Posted on 12/02/2008 7:54:02 PM PST by KevinDavis
SCI FI Channel has given a green light to Caprica, ordering 20 hours of the much-anticipated prequel to its hit series Battlestar Galactica, the network announced.
The drama, which kicks off with a two-hour pilot movie, stars Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker.
Set 50 years before the events in Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families--the Graystones and the Adamas--as they grow, compete and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies, a society recognizably close to our own.
Enmeshed in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe to toe in a series that blends action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.
Production on the series is slated to begin in the summer of 2009 in Vancouver, Canada, for a 2010 premiere. Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights) directed the pilot.
As the series begins, a startling development is about to occur--the creation of the first cybernetic lifeform node, or "Cylon"--the ability to marry artificial intelligence with mechanical bodies.
Joseph Adama (Esai Morales)--father of future Galactica commander William Adama (Sina Najafi)--is a renowned civil liberties lawyer and becomes an opponent of the experiments undertaken by the Graystones, led by a patriarch played by Eric Stoltz, who are owners of a large computer corporation that is spearheading the development of the Cylons.
Caprica is produced by Universal Cable Productions and executive-produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) and Remi Aubuchon (24). The pilot is co-written by Aubuchon and Moore
Cool. Sounds like a cooking ingredient though.
Did you read the summary?
The villain is a businessman [GOP] and the hero is a civil rights lawyer [DEM].
Can't get much more PC than that.
Plus the civil rights lawyer is an hispanic, so he counts as a two-fer, whereas the evil businessman has pale white skin and bright red hair, just like all those evil Anglo-Saxons who stole this country from the peace-loving Native Americans [to whom it otherwise would rightfully belong].
Just more drek from Moore Ron & Bonnie Hammer
Bump.. I was hoping the rumor of this coming out in early 2009 was true.. guess I’ll have to wait...
And I'm a huge BSG fan from 1978 to the present.
Don't know if that would really translate to the screen. Like Dune. Loved the book(s). But IMO, the movie sucked.
Bah, no Number Six makes it impossible to put up with the lefty bilge they spew out.
Wish writers would keep straight who is who ~ Anglo-Saxon types would be blond, and they can tan being of a much more Southern origin than the Irish or the Scanderhoovians.
Given the direction that the new Battlestar Galactica took (think: sci-fi written by a bunch of hippies), I predict that this new show will suck to a level that is beyond our capacity to comprehend.
Don’t wish for it, they’d only wreck it in such a way that would destroy the series for you beyond repair. Only seen one GOOD book series to tv....Dresden Files.
I used to wish they’d do a Pern movie, til I figured out just how much they’d rape the canon...decided seeing the dragons on the covers and in my mind was good enough after all.
The biggest problem with a prequel in this case is that we know for certain that anything that they try to accomplish is utterly doomed to near total destruction a generation plus down the road. So the story will be how a civilization sets itself up to be very similar to us and to be annihilated. Because of this any success in the story line directly or indirectly leads to the disaster.
50 years from invention of Cylons to a mass takeover by evolved humanized Cylons?
I like it better when the Cylons were an alien race. Or rather, an artifact leftover from some extinct alien race.
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I saw "green lights" and "Sci-Fi" and thought we were talking about "Fringe".
Instead of coming up with new plot and story arcs it seems that it always boils down to the ubiquitous {Evil CIA plot-Army out of control plot-Rich evil white cooperate businessman plot-and ever so popular The evil Church along with the Christianity is a lie crowd plot} is all they are capable of now days. It is really sad but Scifi has seem to hit an all time low for anything new and creative these days.
Woo Hoo... and at thedigitalbits.com in their rumor mill they are reporting the entire series of BSG will come out on blu ray in 2009.
Can’t wait. Gotta free up some space on the DVR
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