BSG- Caprica news, spoilers, rumors

[Geekyfanboy]

Caprica Gets Green Light

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.

[Seven7]

That is AWSOME!!!  As a fan of the original and Scifi series, I always wondered about how they got to the point where the cylon war started.  I think they will be able to do a lot with this series....plus I was disappointed in this being BSG's last season...Now there's something to look forward to!!!! 

[darthcooley]

Very cool news ! I can't wait to see what they come up with..

[Geekyfanboy]

Caprica Very Different From Battlestar

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

[wraith1701]

I found a link to this story at a BSG forum.

From io9.com via studio3audio at Ragnar Anchorage forum-



New Details Of Battlestar's Prequel: Cylons Came From Human Grief

As soon as people started describing Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel, as "Dallas in space," it got a lot harder to take seriously. But the TV movie, which tells the story of the Cylons' creation decades before they rose up and wiped out most of the human race, may actually explore some interesting territory. It turns out the genesis of the Cylons wasn't ambition or greed, but grief. (I'm assuming this isn't an April Fools thing, but you never know.) Click through for details.

Originally, according to E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos, Ron Moore didn't intend to show the forebears of any Galactica characters in this spin-off. But he's apparently changed his mind — which could have something to do with the Sci Fi Channel's decision to greenlight the backdoor pilot — and now we'll see Bill Adama's father, Joseph. As you may have heard, Caprica is the story of attorney Joseph Adama and his relationship with the Graystone family.

Daniel Graystone is a computer genius, married to the unfaithful Amanda, a gifted surgeon. Their daughter, Zoe, dies in a suicide bombing by religious fanatics, including Zoe's boyfriend. Also killed in that bombing: Joseph Adama's wife and daughter.

Before Zoe dies, she installs the "rudimentary elements" of her personality and DNA into a computer, creating a digital twin called Zoe-A. After Zoe dies, her father uses that materials, along with soem stolen technology to create a robot version called Zoe-R. This is the "Cylonic Eve."

And then Joseph Adama works with Daniel Graystone to recreate his dead daughter as well. But he's "ethically appalled by the robot version of his dead [daughter], Tamara, and repents his actions." In his grief and remorse, Joseph grows closer to his nine-year-old son Bill.

As I said, I'm assuming this isn't an April Fools thing, but it could well be... The daddy/daughter stuff echoes some themes we've seen in Battlestar itself, particularly between Adama and Starbuck.


A link to the story HERE.

And a link to the E! source story HERE


The Story on E! online was published April 1st, which makes me kind of skeptical.  But the writer posted another unrelated story that she tags as being an April fool's joke, while this one wasn't.  I'm about 80% sure that this story is legit... I guess time will tell.

[wraith1701]

It looks like the Greystone/Adama information mentioned above might be pretty accurate.  More information below, courtesy of i09.  By the way;

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from io9:

Caprica:

The TV Addict got hold of the script for Battlestar Galactica's prequel TV movie Caprica, and spilled a ton of spoilers. From what I can make out of that blurry image of the script's first page, the movie starts with two boys amongst a bunch of other kids on a bus. A woman warns them that they're on Caprica now, and they should speak the common tongue, not their mongrel nonsense — but they don't understand what she's saying. (I'm guessing this is when Joseph Adama first comes to the planet Caprica and leaves behind his Tauron roots.)

Some of the story details are similar to the ones we've featured before. But there are some new details. Our artificial intelligence whiz, Daniel Graystone, invents something called the HoloBand, which is akin to Star Trek's Holodeck. Daniel is an inattentive husband and father, because he's worried his company is about to lose the big government contract for the robot super-soldier and the meta-cognitive processor, after billions of cubits in development costs.

Because Daniel is such a self-absorbed guy, his wife Amanda seeks comfort in the arms of his chief rival Tomas Vergis, who's a Tauron instead of a Caprican. And his daughter Zoey gets involved with the Soldiers of the One, a monotheistic cult that wants to drive out Caprica's many gods. And "Act One" ends with Zoey's boyfriend Ben carrying out his act of monotheistic terrorism, killing Zoey as well as wife and daughter of attorney Joseph Adams. (Admiral Adama's father.)

