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Prequel Series CAPRICA!!

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The “Battlestar Galactica” prequel series is a go!

The "Caprica" pilot, set 50 years before the events of "Battlestar Galactica," was shot a few months ago -- and word had it that SciFi was waiting to see how the first January episodes of "Galactica" did in the ratings before the channel would consider taking "Caprica" to series.

The series, which deals with the "invention" of the Cylons, is set to shoot next summer and air in 2010.

For those unfamiliar, a rundown the series' main characters (BEWARE SPOILERS):

* DANIEL GRAYSTONE (Eric Stoltz) is literally the father of the Cylons, a fortysomething “spectacularly wealthy” computer designer.

* ZOE GRAYSTONE (Alessandra Toreson), Daniel’s hot 16-year-old daughter, dies in a suicide bombing. Daniel learns that Zoe – like iconic “Twin Peaks” dead teenager Laura Palmer – had many secrets. For one thing she was a closeted monotheist! For another, she was even more of a technological genius than daddy Daniel, and succeeded in secretly uploading her personality and DNA into a holographic avatar. Daniel comes to combine the Zoe avatar with stolen technology to create the first Cylon, “a robotic version of his dead daughter.” Oo!

* JOSEPH ADAMS (Esai Morales), Bill Adama’s pop and Romo Lampkin’s future mentor, is a fortysomething Tauron native who long ago emigrated to Caprica and overcame anti-Tauron prejudice to become an influential defense attorney on the capital planet. Joseph’s wife and daughter (Bill’s mother and sister) die in the same blast that killed Zoe Graystone. Joseph Adams and Daniel Graystone, despite their very different backgrounds, are bonded by the tragedy. Adams, who still has “powerful ties to the Tauron crime underworld” helps Greystone create the first Cylon by stealing cutting-edge robotic technology from a Tauron computer developer.

* TAMARA ADAMS (Genevieve Buechner), Joseph’s dead daughter, may also be resurrected as a robot, but Joseph – much like the dad in Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” – comes to regret his role in the Cylonic creations.

* AMANDA GRAYSTONE (Paula Malcomson), Daniel’s thirtysomething wife, is a successful surgeon devastated by the loss of her beloved daughter Zoe.

* TOMAS VERGIS (Roger R. Cross) is Amanda Graystone’s Tauron ex-lover and one of her husband’s chief competitors. Following Zoe’s death, Amanda covertly returns to Vergis’ bed to learn more of the tech that might be used to resurrect her daughter.

* SISTER CLARICE WILLOW (Polly Walker) is another closeted monotheist and the headmistress of the Athena Academy, the polytheistic religious school Zoe attended. A product of colonial slums, the sister is presumably responsible for converting young Zoe into a monotheist.

* BEN STARK (Avan Jogiais) is Zoe’s unbalanced monotheist-fanatic boyfriend, the suicide bomber who kills, among many others, Zoe, Tamara, Bill Adama’s mom and himself in a horrific train bombing. He, too, secretly uploaded himself into a holographic avatar. But his can only be contacted by headmistress Willow.

* WILLIAM ADAMS, a dour 9-year-old introvert unaware of his Tauron heritage, is Joseph Adams’ sole surviving child. Like John Connor, he will prove humanity’s savior in a universe ruled by murderous robots.

A promo for the pilot movie is online here.

New "Galactica" webisodes, co-scripted by Jane Espenson, launch a week from Friday.

"Galactica" Actual begins its last 10 episodes on the SciFi Channel Jan. 16.

The new Cylon-centric prequel TV-movie "Battlestar Galactica: The Plan," directed by Edward James Olmos from a teleplay by Espenson, is expected to air sometime after the mother series airs its series finale March 20.

Read all of Variety’s’s story on the matter here!





