Here’s the first trailer for Caprica, the prequel-of-sorts to Battlestar Galactica. Set 51 years before the Cylons rose up against their human masters and eventually blitzed humankind, Caprica looks set to be a gritty, sexy sci-fi soap that’s every bit as issue-baiting as creator Ronald D. Moore’s previous work.
The cast includes Esai Morales as Joseph Adama (father of Battlestar’s William Adama, who appears in Caprica as a young boy) and Eric Stoltz as computer genius Daniel Graystone, who meet when their daughters are killed in a terrorist bombing
Graystone decides to bring the dead girls back as robots – and voila, the first ever Cylons! “We’re going to watch them create this race,” Moore told Sci-Fi Wire, “and then wrestle with the ramifications of it. They’re not even going to realise what they’ve created at first.”
The two-hour film will air on Sky One later this year and hopes are high it will be turned into a full series in 2009.
