Battlestar Galactica is getting the big-screen treatment. Universal Pictures has confirmed what was originally reported on HitFix.com that Bryan Singer, director of Valkyrie, will take on directing and producing duties for a BSG movie. Glen Larson, who created original series back in 1978, will produce as well. The film is not expected to be a continuation of current popular television show that’s running on the SyFy network but will be a complete re-imagining of the sci-fi lore that was invented by Larson back in the 70s.
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Singer is hit-or-miss for me. The Usual Suspects was brilliant, but his Superman was a mind-numbing bore. X1 awful; X2 awesome. So this could go either way. Honestly, I’ll be happy if no one turns out to be a friggin’ angel.
Exactly – so whatever keeps him away from any other Superman movies is a good project for him.
Oh my god … hilarious. Couldn’t have said it better. The whole angel thing pissed me off.
Agreed, I thought the angel thing was very creative, but was Starbuck a god or an angel? We know that Baltar and Six were angels, but Starbuck could have gone either way.
Hah you hated superman and loved the wolverine movie whoops I MEAN X2 (c wut I did thar?). Im surprised you were able to sit still and enjoy the nuances of Usual Suspects. I like Brian Singers work period. Im sure he will make a fine movie. Now wether or not Battlestar Galactica fans will be able to appreciate it is another thing.
No, I don’t “c wut u did thar.” I don’t speak moron.
Um, the Wolverine movie was technically the third X-men movie. X2 and the Wolverine movie were totally different flicks.
Um, sorry Rob P, but the third X-men movie was X-Men: The Last Stand.
Keep him away from Galactica. That guy is not fit to direct any big budget spectacle.
I’m sorry, what?? NOT an extension of the frakking fantastic TV show? I understand not really wanting to mess with the continuity and canon of the TV show (in either of its incarnations,) but come on! No Starbucks, Adama, or Roslin? I disapprove.
Maybe Starbucks will sponsor the show and we’ll their fine coffee in it.
Starbucks is fugly. They need to get Grace Parks in there though!
Why do you keep adding an “s” to names. It’s Starbuck and Grace Park.
I’m a fan of Bryan Singer for the most part but after being a loyal BSG fan these past 5 years, I’m going to find it hard to adjust to a new re-imagining already.
@Zayne: Welcome to my world! Though it was many years after, the BSG on SciFi (won’t use the craptastic new version of the name) unbalanced me since I was a huge fan of the first version. I think it makes more sense to continue the current version (with the amazing cast intact…)
Well, thanks for telling us what you think about Katee Sackhoff’s looks, the world needed that. Anyway, Starbuck is an awesome character and KS is pitch perfect in the part.
Weird. Well, I guess I’ll give it a shot but it’ll be hard to top the TV show.
This is a terrible idea. Do they really expect people to keep track of three completely different sets of plots and characters from three versions of the same show?
No one who watched the TV show is going to be really interested in this. I am once again dumbfounded by the stupidity of the movie industry.
It worked for Star Trek.
Considering that at least 75% of the audience for a movie will be people who saw neither the original series or the new SyFy series, I guess they’ll only have to keep track of one universe.
dear gods, no….
Seriously I don’t care how good this is, it will pale in comparsion to the tv show so I have NO intentions of watching this.
sosayweall
Realy, it will entertain us for sure. It may not bring us to further enlightenment though
What a frakking stupid idea. I don’t care how good the director his (and I agree, he’s hit and miss. More miss than hit). If Glen Larson has his hands on this it’s back to cute robot bears and babes in skimpy costumes.
“…babes in skimpy costumes.”
And what the hell is wrong with that! It’s not like Caprica 6 wasn’t running around in skimpy outfits…no, that never happened.
Twit.
I think that was actually Head Six. But either way. I think Baco Noir’s point wasn’t that skimpy hotties is bad, more that it isn’t interesting enough to take center stage, as it’s more likely to in a Larson re-incarnation.
And what the frack is wrong with cute robot daggets?
But Larson should also get some of those new hot fembots in the movie
Keep in mind that Glen Larson DID have his hands on the SyFy version, and there were no stupid monkey-dogs in that one.
I don’t recall too many babes in skimpy costumes in Superman or X-Men (Mystique doesn’t really count). X-Men had skin-tight leather, but I think Storm’s original tribal costume would have been better. You know the costume with thigh high boots and held together by the metal ring on the front.
