Caprica Information Page

Caprica would take place more than half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica. The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better.

But a startling breakthrough in robotics is about to occur, one that will bring to life the age-old dream of marrying artificial intelligence with a mechanical body to create the first living robot: a Cylon. Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the Battlestar Galactica), Caprica will weave together corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television's first science fiction family saga, the channel announced.

9/19/2006 -- It's in development. We've done a couple of drafts of the script and we're waiting to see if SciFi is going to give it the greenlight... It's very different from Galactica. It's not action adventure, it's planet-bound. It's about a couple of families and politics and corporate intrigue. It's about the creation of the Cylons, in essence, and it's fifty years before the events of Battlestar Galactica on the planet Caprica. It's a very different show - we didn't want to spin off the show into another war series about another Battlestar, about another group of survivors. We wanted to push the bounds of what science fiction is. No one has really tried to do the science fiction equivalent of the prime time soap. I don't know that it'll be as serialized as a prime time soap, but I'm sure there will be continuing elements. The feel of it will be different from the traditional action/adventure sci-fi show. (source: CHUD)

10/30/2006 -- It's not a war show; it's not even a space show or an action-adventure show. It's a family drama and a political drama about corporations and politics. It's almost [more] like a sci-fi soap than it is an action-adventure series... It's the story of the creation of the Cylons. We're trying to do something different within the genre and give a different flavor to the material than Battlestar Galactica does... [The story] centers around two families, one of whom owns an enormous corporation, à la Microsoft, and it builds the first Cylons; then the other family is Adama's father, who's a lawyer at the time and starts to become an opponent of what they're trying to do. (source: New York Post)

11/2006 -- It's actually a prequel, and this would be a one hour pilot not a mini-series. It takes place 50 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica and it's essentially about the creation of the Cylons. It's a very different show; it's not action-adventure and it's not even in space. It takes place on the planet Caprica and it's more of a family drama, with political and corporate intrigue. We're well into the writing of it actually; we're doing re-writes on the script right now and Sci Fi has been very happy so far. At the moment, we're just waiting to see if they greenlight it or not. Generally, there's always a two step process: there's ordering the pilot and then there's ordering the series, but because we're not designing it as a mini-series, I don't know that anybody would even see the pilot if they chose not to go to series with it... Tonally, it will be very different. This is Caprica before the fall. It's a decadent world, but also a world that's going at a very fast pace. It's a prosperous society that hasn't experienced the devastation of the first Cylon war yet, so this culture has really not been taken down a peg, and their hubris is getting the better of them. It's a go-go society that's teetering on the brink, so it's not that apocalyptic survival scenario of Galactica. The whole thing is tonally very different. (source: Dreamwatch)

2/14/2007 -- They have the script, and they've said they're very excited about it, so now we just sit and wait. (source: EOnline)

5/26/2006 -- [Caprica is] in the very earliest embryonic stages. We're now working on the outline with Remi Aubuchon, who's the writer. We're going to be submitting the document to the network in the next week or so... [Ron and I are] deeply involved with Caprica, and we're very enthusiastic and thrilled with the opportunity, but when it comes to the detail work of pounding out the script, there's a third partner involved who's at the helm... This time we have a partner in Remi, who's going to be taking the lead with the new project... Right now it's a script. We'll probably know if it's a pilot around July. (source: TV Guide)

7/13/2006 -- It takes place about 50 years ago. It's in the Galactica universe, only 50 years before the events of Battlestar... It is about the birth of the artificial intelligence technology that will one day lead to the Cylon race. So on that level, it deals with the Cylons. But certainly not in the same way that we deal with them on [Galactica]... The script is still being written. (source: Now Playing)

11/9/2006 -- It's definitely coming along creatively. Right now the network has a script and we are just waiting for an answer. (source: iF Magazine)