Tonight’s live Doctor and Mrs. Who Radio Show claimed to have even more scoopy news from their inside sources this week. The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan called into the show to confirm she is hearing some of the same things from her own BATTLESTAR GALACTICA sources. The Doctor says that he has heard:
- For reasons that were similarly voiced by a production source to SyFy Portal recently, it does seem possible that CAPRICA could get a 10-12 episode order before the pilot film actually airs. The two-hour film (considered a “back-door pilot”) will need to be shot and shown to the network before any decisions are made. IMHO, it would be interesting to see if Sci Fi Channel could have the courage of their conviction and do what many other cable networks do: greenlight the whole darned series.
- The contracts with Ron Moore and the rest of the BSG writing/producing team have now been signed to make all three TV films after Season 4 is wrapped. If the required cast are available, the first film could go into production this summer once season 4’s finale is done shooting. However, all bets are off at the moment about cast and crew availability for these films, and the scripts cannot be created without knowing which characters are available. Nothing has been written yet. Meanwhile, if there is a SAG strike this summer, shooting might be delayed.
No official announcements about any of this have happened yet. More as it develops.
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Wow, contracts have been signed?! That's great news! I realize the cast isn't confirmed yet of course, but still it's good to know they're really serious about the movies.
And can't wait for Caprica.
A-frakking-mazing.
We don't know for sure the time period that these movies are going to encompass yet though, right? Dare we hope they'll take up where S4 leaves off?!
@einaphets: From what I've read (in that Mo Ryan link above in the post, and what Eick has said recently), it's going to be like RAZOR. Stories from the past that do not change the series end.
Thanks for posting that link Proggrrl girl! With the 3 movies I would hope they could delve more into the Cylon world...if not a look at their planet then maybe just retell an episode like "33" from the Cylon perspective. That would be pretty nice.
Please! Please! Please! Let at least one them be involving the stuff from the FLASHBACKS - FIRST CYLON WAR. The Young Adama stuff from RAZOR rocked! Don't need the regular cast for that one.
Something pre-series, something in the fleet during the series, and especially something about the origins and nature of the Twelve Cylons would be great in my opinion.
I second the First Cylon War - Young Adama storyline. It was fresh, new, but still gripping. It seemed to add an energy to things that hadn't been there for a while...at least for me.
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