Battlestar Galactica is going to have to find a new home as Peacock has opted to pass on its long-gestating reboot.
Announced in 2019 ahead of Peacock’s launch, Sam Esmail – creator of Mr. Robot – had lined up a new take on Galactica as his passion project. It was part of his four-year deal with NBC Universal, but the project was never ordered to series.
According to a new report from Variety, the project is now dead. Esmail will now be allowed to shop it around to other companies, but no word as of yet as to where it may land.
No information on the series’ plot was ever announced, but one source claims it was to be set in the same continuity as the popular 2003 reboot.
The original series ran for one season in 1978 on ABC. It was resurrected a few years later as Galactica 1980 and showed the titular Battlestar reaching Earth, and… then things happened. It’s best if we just forget that the series happened.
In 2003, the series was rebooted to wide critical acclaim and ran for four seasons. It told a more psychological version of the story, but the basic premise remained the same as the remnants of the 12 colonies searched for the lost 13th tribe following a genocide by the Cylons.
Why this new project was allowed to develop for so long as unknown at this time.
