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RX_Sith
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Battlestar Honcho to write Sci-Fi movie trilogy.
(from EW.com)
(VARIETY) — Ronald D. Moore, showrunner of Battlestar Galactica, has signed a deal with United Artists (run by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner) to write a big-screen sci-fi trilogy. UA is keeping mum on the details of the project. Besides Galactica, Moore's credits include Star Trek: Generations and First Contact, the upcoming The Thing, and Cruise's Mission: Impossible II.
Soon all Sci-Fi will be like Battlestar Galactica.
(from io9.com)
Battlestar Galactica may have been more of a critical hit than a ratings smash, but its producers are getting ready to spread its science fiction recipe, mixing grit and soap opera, through a bunch of more high-profile venues. David Eick is already signed to work on a TV series based on P.D. James' Children Of Men, and Ron Moore is writing a prequel to The Thing and a TV movie called Virtuality. And they're both working on the BSG prequel TV movie Caprica, and might be involved in a resulting series. But now, it turns out both creators will be much, much busier than that.
Moore just signed a deal to write and produce an original science fiction movie trilogy for United Artists, the resurrected production company that wants to create its own home-grown franchises. No word on what the trilogy will be called, or what it's about. New UA CEO Paula Wagner worked with him 10 years ago, when he co-wrote Mission Impossible II, which she produced.
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David Eick is already signed to work on a TV series based on P.D. James' Children Of Men.
They have to get Alfonso Cuaron involved in that somehow, then it will be awesome.
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This sounds quite interesting...
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RX_Sith
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Virtuality.
Caprica
The above are the IMDb entries which at the moment shows both Virtuality and Caprica are in pre-production. Hopefully, soon more information will be release.
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Fox picks up Virtuality.
Ronald D. Moore has sold his two hour pilot Virtuality to Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show will be produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. It was Braun that came up with the idea and gave it to Moore to write.
The premise of the series will revolve around ten astronauts that set out on a ten-year journey of a nearby solar system. To help pass the time on the ship, NASA has created an advanced virtual reality pod that will allow the astronauts to assume different identities and go on many different adventures. Things go swimmingly until a bug is found in the system.
Universal Media Studios president Katherine Pope stated, "It's very much about what's fantasy and what's reality; what we do to escape our lives and what actually institutes our lives; are these things very different."
The pilot will begin filming this July.
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Premiering this September?
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Who Should Ron Moore Cast in Virtuality?.
(from scifiobserver.com)
Unlike some of our blogging brethren, we’re not gonna diss the holodeck-centric premise for Ron Moore’s upcoming Fox series Virtuality. We’re not even worrying about Fox cancelling the thing before it finds it’s legs.
Instead, we’re looking forward to the creative possibilities of a series that will combine Moore’s poignant brand of sci-fi storylelling with a truly bizarre premise.
We’re also eagerly awaiting the casting news. Let’s hope that Moore follows Joss Whedon’s turn with Dollhouse by stuffing Virtuality with familiar faces from his previous projects. RM, if you’re out there, here’s who we’d like to see on your next space ship.
A wonderful veteran character actor who never fails to make an impression, whether he’s chewing scenery in the Moore-produced Roswell and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or hamming it up as Death in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. Sadler fans should catch him as a spaced-out dad in Wonderfalls.
Alfre Woodard: Will we ever forget when Woodard asked Picard how much the Enterprise cost in the Moore-penned Star Trek: First Contact? Woodard’s one of the finest actors working today who is clearly undervalued in Hollywood. We say put her back in space, but this time make her the captain.
Nick Wechsler: Don’t hold Team Knight Rider against him. Wechsler showed great range and became a welcome ray of light amidst all the brooding and teen angst on Roswell, executive-produced by Moore and Jason Katims.
Terry Farrell: Moore wrote and produced more than enough Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that featured Farrell as Jadzia Dax, a smart and sassy spotted alien with 7 lifetimes behind her. Farrell’s been out of the spotlight for too long ever since Jadzia was killed off on DS9’s sixth season. It’s time for her comeback.
Nick Stahl: We know Stahl won’t be playing John Connor again. Why not bring this solid actor back to sci-fi with this high-profile project? He was great as a tortured savior in Moore’s HBO drama Carnivale, and he’s proved his range and worth in numerous films, including Sin City and Bully.
We’d also love to see Avery Brooks and Alexander Siddig from DS9, and maybe Majandra Delfino from Roswell. Yeah, I know. We didn’t nominate any Battlestar Galactica actors. Truth be told, we’d like to see all of them on every TV show that’ll ever be produced. Ever … Why don’t you list a few worthy BSG cast members in the comments?
So who do you think that Ronald Moore should cast in his new series?
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I wish they would cast a non-pretty type.
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Upfronts: Fox's "Virtuality" gets Peter Berg boost
(from Cynthia Littleton On the Air)
Sci-fi pilot "Virtuality" shot high up on Fox's radar on Sunday with word that Peter Berg has signed on to helm the two-hour pilot and exec produce. Project is believed to be set to lens this summer.
Berg (pictured above), whose Will Smith actioner "Hancock" hits multiplexes in July, has been one of the most sought-after helmers in this truncated pilot season. "Virtuality," penned by "Battlestar Galactica's" Ron Moore and Michael Taylor, revolves around a long-range NASA mission and involves a limitless world of virtual reality.
Berg's producing partner Sarah Aubrey and Film 44 banner will be a coproducer along with Universal Media Studios and Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman's BermanBraun banner.
