Sam Esmail’s Battlestar Galactica Reboot Won’t Be Coming to Peacock After All

Somewhere, the faint dependable of an particularly melancholy instrumentality connected “All Along the Watchtower” is playing, due to the fact that Battlestar Galactica fans aren’t getting a balm for that polarizing 2009 finale of the show’s astir caller iteration anytime soon. A caller study says that the long-planned reboot astatine Peacock—from Mr. Robot‘s Sam Esmail—is nary longer moving guardant astatine the streamer.

Variety broke the news, and reminds america that the caller Battlestar “was ne'er formally ordered to bid and has been successful improvement [since it was announced successful 2019]. Exact communicative details ne'er emerged, but the amusement was said to beryllium acceptable successful the aforesaid continuity arsenic the 2003 Battlestar Galactica series.” In 2020, Michael Lesslie came aboard arsenic showrunner, but earlier successful 2024 we learned that Derek Simonds (The Sinner) had alternatively been tapped for the role, and was besides to person served arsenic writer and enforcement producer.

At the time, we took the quality that Simonds had joined Esmail’s task arsenic an fantabulous motion that it was really, genuinely happening. Now it seems that’s not the case—at slightest not astatine Peacock; Variety writes that “according to an idiosyncratic with cognition of the situation, [studio] UCP volition store the task to different outlets.”

Here’s hoping Battlestar finds a caller location soon—maybe astatine a streamer much known for specializing successful sci-fi?

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