Darth Vader handing a lawsuit to Battlestar Galactica's Apollo
The Big Picture It’s hard to overstate what a game-changing success Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was when it was released for the first time in theaters in the summer of 1977. While Jaws had essentially created the “summer blockbuster” model two years prior, George Lucas’ adventure epic was a novelty in that it was based entirely on an original idea. The film also belonged to the science fiction genre, which had been considered “dead” for many years in Hollywood.
Battlestar Galactica TV-14 Sci-FiActionAdventureDrama When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Dykstra was an inventive artist for Industrial Lights and Magic who had contributed to the unique aesthetics of the original Star Wars film; unlike the polished, slick look of science fiction classics like Forbidden Planet or The Wars of the Worlds, Star Wars existed in a grungy, worn-down universe where the technology had been deteriorating after years of use.
‘Battlestar Galactica’ Survived the Fox Lawsuit While Fox managed to present the overarching similarities between the two projects, the court was convinced that Star Wars was an entirely original project. Universal was also successful in pointing out that Star Wars was very derivative of many classic science fiction projects, including the 1972 film Silent Running and the adventure serial Buck Rogers.
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