Hollywood is going to try once again to bring the cult science fiction series Battlestar Galactica to the big screen.
Michael De Luca will produce for Universal with Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark of Bluegrass Films, reports The Hollywood Reporter. However, the project is in the very early stages and no writers are involved.
Universal appears to be looking at this with completely fresh eyes. The studio tried to bring the series to the movies as the acclaimed SyFy revival ended, with Bryan Singer even attached to direct. However, nothing came of it. The last writer on the project was Jack Paglen, who wrote the Johnny Depp movie Transcendence.
There have been two main Battlestar Galactica series, with the first running from 1978 to 1979. The SyFy series was even more popular, running from 2004 to 2009. There was also a short-lived series in 1980 called Galactica 1980. SyFy also aired the spin-off Caprica, which aired in 2010.
The franchise was created by Glen A. Larson and is about a group of survivors running from the Cylons and trying to find a human colony called Earth.