Bryan Singer Confirmed For ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Feature Film
Battlestar Galactica to be re-imagined again
Two days ago it was reported that Bryan Singer (X-Men / Superman Returns) was in negotiations to direct a Battlestar Galactica feature film.
Universal Pictures has now confirmed it, adding that Singer will both direct and produce the film.
As yet there’s no script and no further details, other than to say the feature film will be a complete re-imagining of the franchise once again.
Source: THR
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August 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am
A source at Universal also confirmed this, and said this will be in line with the TOS Battlestar Galactica, NOT the RDM interpretation.
Don’t expect names like William, Lee, or Kara attached to Adama, Apollo, or Starbuck.
Also, don’t be looking for a sports bra on Starbuck.
August 14th, 2009 at 10:39 am
This is complete bullshit. Why the hell would they re-imagine it again? The new “re-imagined” BSG previously on SciFi (SyFy, lol) is Battlestar Galactica struck gold with their character development, story line, visual effects, everything! The show was and still is amazing. It completely surpassed the original BSG from the 70’s and in my opinion and the opinion of many other fans it should be the only version of BSG.
70’s BSG barely finished a first season let alone only lasted 1 year. It can’t even compete with the success of BSG 2003’s 4 seasons, 2 movies, and a prequel spin off and not to mention 6 year run! (This will probably fire up the 70’s BSG fan boys, and yes I intentionally failed to mention the BSG 80’s show due to the fact it blew as well)
If these movie execs had any common sense they’d bank of the story it BSG 2003 setup. To go back and attempt to make a campy Star Wars rip off movie is an insult to movie patrons everywhere.
Way to go Universal Pictures, good luck with this one. You’re gonna need it!
August 15th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
FANTASTIC NEWS! Now maybe we can see a reimagining more faithful to the original Battlestar Galactica, and hopefully Singer and his team will take the time to think out their story from start to finish instead of just meandering along for years on end and throwing something nonsensical together for the conclusion.
Adama, your post reminds me of how a lot of fans of the original BG feel toward Moore’s version. If this project actually sees the light of day, the tables may actually be turning. IMO, BG has enough greatness about it to survive many “reimaginings” for years and years to come.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Sorry Adama, but your “precious” barely made it thru season 3 before the Network was pushing to axe it due to poor ratings. Ronnie had to beg and plead to be allowed a final season to “wrap things up”.
And a piss poor job he did too. God Did It… Bleh
Face it, without pre-paid Stealth marketing, and the Zealot members of the Church of Ron Moore sqwalking about it’s “Genius” your “precious” is Lifetime Network material with Space Ships
August 19th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@callahan
I am half way through season 4 and find it very good actually cant believe they almost did not have it i found out about the show a few months ago its EPIC!
seriously one of the best shows i have ever seen
LOL @ lifetime channel dont see it anywhere like that at all
September 1st, 2009 at 12:20 am
Uh-oh. Sounds like another Dirk Benedict-worshipper who thinks a woman is a castrated man.
September 1st, 2009 at 2:33 am
@TOS some fans of the original are now more fans of Moore’s version. I’m guessing many of those will also end up being fans of Singer’s version…at least I hope so.
@RAY ditto
@ Callahan. Katee Sackhoff’s Starbuck was far more interesting, engaging, and even tougher than Dirk Benedicts. For me, I’d rather see a female Starbuck like she portrayed than a male one like Benedicts – and yes, I was a fan of the original series too. Let’s hope that whichever way Singer’s team go, they give the Starbuck character depth.
@ MC LOL
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Exciting…This was one franchise that did it right…going out with a bang. Anything they produce I’m sure will hold the same quality as the series. I can’t wait to see what they produce.
September 5th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Seems like everyone is jumping to conclusions yet again. Re-imagined doesn’t mean that it’s going to be the campy 70’s type BSG. Not even a script yet should tell you something. Remember that Trek was toyed with and it was a great success. Being that BSG ended on SyFy a new way to tell the story is the only option. If not a new story then why would anyone go to see it? Hey, this sounds like YEARS in the making anyhow. How about some Stargate DVD’s in the meantime.
