Bryan Singer’s Battlestar Galactica Film Gets A Writer

The Battlestar Galactica reboot television series has only been off the air for a few years but a BSG film is already being fast-tracked to the big screen. X-Men director Bryan Singer has been associated with the project for a while but now they’ve found a screenwriter — Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole’s John Orloff.

“I have wanted to write this movie since I was 12 years old, and built a Galactica model from scratch out of balsa wood, cardboard, old model parts and LEDs,” Orloff told Deadline. “I love BSG, and I would pass on the job rather than frak it up.”

Can’t deny his credibility, huh?

Orloff doesn’t have too many writing credits on his resume but his latest venture is Anonymous, the film that poses Shakespeare didn’t actually write his famous works. He was also nominated for an Emmy for HBO’s Band of Brothers. Singer is currently at work on Jack the Giant Killer but you can bet your sweet cylon the BSG movie will get started soon.

The Syfy BSG was a surprise success, although its spinoff Caprica did not fair as well. The network is currently at work on a prequel, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. However, this new film will be based on the original BSG series from 1978 rather than the reboot.

Are you ready for another version of BSG or is this overload?

(via Deadline)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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