Re: Books based on movies based on books - new and improved

Craig Richardson <crichard-tacoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:qtmds1p0kf8tnt7mobuu29t5ac6pjv8ke8@xxxxxxx:

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:36:41 GMT, Sea Wasp
><seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>And SW was
>>clearly Galactica's inspiration.

> Mmm. Beg to differ - I think it was steam-engine time. SW came
> out in '77, BG had a two-hour movie/pilot and a series on our
> screens in '78. Admittedly, the series reused basically all the
> pilot's special effects as stock footage, but in those days you
> couldn't just whip them up in a few weeks.

What articles I can find on the web all seem to agree that Universal
greenlit BG in the Summer of 77, once it was clear that Star Wars was
a phenomenon. Mostly they trace the series idea back to a series
proposal Larson had had in the 60's, "Adam's Ark", though one claims
that he got the original BG script from another writer. (Since BG
was the subject of a plagiarism suit by 20th Century Fox and
Lucasfilm, there was incentive on all sides to fuzz memories in one
direction or another.) I can't find any pointers to primary sources,
so take that for what it's worth.

Mike

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