New Rumor: A new Larson big screen BSG???

[Cylon-Knight]

Just read this:

As SCI FI's Battlestar ends, is Universal adapting another for the movies?

Just as SCI FI's acclaimed series Battlestar Galactica enters its final episodes, Universal has quietly entered into negotiations with original series creator Glen A. Larson to write and produce a big-screen version of the franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie would reportedly have no connection to the SCI FI series and would relaunch the story in a new medium with the characters Adama, Starbuck and Baltar.

Larson produced the original Battlestar, a kid-friendly ABC show, in 1978, in the wake of the success of Star Wars.

SCI FI's series, under the direction of executive producer Ronald Moore, took the premise but completely changed the franchise into an adult drama with themes of politics, war, religion, torture and destiny.

Universal had no comment to the Reporter.
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Source link (until it putters out one day in the future - the full rumor text is above, only missing the cool 1978 photo):
http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/as-sci-fis ... s.php#more

[GoldCylon]

That would be great, but so many countless rumors have flown around and Larson has been a major source of those rumors. He even made a claim 5 years ago that he now owns the movie right (legal) and that he would launch a movie series, but look what has become of that statement. Maybe if you yell it enough someone will throw the right dollar amount to fund the project. I only hope it will get off the ground.

[Cylon-Knight]

So true GoldCylon, same for Knight Rider - Larson owns the movie rights - but not the TV rights. And so far after a few YEARS of trying - nothing. There is some script and 'blah blah blah' but I'm still camped out at the movie theater to see it and my popcorn is getting stale (not really, lol).

And really, I feel that anyone would be hard pressed to make a BSG in a more classic BSG way now - after the current series has become such a huge hit - even appearing in TIME magazine (as a one page article). Any "2-ish" hour movie would be hard pressed to create the buzz a TV series can generate over 4 years.

Plus your right... "IF" it even happens.