Space is the place, or it will be soon for Hollywood executives. The $2 billion success of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” proves there’s a four quadrant audience ready to eat up sci-fi tales. It might explain why 20th Century Fox and James Cameron are chasing four more “Avatar” movies, or why “Star Trek” has both a movie sequel and TV series on the horizon, so it’s not a big surprise that Universal is ramping up their long developing big screen adaptation of “Battlestar Galactica.”
A couple years back, “Transcendence” writer Jack Paglen was tapped to pen the screenplay, but the studio has since switched gears a bit. Lisa Joy (HBO‘s “Westworld“) will now be writing the script, that will offer a feature film version of the story about the war between humans and Cylons in a distant galaxy. Meanwhile, Francis Lawrence is circling the director’s chair, and with three “The Hunger Games” movies and “I Am Legend” under this belt, he knows his way about blockbusters.
Of course, “Battlestar Galactica” has lived on quite healthily in various TV versions since it launched on the small screen in the ’70s, so there’s lots of opportunity for a multiplex take to succeed. Hardcore fans will have a lot to say about everything from the casting to the story, so let us know what you want to see in your ‘Galactica’ movie in the comments section below. [Deadline]