What Was Richard A. Colla Filming When He Began Working on 'Saga of a Star World?"

 

This Blog believes that he was filming Leslie Stevens "Script", that somehow became the "Shooting Script" without the knowledge of Glen A. Larson, ABC-TV, and Universal Studios. These Three entities thought that Glen A. Larson's "Shooting Script" was being filmed. Thus, the three of them left Richard A. Colla alone during the vast majority of the shoot, not knowing that Mr. Colla was filming large sections of the "Ovion Catacombs" sequences underneath the "Carillon Casino" as a "graphic horror movie."

This primarily went against what ABC-TV had ordered from Glen A. Larson and Universal Studios. ABC wanted a fun, family friendly, "Star Wars" style space adventure. 

At some point during the filming....Larson, ABC, and Universal began checking in on what Richard A. Colla had been filming. What they saw was Colla's "graphic, horror movie footage" of "Ovions" immobilizing humans in incubation pods, and consuming them. An outraged ABC-TV then said, "This isn't what we ordered. Not what we paid for." ABC-TV then told Glen A. Larson to "Fire Richard A. Colla."

It was then when director Alan J. Levi was brought in to "wipe clean" all of Colla's "horror movie footage" and replace it with family friendly, light hearted footage.

"Saga of a Star World" was filmed twice. By Richard A. Colla and Alan J. Levi. One of the reasons why the "1978 Battlestar Pilot Episode" cost so much.

At some point, the question obviously had to be asked, "how did Glen A. Larson's family friendly, "Shooting Script" become Leslie Stevens graphic horror movie "Shooting Script?" And how did it end up in Richard A. Colla's hands? And why were Larson, ABC, and Universal initially not checking in on what Richard A. Colla was filming? 

The extra time needed to deal with the 'Star Wars" lawsuit?

And where is all of the "horror movie footage" that Richard A. Colla filmed?

"So Say We All!!"