A new trailer has been released for the upcoming Battlestar Galactica TV movie, The Plan. Watch it now:

The Plan chronicles the first 281 days of the Battlestar Galactica series but through the eyes of the Cylons.  It is said The Plan will pull together so many strings that you’ll be compelled to watch the entire series again just to see how well knitted together the whole story was.  Given the questions left unanswered at the end of the series, that’ll be quite an achievement.

The Plan will air on SyFy during November 2009.

No release dates have yet been given for the DVD release, however it is known the DVD will run 30 minutes longer than the SyFy premiere, primarily consisting of additional footage from the Cylon’s perspective.

Music composer Bear McCreary has confirmed the full track list and posted an image of new cover art for the upcoming release of the soundtrack to the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica. I’m not really sure why the original cover art shown here was changed, but in any case, here’s the new version:

Track list as follows:

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Tickets are now on sale for Bear McCreary’s the Music of Battlestar Galactica, a live concert to be hosted at the House of Blues, San Diego during the Comic Con convention over July 23, 24 and 25th!

Trust me when I say these tickets will sell out fast so if you want to go, reserve them now.

Tickets are available from Ticketmaster.  Click the date you’d like to buy tickets for below:

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2009
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2009

Also, Bear McCreary confirms on his blog that in addition to General Admission Tickets, VIP Tickets are also available that include special VIP entry and Access to the hosted VIP-only balcony seating, bar and Delta Lounge.  If you buy VIP tickets you’ll get to meet and greet with various talent from Battlestar Galactica, Caprica and other Sci Fi show peoples.  Not only that but you’ll attend an autograph signing with Bear McCreary and the Battlestar Galactica band and go home with a VIP gift bag which includes the Caprica CD.

Finally, don’t forget that the Battlestar Galactica Season 4 score will be released July 21.  Click the CD cover below to preorder your copy.

Battlestar Galactica Season Four OST CD Cover

Source: Bear McCreary’s Blog

Battlestar Galactica Season Four OST CD Cover

One of many great things to emerge from Battlestar Galactica is the simply amazing score by Bear McCreary.

It is now official that McCreary’s incredible season four score will be released July 21, 2009.

McCreary calls it a “kick ass” 2CD set that also contains virtually all the music from the Battlestar Galactica finale, ‘Daybreak’.

It also happens to be La-La Land Records 100th soundtrack release.  Seems fitting for such epic music.

I don’t have a full track list just yet, though Bear McCreary stated on his blog a couple of weeks ago that the full track list would be announced shortly – expect it any day now.

You can preorder the Battlestar Galactica Season Four OST from Amazon here.

The release date for the DVD and Blu-ray to the final half of season 4 (season 4.5) of Battlestar Galactica has been announced as July 28.

The DVD for season 4.5 will include 13 hours of extra’s such as behind-the-scenes footage, featurettes, audio commentaries by producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, and three extended episodes that never aired on television

NBC Universal have also announced that coinciding with the release of season 4.5 will be the DVD and Blu-ray release of the entire series as a compilation set.

Fans of Bear McCreary, the talented music composer behind Battlestar Galactica, will be interested to know that the complete series releases will include two documentaries about his work.

The first documentary, titled ‘The Evolution of a Cue‘ will follow McCreary’s entire process of scoring, from the editor’s temp score through to sketching, writing, and recording the final mix.

The second documentary, tit’ed ‘The Musicians Behind Daybreak‘ will feature interviews with each principle musician and will delve into the details of the score to ‘Daybreak‘ (the series finale), and will include several music videos.

These two doco’s were directed and co-produced by Matthew Gilna, who also compiled the Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica DVD documentary ‘‘Inside the secrets of the behind the making of the music of Battlestar Galactica: Revealed’‘.  Yep, we know it’s a mouthful – but its cool (and you can watch it in 3 parts at the end of this article).

Here are the links you need if you want to grab the DVD’s/Blu-ray’s:

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 (DVD)
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 (Blue-ray)
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (DVD)
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (Blu-ray)

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Here is absolutely anything the makers of Robot Chicken could find amongst their episodes that could be tied to Battlestar (by even the flimsiest of connections).

1. Frakkin Galactica

It’s taken almost a month but at last the video footage from the landmark Battlestar Galactica United Nations event has become available online.  Watch it now (in five parts):

Battlestar Galactica UN Panel – Part 1

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On April 28 Titan Books will release Battlestar Galactica: Downloaded, a full-color paperback companion to the series.

Battlestar Galactica: Downloaded concentrates specifically on season 1 and 2 as well as taking an in-depth look into the 3-hour miniseries.

It includes interviews with cast and crew, an in-depth episode guide, behind-the-scenes secrets, production design information and a look at Bear McCreary’s musical scoring.

It is available for order here.

Additional and larger images available at UGO.

This Titanium Series Figure of a Battlestar Galactica Cylon is pretty cool!

It’s made to 3 3/4-inch scale, features limited articulation and comes packaged in a specially designed display case.  The figure, base, and lid are fastened by screws (easily removed with a common Philips-head screwdriver if you want to play with the articulation).

Made of die-cast metal it also feels relatively heavy and at US $11.90 it’s pretty well priced.

Check it out at Entertainment Earth.

Ron Moore recently took the time to add his thoughts and responses to posts from fans in the Sci Fi Forum regarding the finale of Battlestar Galactica.

Whilst his responses don’t provide all the answers to the level of detail that many fans are craving, they do offer plenty of insight into the thought processes behind the finale.

Here’s a selection of key quotes from his comments (and yes, if you haven’t seen the finale, you don’t want to read this article):

On the notion that the BSG ending was designed to infer that technology is evil:

I wanted to say that I really wasn’t trying to make some grand anti-technological statement at the end of BSG.

On Ron Moore providing answers to the various different interpretations offered up by fans:

I should also add that there’s a part of me that is loath to really analyze my own work on this level because like any piece of art it can be interpreted in various ways by the audience and not necessarily have any relationship to the intent of the artist.

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