'BLAKE'S 7' HOLLYWOOD STYLE

[stumyu]

Excellently put together. Epic.

[boosterjonesable]

Nice Job

[loganidol]

They oughta make this show into a movie! And Americanize it. A good cast would be as follows: Chris Klein as Blake, Mika Boorem as Jenna, Eric Balfour as Avon, Tina Majorino as Cally, Jonathan Bennett as Vila, Paulo Costanzo (a Canadian) as Gan, Angie Harmon as Servalan, and Peter Facinelli as Travis. As for Zen the computer, it wouldn't be a bad idea to follow the original show's example and have him voiced by a Brit again. Dominic Monaghan might be a good choice there.

[SciFiAssasin]

@loganidol A few years ago I would've disagreed with you about an American version. But the Battlestar Galactica remake proved they can do cynical sci-fi where the goodies don't always win.

[Cthulhu1970]

I really enjoyed this, thanks! And unless I'm very much mistaken, the opening Liberator shot is actually from The Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy.

[SciFiAssasin]

@Cthulhu1970 Thank you. And well done. Have a lollipop!

[darrylsloan]

Very well put together. I enjoyed it.

[SciFiAssasin]

@darrylsloan Thank you! :)

[georgeowain]

What's the name of the soundtrack?

[SciFiAssasin]

@georgeowain Can't remember, but it's by Four Steps From Hell.

[ecg1992]

Very, very good. Good music, good clips - I was expecting the siren from the last scene would appear somewhere and was not disappointed. I had shivers running down my arms through most of it - good work!

[MrNuman1979]

thats good , makes me want to start watching it again

[madammimm]

I thought it was great, so there! ;))

[SciFiAssasin]

@madammimm  many thankings! :)

[ion010101]

See, the problem is, it's too much like something advertising itself to monkeys by being shiny. I call it the Disney Eyes technique. Disney uses big wide starring eyes to seduce children, because humans are attracted to giant eyes. Action movie music, especially the kind with a 1000 boy choir, is trying to get easily amused people to react with ooos and ahhhs. A thing should stand on its own, but few things do. There's a scene in, "They Live" where a dollar bill says, "this is your god"...

[SciFiAssasin]

@ion010101 Music, action music or no, should compliment the image. The 1000 boy choir is just trendy at the moment. If this was done ten years ago it would be much more electronic. Hans Zimmer has set a current trend, especially with his Batman scores, which is being copied mercilessly, including otherwise talented musicians. Thanks for your post. :)

[ion010101]

@SciFiAssasin But you don't have to compliment the image with something that appeals to the lowest common denominator; to the easily amused, to those who want to be accepted by the in-crowd.

[SciFiAssasin]

@ion010101 Maybe. But I loved the track.

[ion010101]

@SciFiAssasin It does make you want to stand at attention, saluting the flag with a small tear coming from your eye.

[SciFiAssasin]

@ion010101 Or film lots of things in slo-mo. I think it's a great piece of music, which has now been done to death.

[CommonPorpoise]

Fantastic.

[manmonkee]

Brilliant stuff, Always loved B7, Not sure if you could do a reboot, You'd have to find one hell of an actor to be Avon. 

[bjeh001]

Cheers, mate! Excellent display of production skills. This show desperately needs to be brought back like Doctor Who was but at the exact point where the last episode ended. Doing so would of course require a very clever writer, but then B7 was for the most part a very clever show.

[random007nadir]

Hang on, isn't Gouda Prime a cheese?

[klingonanna]

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed this series. Thanks for refreshing my memory! Sure do wish this would come to BBC America. Now, I'm going to look for the DVDs.....if they exist!

[sebbrown1]

I prefer British Sci-Fi to American Sci-Fi, because British Sci-Fi relies more on character based stories and less on flashy visuals to tell a story.

[karenpaul1970]

This is FAB!! More of the same please! Good Work!

[SciFiAssasin]

@eonetim It's just not been deinterlaced. I was sloppy. 'Combing'...Nice.

[asspolice3000]

Very good!

[rojblake82]

I think it was ten billion pities, that Blake's 7 got axed after four seasons. I also think that it was ten billions pities, that arch-enemy/arch-villain Servalan was omitted from the final episode Blake. I also think Servalan should have been in the final episode, to be present and she should have been killed off permanently and irrevocably like Blake was. It is hard to know for certain if the Blake in the final episode, was even the real Blake and not a clone like the two seen in series two.

[tardiselliot]

Fantastic Trailer, very epic

[CYBERDOODY]

When i was in a plane and it lifted off i was listening to the blakes 7 theme, and timed it perfectly. =D

[wytsfrevsf]

Great!

[CYBERDOODY]

AWESOME!

[strade100]

supercool!!!!!!

