By: Monika Bartyzel

The revamped Battlestar Galactica series might have just wrapped up in March, but it's already getting a new big-screen re-telling. Sources told HitFix on Wednesday that Bryan Singer, the man behind the first few X-Men films and the love-it-or-hate-it Superman Returns, would produce and possibly direct Battlestar for the big screen. The news has since been confirmed by Universal, and Singer is definitely helming the space adventure.

So why am I commenting on speediness? THR says: "Insiders have said the feature is to be a complete reimagining and will stand separately." Reimagining a show that was super-popular and just ended this year is all sorts of ridiculous. Even if it's aiming to focus on the original show, that's still reimagining source material that was just reimagined to great success. That's more than enough "reimagination" for anyone.
There are a million reasons to be apprehensive about this. Movieline, for one, brings up the potential confusion that will be stirred up between the series and the film. But to me, there's one big thorn that they can't get rid of -- time. There's no time to move beyond BSG. It might be over, but there's still the lingering fan fervor (andCaprica to continue it). Even if the big-screen take completely different -- if Starbuck is once again a man, if the Cylons are change, if the entire world takes a new spin -- it's still Battlestar Galactica and will still be compared and contrasted.

If we were talking about some mediocre Joe Schmo series, that'd be one thing. But this is BSG. The show almost everyone raved about. It's award-winning and successful. Trying to compete with that, or benefit from it, in the same year is frakking ridiculous. Then adding Bryan Singer into the mix. Well, are any of you actually looking forward to this?