The Battlestar Galactica Movie Only Bryan Singer Cares About Has a Writer

Let's play a game, kids – Six Degrees of Bryan. I'll start.

Bryan Singer is directing Battlestar Galactica, which (according to "TOLDJA") will be written by John Orloff who earlier wrote Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole that was directed by Zack Snyder who is directing The Man of Steel and the previous Superman movie was Superman Returns directed by Bryan Singer.

I'm just not psyched about a $200-$300 million of Battlestar Galactica on the silver screen. Thing is I'm a big fan of his work and friends with associates of his. So I can, and have, asked them what the Hell is up with this?

"He's in love with his youth," they tell me. Bryan's big into nostalgic geek properties from his childhood including the afore-mentioned Superman, Galactica (which before this movie-centric version was developed as a TV series) and the ill-fated remakes of Logan's Run and Excalibur he was long attached to direct. Much like Spielberg and Lucas took their love of the serials from the 1940s and made Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark Singer has been attempting to do the same with the products of his youth.

That's all well and good but at least with those guys they didn't just outright sequelize or reboot something clearly established. They took those archetypes and turned them into their own thing. One could see the influence but also how they'd made something original out of it. This far along into his career, I'd much prefer him go back to the thriller genre which gave us The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil and Valkyrie instead of another homage/sequel and this is coming from someone who loves Singer's Superman!