September 8th, 2010 at 5:37 am
Hey a feature film? Wow that would be awesome. You know what the writers are saying “there is too many SG and BSG fans looking for the OG in scifi”. My response would be we are not looking for retro scifi..we are looking for something new like the reimaged BSG series offered and something like the SG series that lasted 10 years. Not something that will film for one or two seasons and bam be done. You can’t tell me every scifi story has already been told? What about a scifi story that covered a galactic economic meltdown that took mankind to the brink of extinction…is that not big enough mr. big? Enough with developing new creature and cultures how about a scifi that dealt with today’s problems for today’s generation of dreamers? Or even how about some galactical econological disaster that threatens to obliterate every planet in multiple solar systems capable of supporting life?
September 11th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
The Moore Galactica was complete crap! They can travel faster than light, but still used normal gunpowder guns in use by us. It was ridiculous. It was Melrose Place in Space, a low-budget soap opera in space. Some clothes as us, same clocks, same glasses, same everything. It was impossible to believe in it and its story line. The shaky blurry ship graphics was just a way to use low-resolution CGI to save money, not the art, like every aspect of the show. The shaky NYPD Blue shots were outdated ten years ago, it was absurd. I really wanted to believe in the show, but the premise and quality of the show was very poor, I couldn’t force myself to watch the drivel. The only good part of the show was Six, a georgeous woman, but not enough to watch the show regularly. None of the characters were worth believing in. They all had moral failings and were not heros. Adulterers and drunks are not heroes for the young. The premise the Cylons were “human”, but with their advanced technology went undetected for years was completely unbelievable. The perpetual draw of the multiple Star Trek and Star Gate series was that the characters had strong moral centers, honor and were self-sacrificing heroes worth believing in, which was greatly lacking in the new Galactica series. The new series was a great disappointment in human values and honor, despite the presence of great actors of Olmos and McDonnell.
September 14th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Those whom liked the new Galactica must have had a low threshold for entertainment. Everything was the same as what we have now on Earth in this century, not the advanced techology of space travellers. It was incredibly boring seeing the same things as we have here. It was all to save money, not an artistic vision by Ronnie. Those whom bought that line are gullible fools. People need to have a mind of their own, not what others tell them they should like. People want to escape their lives here and be entertained and see new and clever things. The Galactica by Moore failed miserably to spark the imagination, all at the strategy to save bucks on the budget. Anything remotely interesting was merely borrowed from other series and nothing new and mundane. I never bought the premise for a second.
December 1st, 2010 at 4:53 pm
For one thing the New Galactica was a pile of garbage
it was only 50 or 60 years old and was falling apart
The original Galactica was over a thousand years old (Yarens)
And the Pegasus was just a few years (Yaren) older
Those two battlestars where just that BATTLESTARS
I know there is more to the new show and the old show then just the ship. But… If your going to fight in a ship that large
Doesn’t it make sence to buld the ship so that It would last?
The New Galactica should NOT even bear the name.
I don’t even like the looks of it.
the old Galactica now that was a ship I think it’s the coolest looking ship in movie history. in fact I have built a 6 ft version
Of the REAL Galactica in my room here I’m still at work on it
So.. what I’m saying is this The new show SUCKED. Tp get down to point. SUCKED.. To fight in a ship that was not built to withstand a great amount of punishment one would loose quick
The ould show might not have lasted as long. But its funny
How it became so popular over the years. And the new show well.
Just like the new ship It sailed off into the sun.
The OLD show kick’s the new shows ass. Period
December 17th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
oh crap, they couldn’t have got a worse director if they tried…really bryan singer? this movie will suck massively with him at the helm!
December 17th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
thats what you get when ron moore makes anythng…everything he did for tng mid way through its 7 year stint became boring and monotonous every single episode he wrote ..and the irony is you didnt need to read who wrote his scripts..because it was painfully unacceptably bad..
good ridance to him and hope we never see him again..along with mallozzi over at the bridge studios for sgu…his best bum mate rob cooper decided to do a runner…its time all these overpaid greedy useless / unimaginative writers disappeared down a black hole never to be seen of again.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
paul – re imagined? it was an utter pile crap..everything that show stood for was rotten through the core.
