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Caprica Promo - Battlestar Galactica Spin Off
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)
Caprica is an upcoming television series set in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. The first season, composed of 18 hour-long episodes and a two-hour pilot, is expected to begin airing in early 2010 on SCI FI in the United States. The rights to broadcast the series have also been picked up by Sky1 in the UK and Ireland.
Premise
A terrestrial drama rather than a space opera, Caprica is described as "television's first science fiction family saga."[4] SCI FI's David Hexie anticipates that the drama will "[speak] to a lot of the ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly."
Set against the backdrop of the Twelve Colonies at peace and living in a society close to our own, Caprica revolves around the entanglements of the Adamas and the Graystones. Fifty-one years before the events depicted in the re-imagined series, the worlds of prominent civil liberties lawyer Joseph Adama, father of future Battlestar commander William Adama, and Daniel Graystone, a wealthy technologist, collide when their daughters are lost in an act of religious terrorism. Obsessing over his dead child, Daniel sets his considerable wealth and sprawling industrial corporation to the singular task of bringing the girls back to life. After experiments with startling breakthroughs in robotics and AI take a questionable turn, Joseph becomes a vehement opponent of the path Daniel starts down.
Knowledge of the Battlestar Galactica story will not be necessary to understand the events in Caprica: "We sort of set out deliberately to set up Caprica in a way that you didn't have to see Battlestar. ...we wanted it to stand as its own project."
Plot details
* "The Graystones include father Daniel, a computer genius; mother Amanda, a brilliant surgeon and unfaithful wife; and their daughter, Zoe, who is martyred to her boyfriend's religious fanaticism – but not before she installs the rudimentary elements of her personality and DNA into a machine, creating a digital twin of herself, Zoe-A. After the human Zoe's death, Daniel uses these raw materials, some stolen technology and his own grief to cobble together "a robotic version of his dead daughter." This robot version, known as Zoe-R, is a Cylonic Eve, the first of her kind."
* According to Mark Stern, Sci-Fi Channel's Executive Vice President of Original Programming, the script for the two-hour pilot episode concluded with an explanation for how the name "Cylon" was coined. On September 20, 2007, Battlestar Galactica writer and producer Bradley Thompson revealed that Ron D. Moore's script for Caprica has a character coin the term, saying, "A cybernetic life-form node, a Cylon."
Development
* NBC Universal Television Studio is developing the show, in conjunction with the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick) and 24 writer Remi Aubuchon. Aubuchon wrote the pilot and is set to be the show runner. The pilot was directed by Friday Night Lights veteran Jeffrey Reiner.
* According to a statement by Ron Moore in the Season 3 Companion book, the proposed Caprica prequel series will have a story-arc-heavy format like its predecessor; a large reason why the network is reluctant to greenlight the series is because story-arc-heavy series notoriously have difficulty in picking up new viewers, as compared to a series composed of mostly standalone episodes. This was already the cause of friction between Moore and the Sci-Fi Channel at Caprica's parent series — the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica were arc-intensive, with detailed attention to internal continuity, but were not pulling in the Nielsen ratings that the network wanted, so the Sci-Fi Channel pressured Moore into retooling the third season of BSG to consist of largely standalone episodes. This measure actually backfired, as it resulted in negative criticism from both fans and critics, and Moore revealed in the Season 3 finale podcast that the network finally grudgingly admitted that standalone episodes simply do not work in the format of story he is trying to tell.
* After a drawn-out pre-development cycle, on March 18, 2008, Sci-Fi Channel announced that Caprica had been picked up as a two-hour backdoor pilot event, indicating a possible commitment to a series, contingent on ratings.
* On July 20, 2008, SCI FI announced the network might pick up Caprica as a series early, and make the pilot an extended season premiere.
* On December 2, 2008 SCI FI gave the go-ahead to expand the project into a full series, with production expected to resume in the middle of 2009 for an anticipated premiere in early 2010.
Cast
* Esai Morales as Joseph Adama
* Eric Stoltz as Daniel Graystone
* Paula Malcomson as Amanda Graystone
* Polly Walker as Sister Clarice Willow
* Alessandra Toreson as Zoe Graystone
* Sasha Roiz as Sam Adama
* Avan Jogia as Ben Stark
* Magda Apanowicz as Lacy Rand
* Brian Markinson as Jordan Duram
* Genevieve Buechner as Tamara Adama
* Roger Cross as Tomas Vergis
* Katie Keating as Caston
* Hiro Kanagawa as Cyrus Xander
* Jared Keeso as Rod Jenkins
on one final note, this might be a typo, but 18 hour long episodes D: !!!
