​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Rymer (born 1963 in Australia) is a television and film director, best known for his work on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series, for which he directed the pilot miniseries and several episodes of the series, and for the 2002 feature film, Queen of the Damned. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Rymer licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.