica conceived by Ronald D. Once it was complete, Hatch traveled to a series of science fiction conventions to show the trailer and it proved to be very popular at these events. The partially complete Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming trailer was first shown at DragonCon in Atlanta on July 3, 1999, and received rave reviews from fans.
The rare thirty-minute version of the pilot film has never been shown publicly. A four-minute trailer was later assembled from this thirty-minute version and computer generated special effects were added. The finished edit of Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming had a running time of thirty minutes in length. Some of the filming was done in conjunction with the Battlestar Galactica 20th Yahren Reunion which was held at the Los Angeles Hilton in September 1998. The original character Starbuck was chosen not to be recast and instead, a new character was created as his daughter, a bold and brazen Viper pilot not unlike the female Starbuck character in the new series.įilming on the project began in the summer of 1998 and lasted through late 1999. Hatch himself also reprised his own role of Apollo (now Commander of the Fleet). Richard Hatch was able to get many cast members from the original series including Richard Lynch (in place of Patrick Macnee as Count Iblis), John Colicos ( Count Baltar), and Terry Carter ( Colonel Tigh, now President of the Quorum of Twelve) to appear in the film.
The pilot film was written by Richard Hatch and his then girlfriend, writer Sophie LaPorte, directed by Richard Hatch and Jay Woelfel and produced by Johnnie J. All continuity related to Galactica 1980 would have been completely ignored.Ĭo-written, executive produced and co-directed by Richard Hatch who starred in the original series as Captain Apollo, the pilot film was conceived to convince Universal Studios, the owner of the Battlestar Galactica franchise rights, to greenlight a new project based on this concept. It was a project to create a pilot film for a proposed new Battlestar Galactica television series that would pick up where the original 1978 series left off. Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming was a proposed 1999 science-fiction action film.
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