John Orloff Penning Bryan Singer’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’
By Cinemumra
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Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 7:39 pm
From a Roland Emmerich Shakespeare picture, to Bryan Singer‘s long talked about Battlestar Galactica project, writer John Orloff is having quite an intriguing career.
THR is reporting that Orloff is in talks with Universal to write the script for Singer’s much awaited adaptation of the beloved ’70s TV franchise, which for the first time in its run, is truly starting to move forward in production.
The film won’t connect to this recent Syfy series run, and will reboot “the story of far-flung humans searching for a long-lost colony on a planet named Earth while being chased by a race of robots known as Cylons.”
Orloff is one of the more interesting writers around, particularly having films like A Mighty Heart on his filmography, making this a really cool choice for a writer. I’m a huge fan of the guy, and think that the combination of Singer, Orloff and the source material is a perfect cinematic threesome. Hopefully it will live up to that potential.
Okay, what’s the point of a re-re-imagining at this point? I’ll freely admit that while Ron Moore and David Eick’s version of BSG was far from perfect, Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell were enough to carry the series – make no mistake, Olmos and McDonnell were certainly the most recognizable names on the show, but everyone else “You’ve never heard of before” certainly left lasting impressions with the audience that garnered some serious emotional investment on how it would all end for each of them.
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Okay, what’s the point of a re-re-imagining at this point? I’ll freely admit that while Ron Moore and David Eick’s version of BSG was far from perfect, Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell were enough to carry the series – make no mistake, Olmos and McDonnell were certainly the most recognizable names on the show, but everyone else “You’ve never heard of before” certainly left lasting impressions with the audience that garnered some serious emotional investment on how it would all end for each of them.
Comment by burning_chrome — October 22, 2011 @ 4:00 am