Jane Espenson

IGN has learned that Universal Pictures is planning to turn the TV series "Battlestar Galactica" into a feature film with series creator Glen Larson being lined up to produce and write the script.

The film will be based on the original series from 1978-79 rather than the recent reboot from the Sci Fi Channel. The story followed a band of humans who were the only survivors of a devastating attack on their colonial homeworld by the vicious cybernetic race known as the Cylons. The survivors, led by Commander Adama, embark on a journey through space aboard the military vessel Battlestar Galactica to find refuge on a distant planet called Earth.

"Battlestar Galactica" has been in cinemas before. Re-edited versions of television episodes were released theatrically: "Battlestar Galactica" (1978), "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" (1978), and "Conquest of the Earth" (1980).