“Falling Skies” Producer Leaves Show

Falling Skies will go forward without producer  Remi Aubuchon.

The showrunner is departing the hit TNT series after this season.   Calling the decision to leave “excruciating,” Aubuchon says he will turn over the reigns to former Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick and that he wants to focus on writing science-fiction novels.

Aubuchon tells Collidor it’s his life-long dream to write a science-fiction novel and that the demands running a show don’t allow him time to do that.

“Maybe if I were 20 years younger, I wouldn’t care and I would just keep going, but I really feel I need to pursue this road. It was all with good thoughts,” he says. “I even actually told them, when I took the job at the beginning, that I didn’t know how long I would stay. I signed up for two years, and two years was good, but I’d always had this notion that, as I got to this point in my career, I really wanted to try to pursue the dream of writing novels, and I hope it’s not an elusive dream.”

With Eick coming onboard it nearly rounds out the show taking on more of a “Battlestar Galactica” production look and feel.  Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, the two main writers for BSG also do much of the writing for Falling Skies.