[sixstanger00]

I would s*** myself if I were sitting through previews in a movie theater and this followed one of those green "the following preview" screens. I would scream out loud if at the moment the screen goes black with the sound of the shot being fired, the words "Coming Summer 2011" appeared! :D

[david7delta]

WOW!! Great job. The music suits this perfectly.

Brings back some wonderful B7 memories.

Thanks for sharing.

[dirkydaring]

Brilliant stuff!

[HypnoToad72]

Nice... the music I would deem "over the top" elsewhere, but for "Blake's 7" it works brilliantly - especially with the mix of clips you chose. Great compilation, thank you!

[cbatt91337]

Excellent work and good music goes really well with this

[ToriaBurrell]

This is AWESOME! I love it! You've made it look like a serious epic series like BSG. What they could have made with these actors and the story... Only our imaginations can elevate it to these heights... Your imagination and skill here has done it proud.

[OdoKosh]

This is so awesome.

[murrangurk]

wow!!!!! Let's REMAKE THE BLAKE!!!

[Zenconfirmed]

I love what you have done here it makes the pain of there deaths feel like I was watching yesterday not all those years ago I wish it had continued.

Beautifully done

[lmac1970]

The cool thing is that, presented like this, even the 1981 effects look good!

[SciFiAssasin]

@lmac1970 The model-work on the base is brilliant!

[lmac1970]

@SciFiAssasin It is too! I do miss Scorpio taking off. Even now, I do the quote from "Rescue" when I can't get my car to start: "C'mon you scruffy bag of bolts, lift!"

[SciFiAssasin]

@lmac1970 I have the music from that clip whenever I'm in a plane during take off. Don't tell anyone though. 

[Aislynn815]

Fantastic work! ♥!

[george385]

Now why can't the BBC do things like this?

[franktabbers]

Wow, this is actually REALLY well done!! Good job. I had goosebumps watching it. Thank you.

[Gumblejack]

Astoundingly awesome, sir.

[Fonjil]

I loved this show. I still feel gutted that it ended and they way they went out will forever leave me a little sad. Awesome vid.

[Ulysses30]

Very Nicely Done....

The Liberator in the opening seen....is it original footage? looks great!!

[SciFiAssasin]

@Ulysses30 Thanking you. The shot of The Liberator's taken from the 1993 'Making Of The hitchikers' Guide to The Galaxy'.

[knockfourtimes]

As someone who has written 30,000 words for a continuation story, I find this the most motivating thing in the world. It is sheer brilliance. However, the irony lies in the fact that our work will only ever be for fun, until someone at the BBC understands the Dr.Who style gold mine they are sat on!!

[brassleslatts]

very very nicely put together!! well done - obviously a big fan! best B7 sequence i've seen!

[benrm3273]

wow very cool that brought back memories

right back to saturday tea time when i was little

very nicely done

[JovianJeff]

Magnificent! Both with scenes selected as well as music chosen to accompany those scenes. Very well done.

[charlieglyde]

really.....really....rather good. loved it in fact.well done.

[vilakins]

Did anyone guess the Hitchhiker's Guide DVD for the opening shot yet? :-D

Well done! It looks good (much as I hate the last ep).

[kajicarter]

I like it, I like it!  It's a shade too spolier-y for a trailer, I think, but I like it! :)

[Prod1Kh]

Greatest. Ending. To. A. Television. Series. Ever.

[Azanti]

Nicely done.

[pronto355]

I remember watching this as a kid, it was a great show for its time.

If memory serves, they all get killed in the end, kind of anti-climatic I thought

[solidbronze]

@pronto355 There's no way that the end of Blake's 7 is *anti*-climactic - it's the very definition of climactic!

[pronto355]

OK anti-climatic was probably wrong but when pretty much the whole cast of people you are supposed to be supporting is killed off, I find it dissapointing.

But thats just me.

[chewie211171]

Very well put together, a fantastic tribute. At 1.22 -Tarrant sliding around the Scorpio flight deck in her last few moments, this scene reminded me of dodgem cars.

[TK42138]

Bloody brilliant!!

Now I want to watch the series again.

[Thrustnicely69]

Class!

[knockfourtimes]

Mate- this is genius work I've also checked out some of your other posts and they are all great! I started working on a retro BG title sequence myself but was trying to match it almost shot for shot (using the close up ship shots from the recent pilot to match the fleet from the original). I got about 10 seconds done in 6 months, but did work out that you could pretty much match the original sequence shot for shot with the new material. Maybe you can do better..

Sorry, back to Blakes 7...

[MrWombatPPC]

This is Realy so Good. I miss this show. Glad to see Avon still doing his bit on TV lately. Voice overs for Channel 4 (film 4 is brought to you by) has a blue elephant on it. also hi appeard in several episodes of emerdale farm. Can't beleive I watch all those episodes purely because he was in it !! Not watched it since. :-)

[MultiShriek]

I quite liked it. Very contentious whatever the writer did to be fair. Orac does get forgotten about in the last one with such a lot going on.