(clearly it is a typo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)
Caprica is an upcoming television series set in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. The first season, composed of 18 hour-long episodes and a two-hour pilot, is expected to begin airing in early 2010 on SCI FI in the United States. The rights to broadcast the series have also been picked up by Sky1 in the UK and Ireland.
Premise
A terrestrial drama rather than a space opera, Caprica is described as "television's first science fiction family saga."[4] SCI FI's David Hexie anticipates that the drama will "[speak] to a lot of the ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly."
Set against the backdrop of the Twelve Colonies at peace and living in a society close to our own, Caprica revolves around the entanglements of the Adamas and the Graystones. Fifty-one years before the events depicted in the re-imagined series, the worlds of prominent civil liberties lawyer Joseph Adama, father of future Battlestar commander William Adama, and Daniel Graystone, a wealthy technologist, collide when their daughters are lost in an act of religious terrorism. Obsessing over his dead child, Daniel sets his considerable wealth and sprawling industrial corporation to the singular task of bringing the girls back to life. After experiments with startling breakthroughs in robotics and AI take a questionable turn, Joseph becomes a vehement opponent of the path Daniel starts down.
Knowledge of the Battlestar Galactica story will not be necessary to understand the events in Caprica: "We sort of set out deliberately to set up Caprica in a way that you didn't have to see Battlestar. ...we wanted it to stand as its own project."
Plot details
* "The Graystones include father Daniel, a computer genius; mother Amanda, a brilliant surgeon and unfaithful wife; and their daughter, Zoe, who is martyred to her boyfriend's religious fanaticism – but not before she installs the rudimentary elements of her personality and DNA into a machine, creating a digital twin of herself, Zoe-A. After the human Zoe's death, Daniel uses these raw materials, some stolen technology and his own grief to cobble together "a robotic version of his dead daughter." This robot version, known as Zoe-R, is a Cylonic Eve, the first of her kind."
* According to Mark Stern, Sci-Fi Channel's Executive Vice President of Original Programming, the script for the two-hour pilot episode concluded with an explanation for how the name "Cylon" was coined. On September 20, 2007, Battlestar Galactica writer and producer Bradley Thompson revealed that Ron D. Moore's script for Caprica has a character coin the term, saying, "A cybernetic life-form node, a Cylon."
Development
* NBC Universal Television Studio is developing the show, in conjunction with the executive producers of Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D. Moore and David Eick) and 24 writer Remi Aubuchon. Aubuchon wrote the pilot and is set to be the show runner. The pilot was directed by Friday Night Lights veteran Jeffrey Reiner.
* According to a statement by Ron Moore in the Season 3 Companion book, the proposed Caprica prequel series will have a story-arc-heavy format like its predecessor; a large reason why the network is reluctant to greenlight the series is because story-arc-heavy series notoriously have difficulty in picking up new viewers, as compared to a series composed of mostly standalone episodes. This was already the cause of friction between Moore and the Sci-Fi Channel at Caprica's parent series — the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica were arc-intensive, with detailed attention to internal continuity, but were not pulling in the Nielsen ratings that the network wanted, so the Sci-Fi Channel pressured Moore into retooling the third season of BSG to consist of largely standalone episodes. This measure actually backfired, as it resulted in negative criticism from both fans and critics, and Moore revealed in the Season 3 finale podcast that the network finally grudgingly admitted that standalone episodes simply do not work in the format of story he is trying to tell.
* After a drawn-out pre-development cycle, on March 18, 2008, Sci-Fi Channel announced that Caprica had been picked up as a two-hour backdoor pilot event, indicating a possible commitment to a series, contingent on ratings.
* On July 20, 2008, SCI FI announced the network might pick up Caprica as a series early, and make the pilot an extended season premiere.
* On December 2, 2008 SCI FI gave the go-ahead to expand the project into a full series, with production expected to resume in the middle of 2009 for an anticipated premiere in early 2010.
Cast
* Esai Morales as Joseph Adama
* Eric Stoltz as Daniel Graystone
* Paula Malcomson as Amanda Graystone
* Polly Walker as Sister Clarice Willow
* Alessandra Toreson as Zoe Graystone
* Sasha Roiz as Sam Adama
* Avan Jogia as Ben Stark
* Magda Apanowicz as Lacy Rand
* Brian Markinson as Jordan Duram
* Genevieve Buechner as Tamara Adama
* Roger Cross as Tomas Vergis
* Katie Keating as Caston
* Hiro Kanagawa as Cyrus Xander
* Jared Keeso as Rod Jenkins
on one final note, this might be a typo, but 18 hour long episodes D: !!!
(clearly it is a typo)
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