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Next year marks the end of another great science-fiction series, with the final 10 episodes of “Battlestar Galactica” airing on Sci Fi Channel.
Executive producer Ronald D. Moore, who developed the series, says filming the final episode is a bittersweet experience, but the show as a whole is a good reflection of the vision he had when he first set out to re-imagine the 1978 original version.
“I think we went a long way toward doing what we set out to do,” Moore says. “It’s a unique piece. We really wanted to do something different that changes the way people look at sci-fi. It has been a gratifying creative experience.”
The first 10 episodes of the fourth
season recently aired and are likely to see a home video release later this year in anticipation of the final stretch of episodes, which Moore says will answer a lot of the questions raised during the first three seasons.
In the lead-up to the final episodes, Moore says the production team will create a new series of online shorts, similar to “The Resistance” webisodes that were made before the third season. Unlike “The Resistance,” the new webisodes will not take place between the episodes, but will go back and explain things that happened earlier during the course of the show. In this sense, Moore says, the shorts will serve a function similar to the Razor direct-to-DVD movie produced last year.
Also, Moore says the eventual DVD release of the final half of the fourth season should include a longer version of an episode he directed, called “The Disquiet That Follows My Soul.”
“We’ll probably do an extended cut of that with a new commentary,” Moore says. “And I imagine we’ll do a new cut of the finale.”
To follow “Galactica,” Moore is developing a pilot for Fox called “Virtuality,” about astronauts on a 10-year mission. He also has signed to do a trilogy of sci-fi movies for United Artists and is preparing what he calls a companion piece to John Carpenter’s The Thing.
But Moore is not completely abandoning the “Galactica” universe. Production is underway on a spinoff prequel, called
“Caprica,” which delves into the origins of the robotic Cylons and the political rivalry between two families. The cast includes Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Polly Walker and Paula
Malcomson.
“It’s coming together great,” Moore says. “It’s a very different time and a very different setting. It’s not about space, but about these families and their machinations.” Source Link: http://agentdvdonline.com/agentdvd/News/Coming-In-For-a-Landing/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/530822?contextCategoryId=40862 Contributed by: Colonial Marine
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