He remains involved with Battlestar Galactica we understand, and is still the only director we know of attached to the project.
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A film based on the short-lived but hugely popular 1978 TV series moved into development in 2009 following the success of a small-screen reboot which ran for four seasons from 2004 onwards.
In 2014, news got out that Universal was working on a new Battlestar Galactica movie with the creator of the original series, Glen Larson, and Transcendence screenwriter Jack Paglen.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the sci-fi film will be produced by Michael De Luca of The Social Network along with Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark from Bluegrass Films. At one point, everything seemed to be going swimmingly with Bryan Singer taking on the movie as something of a passion project.
While there’s no new on whether Singer will still direct, the report does claim that, at the very least, he’ll be on board to oversee the project as Executive Director. The remake also spawned the prequel series Caprica and the web series Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome.
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The hook of the show concerned human civilization on distant planets being nearly wiped out by intelligent machines known as Cylons. Survivors flee on starships led by Galactica and her crew and they try to find a human colony called Earth. The trade notes that De Luca has a three-year first-look deal with the studio, part of which entails him producing the next two sequels to Fifty Shades.
