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‘Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Writer Will Rewrite the Script for ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Movie
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.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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