I'd certainly be interested in another re-imagining of the concept ... but the timing seems questionable to me ... particularly with the "prequel" BSG movie due this fall and the Caprica series premiering early next year.
The timing has nothing to do with SciFi's Galactica-verse and everything to do with
Star Trek. For all its critical acclaim, Moore's BSG was a niche show; even by the low standards of a cable network, its ratings have not been spectacular. Universal isn't thinking about that. Universal is looking at Paramount's huge success with an upbeat reboot of a classic SFTV franchise, and they're saying, "Hey, is there a space-opera property we own that we could turn into a reimagined big-budget tentpole too?" Because that's how studio executives think: in terms of copying whatever's big at the moment. In this case, Universal execs discovered that they owned a franchise called
Battlestar Galactica and that noted feature-film director Bryan Singer had been attached to it at one point in the past. The movie execs we're talking about may not even have been aware of the BSG television revival, since after all they're movie execs. All they pay attention to is what's going on in movies. (I've heard a book-editor colleague tell tales of studio executives who weren't even aware that the films they were producing were adaptations of pre-existing books.) Even if they know there was a recent BSG TV show, they don't care, because they're making movies. If they can get Bryan Singer attached to a space-opera franchise that they can pass off as resembling the
Star Trek movie, then that's what they're going to do.
