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Caprica
Genre	Serial drama, Family saga, Science fiction
Created by	Remi Aubuchon, David Eick, Ronald D. Moore
Directed by	Jeffrey Reiner
Starring	Esai Morales, Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcomson, Polly Walker
Composer(s)	Bear McCreary
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Remi Aubuchon, David Eick, Ronald D. Moore
Producer(s)	Clara George
Location(s)	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Running time	approx. 42 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Sci Fi Channel
Original airing	Post-production
Chronology
Related shows	Battlestar Galactica

Caprica is an upcoming television series set in the fictional Battlestar Galactica universe. Set over 50 years before the events seen in Battlestar Galactica, Caprica will tell the story of how humanity first created the robotic Cylons, who would later plot to destroy human civilization.

An extended version of the pilot will have its world premiere exclusively on DVD on April 21, 2009.^[1] In early 2010, the first season, composed of the two-hour pilot and 18 hour-long episodes, is expected to begin airing on Sci Fi Channel in the United States.^[2][3] The rights to broadcast the series have also been picked up by Sky1 in the UK and Ireland.^[4]

Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Premise 1.2 Details 2 Development 3 Cast 4 Reception 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot

Described as "television's first science fiction family saga,"^[5] Caprica is a terrestrial drama rather than a space opera. Set against the backdrop of a society close to our own, Caprica will "[ponder] ethical dilemmas that we as a human race are going to have to face very shortly." ^[2]

[edit] Premise

The Twelve Colonies are at peace, 58^[6] years before the reimagined series,^[7] when an act of religious fanaticism sets the fates of the Adamas and the Graystones onto a collision course. Brought together by the grief over their lost daughters, prominent civil liberties lawyer Joseph Adama and Daniel Graystone, a wealthy technologist, find they are both struggling just to keep going. Obsessed, 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.^[8][9]

[edit] Details

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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.[10]

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• Joseph Adama is the father of future Battlestar commander William Adama. In the act of terrorism which sets all things in motion, he loses not only his daughter, but also his wife.^[11][12]

• Caprica draws heavily on 1950s fashion and design for its look and feel.^[13]

• Viewers will be able to join Caprica without having seen the 2004 series. Said Ronald D. Moore, "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."^[14]

• Like Battlestar Galactica, Caprica will have a story arc-heavy format, according to Ronald D. Moore.^[15]

• The script for the two-hour pilot concluded with a character coining the term "Cylon," saying, "A cybernetic life-form node, a Cylon."^[16][17]

• Caprica's tagline is "The battle for humanity has a beginning."^[18] Originally, it was reported as: "The end of humanity has a beginning."^[19]

• In the enhanced version of the Battlestar Galactica episode "No Exit," Ronald D. Moore states that the seventh Cylon model is a springboard for Caprica. Both this model and the main character played by Eric Stoltz are called Daniel. The relationship, if only coincidental, was not explained further by Moore.

[edit] Development

Ideas about a prequel series to Battlestar Galactica originated during production of its second season. Moore and Eick speculated about a phase of the Battlestar Galactica universe prior to the Cylons, more golden and innocent, leading to the fall. Incapable of dedicating serious time to the notion, it remained in the concept stage of development. Then, in early 2006, SciFi Channel executives had an idea. Remi Aubuchon, unaware of the ideas about a Battlestar Galactica prequel, had been pitching a series which struck SciFi as very close to what Moore and Eick had in mind. A meeting was arranged, introductions made. The meeting led to more and a general outline for a series and production set-up emerged. The SciFi Channel management was enthusiastic. At the same time, a plodding struggle between Moore and SciFi was underway. 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 SciFi pressured Moore into retooling the third season of Battlestar Galactica to consist of largely standalone episodes. The measure backfired, with 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 for the story arc format.^[20] Still, with the proposed Caprica prequel series to have a story-arc-heavy format like its predecessor, the network was reluctant to greenlight the series and as a result, Caprica got stuck in "development hell".

With Eick and Moore's announcement Battlestar Galactica was going to end with its fourth season, and after a drawn-out pre-development cycle, on March 18, 2008, the SciFi 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.^[21][22] On July 20, of the same year, SciFi announced it was considering picking up Caprica as a series directly, and make the pilot an extended season premiere.^[7] Finally, on December 2, SciFi gave the go-ahead to expand the project into a full series. Production was expected to resume in July 2009^[23] for an anticipated series premiere in early 2010.^[2]

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.^[24] Battlestar writers Jane Espenson, Michael Taylor, Ryan Mottesheard, and composer Bear McCreary have joined the series' production staff. Espenson will become executive producer midway through the first season.^[23]

On April 21, 2009, an uncut and unrated extended version of the pilot will be released on DVD, along with commentary, deleted scenes and video blogs. It will also be available as a download through select online destinations.^[1]

[edit] Cast

Confirmed series regulars:

• 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
• Sina Najafi as William Adama
• Avan Jogia as Ben Stark
• Magda Apanowicz as Lacy Rand

Other cast:

• Sasha Roiz as Sam Adama
• 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

[edit] Reception

Home Media Magazine's John Latchem states that Caprica has "all the same dark overtones and richness of character that fans have come to expect from Galactica." He notes that Caprica "[evokes] a feeling similar to Gattaca in its depiction of a potential near-future, while infusing elements of the Matrix and Terminator movies to set up a bridge to the events viewers know will unfold."^[25] The Futon Critic's Brian Ford Sullivan finds the first 15 minutes:

“

A weird mix of teen angst, hedonism and virtual reality ... once established, the world of Caprica has the potential to be just as compelling, interesting and multi-faceted as its "sequel" - minus of course the cool shit blowing up in space. In just 92 minutes, Caprica manages to dish out a surprisingly dense, but not too overwhelming, array of plot threads.[26]

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[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Sci Fi Caprica website
• Caprica at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview - Executive Producer David Eick Talks Galactica Year Three – and Caprica - Now Playing magazine
• Battlestar Wiki: Caprica (series)
• The Caprica Times - Unofficial Caprica news blog

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