Frak, yes: Battlestar Galactica relaunch has its writer

Blastr ^ | 10/20/11

[KevinDavis]

Bryan Singer's Battlestar Galactica has taken one step closer to becoming a reality! Hollywood vet John Orloff has been signed to pen the long-in-development (and we do mean long) film adaptation, and he's psyched.

Universal Pictures has hired Orloff to write the revamped screenplay for an adaptation of the 1978 TV space opera, in a move that confirms rumors that the reboot will be moving forward. After plans for Singer's film Excalibur hit the skids, the director decided to spend more time developing his vision for Battlestar. It's no secret that Singer is a huge fan of the property, but what about Orloff?

[KevinDavis]

I think BSG will go down in history as the only SciFi franchise that is going to have many versions... I do think that Ron Moore version is awesome and I do like Glenn Larson version..

[KevinDavis]

[Siena Dreaming]

Star Trek has had quite a few versions...

[Sledge]

It has happened before and it will happen again.

[newzjunkey]

Ron Moore's version was a pornographic bastardization.

I have little hope for this "reboot" version; it won't capture what made the original series so memorable: family and mythology.

When you have puff-piece articles saying a just hired writer has been a lifelong fan of the classic version of anything the end result will be terrible. Soon it'll be described as re-imagined and edgy.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Thorliveshere]

You mean they just can’t (heaven forbid) change names of characters and give the show a whole new title? I mean, really, sci-fi writers have been ripping off each other for years anyway.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I hope it isn’t like the estrogenic and morbidly depressing BSG that ended recently.

[mountn man]

Just won't be the same.

[6SJ7]

You're quite right!

[Tanniker Smith]

I really wanted the Richard Hatch version to take off. It's a pity that it didn't. He had the vision and the mythology in place and was going to take it forward ... only with better special effects.

Another *beginning* isn't really needed. Especially after the last one wrapped up only recently. ("recently" if you consider prequels and movies and such.)

[GeronL]

Will it be more like the original Dr. Pepper... I mean BSG??

[tbw2]

Was that the one where his Battlestar Galactica book described Kobol as being a colony itself, of a world named Parnassus? So the quest moved past Earth to the prior, true homeworld of humans?

[BigCinBigD]

This has all happened before. And it will happen again. Again Again...

[tbw2]

A remake could be humanity’s descendants 50K years from now returning to our Earth.

[KevinDavis]

Who knows...

[Tanniker Smith]

He produced a promotional trailer, which you can probably find on youtube these days, but the quality isn't great.

It's the next generation, still in space, still looking for Earth. The door was left open for Starbuck to rejoin them. (Galactica 1980 was ignored.)

[RansomOttawa]

I think BSG will go down in history as the only SciFi franchise that is going to have many versions...

Too late: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was published as a novel, radio drama, record album, TV series, computer game, and movie. No two alike. Douglas Adams had his hand in all of them, which just makes it more amusing.

With regards to a feature-film BSG treatment, my question is: Why? It just seems a little soon to me for yet another reboot.