The mind behind the TV series “Battlestar Galactica”, Ronald Moore, has signed a contract to produce three SciFi movies for film studio United Artists, Variety reports.

Ronald Moore made his debut in the movie industry as one of the writers of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and later he become writer and producer for “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and he worked in the production team of “Star Trek: Voyager”

However, he is best known as the writer and co-creator of the new version of SciFi series “Battlestar Galactica”, which is now on its fourth and final season. Also, it is known that Ronald Moore is working on the remake of the 1982’s “The Thing”.
According to Variety, United Artists did not release any details about Moore’s future movies.

United Artists, a partnership between Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., has received in 2007 $500 million through Merrill Lynch to finance 15 to 18 films over the next five years. Cruise and Wagner’s plan is to release four films a year with budgets exceeding $40 million.

The first release of the rejuvenated United Artists was the Robert Redford-directed “Lions for Lambs,” which starred Cruise and failed at the box office, earning less that $15 million domestically.

Earlier this month it was announced that the World War II thriller “Valkyrie,” which Tom Cruise stars in and exec produces through United Artists, had been postponed for a February 13, 2009 release.

Meanwhile, Ronald Moore announced on his blog that he was writing the finale of “Battlestar Galactica”. “I’ve begun writing the finale.  It’s strange to think that this is the last Galactica script I’ll be writing, but at the moment that’s overshadowed by the anxiety surrounding the start of any first draft,” he wrote.