Caprica (TV series)

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Caprica
Format	Science fiction, Drama
Created by	Remi Aubuchon, David Eick, Ronald D. Moore
Directed by	Jeffrey Reiner
Starring	Esai Morales, Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcolmson, Polly Walker
Country of origin	United States
Broadcast
Original channel	Sci-Fi Channel
Original airing	Pre-production
Chronology
Related shows	Battlestar Galactica
External links
IMDb profile

Caprica is a proposed television series set in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Plot Details 3 Development 4 Cast 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Premise

Set on the fictional planet Caprica, approximately fifty to seventy years before the events depicted in the re-imagined series, Caprica is described as "television's first science fiction family saga."^[1]

Caprica shows the Twelve Colonies at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, when a startling breakthrough in robotics brings to life the age-old dream of marrying artificial intelligence with mechanical bodies. Joseph Adama – father of future Battlestar commander William Adama – a renowned civil liberties lawyer, becomes an opponent of the experiments undertaken by the Graystones, owners of the computer giant spearheading the development of these living robots: the Cylons.

[edit] 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."^[2]

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.^[3] 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."^[4]

[edit] Development

After a drawn-out pre-development cycle, on March 18, 2008, the 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.^[5][6]

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, who is writing the pilot, and is set to be the show runner. The pilot will be directed by Friday Night Lights veteran Jeffrey Reiner.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cast

• Esai Morales as Joseph Adama
• Eric Stoltz as Daniel Graystone
• Paula Malcomson as Amanda Graystone
• Polly Walker as Sister Clarice Willow
• Alessandra Toressani as Zoe Graystone
• Avan Jogia as Ben Stark

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Caprica at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview - Executive Producer David Eick Talks Galactica Year Three – and Caprica - Now Playing magazine
• Battlestar Wiki: Caprica (series)

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