[xoio]

Very well done!!

But what! .... NO Liberator!???

[SciFiAssasin]

Thanks. But it got blowed up the year before.

[sammypalme]

@SciFiAssasin

some great choices

could do without the cheapo scorpio shots

might benefit from bit of start/end of rumours of death

funny editing of b7's greatest moment, end of star1

good stuff!

[MultiShriek]

Very good. Soul destroying watching the last one even now. Except for Afterlife the target novel.

[SciFiAssasin]

Did you like Afterlife?

[servalan0191]

fantastic trailer.totally fantastic.well done.you did the series proud with this one!.

[beags113]

This is truly an excellent trailer and very well put together. Such a great shame that the powers that be couldn't iron their differences and bring it back to our screens

[Yakerina]

It brings tears to my eyes. And the choice of music, fantastic editing job. Gosh, the final launch...

[h8uall66]

This is probably my all time favorite sci-fi show. I liked it even more than Doctor Who. This vid was fantastic!

[spazzy69]

Awesome is a term that is much over used, and I try to avoid it unless it is truly warranted. In this case, it most certainly is. Well done.

[4dickhead]

very nice nice music where could i get it

[SciFiAssasin]

It's called 'Freedom Fighters' by Four Steps from Hell.

Couldn't find it on iTunes, but can't remember where I got it. Sorry.

[SciFiAssasin]

It's often seen in the 'Top Fifty' in the usual sci-fi circles. Usually in the top twenty or so. :)

[doctorw2]

this was a fantastic sci fi series i wonder why its not even mentioned among the great sci fi shows put on television.

[NiciJD]

Brilliant, as usual! Many thanks for posting!!

[Zombihamster]

I Love This!!!!!!!

[lemonjapp]

fan tas tic

[Midlandsgoat]

Very nice, keep up the good work

[SciFiAssasin]

Thank you!!!

[SciFiAssasin]

Lollipop for you!!!

[MrWombatPPC]

And He Will Fight Till The Last Drop of There Blood...

[madderscientist23]

Sheer class!

[Windfoal]

Terrific stuff once again. Thank-you for doing this, ScifiAssasin. It gave me goosebumps.

How about a trailer for Star One? Pretty please?

[SciFiAssasin]

Aw that'd be fun! Love Star One.

[MrWombatPPC]

Your just to good at these vids.. :-)

Well done once again..

[SGABlencathra]

This is super! Loved it.

[sealsong]

Loving your work. Fo' sure! x

[beepcyberpunk]

now that is bloody well made,top marks

[aka4x7b]

WAY back in 1981 I was a meer 4 years old, so the only Blake 7 I had vivid memories of was series 4. My much older brother didn't rate it highly and was full of tales of how it was better on the Liberator. So being kids we kind of divided the ships up ... he got the Liberator, I got Scorpio.

I know as a vehicle it wasn't much next to the mighty Liberator but it is *MY* ship and I have a soft spot for the under dog.

I'm getting goose bumps seeing it fly again to the music.

Great vid.

[SciFiAssasin]

I was four in 1981 too. And I loved the Scorpio, and vividly remember it ploughing through the forest, and realising it was a lot smaller than I'd thought.

[sfordcar]

That first GCI slot of the Liberator was used in the Making of Blake's 7 Part One and Forever Avon.

[SciFiAssasin]

Might have been used for those, but it was made for another production. It was made in the pre-CGI days as well, so it's a real, physical model. Ah, the good old days.

[SciFiAssasin]

By the way where did you see 'Making of B7'? Was gutted they never put it on the DVDs.

[aka4x7b]

I can't stop watching this ... Brilliant.

I really hope they don't screw up the new series.

[SciFiAssasin]

Aw thank you.

Dunno what's happened to this new series, it was due out this year supposedly. Probably not going ahead any more.

[aka4x7b]

Imagine, in an alternative universe this went out as a next week trailier after 'Orbit' ...

'Warlord' wouldn't have lived up to the hype. In fact it would have seemed worse than it aleady is :S.

'Blake' is still a solid epiosde though.

[SciFiAssasin]

I just shoved a couple of clips from Warlord because, the finale only being fifty minutes, there were only three settings: Scorpio, the forest and Blake's base. So it was looking a bit repetitive.

[Tseuhadon]

That... is one hell of a trailer.

Good music,

Brilliant use of clips to hint what's going to take place and what has happened,

and also the use of CGI effects

[SciFiAssasin]

Thanks for commenting. I think the track makes it, mind you the episode is superb.

There's no CGI though. Just a video effect on the teleport at 00:52.

[Tseuhadon]

Well you did use three of the series finales in the trailer and that was always Blake's 7's strong point, but I agree that the music does give the trailer the epic feel all movies need.

As for the CGI, I'd not seen that shot of the Liberator when the trailer started and thought it was one of the CGI shots which had been added in to improve the eps when the DVD was released.