Whilst many great and original ideas gather dust, remakes of stories already told are getting millions thrown at them which is very frustrating, especially for creative writers who struggle to have their original work considered because of the financial risk evaluation machine.

For the record, I loved the original Battlestar and I loved Moore’s Battlestar. I am, however, not a “fanboy” of anything to the exclusion of anything else. I will most definitely head to the theater to see Singer’s Battlestar BUT I would prefer to head to the theater to see an original sci-fi film than the third version of a good story.

Even in a best case scenerio, cameras wouldn’t be expected to start rolling til a year from now, at the very earliest, as this will most likely not be a quick and dirty, every colony looks like Vancouver, or all the Costumes look like JC Pennys off the rack approach to BSG. Plenty of time for Singer to complete his work on Jack the Giant Killer. After the initial pre-production groundwork has been completed for Battlestar Galactica, Singer would be ready to Direct. There really is no need to a Director to have to micromanage the Pre-Production process

Jack the Giant Killer has had a script for some time, written by Mark Bomback. Much of the early groundwork was begun months and months ago, under the previous Director D.J. Caruso. Presumably Neal Moritz is still Producing, so this would not be Singer having to start from scratch.

As for the last comment, “because “prequel” isn’t quite as dirty a word as “remake”.” Strange, I don’t remember that being applied to Moore’s Galactica, I must have missed that.