In All Likelihood, I Suspect We Have Heard All That We Will Ever Hear About This Movie From Bryan Singer And Universal Studios

The press release (above) from Universal Studios and Bryan Singer on October 21st, 2011.

Bryan Singer and Universal Studios will now go dark information wise (because there will be no further information to share) and quietly reinsert this embryonic movie idea back into "Hollywood Development Hell" mode where it will once again never get made.

We now won't hear from Bryan Singer and Universal Studios again about this movie until the Fall of 2013 when they will both re-announce it as going back into production yet again for a fourth time.

This is the work history of Universal Studios and Bryan Singer with this movie / production going back 11 years:

1. 2001 - FOX TV television pilot (Battlestar Galactica) never got made.
2. 2009 - Battlestar Galactica feature film never got made.
3. 2011 - Battlestar Galactica feature film never got made.

And this is my prediction for the future...

4. Fall 2013 - Bryan Singer and Universal Studios will re-announce this movie as going back into production where it will also...never get made.

Bryan Singer and Universal Studios are now in "Biennial Schedule Mode" with these sham movie announcements of theirs for a "Battlestar Galactica" movie.

In the mean time, Bryan Singer will continue to complete a series of fairly unremarkable projects for the television screen uncluding sitcom pilots and television commercials. Most not worthy of mention (and probably won't be mentioned) on the Internet.

If Bryan Singer and Universal Studios ever do manage to make this movie, it will be a fluke of nature or an act of God.

If "Sham Biennial Movie Announcements" Are The Only Things Bryan Singer And Universal Studios Will Ever Offer The General Public...

...Then Maybe it's Time For The Two of Them to Get Into Another Line of Work...


In Hollywood, no one has been worse in the Science Fiction theatrical business than Universal Studios and Bryan Singer. In Science Fiction cinema, Universal Studios produces one theatrical flop after another, and Bryan Singer can't get any of his announced Science Fiction movies off of the ground, period. When these two miserable failures join forces, ir comes as no surprise that they still haven't gotten a "Battlestar Galactica" theatrical film off of the ground after 11 years (on purpose of course.).

Universal Studios is the only studio in Hollywood where there seems to be some sort of "Remedial Academics Section" of their movie division where a "Battlestar Galactica" film and all other Science Fiction movies are specifically assigned. And every Science Fiction movie that comes out of this "Remedial Academics Section" will inevitably suck and fail, and a "Battlestar Galactica" movie will never get made.

Bryan Singer's "flustered stuttering" in the above video (where he was obviously caught off guard being asked about a movie he really hasn't been working on for the past 10 months) is indicative of the all around "poor quality" of hired help that always ends up at Universal Studios specifically assigned to this "Remedial Academics Section" of filmmaking at Universal Studios, where all of the idiots end up at Universal Studios dabbling in Science Fiction and "Battlestar Galactica."

Universal Studios and Bryan Singer should just get out of the "Science Fiction Movie Business" entirely because they both suck at it in general, and they both haven't gotten a "Galactica" movie off of the ground after 11 years (on purpose of course.)

In Hollywood, that sort of a track record would certainly warrant Bryan Singer's agent skipping town and finding a much, much better client to represent...and it would certainly warrant Universal Studios shareholders skipping town right behind Bryan Singer's former agent.

The Internet News Media Hasn't Caught On Yet That Bryan Singer Isn't Directing Theatrical Films Anymore?

How much clearer can it be for the Internet media to see? Bryan Singer is presently directing everything else except theatrical films:

1. The "H+" series for Youtube.com (My apologies. Singer didn't direct this.)
2. "Magnum Gold" Ice Cream Commercials
3. The "Munsters" television pilot

His latest theatrical movie claim...the "Battlestar Galactica" film he announced on October 21st, 2011 is no further along now than it was 10 months ago.

Even if he were still directing theatrical films, he has turned out to be a very poor leader of potentially hundreds of people eventually hired to work on this "Battlestar Galactica" movie while sitting in the "Director's Chair." His management approach is decidely "hands off" and "thorough lack of involvement."

10 months after a movie is announced would certainly yield more than merely "the script is going through revisions" as Bryan Singer stated of the "Galactica" movie in his latest interview. And 10 months after a movie is announced would and should yield more than merely "flustered stuttering" on Bryan Singer's part in his latest interview.

If the "Battlestar Galactica" script was taking 10 months or longer to write and revise, (or if it began to look like it was going to take that long early on), Bryan Singer could have activated other aspects of pre-production while waiting for the script to be written. George Lucas did it all the time. During these past 10 months, Bryan Singer and Universal Studios could have hired an entire art department to begin designing sets, spacecraft designs, costumes, props, etc.

