Universal Pictures is closing a deal with John Orloff to write Battlestar Galactica, a feature based on the Glen Larson 1978 TV series that Bryan Singer has long wanted to direct. Orloff seems equally pumped.

“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.”

Deal comes after Orloff scripted and exec produced Anonymous, the Roland Emmerich-directed film that Sony Pictures will platform, a drama that takes the position Shakespeare didn’t really write his great works. Orloff also scripted Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and was Emmy nominated for HBO’s Band of Brothers mini.

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Now that's good news, so long as they tone down the camp and lose the annoying kid and his robot dog.

Just the brand conflict alone makes me wonder what the exec was smoking when he green lit this project.

Hear, hear!

time will, keeping my fingers crossed

I haven't heard anything more about this since the initial report so our fingers may be crossed for quite a while.

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