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FIRST
by jojo-pimp
Dec 1st, 2008
10:48:35 PM
hell yeah! as excited as this as i am for Speed 3!
by jojo-pimp
Dec 1st, 2008
10:49:05 PM
SO SAY WE ALL!!!
by SanityKaos
Dec 1st, 2008
10:55:39 PM
Coming In 2016
by Friendo
Dec 1st, 2008
11:00:10 PM
So when is that Olmos-directed BSG TV movie gonna air?
by zillabeast
Dec 1st, 2008
11:02:13 PM
Didn't this already happen?
by Bangforabuck
Dec 1st, 2008
11:07:24 PM
Oh, I have an even better idea...
by Frank Black
Dec 1st, 2008
11:15:34 PM
Frakken A!
by Amy Chasing
Dec 1st, 2008
11:26:50 PM
Dexter season finale spoiler
by blue1622
Dec 1st, 2008
11:34:39 PM
No love for Dexter?
by Amy Chasing
Dec 1st, 2008
11:50:36 PM
And it's scheduled...
by Unnatural
Dec 1st, 2008
11:55:01 PM
OMG - just read the possible Dexter spoiler.
by Amy Chasing
Dec 1st, 2008
11:56:29 PM
I doubt they'll go all George Lucas on the BSG prequel
by Amy Chasing
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:05:34 AM
Thank the Lords of Kobol! Not to mention the Cylon God.
by Paul T. Ryan
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:11:35 AM
Good prequels?
by MrD
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:13:08 AM
Casting news! The Imperious Leader will be played by
by MrD
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:13:50 AM
The Lord Of The Rings, Episode 1-ish
by Amy Chasing
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:15:29 AM
Can you really call Godfather II a prequel.
by Amy Chasing
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:16:20 AM
Can you really call Godfather II a prequel.
by Amy Chasing
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:16:38 AM
Who the frak...
by Kurgan
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:18:59 AM
Joseph Adams and Daniel Graystone bond...
by MisterE
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:33:54 AM
Great...
by jimmy rabbitte
Dec 2nd, 2008
12:45:05 AM
Screw SciFi
by jbs0209
Dec 2nd, 2008
01:01:01 AM
And the rape and pillaging begins....
by Donkey_Lasher
Dec 2nd, 2008
01:29:04 AM
William Adams, a dour 9-year-old,...
by MisterE
Dec 2nd, 2008
01:29:12 AM
Little Husker
by Unnatural
Dec 2nd, 2008
02:09:00 AM
Then why didn't they air it this December as planned?
by Cash907
Dec 2nd, 2008
02:54:37 AM
And whats with this Adams crap?
by Cash907
Dec 2nd, 2008
02:57:47 AM
*Sigh* Nevermind
by Cash907
Dec 2nd, 2008
03:00:13 AM
Don't care.
by V'Shael
Dec 2nd, 2008
03:07:03 AM
Might as well...there's nothing else on SCI FI
by FilmCritic3000
Dec 2nd, 2008
04:36:37 AM
How do the final 5 fit in to all this?
by pokadoo
Dec 2nd, 2008
04:49:21 AM
Fuck Sci-Fi
by teethgnasher
Dec 2nd, 2008
06:34:53 AM
All a red herring
by kesoze4
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:02:21 AM
A.I.: The Series
by Aquatarkusman
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:02:27 AM
Ignore Caprica news, then scotch.
by spud mcspud
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:03:10 AM
And they have a Plan....
by knowthyself
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:14:12 AM
NO! Say we all!
by Squashua
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:33:21 AM
not sure!
by smudgewhat
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:47:52 AM
eh...
by Judge Briggs
Dec 2nd, 2008
09:42:11 AM
I'm only mildly interested in CAPRICA.
by Mr. Nice Gaius
Dec 2nd, 2008
10:39:46 AM
RE: "I doubt they'll go all George Lucas on the BSG prequel"
by Mr. Nice Gaius
Dec 2nd, 2008
10:53:30 AM
THE ADAMS FAMILY
by Mullah Omar
Dec 2nd, 2008
10:58:05 AM
wasn't the delay due to the writers' strike?
by Mr Gorilla
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:00:39 AM
Show is GREAT.
by secretcylon
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:06:53 AM
Mr. Nice Gaius
by secretcylon
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:09:30 AM
Misleading
by frozen01
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:10:13 AM
secretcylon
by Mr. Nice Gaius
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:14:24 AM
Mr. Nice Gaius
by secretcylon
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:53:04 AM
Melvin_Pelvis
by secretcylon
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:54:23 AM
so how long until the shocking twist
by punto
Dec 2nd, 2008
01:11:23 PM
Come one everybody, in unison.
by Roketopunch
Dec 2nd, 2008
01:26:06 PM
Terrible Idea
by _Maltheus_
Dec 2nd, 2008
02:21:15 PM
_Maltheus_
by secretcylon
Dec 2nd, 2008
02:32:45 PM
Polly Walker
by oisin5199
Dec 2nd, 2008
03:17:16 PM
ENTERPRISE was a good prequel
by punto
Dec 2nd, 2008
03:28:05 PM
Never liked BSG...
by The Eskimo
Dec 2nd, 2008
03:49:46 PM
A SciFi Prequel? How novel, what could possibly go wrong?
by A-COD
Dec 2nd, 2008
04:21:49 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOO!!!!!!
by Maniaq
Dec 2nd, 2008
04:35:39 PM
Can't Wait
by Cobbio
Dec 2nd, 2008
04:57:51 PM
Caprica might be cool...
by Rakafraker
Dec 2nd, 2008
05:49:16 PM
Enterprise: NOT a good Prequel--a BRAGAbomination
by chromedome
Dec 2nd, 2008
06:53:33 PM
Bill Adams' (Adama) call sign was.....
by Banditmania
Dec 2nd, 2008
07:07:37 PM
blech.
by frankenfickle
Dec 2nd, 2008
07:11:00 PM
FF
by Cobbio
Dec 2nd, 2008
08:52:37 PM
Looking forward to it.
by Paul T. Ryan
Dec 2nd, 2008
09:11:43 PM
I'm actually stupid enough to think that read "GATTACA prequel".
by Ravetin
Dec 2nd, 2008
11:03:00 PM
RAVETIN, WHAT IS SOTC A PREQUEL TO?
by J-Dizzle
Dec 3rd, 2008
04:30:54 AM
Spoiler?
by severianx1
Dec 3rd, 2008
10:07:05 AM
Adams to Adama in 1 generation? needlessly rushed
by MurderMostFowl
Dec 3rd, 2008
12:28:16 PM
Caprica details
by da_bar
Apr 29th, 2009
05:01:52 PM
Bit lat in the game are we?
by Orcus
Apr 30th, 2009
09:28:59 AM
late. Orcus can't spel
by Orcus
Apr 30th, 2009
09:29:22 AM

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