{"id":16846,"date":"2011-10-20T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16846"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:15:18","slug":"singer%e2%80%99s-big-screen-battlestar-galactica-gets-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/20\/singer%e2%80%99s-big-screen-battlestar-galactica-gets-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer\u2019s Big Screen BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Gets A Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bryan Singer has wanted to do his version of the classic 1970s science-fiction series Battlestar Galactica<\/em> for some time. In 2000, he was developing a mini-series for the FOX Network, but the plans fell through in the wake of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. The Sci-Fi Channel would go on to successful revive the series a few years later. (At right is a look at how Singer’s series who have reimagined the alien Cylon robots.)<\/p>\n

But now that Warner Brothers has decided to pass on Singer\u2019s planned remake of John Boorman\u2019s King Arthur tale Excalibur<\/strong> he had been developing at the studio, the director is setting his sights on Galactica<\/strong> being his next project. And the project is taking its first big step today as it is being reported that Universal is closing a deal with screenwriter John Orloff to script the film.<\/p>\n

A self-professed Galactica<\/em> fan, Orloff told Deadline<\/a>, \u201cI have wanted to write this movie since I was 12 years old, and built a Galactica<\/em> model from scratch out of balsa wood, cardboard, old model parts and LEDs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orloff has previously written Anonymous<\/strong>, the Shakespeare conspiracy film that opens later this month, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga\u2019Hoole<\/strong> and the Angelina Jolie vehicle A Mighty Heart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As noted before, the franchise had a very popular and critically acclaimed revival on the Sci-Fi Channel that wrapped up just a few years ago. Will fans want to see a new iteration of the story of a rag tag fleet of spaceship fleeing a genocidal attack to search for a new home on a fabled planet called Earth so soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANONYMOUS scripter John Orloff will pen the new film.<\/div>\n

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