Battlestar Galactica Prequel is Go For Launch

Posted by Kevin Carr (kevin@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 19, 2008

Just a few short months ago, amid a writer’s strike in Hollywood, the fate of Battlestar Galactica was uncertain. While the show was set to debut its fourth and final season, the last episodes hadn’t yet been filmed. They were a casualty of the strike.

However, now with the strike settled and season four ready to air in April, new life has been breathed into the SciFi Channel’s anchor series. Not only has the third season debuted on DVD, but plans were announced on Tuesday that a long-awaited and rumored new movie is officially a go for launch.

While it has been known about for years, the SciFi Channel has officially announced it’s on the board. Battlestar Galactica: Caprica will be set 50 years before the current events of the series, before the Cylons made a preemptive launch against the humans and wiped out the Twelve Colonies of Kobol.

This will be the third event outside of the series itself, following the television movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor this past November and the original three-hour miniseries that launched the re-imagined show in 2004. Caprica has been in development since 2006, and it has finally received the green light, according to E! News.

Originally, Caprica was pitched as a separate series, but has now been scaled back to be a prequel that will focus on the original development of the Cylons.

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