Science Fiction films by their very nature don't need to wait for a script to be completed before the design work can commence, because everything is going to look like what it is going to look like regardless of when the script gets completed (revisions and all.) For example, spacecraft designs in a Science Fiction film are agreed upon not because of script requirements, but because they "look cool."

Assuming that Bryan Singer was and has been working on this movie, he is a very poor leader as a movie director because he has given the overwhelming impression that he is an uninvolved, uninterested presence in the supposed development of this movie.

For Bryan Singer to say that "he hopes to direct this movie at some point" 10 months into the time frame when he should have been already heavily involved in the pre-production process of this movie (hammering out visual designs with his art department), tells me that Bryan Singer is not the slightest bit interested in this movie and he hasn't been working on it at all for the past 10 months. Pre-production design work with an initially hired art department is one of Bryan Singer's many, many responsibilities as a movie director. In his latest interview, Bryan Singer implied that he merely shows up on the set and directs the actors after everything else has been designed and approved by other people. That's it. I guess Bryan Singer would like the mental sensation of showing up on the set and saying..."Wow, that's really cool...I never saw anything like that before!! Who designed and approved that?"

Is Bryan Singer trying to set a new, bad precedent with this "Battlestar Galactica" movie? Since when is it a movie director's only job responsibility to merely show up on the set and direct the actors after all of the prep and design work has already been done for him without his involvement? When did this start? Where has Bryan Snger been during the past 10 months when he should have been hiring and leading an entire art department to design this movie while the script was being written? I doubt very much if Bryan Singer has a team of proteges that does this work for him because not even Steven Spielberg has that. And Bryan Singer isn't talented enough to have "Protege Groupies" he can delegate "Director" responsibilities to.

That's right...I forgot...Bryan Singer isn't actually directing theatrical films anymore.


Maybe the Internet news is starting to take notice?

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/popcornbiz/The-Munsters-Directed-ByBryan-Singer--134747848.html

quote - "Singer is no stranger to TV, acting as producer on the medical drama "House," as well as having a hand in the short-lived series "Dirty Sexy Money" and "The Triangle." He's been a little under the radar theatrically following the tepid reception of "Valkyrie" and the deafening fanboy "mehs" that greeted "Superman Returns." His next film is the fairy tale-tinged "Jack the Giant Killer," due out next year, and his name is still attached to an adaptation of "Battlestar Galactica," at least until someone explains to him what the SyFy Channel is." - unquote

And When Can We Expect to Hear From The "Stuttering" Bryan Singer Again About This Movie He Really Isn't Working On?

Based upon the previous, habitual behavior of Universal Studios and Bryan Singer towards "Battlestar Galactica" going back 11 years, the following will be the transpired, transpiring, and soon to transpire non-events governing this movie:

1. This movie hasn't been made
2. This movie isn't being made
3. This movie won't be made in the future

However, Universal Studios and Bryan Singer will continue to release press releases such as the one they released below on October 21st, 2011...

Expect their next "Galactica" movie press release towards the end of 2013, if Universal and Singer are still on their "Biennial Press Release Schedule" for this movie they never intend to make.

Although Universal Studios Executives Don't Like to Face The Real World in Which They Fail On a Routine, Daily Basis...

...I'm still going to burst their delusional bubble about Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series just for the fun of it....as I've done so well many times in the past...

Facts


1. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series did not replace the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series in anyone's memories by any stretch of the imagination.

2. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series is not a better product than the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series. "GINO" was poorly conceived, poorly produced, poorly written, poorly cast, lazily thrown together due to budgetary restraints (humanoid Cylons instead of going to the trouble and money to reconstruct the "Cylon Centurions" from the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series, and business suits & neck ties on everyone else.)

3. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series was and is, and forever shall be, a mass market failure. The general public where massive amounts of consumer dollars are at, did not take to Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series.

4. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series was obviously an unsuccessful attempt on Universal Studios part to gut the original format, themes, characters, and cast members of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series in order to avoid profit sharing with Glen A. Larson via the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series as it originally was.

5. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series was also Ronald D. Moore's "Personal Narcissistic Art House Project." By its very gloomy nature, "GINO" could never be taken seriously and embraced by a mass market audience where the massive consumer dollars are at, because mass market audiences do not consist of "loony bin nutcases" who enjoy low-rated hour after low-rated hour of meaningless violence, the endless frowning of Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, and general hostility towards women. "Art House" means exactly what Universal Studios fears it means but won't acknowledge the reality. A product for an extremely narrow and limited audience consisting of nothing but "Avante Garde Nutcases."

6. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series did not "redefine televised Science Fiction for the better." It killed it. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" in Hollywood ,and to this very day a decade later, no one in Hollywood has jumped through hoops to try and imitate & clone Ronald D. Moore's mass market losing formula for failure..."needless violence, no imagination in scriptwriting, and wooden characters frowning and staring zombie faced into the camera. Not only that, but "GINO" killed televised Science Fiction....period....probably for the next 25 years.

7. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series sits in Amazon.com warehouses (the season DVDs) not being sold at a robust clip. And if the season sets do sell at all, it is due to deep discounts from Amazon.com.

8. Numerous attempts to syndicate "GINO" overseas has resulted in low ratings and the series being pulled early from the airwaves long before the entire series is shown.

9. It was stealth marketing shenanigans and childish pranks that got "GINO" on the receiving end of some sham award from Harlan Ellison, and some invite from the United Nations. Oh please. If Universal Studios executives and Ronald D. Moore crave this much attention, they should join the sinking ship that is Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

10. The "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series remains a vital part of our pop culture just as Star Wars and Star Trek does. Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series rots in the "Island of Abandoned DVD Sets" within Amazon.com.

11. What good was it to try and exclude Glen A. Larson from profit participation when your intented instrument for doing so (the "GINO" series) was an inferior product in every way to the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series and by its very nature, was not a mass market attractive product, and thus the end result is you're not making massive profits after trying to exclude Glen A. Larson?

There is Every Reason to Believe That The SyFy Channel's "Haunted Highway" is 100% Scripted, Imaginary Nonsense

Imagine my total lack of shock and amazement when I went to do a "Google", "Bing", and "Yahoo" search on "The Louisiana Swamp Woman", which is supposed to be an ages old urban legend around those parts...and the only information that came up on all three search engines was information linked specifically to the SyFy Channel's "Haunted Highway" series.

There is no independent information apart from the SyFy Channel's "Haunted Highway" series about this "Louisiana Swamp Woman." No independent news articles, no library archives, no news clippings going back 25 years, etc.

I won't bother searching for "Skin Stealers" and "Devil Dogs", and the rest of the imaginary, scripted nonsense that has already appeared on the SyFy Channel's "Haunted Highway" series.

Gee, SyFy Channel has six episodes in the can already of "Haunted Highway", and not one episode about the real supernatural entities in this world?

1. Documented -  "Resurrection Mary" on Chicago's south side.
2. Indiana's documented haunted library - "Willard Library."
3. Documented - The Bell Witch

Quite frankly, it would probably be too dangerous for the "Haunted Highway" cast and crew to investigate the above three, which is why they are only investigating the ridiculous imaginations of their scriptwriters. It might have to do with insurance purposes, right? Put the cast members in the middle of real, potential dangers, and the insurance premiums of "Haunted Highway" skyrocket.

Putting Forth a Hypothesis: Could Bryan Singer Have a Few Undiagnosed Symptoms of "Attention Deficit Disorder?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Deficit_Disorder

http://helpguide.org/mental/adhd_add_adult_symptoms.htm

This is what we do know:

1. Bryan Singer hasn't completed a "Battlestar Galactica" production of any sort in 11 years, despite repeatedly announcing this production.

2. These other movies he announced never got made "period", or never got made by him:

a. Excalibur
b. Logan's Run
c. X-Men: Last Stand
d. Six Billion Dollar Man
e. Star Trek

3. One particular movie he has been working on for ages is a year and a half late in reaching theaters, and if it does reach theaters by its new release date of Spring 2013, it will have been four years in the making.

a. Jack The Giant Killer

4. Immediately after making his latest "Battlestar Galactica" movie announcment on August 21st, 2011 (which he proclaimed he would give his complete, undivided attention to), he announced "The Munsters", "Star Trek", and "Six Billion Dollar Man" as being his very next projects instead of "Battlestar Galactica."

Now, the following are some symptoms of "Attention Deficit Disorder" which could (very easily) be used to describe the circumstances above:

(All of these symptoms are listed in the two links above)

a. Be easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another.

b. Have difficulty maintaining focus on one task.

c. Become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable.

d. Have difficulty focusing attention on organizing and completing a task or learning something new or trouble completing or turning in homework assignments, often losing things (e.g., pencils, toys, assignments) needed to complete tasks or activities.

e. extreme distractibility; wandering attention makes it hard to stay on track.

f. difficulty paying attention or focusing, such as when reading or listening to others.

g. struggling to complete tasks, even ones that seem simple.

h. tendency to overlook details, leading to errors or incomplete work.

Now, I'm not saying that Mr. Singer has "Attention Deficit Disorder" because I'm not a doctor. I'm also not saying that he has been diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder" because I don't know. 

What I am saying is that his habit of announcing movies and never making or completing them on a regular basis falls within the realm of the symptoms listed above.