Wait ’til the old man hears about this! Those frakkin’ toasters over in Hollywood are once again trying their hand at bringing
Battlestar Galactica to the big screen. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, producer Michael DeLuca (
The Social Network) is partnering with Bluegrass Films (
Battleship) to develop the venerable sci-fi series as a franchise at Universal Pictures. No writers are attached to the project at this time, and little else is known about the planned iteration.
The original
Battlestar Galactica series came from creator Glen A. Larson during the post-
Star Wars boom of sci-fi, lasting one short but memorable season in 1978 and 1979. They brought it back for another 10-episode run as
Galactica 1980 in the wake of a massive letter-writing campaign by fans convinced executives at ABC to give it another shot. The series always had cult status, but gained a degree of mainstream success with a politically charged, reimagined Syfy series that ran from 2004 to 2009.
The Syfy series, developed by
Outlander‘s
Ronald D. Moore, envisioned humanity in tatters, on the run from a race of deadly robots known as Cylons, whose brutal assaults nearly rendered humanity extinct. The remnants of humanity fled from their hyper-intelligent, robotic oppressors on a fleet of starships, led by the
Galactica and her crew, on the hunt for the legendary human colony of Earth.
