Battlestar Galactica Prequel 'Caprica'

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Do you ever wonder what happened before a certain ragtag fugitive fleet set off on its lonely quest?

Well, Battlestar Galactica fans, does the Sci Fi Channel have a treat for you.

The Viacom-owned cable network has unveiled plans for Caprica, a prequel to the cable network's update of the '70s sci-fi show. The spinoff series will apparently be set about 50 years before Battlestar Galactica and center on the cataclysmic events that formed the current series.

Sci Fi Channel execs announced the Caprica news Wednesday in New York during the net's upfront presentation, when broadcasters traditionally pitch their most buzz-worthy new shows to advertisers and journalists.

Caprica is being developed and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick. The duo is responsible for reengineering the 1978 Battlestar (masterminded by TV veteran Glen L. Larson) into a smash 2003 miniseries and then into a full-fledged series that's garnered a massive cult following and just won a Peabody Award.

Just as the 1970s Battlestar Galactica took its inspiration from (or, as some would say, "ripped off") George Lucas' first Star Wars, the new series will take a page from the latter-day Jedi tales and focus on the bad guys' rise to power.

Details are still sketchy, but Caprica will presumably detail how robotic Cylon Alliance rose to power and decimated the 12 Colonies of Kobol (Caprica is the name of the largest planet in the system). The wanton destruction forced a group of refugees to launch the interstellar colonial spaceship the Galactica into deep space in search of a mythical planet known as Earth.

Producers have tapped 24 scribe Remi Aubuchon to write the script.

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This was announced April 27th and yet no one's bothered to make a thread? Cmon guys, I thought there were some BSG fans on GFF.

I'm interested to see how it turns out. If cast right and given as much emotion as the new BSG, it should be a great show.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If the third season has been postponed because of this prequel, I'm mildly interested.

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I'm interested because I want answers to my questions about the pre-nuke years of Caprica.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Any news about BSG is good news.
Well, as long as it isn't bad news of course. Bad news in the sense of "show cancelled".

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Awesome. They "tapped 24 scribe ...". I can't wait to see CHAOS and EXPLOSIONS, and maybe we'll even see what happened to Jack Bauer while he was fighting the cylons. I wonder when this'll come out, or if this'll be like a mini-series before season 3 begins. Whatever, as long as there is plenty of BOOM.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My question is why didn't they ask Glen Larson. He's alive last I heard.

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