No way will I watch this frakking thing! No RDM no interest.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard!!!! They already have “The Plan” about to come out and I trust Eddy J. over Bryan Singer any day!!!!
The recent series was brillant, it cannot be ignored at this point … it has too much public opinion on it’s side not to be considered ‘canon’. Any movie that ignores the series will be sad and lame by comparison.
PS … Guitar Legand Les Paul Dead today at 94. RIP
agreed. of course we all knew this wasn’t an RDM production but it still stings every time I read about it!
Loved the re-imagined series, have no intention of seeing this at all. My mom loves the original series, but I can’t stand how similar it is to Star Wars and how unbeliveably cheezy it is!!!!
This makes no sense. It reminds of me of the time when someone covered another day in Paradise a week after Phil Colline released his. A complete waste of time. The TV added the “NOW” to the idea that Larson came up with me. I can’t begin what SInger and Co would end up doing. I suppose Patrick Stewart will be Adama, whcih will be worth watching but aside from that I can’t see it working at all.
Whats with the recession and reworkings of old ideas
I don’t think Patrick Stewart as Adama would work, the memories of SCiFi’s BSG are just too fresh. The only way would be more creative casting, like Megan Fox as Adama and Sienna Miller as President Roslin.
That’s not why Patrick Steward wouldn’t work as Adama. Patrick Stewart wouldn’t work as Adama because when the Galactica runs into the Enterprise, Patrick Stewart will be the captain on BOTH ships!
How about Singer working on one final Next Generation Movie instead? Now that would be something worth watching.
Ooooo. Now that’s a great idea!
Maybe Singer should work on The Man of Steel, and give us a Superman Movie that doesn’t suck. He needs to make some apologies for that last one.
Whatever. This is a bad idea because Moore and company completely made everyone forget the series and created a great theatrical quality episode each week. There was a reason Singer’s idea for the television reboot was kicked to the curb in favor of the Moore/Eick brilliant retelling, what exactly has changed?
Brilliant retelling? Did you watch the end?
Seriously, the last thing Moore should be let near is a script!
I don’t suppose you saw the Robot Chicken send up of Moore and how he wrote a script, throwing a dart at a dart board.
“This week, will be revealed as a Cylon and will have an affair with Galatica. Meanwhile Adama will be really pissed off to learn HE isn’t a Cylon. He wanted to show Galatica the lovin’ she REALLY needs!
Watched the end, thought it was pretty wonderful. Apparently you didn’t get the joke on RobotChicken. Time to go find your own opinion.
Actually, I just think it means Moore needs a story editor, someone like Babylon 5’s J. Michael Straczynski. B5 wasn’t flawless, but I’m re-watching it now, and it holds up very well–and more to the point, it may be the most tightly-plotted multiyear story I’ve ever seen. Moore’s better at “natural” dialogue than JMS and can do character-driven scenes with the best of them, but he does plotting like a ferret on espresso.
rlt your a dunsel. RLD’s version of the story was extraordinary. This new movie is clearly nothing but a “money grab” attempting to suck up on the success of the SciFi show. A single 2-hour movie cannot possibly hope to compete with 4 years of the finest television ever produced. BTW “SyFy” is just about the dumbest marketing move I’ve ever seen! IMHO.
This is totally uncalled for.
This stinks. Why are they going to reimagine this AGAIN?
This is just like the stupid idea to do a new Buffy movie w/out Joss Whedon. No wonder so much of the really interesting “film” work is being done on TV. It seems to give the writers/artists a respect that the Studios aren’t willing to.
It’s not always a bad idea. I wouldn’t mind seeing what the original film makers of Stargate wanted to do for a sequel, ignoring the series.
“This is just like the stupid idea to do a new Buffy movie w/out Joss Whedon” in that this one involves the guy who *created* the show it’s based on, and the new Buffy movie does not…
They’re both bad ideas, but that’s about all they have in common.
in the history of bad ideas for a movie,this HAS to rank in the top 5.right up there w/the whedonless buffy.u cannot ignore the genius that was the tv show.nor should u.stupid and lazy idea.
Seems like a terrible idea to me. And Bryan Singer just doesn’t have the skills needed to be a blockbuster film director…he’s really just a poor man’s JJ Abrams, who is just a poor man’s Spielberg.
