Bryan Singer Making a 'Battlestar Galactica' Movie

Are we in the midst of a Bryan Singer comeback? Valkyre did OK and was a pretty effective historical potboiler, and now it's been announced that he'll direct and produce an upcoming Battlestar Galactica movie, something that hadn't really even been speculated about in its new form. The original series, created by Glen Larson, aired over 30 years ago. It was probably more a reaction to the success of Star wars than anything else, but it actually turned out OK, considering its main characters were named Apollo and Starbuck. The reinvented series, of course, was something of a revelation for science fiction fans everywhere. That show, which just completed its run in March on SciFi (now SyFy, stupidly), has been at the top of critics' lists for half a decade. But there's no way this movie news could really appease hardcore fans of the most recent series. If Bryan Singer made a movie based on that universe, they'd be screaming for Ronald D. Moore, and if by chance Universal and Singer were clocking it back to the original series and inventing something new out of that material...well, those fans would still want Ron Moore. It's the latter, incidentally. The new movie will reportedly have nothing to do with the SciFi series outside of presumably the shared character names on both shows. According to Entertainment Weekly, the movie "will be a complete re-imagining of the sci-fi lore that was invented by Larson back in the 70s." So my question is, do we really need three versions of this story, especially when the second one absolutely got it right? Singer can't really improve on what Ron Moore and the cast and crew of the most recent series did. Moore currently has the BSG spin-off, Caprica, on SyFy and it's unclear if he's going to be completely uninvolved with the new movie. My guess is that he won't go near it, just because of the whole reinvention thing, which I'm not sure anyone really wants. But why not just make a movie out of Moore's concept of the story? Seems pretty easy to me.

Comments

[Emo]

This is a bad idea.

[Me]

Agreed. Why reimagine what has been reimagined, and extremely well? Of course it's all about money but do something new unless you are okay with riding the coattails of Mr Moore and the cast/crew's success. Singer is better than that, or so I thought.

[Jeremy]

why does Dirk Benedict look SO surprised in that picture?

[JJ]

All of this has happened before, all of it will happen again.

[Starbuck]

This is finally the film that long time Battlestar fans have waited to see. I'm glad Singer is doing Battlestar right!

[Jake Striker]

I treid to watch the new series. It was ok for the first year, then it got to be boring and to predictable. The major problem with the movie was the lack of vision. It narrowed to 1 creature and their creations, which you wonder it the creators where extreme seperatists. Why not add alien diversity, and reach beyond the Melrose Place idea of a Sci Fi Movie.
I loved the original because it was just that, campy and cheesy, but very enjoyable. An escapism that is needed in this time. We don't need to be seeing movies about how this world is rushing to it's own demise. We need true release from the toil and fears we all feel. The original showed the various flaws of man, as well as with other creatures. I hope they do bring back the "Hero" Roles of the past. I for one would like to be swept away in the movies like day's of old, like the time Star Wars first came out and you had to see the movie a minimum of 7 times before you were satisfied. I do see a trend toward movies that you want to see more than once, but not like Jaws or Star Wars. There is nothing like seeing a movie in those theaters - it's a different world than the home HD-TV's.