SG fans dont want the drama..that was sgu thats why that show was canceled.
you say – Remember that Trek was toyed with and it was a great success. But did you stop to even bother to understand why it was a success? Overhype played a huge stinking role in it. As an original Trek fan I couldn’t stand it..it had nothing whatsoever to do with star trek…big deal a big ugly ship that was twice as advanced as what it should have been from the off..err really? the time line..abrams butchered trek he butchered the law and more importantly he took the piss out of canon trek then admitted he hadn’t got a clue about the show…which clearly and painfully shows throughout that movie.
Anyway rant over….did they in star trek change the sex of leading characters that where well established? no.
BSG was shaky cam drama right from the off..just like that crap SGU was…people don’t like that crap…they don’t need the continuous boring drama..sci fi is about action, its about exploration, its about inter character driven show..not some pile of steaming poop that has no sci fi and just continous drama from beginning to end..torture is to be put through just 5 minutes of that steaming pile of crap….no wonder its spinoff was an instant failure..it did exactly the same thing as BSG..and sgu did the same thing as the new bsg and caprica.
You say people don’t want old campy stuff…sorry to burst you bubble pal, this is not an insult to fellow americans…but one things most americans hate most of all is change.
If something was not broken, dont meddle with.
You see remake after remake of tv shows…and you know what? they all suck and they all get canceled…knight rider..bsg..sgu as you would call reimagined..now look at hawaii five 0 that thing is a very very deep insult to the original.
If i could have 10 more years of SG-1 id have took it, if I could only have another 5 years of atlantis ditto…dont give me and other fans this drama bollocks…thats what girly shows are for!!
January 28th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
It is so reassuring to know that there are others like myself who happen to believe that the ‘re-imagined’ (code for ‘I couldn’t care less, let’s just do this on a budget’) Battlestar Galactica is THE worst remake of an original television show ever. There are so many things wrong with this pile of soap-opera drivel that I just do not know where to begin ridiculing it.
Did Ron Moore and his fellow henchmen actually think for one second that something so far from the original show would actually be any good? Did he think that by calling his piece of drek ‘Battlestar Galactica’ that the fans of the original would be fooled?
I am at a total loss to comprehend how ‘Adama’ (above, Aug. 14, 2009) could possibly like this rubbish. The acting is bad, dialogue stilted and fake, the technology is severely retro, the special/visual effects amateurish (the Battle of Britain in space), and everyone just seems to talk, talk, talk… Where is the action? Who cares about ‘complex, contemporary issues’? Not me! This garbage isn’t science-fiction; it’s Operation Desert Storm in Space.
January 29th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Well said Peter!
The problem is this show was absolute dire crap, it could barely keep its head above water after it’s first season.
Sci Fi channel at the time, had invested quite large into it, and if I remember correctly too, that NBC had told them to make it work no matter the cost..they had just had their budget reduced, and where given quite a large amount for this show, which they squandered.
I mean needing matches to prop open ones eye lids to watch that crap is being nice to it.
So again, after BSG mark two (read “Stargate Universe”) which as gone the way of the dodo for exactly the same reasons except much quicker…why are they contemplating yet another version of BSG after the dismal failure of Craprica? lol
They say the new version of BSG will be absolutely faithful to the original series, we’ll see cylons in their one eye costumes and such…but its now way too little to late.
I think perhaps the only justice this should could get, is if NBC sold it’s stock to another studio / network…and know its past history.
After seeing the rebooted Hawaii Five 0, its a show full of glitzy fags making a mockery of the original show!
Nothing will ever be able to replace Jack Lord’s version…nothing. Which just goes to show….make something original…don’t fuck around with established lore, or established shows…be creative….and to think these wankers went on strike 2 years ago for more pay…id have fired the fucking lot of em.