Virtuality

This weekend Cinema Blend sussed out some more details via trade paper news, about the backdoor pilot Ron Moore is working on with BSG writer Michael Taylor:

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fox was shopping around for a writer for a back-door pilot called Virtuality. The premise of the series would focus on a crew of astronauts on a decade-long journey through space. In order to help them pass the time, NASA installed “advanced virtual-reality modules” which would allow the crew members to basically live in a make-believe world and mentally travel wherever they want. Everything goes according to plan until a “bug” is found in the system and things get pretty messed up.

Fox approached a number of writers about the project and were happy with what Ronald D. Moore was able to come up with. Moore...put a script together with fellow BSG writer-producer, Michael Taylor.

The Reporter didn’t say just how involved Moore would be with the project or the series (assuming the back-door pilot does go to series).

This is one of many film and TV projects RDM apparently has in the hopper this year, and there is no word yet which one will turn out to be his primary post-BSG project.

Points to Fox for now having shows in the works with RDM, Joss Whedon, and JJ Abrams, all at the same time. Pretty darned impressive.