Out director Bryan Singer’s new gig

Out director Bryan Singer, whose credits include Superman Returns, Valkyrie, X2 and X-Men, will direct and produce Universal’s feature film version of Battlestar Galactica.

Battlestar Galactica has been put on the fast-track and Singer, who had widely thought to be working on the next X-Men movie next, has been interested in the project for quite a while.

Right after he did the original X-Men, he told Daily Variety that “the lesson I learned on X-Men is to have a healthy respect for the fan base of sci-fi fantasy franchises, and I’m confident that the Galactica brand is a sleeping giant. It was a show I watched during its initial run, from the pilot to the final episode. The essence and the brand name is quite potent in a climate where there’s a great deficit of sci-fi programming.”