Jane Espenson to pen first “Battlestar Galactica” movie

If you haven’t heard by now, the first of the potential multiple Battlestar Galactica movies has been given the green-light to start production, a joyous blurb of news for fans of the show.

I’m not sure how many we’ll get, but even one movie (plus the webisodes this summer) will be enough to prolong the end of the series for me.

The latest news in the production of this new TV movie is that one of the more popular writers on the show, Jane Espenson, will be the one penning this new chapter in the series. She wrote four episodes this season so far, according to IMDB, which include the awesome Hub episode, to go along with co-executive producing the entire season.

The move to put her at the head of the table for this one was the leaving of two other writers for the series, David Weddle and Bradley Thompson, who are moving on to the hit CBS series, CSI.

SyFy Portal talked to Weddle, who had this to say about Espenson:

“Jane Espenson has eagerly grabbed the baton and will write the movie,” Weddle confirmed. “We helped the staff outline the plot this week, and this [Thursday] is my final day at ‘Battlestar.’”

Interesting developments. Weddle and Thompson penned the awesome mid-season finale, Revelations, but they had to make this move now, even though there was the potential for a few more films to write.

Espenson has written for all kinds of popular TV shows, like Firefly, Buffy, Gilmore Girls, Angel and an episode from my beloved Nowhere Man.

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