And that's when Joseph Adams and Daniel Graystone find each other, and start working on downloading their dead daughters' minds into new robot bodies. (And Zoey, the monotheist, becomes the first Cylon.) But after they succeed, Joseph and Daniel have opposite reactions and end up being bitter opponents. And here's the final scene of the TV movie, between Joseph and his son the future Admiral, according to the TV Addict:

    JOSEPH
    Our family will survive this, we're going to put our lives back together. Your mother is gone and Tamara is gone. They're not coming back.

    Suddenly, without warning, tears begin to stream down William's cheeks. Joseph takes his son in his arms and they hold each other tight as Joseph struggles with his own emotions.

    JOSEPH
    I want you to know who you are, William. We come from a long, proud line of Tauron peasants who knew how to work the land and still stand proud. You're named after your grandfather, did I ever tell you that?

    WILLIAM
    No.

    JOSEPH
    He was killed in the Tauron uprising fighting for what he believed was the right of all the Children of Kobol — to live free. It's a good name William and you should wear it proudly. And our last name isn't Adams - I changed it when I arrived on Caprica.

    (beat)
    Our family name is... ADAMA and it's a good, honorable Tauron name.

[Geekyfanboy]

SPOILER ALERT

According to EOnline, the two-hour Caprica pilot begins about 51 years before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies by the reappearing Cylon Fleet.

A computer whiz-kid named Zoe Graystone, portrayed by Alessandra Toreson, digitizes her identity, then dies but finds psuedo new life after her genius dad resurrects her computer image. Zoe becomes the first computer generated brain for the Cylons. One of BSG's key character's father, Joseph Adams (Bill's father), a lawyer played by "Jericho" actor Esai Morales, somehow becomes embroiled in the whole fiasco. Joseph's connections are both from a legal and emotional standpoint because, Joseph's wife and only daughter were killed by the same bomb blast that killed Zoe. All of these events allow the Graystones and the Adamas to have possibly been responsible for starting the First Cylon War.

[Bromptonboy]

Very exciting!  This at least puts Adama out of the running for the final Cylon.

[Geekyfanboy]

SciFi Channel Orders 'Caprica' Scripts

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Source: Chicago Tribune
Jul-14-2008

It's not exactly a series pickup, but things are looking good for the upcoming "Battlestar Galactica" prequel "Caprica."

The SciFi Channel has ordered two more scripts on top of the pilot, according to Maureen Ryan of The Chicago Tribune. The scripts are being written by Michael Angeli and Mark Verheiden, both former writers on BSG, as well as former writers assistant Ryan Mottesheard.

Some sources close to the show have told SyFy Portal in the past that they feel "Caprica" should actually launch as a series instead of a backdoor pilot, simply because the pilot -- which was written by executive producer Ronald D. Moore and Remi Aubuchon -- serves more as a setup for a series instead of being a standalone story that could lead to further episodes as successful backdoor pilots have done in the past.

The pilot has already completed filming, and is believed to be taking on a more 1950s feel with high technology, sort of what the movie "Gattaca" did back in the late 1990s.

Ryan did hint that there may be a chance that SciFi Channel could be announcing a series order of "Caprica" during next week's Television Critics Association press tour.

Of course, none of this has been confirmed by SciFi Channel, so until it is, it should be treated as any rumor would.

[Jen]

I hope this is true. Angela and I need another TV series to get excited about and chat up on the show! :)

[Geekyfanboy]

Caprica Promo Now Live

A promotional trailer for SCI FI Channel's upcoming prequel movie Caprica has gone live on SCIFI.COM. The trailer is the footage screened to the Television Critics Association press tour on July 20 and sets up the universe of the prequel to SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=57977

[Geekyfanboy]

Found it on YouTube

[Jen]

Dude.....sweeeeet. ;)

[Rico]

That is very cool!

[billybob476]

Definitely looks good. I think this may be popular because it looks nothing like a sci fi show. The only thing I really noticed were the triangles on the 'tennis' court. It's going to be an even more character driven show then Galactica I think.