Is Bryan Singer actually going ahead with this GALACTICA reboot insanity?

Examiner.com is reporting that Bryan Singer is officially moving ahead with his planned Battlestar Galatica reboot movie; the news comes mere days after Ron Moore's Galatica reboot TV movie The Plan was released on DVD.

Now it seems that director/producer Bryan Singer is teaming up with Larson to make a Battlestar Galactica movie for the big screen, ditching and dissing the fan favorite Moore version. It seems that Larson was not a big fan of the Moore reboot, and wants to develop the original version of Galactica, keeping the original premise and storyline, making it more action oriented, geared for adults. Singer had originally intended to remake the original series for the small screen back in 2000, but the director was distracted by other endeavors and the project stalled. That's when Moore took over.

Now that pre-production has started, any rumors that Singer's next project was going to be "X" related (as in X-Men) has been put to rest, along with any shot he had of helming another Superman flick. There's been no word if Moore will be involved in the re-reboot, yet given the rumored "rocky" relationship between Larson and Moore, it seems unlikely.

As a sincere fan of the original series (yes, we do exist), I would have been really excited to see a big budget, big screen version of Galactica that was faithful to the Glen Larson version - a version where the Cylons were shiny robots with glowing red eyes ping-pong-ing back and forth in their heads, and Starbuck was a dude.

I would have been excited to see that. In 2000 or so. But honestly, it's 2009 and Moore's version has already rebooted the hell out of Galactica. Singer's just asking for trouble if he sets out to reboot one of the most critically-acclaimed TV series in decades, especially while memories of Gaius Baltar getting snoggy with Six are still so fresh in our minds.

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