"I think with Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto, knowing how much [they] love the show ... will probably find a way to balance the tone of the show between the original mythology and backstory and the more edgy, darker version of the reimagined that we just did," Hatch told an audience at the recent WonderCon convention in San Francisco. "I think he's going to find a way to balance the two. it'll be edgier, darker, but he still wants to have some of that energy that the original 'Battlestar Galactica' had."
Universal Pictures -- owned by the same company that produced (and aired) the new "Battlestar Galactica" -- apparently believes that as groundbreaking as the new series was, it didn't reach a wide enough audience that would help the show in a box office release, Hatch said. However, the actor said that the original show -- because it reached 65 million people -- would be more accessible to general audiences.
That's a tricky area to talk about, since television viewing in 1978 in a time when cable was not widespread and only three major television networks were on the air is far different from the fragmented viewing that takes place today.
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