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Bryan Singer to direct 'Battlestar' film


August 13, 2009 Bryan Singer is attached to direct and produce Universal's big-screen version of "Battlestar Galactica." The deal hyper-jumps the development of "Galactica," for which Universal quietly picked up the movie rights in February from original show creator Glen A. Larson as the lauded Sci Fi series was wrapping up. Singer and Tom DeSanto were developing with USA for Fox TV a backdoor pilot that was intended to be a sequel to the 1978 series, but those were shelved after the attacks of Sept. 11.

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