Director Bryan Singer (X-Men) was set to begin working on his big-screen version of the King Arthur tale Excalibur once he completed his latest project, Jack the Giant Killer. Then in June, Singer’s Knights of the Round table project was ditched when Warner Bros. Pictures picked up Arthur and Lancelot.
Singer told SFX that without Excalibur on his slate, he was able to work on his long-gestating Battlestar Galactica project:
“it allowed me to go straight into developing Battlestar Galactica – which I think will be really exciting.”
Singer also dropped some details on a sci-fi web series he’s prepping called H+: The Digital Series:
“This is going to be really cool, there are going to be around 40 to 50 episodes, broadcast exclusively on the internet, and each one is going to last for just three to six minutes. It is quite addictive. I like to describe it as an apocalyptic, technological story… technology gone wrong: it is totally science fiction. It also tells the story in a non-linear fashion so, as you experience it on the internet, it jumps around a bit. However, it all coalesces the more you watch. It is new thing that we did with Warner digital and Dolphin media and it should be ready soon.”
Check out the trailer for H+ below!
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Synopsis:
H+: The Digital Series takes viewers on a journey into an apocalyptic future where technology has begun to spiral out of control…. a future where 33% of the world’s population has retired its cell phones and laptops in favor of a stunning new device – an implanted computer system called H+. This tiny tool allows the user’s own mind and nervous system to be connected to the Internet 24 hours a day.
But something else is coming… something dark and vicious… and within seconds, billions of people will be dead… opening the door to radical changes in the political and social landscape of the planet — prompting survivors to make sense of what went wrong.
H+: The Digital Series is produced by Bryan Singer, directed by Stewart Hendler and is written and created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso.
Battlestar Galactica is currently in pre-production with no official release date.
Check out H+ on Facebook at Facebook.com/HplusTheDigitalSeries
