I Am Legend and Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is still on board to direct Universal Pictures’ Battlestar Galactica, a feature film reboot of the 1978 television series created by Glen Larson, and The Wrap reports today that Jay Basu (The Girl in the Spider’s Web) has been hired to rewrite the screenplay.
An earlier draft was written by Lisa Joy (“Westworld”).
In the original “Battlestar Galactica” series, which was rebooted for a brand new series in 2003, “After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.”
Dylan Clark (“Planet of the Apes” series, “Oblivion”) will produce for his Dylan Clark Productions alongside Michael De Luca (“Fifty Shades” trilogy, “Social Network”) through his Michael De Luca Productions. Scott Stuber (“Ted” series, “Identity Thief”) will executive produce.