Edward James Olmos Tells Us Whether BSG: The Plan Gives Us More Answers
November 6th, 2009Categories: Articles
Edward James Olmos played Admiral Adama in SyFy’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica and he also directed the Direct-to-DVD movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan which gives us the events of the television series from the Cylons’ perspective. AMC recently interviewed him about the movie and the series. You can catch the full interview at this link and below are a few choice nuggets from the conversation:
Q: Some fans complained that Battlestar Galactica didn’t answer all the questions it posed. Will this movie rectify that?
A: In some cases, yes. We answer questions that people are going to sit there and go, “Oh my God!” — things as simple as who told Adama there were only twelve models. But in other cases there are still some questions that are not answered. And that’s OK. Life has a tendency to hit you with that. And nothing that we’re doing is really fictional. Kind of just like waiting for it to be a reality. Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury allowed their imaginations to go, and here we are today living with a lot of peoples’ imaginations gone wild.
Q: So you enjoyed the last scene of the series when Six and Baltar are standing in Times Square.
A: Oh boy. If you take the entire trip and you get to the end and you see the last scene, all you have to do is put in Blade Runner a few years later and you’ve got a complete story! [Laughs] Gaff is a direct descendant of Admiral Adama, and he even looks like him! I can’t even tell you how uncanny that is.
Q: Do you have any ideas for future BSG movies?
A: Oh are you kidding? I have great thought processes going on as to what is going on 200,000 years ago with humanity and those that arrived on this planet. I think about it constantly, the fact that Adama went on to have to do some things with Colonel Tigh when they find out certain things are going on with the planet due to their arrival — what they have to deal with to save the planet from self-destructing. You put the fixture of humanity and machine with the creatures that were walking around 200,000 years ago, and you’re going to have a real collision of civilizations.
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