This is equivalent to Kevin McClory making “Never Say Never Again” in 1983 because he was unhappy with how his original “Thunderball” script was treated in 1965.
The only way that a new BSG film could “re-imagine” that world is to go back to the original’s moral clarity. Humans good. Cylons bad.
Except that Bryan Singer is the king (queen?) of moral ambiguity, so I doubt he’d make a pro-human machismo film in the spirit of the original series.
Boo to this idea.
Don’t disagree with your assessment, but the “queen” comment is way out of line.
Why tarnish the brilliance of the last reboot?
That is good news. Like Star Trek before, BSG needs a re-imagining and go back to the roots of high quality scripts and good acting.
FRAK YOU Das!!!
Ha ha ha. I assume your being facetious. And it made me guffaw! Well played!
Star Trek has roots in high quality scripts and good acting? Since when? It’s got some good points, but the Original Series was FULL of bad acting and cheesy cornball scripts (some of which actually had a message or form of social commentary).
This enfuriates me really. The recent series was a landmark in science fiction storytelling. It deserves all the praise it receives and maybe more. When they originally planned to redo the 70’s series, many fans felt it was a slap in the face. But what came from it was more than anyone could have anticipated, it elevated BSG to something new. The naysayers were quieted. But Now? After that unimaginable feat has been accomplished? They want to go to Hollywood! Folks, this WILL end up being a slap to the face of both series, and everyone involved. You can’t build on the genius of the recent BSG. You can honor it, but to recast and reimagine will be a failure.
But the same might happen again. The fans reject change again but later will be quieted when BSG will be elevated again.
Das, don’t you mean, ‘all of this has happened before & all of this will happen again’?
Sorry. You are definitely not qualified to discuss building on “genius” when you can’t even spell “infuriate”.
Some of us really disliked the direction the new BSG series took, even after watching every episode. I would like to see something based off the old series.
Most of the blokes I know here in Holland have seen the original series as a kid as it was re-run till early 90’s. Yes, it’s 70’s cheese. Still it was capable to provide good entertainment. We’ll never forget!
Now the re-imagined version has some good moments, but overall I felt it was a bit of a drag. Baltar seemed to be the only comic relief guy. Figures. As far as the script goes, we Dutch now when to lay of the pot.
So I’ll look forward how the “Real BSG” movie turns out. Will Starbuck be of the right gender?
And with the reimagined series being so recent in our memory…you can’t ignore it.
I’m not hooked in the least if it doesn’t relate at all to the new series.
Fantastic idea! The best idea since a Joss-less Buffy. Now if only they could get the greatest auteur alive, Michael Bay, to re-imagine the X-Files. Megan Fox IS Scully!
Megan Fox as Scully would actually be a good choice. I would watch it.
Sing it, sister!
Thanks for posting this… now I don’t have to.
You are welcome, glad to help. But please don’t call me sister.
Megan Fox would be perfect as President Roslin. I don’t even remember who played Roslin in SyFy’s BSG.
You are a frakking moron.
It was Mary McDonald and she was pretty good. But you are right, Megan Fox would bring more gravity and variety to the role.
Megan Fox is not a real person. She’s just mammories and genitals in tight jeans. Can’t act worth flying frak!
Not a real person? Maybe she is an angel like Starbuck. And would play it better than Katee Sack.
you have seriously got to be joking about megan fox. mary mcdonnel was good as roslin. but seriously, megan fox, LOL.
Re-imaging of the 70’s series? Not the syfy BSG??? You can count me out.. wrong move and pretty disrespectful to the bsg fans.
Let’s not forget that the SciFi series was disrepectful to the 70’s bsg fans as well.
Is that what drove them crazy and turned them into Birthers?
Singer should stay away from this because Galactica is too fresh in people’s mind. Like the Buffy movie, why would you want to alienate fans?
Stick to the Logan’s Run remake he was going to do a few years ago.
The “Logan’s Run” remake has already been remade – it was called “The Island” . Good to see Ewan again, but not a great movie.
Singer should stay far enough away and let the team that reimagined Galatica so perfectly continue with any future projects.
Isn’t it then misleading on the part of Entertainment Weekly to advertise this article with a picture of the re-imagined series on their main page? I can only speak for myself, but this idea seems like an absolutely horrible way to continue the franchise. They should find a way to tell another story from the re-imagined series or just let it go.