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'Caprica' Series Sees New Life
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:15 pm
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Don't write off the prequel spinoff series to "Battlestar Galactica" just yet.
TV Week's James Hibberd says SciFi Channel executives may not be so quick to cast off "Caprica" as they consider actually moving forward to film a backdoor pilot, and follow the BSG telemovie "Razor" to almost instant DVD release.
Talk of reviving "Caprica" comes from a lot of concern from SciFi Channel executives that they'll be losing "Battlestar" showrunner Ronald D. Moore to NBC and the silver screen, and giving "Caprica" a greenlight could at least keep some of the bridges built between Moore and SciFi Channel.
"Especially if the similarly conceived standalone 'Razor' performs strongly, the thinking seems to be that a two-hour 'Caprica' pilot could justify its expense," Hibberd said. "Worse-case scenario: The pilot is aired and sold as a DVD, recouping some costs. If the pilot is strong, then the network has a new series."
Since SciFi Channel announced the possible spinoff nearly two years ago, "Caprica" has sat in development hell. Meant to take place about 40 years before the events that started the new "Battlestar Galactica" series, the show was intended to focus on the Adama clan -- led by William Adama's attorney father, Joseph -- and the early rise of the Cylons.
Some aspects of "Razor" was meant to dip back 40 years as well to the original Cylon war, aspects which will now be broadcast as "mini-sodes," but reintegrated into the telemovie on the DVD release in November.
Before the network can move on to another series, however, there is still a lot of question over whether or not SciFi Channel will split the final season of "Battlestar Galactica," but network executives have apparently admitted the reasons behind the move are financial.
"Since 'Battlestar' eats a considerable portion of the SciFi programming budget, the network might be forced to spread the resulting product across two seasons," Hibberd said.
Moore, however, is unfazed by when the episodes air.
"It doesn't affect my job either way since we're shooting it straight through," he said before Sunday's Emmy awards. "It might be better to get it all done [in the same year] for the fans so they don't have to wait."
"Battlestar Galactica" returns in November with the telemovie "Razor," and then will air its fourth and final season beginning in early 2008.
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:05 pm
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they must be still making this according to the news
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David Eick and Ronald D. Moore, executive producers of SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that their upcoming prequel Caprica will be a markedly different series.
Eick compared it to the feature film American Beauty, while Moore referenced the TV soap opera Dallas.
"Caprica is a story that Ron Moore and I concocted with [co-executive producer] Remi Aubuchon, and we're casting as we speak," Moore said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. "I'm very excited about that. If Battlestar Galactica is Black Hawk Down, I would say that Caprica is American Beauty. Caprica is all about the inner lives of the people on a planet and how their personal relationships as well as their professional relationships inform what will become the creation of the Cylons."
Moore, a former Star Trek writer and producer, said that Caprica is not a show along the lines of any Trek spinoff series. "It's a different animal altogether," he said in a separate interview. "Unlike those shows, which are all riffs on the same notion of what Star Trek was, Caprica is really a completely different kind of genre. We're trying to do something different."
Instead of Galactica's action-adventure space-based war show, Caprica will tell a story that takes place before any of the wars happened. "This is really more of a sci-fi Dallas," Moore said. "It's a political story, a family story. It's about the creation of the Cylons, and it's about a company. It's planet-based. It's very character-oriented, very serialized and very much about the characters. It's a whole different genre, and that's what makes it exciting."
Production will begin this spring on a two-hour backdoor pilot. Moore said he will be "very involved" with the pilot, but stressed that it's too soon to say whether he'd remain on board if SCI FI Channel gave the green light for a weekly Caprica show.
"If it goes to series, it kind of depends when that happens and what I'm doing," he said. "We'll just wait and see." --Ian Spelling
that what he is pooling his resources into and might be a good lead in when bsg finishes
SCI FI Channel has given a green light for production to begin on Caprica, a two-hour backdoor pilot and Battlestar Galactica prequel from executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. Production is slated to begin in Vancouver, Canada, this spring.
Set 50 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families--the Greystones and the Adamas --as they grow, compete and thrive in the vibrant world of the 12 Colonies. 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.
"I'm thrilled with the chance to expand on the Galactica world and get deeper into the origins of the story we've been telling," Moore said in a statement. "It's also great to have a chance at doing a completely different kind of science fiction series, one that's even more character-oriented and doesn't rely on pyrotechnics to carry the story."
In his own statement, Eick said: "While Caprica will have its own personality, it will carry on Battlestar's commitment to pushing the boundaries of the genre, and we're thrilled that SCI FI has seen fit to giving us another opportunity to tell character-driven stories in challenging ways."
The fourth season of Battlestar Galactica kicks off on March 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with two back-to-back half-hour specials, with the first new episode premiering the following week, April 4, at 10 p.m.
im so excited know i wonder how long it will last
lets take bets and make some money guys
Eric Stoltz, Toressani Join BSG’s Caprica
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:23 am
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More News about Caprica..
Actor Eric Stoltz will be joining the cast of the Sci Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica prequel spin-off show, Caprica. Stoltz will be joining a cast that already includes Esai Morales, fresh from Jericho’s second cancellation, and Paula Malcomson. Stoltz won’t be the lone addition, he’ll be joined by actress Alessandra Torresani , whose character is impteus for the creation of the Cylons by Stoltz’ scharacter.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that:
Stoltz will play Daniel Graystone, a wealthy computer engineer who, after an emotionally crippling family tragedy, uses his technological wizardry to forever change the future of Caprica. Toressani plays Daniel’s daughter, Zoe.
Caprica is set approximately 50 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, and follows the creation of the Cylons, eventually leading up to the first Cylon war.
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