Bryan Singer to take on the cylons
WELL he's taken on the X-Men, and Superman, and even the Usual Suspects, but news of Bryan Singer's latest foray into filmmaking has taken industry insiders by surprise. He's rebooting the reboot of Battlestar Galactica.
Singer was closely involved in a Universal project aimed at rebooting the formerly cheesy 70s scifi show in 2001, but the project was quietly dropped after the September 11 attacks as it was considered that the cylons' suicide attack was too close to real-life events going on at the time. In the aftermath, Ron Moore and David Eick picked up the project and... well the rest is (literally) scifi history.
But while the new Battlestar Galactica is beloved of fans and critics alike and packed with non scifi undercurrents about the nature of terrorism, politics and life in the modern world, it never became hugely popular or widestream - in part because it played on the US Syfy Channel (apparently calling it Sci-Fi is too geeky) and on Sky One in the UK.
Singer's involvement and the possibility of a cinematic outing could change that significantly, although the question needs to be asked, with Caprica launching shortly and straight to DVD films like Galactica: The Plan which will show the entire arc of the series from the cylons' views do we NEED this big screen reimagining? And will we be seeing the Adamas, Six et al moved across to this new movie, or will Singer revert to his previous outline of the film which saw mechanical robot cylons trying to take over the world in a more dull seen-it-all-before way?
With the news of the film only being announced by Variety yesterday it's going to be a long time before we know. But rest assured there's going to be some fans out there who haven't been this worried since, well, they made Starbuck a woman...
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So what would you like? Another reboot? Olmos, McDonnell, Sackhoff et al moving to the big screen? Or should Galactica be left alone completely? Have your say in the comments.
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The series was an abomination. It ripped the life and soul out of the original. I hope anyone who touches the brand from now on has more respect!
Oh, The Real Starbuck. You're expecting Singer to show more respect to the franchise than Moore et al? Did you *see* Superman Returns. Abandon hope I would...
And the series wasn't an abomination. A lot bleaker than the original show, and it didn't share much except the most basic of premises and a few character names (and Richard Hatch), but it is arguably one of the best shows of recent times. As long as you're not yearning for in-jokes and musical episodes.
Good show it may have been, I gave up after three. It should never have been given the name of it's predecessor.
And why is it being bleaker better? The original was so romantically twee and harmless, it had a charm to it that should have been treasured and not trampled on.
And for the record I loved Superman Returns!!!