Fox seems hell-bent on fantastic voyages with its drama picks his year. J.J. Abrams' "Fringe" sounds "X-Files"-ish with a femme FBI agent investigating reports of unusual medical and scientific phenomena. Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse" is about people who live together in a futuristic dormitory and are "imprinted" with different personalities for various assignments. Also back for more reality-bending fun next season are the cyborgs of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
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Fox is really betting heavily on this and "Fringe"...
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Well, i'll give ANYTHING Sci-fi related a chance..The premise doesn't really appeal to me (it does sound like an eternal episode of the holodeck from Star Trek), but i'll give Moore a free shot on this one, based on my love of BSG..
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Exclusive First Details of Virtuality.
(from io9.com)
When we first heard Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore was doing a show about a deep-space long-haul crew who lose themselves in virtual reality entertainments, our first thought was, "Oh great, a whole show of Star Trek holodeck episodes." But Moore's new Fox pilot, Virtuality, is a lot more multi-layered and twisted than that, judging from the tons of script pages that have turned up. The pages are "casting sides," for actors auditioning for roles in the series, but they appear to be taken from the actual pilot script. Details, with spoilers, after the jump.
There are three strands in the Virtuality pilot, and only one of them relates to virtual reality as such:
1) The ship, the Phaeton, is nearing a slingshot maneuver around Jupiter, which will either send it back to Earth or send it hurtling forwards to its destination of Eridani. This is the "go/no-go" decision point, which will decide the crew's fate once and for all. At the same time, the ship's doctor, Eyal Meyer, has Parkinson's Disease, which throws an extra wrinkle into the tough decision. Should the ship go forward and risk not having a doctor on board? If they don't go, it may be 20 years before humans can try again — which may be too late. There are also glitches with the ship, and emergency repairs may cost one character their life.
2) The crew are all spending time in virtual reality "modules," including everything from a restful seaside scene to a Civil War battle where Confederate troops attack Union soldiers, only to fall into an ambush. In all their "modules," a mysterious figure known as the Green-Eyed Man shows up and kills the humans in gruesome ways. (Unlike in The Matrix and other scifi classics, being killed in VR doesn't harm you in real life, but it's jarring.) Is the Green-Eyed Man a hack by one of the crew members? A computer glitch? Or something else? Everybody suspects Billie, the computer geek — until she's raped by the Green Eyed Man, in a brutal and horrible scene.
3) Even as the crew is stressed out by the experience of being in deep space alone for 10 years, and losing themselves in VR entertainments, they're also being watched. In particular, the ship is one huge "reality TV" show, which is broadcast back on Earth. The ship's computer whiz, Billie, becomes the "host" of the show, which is struggling with declining ratings — so she has to find ways to increase the show's "drama" to make it more compelling viewing. There are interview segments interspersed with sequences where Billie films the crew arguing. The crew have to take part, or risk breaching their contracts — which could mean their families back on Earth lose their preferential housing. (There are tons of hints that Earth is one huge ecological cesspool, and liveable dry land is at a premium, with long wait lists for housing.)
The show's most freaky character — sort of a cross between Gaius Baltar and Brother Cavil — is Roger Fallon. He's the ship's therapist (and may have to take over as doctor if Meyer is incapacitated.) But he's also the producer and director of the ship's "reality TV" show, which places him in a weird conflict of interest. He's supposed to be listening to the crew's problems, even as he's urging Billie to create more "drama" to boost the show's ratings. He's a manipulative snake, who's a famous self-help guru with a book that's almost as popular as the Bible back on Earth. We're clearly supposed to hate him and yet find him oddly compelling. His wife, Rika, is having a virtual reality affair with the ship's captain, Frank Pike. (Yes, the captain is really named Pike.)
Other simmering subplots: Manny and Val, a gay couple, have been stuck on galley duty and hate cooking, plus they're bad at it. Another married couple, Alice and Kenji, are having sex in weird spots all over the ship and trying to keep it secret for some reason. (Plus it seems as though Alice had an abortion so she could go on the Phaeton's space flight, and her sister just had a baby back on Earth.) Billie is adjusting to being the host of the "reality TV" show, and her VR module is a hilarious scenario where she's a Joan Jett-esque rock star who's also a superspy. (And her band are all super-spies too.) Another character, a scientist named Jules Braun, is having the computer create a virtual reconstruction of his dead son, Shawn.
Bottom line: It's a bleak and disturbing look at the effects of a long space trip on humans, as dark in its own way as Battlestar Galactica. It sort of reminded me of the underrated film Sunshine, in the focus on psychological drama in cramped quarters, plus the dangerous repair sequence and the fact that the ship has a hydroponic garden. But the "reality TV" aspect adds a whole extra sardonic layer to the cake.
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That is a lot of weird and crazy. Definently more complex than the premise initially made it sound like...
I love it!
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hansen posted:
That is a lot of weird and crazy. Definently more complex than the premise initially made it sound like...
I love it!
Yeah. Its part sci-fi, part cyberpunk and reality TV. This sounds like it will be even more of a mind frak than Battlestar.
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I'm a little skeptical here. People + spaceships = yay! Reality TV = WTF?
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JediTrilobite posted:
I'm a little skeptical here. People + spaceships = yay! Reality TV = WTF?
People were skeptical when they heard that RDM was not just rebooting, but actually reimagining Battlestar. Considering that he's given us five years of consistenly brilliant televison, I think he deserves our trust.
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