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Glen Larson's 'Battlestar' Film Has A Spark News outlet claims continuation film heading to the big screen By MICHAEL HINMAN <mailto:[email protected]> Feb-21-2009 Source: IGN <http://www.IGN.com> SciFi Channel's reboot of "Battlestar Galactica" hasn't yet had its swan song, but the creator of the original 1978 series is trying to steal some of its thunder as reports begin to circulate that there's real interest in a "Battlestar" movie being made on his terms. IGN says that Universal Pictures has teamed up with Glen A. Larson to create his long-awaited movie on the "Battlestar" franchise which would pick up from his original series and ignore anything that has taken place on the SciFi Channel since 2003. Universal Pictures is owned by NBC Universal, as is the SciFi Channel. It's a rumor that has circulated in the past, and just as it did in the past, there are no confirmations from anyone at all that such a film is in the works. Even Universal has denied plans to make a "Battlestar" movie, but IGN claims its story is solid. How the film would be done is unclear. The original concept of a new "Battlestar" series back in the early 2000s for Fox would have been a continuation of the original series, and likely involved some of the former cast, including Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. Hatch, who played Apollo in the original series, spent years trying to convince studios to look at "Battlestar" again, and even spent his own money in the 1990s to create a trailer for what would be a continuation of the story. Some have credited Hatch for keeping interest in a revival alive that led to the SciFi Channel takeover of the series once Fox passed. Hatch, of course, was against the idea of a reboot, but after the pilot aired, softened his stance, and ended up taking on a recurring role as the terrorist politician Tom Zarek, which won him critical acclaim. While there are significant differences between the original "Battlestar" and the SciFi Channel version, the basic premise is still intact. A robot race called the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, forcing a band of survivors to escape the planets and be on the run from the robots, while trying to find a planet that existed only in legend: Earth. Both shows also found their own version of Earth. The current series did it last season when they found Earth as a nuclear wasteland, and the actual home of the Cylons. The original show found Earth in 1980 and was the basis of the short-lived series "Galactica 1980." No sources for SyFy Portal seem to have any inkling of this project being in development outside of IGN's report and the subsequent news reports following it, but that doesn't mean it's not true. In the meantime, however, this story should be treated as any rumor would.
