Half a decade ago, I stumbled across mention of a fan film project called "Battlestar Galactica: The 14th Colony." Eventually, I found the trailer for the project, which revealed very little about it, but it did make it clear that it was a continuation of the 1978 Galactica, and probably a reaction to the RDM Galactica to some extent. The tag line was "Some Still Believe..." which certainly makes one think that, anyway.

A month ago we featured a "Bridge" fan film parody that tied UFO and Space: 1999 together. Much to my surprise, it turns out the same people did another one. This episode gives us more of the same, but it also throws some Captain Scarlet into the mix. Check it out after the jump.

Jarmo Interview

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. today we’ve got a huge treat for any fans of fan films: We’re talking with Jarmo Puskala, the co-writer of the first truly epic Fan Film, “Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning.” Jarmo, thank you very much for taking the time to be here today.

JARMO:
Thank you. Being Finnish I'm not quite sure what to say to such compliments :D I'm happy you enjoyed the film, for us that's the big idea behind making movies.

REPUBLIBOT 3.0:

Some months ago, we did an entry about "The Battlestar Galactica You Never Got To see," an attempted revival by Richard Hatch. Here's the old entry http://www.republibot.com/content/%E2%80%9C-galactica-you-didn%E2%80%99t... Now, this trailer is amazingly hard to come by. Our own Republibot 2.0 actually helped work on the project back in the day, and even he never got to see a copy of it, so, honestly, it's rare as hen's teeth. When we did that earlier story, we had to content ourselves with a crappy video camera copy of the trailer, in which it was mostly impossible to make out what was going on. "Pat" over at the United Worlds forum, however, has uncovered an actual decent copy, however, and I felt this was post-worthy. Just click on through to see what might have been, but probably couldn't.

There's a lot of really grand conceits in fandom, not the least of which is the urge to combine SF universes that don't have any connection with each other. It's a staple of fanfic - the TOS Enterprise meets Moonbase Alpha, or Dr. Who meets the (original) Galactica, or the Jupiter II visits The Seaview, or Quantum Leap bumps into Time Tunnel, or Kolchack turns up alongside Mulder and Scully. It's fun, it kind of writes itself, and of course you're not limited by copyright, budget, or the death of actors.

Gather 'round, children, and ye shall hear the tale of "Star Wars: Revelations," unquestionably the most ambitious, most impressive, highest quality Star Wars Fan Film ever. Also, at three quarters of an hour, one of the longest.

Welcome to Fan Film Fridays, the weekly feature that is not a weakly feature, in which we not only showcase Fan Films and interview the Fan Filmmakers themselves, but we also try to give a sense of what goes into making them. A couple weeks back, we showcased Kelvington's Trek through Time fan film (Here: http://www.republibot.com/content/fan-film-friday-trek-through-time-kelv... ) and after that, he consented - perhaps unwisely, but certainly graciously - to be interviewed by the tawdry likes of us (Here: http://www.republibot.com/content/fan-film-friday-we-interview-kelvington )