Deadline reports that Lawrence is eyeing the director’s chair on the long-developing Battlestar Galactica project at Universal, with the studio hiring Lisa Joy to write the screenplay.
Last we heard, Transcendence scribe Jack Paglen was hired to write a screenplay for the Battlestar Galactica film — but that was back in 2014.
The Battlestar Galactica movie has been in the works for a long, long time, and it’s been quite a while since we received an update on the big screen version of the classic sci-fi series.
Created by Glen Larson, the original Battlestar Galactica series debuted in 1978, and centered on the fight between humans and a cybernetic race known as Cylons.