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Lucy Lawless May Return To BSG LineupLucy Lawless May Return To BSG Lineup
PLUS: 'Caprica' prequel not quite dead yet
By MICHAEL HINMAN
Source: SyFy Portal
Jun-01-2007
The following story contains MODERATE SPOILERS for the third season of "Battlestar Galactica."
Number Three might be cooling her heels in a Cylon box somewhere, but that doesn't necessarily mean that fans have seen the last of the fleet's faux reporter.
In a conference call with reporters on Friday, executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick revealed that initial plans are underway to possibly bring back actress Lucy Lawless to "Battlestar Galactica," following her successful recurring stint last season.
"It's possible," said Moore, who was talking to reporters about the end of the SciFi Channel series after the upcoming fourth season. "It's in the planning stages. It's one of the things we're talking about."
Also still showing signs of life, despite rumors to the contrary, is the proposed "Battlestar Galactica" prequel spinoff "Caprica," which has been sitting in development hell since its announcement last year. SciFi Channel has not necessarily killed the idea, Eick said, but it's not on anyone's near-future plans either.
"I don't think we know the immediate answer, it's not on the immediate front-burner," Eick said. "No one has said to us definitively that it is dead. It's something we believe in wholeheartedly as it would not only capture a lot of 'Battlestar Galactica' fans, but shore up a whole new audience to the mythology, because it's a very different type of show."
While there has been a plan and path from the start of the show, the journey from the 2003 miniseries pilot to months before the fourth and final season has not always been a smooth one, like the introduction and then suddenly the quick death of a Saggitaron subplot that involved refugees of the highly religious colony on the Galactica.
"It was a misstep," Moore admitted. "It was a storyline we were very excited about, and we really liked it. It had a lot of racial and political overtones to it, which we love to do in the show."
But all anyone can do in a situation like that is chalk it up to "it sounded better on paper" and move on, he said.
"If you're going to swing for the fences and knock it out of the park, there are going to be a few times when you're going to whiff" the ball, Moore said. "It just comes with the territory."
One thing that wasn't a misstep, however, was the "death" and later resurrection of the show's chief female pilot, Katee Sackhoff's Kara "Starbuck" Thrace. It was a secret that initially was kept even from the cast and stars, but something that had to be slowly shared with everyone once they started reading the script for "Maelstrom," Moore said.
"We were trying to keep a secret, and keeping a secret in this business is very difficult," he said. "We let just Katee know and not tell anybody else. But when the script landed in Vancouver [where the show is filmed], it was like a small nuclear weapon had been detonated. Everyone was up in arms, so we gradually had to bring more people into the circle of knowledge. It paid off eventually, but it was a bit rocky there for a while."
The actual start of BSG's fourth season will begin in early 2008. The November telemovie will focus on the Battlestar Pegasus, and will include the return of guest actress Michelle Forbes, according to previous reports.
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