The Sci-Fi channels highly popular, sacred series, Battlestar Galactica will be sadly ending in 2009, but the fans will have something to look forward to from the network the following year. Sci-Fi has green lit a prequel series to Battlestar titled Caprica, so far the pilot has already been produced and will be set to premiere in December 2010.
As said before the pilot, directed by Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights), which is 2 hours long will be set to premiere in December 2010. It will star Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker.
The series is set 50 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica on an earth like planet. The series will follow the story of two rival families who are set at odds over the advancement of AI in cybernetic beings. The feud reaches it’s peak with the scientific breakthrough of the first Cylon. The Cylon is the cybernetic being that eventually grows into the advanced cybernetic race that wages war against all humans (hindsight is 20/20).
As I am sure you have heard Caprica is a completely terrestrial series no space battles, or or any of that good stuff. As Sci-Fi was quoted as saying Caprica is “a series that blends action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics,” it makes me wonder how different this series will be from the original. Hopefully it will not stray to far from the themes that fans have loved so much, about Battlestar.
Here is the Skinny from the Sci-Fi channel on the new Series.
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