We hadn’t heard much about Bryan Singer’s planned cinematic reboot of Battlestar Galactica, until a few days ago when it was revealed the director’s remake of Excalibur had been cancelled and he was now making Battlestar a priority. As if to prove it, he and Universal have hired someone to write it.
According to Deadline, John Orloff (Anonymous) is close to signing a deal to pen the Galactica movie. Here’s what he had to say about it, “I have wanted to write this movie since I was 12 years old, and built a Galactica model from scratch out of balsa wood, cardboard, old model parts and LEDs. I love BSG, and I would pass on the job
rather than frak it up.”
The movie will be a theatrical remake of the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica TV series, rather than the more recent television Battlestar Galactica revival. The show focuses on a spaceship containing some of the last surviving humans, as they try to find their way back to Earth. It isn’t known when production may begin.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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