“Blood & Chrome is loaded with new characters, but I’d say the most compelling and unusual is the woman with whom Adama connects most deeply in the pilot—Beka Kelly, an enigmatic, seemingly impenetrable software genius who gives Adama a run for his money in more ways than one,” Eick said ”She’s definitely in the tradition of BSG’s andCaprica’s uniquely strong, remarkable female characters and will be a huge casting opportunity for someone out there, whom we look forward to discovering.”
How close will the show follow the mythology ofCaprica, the prequel, and BSG?
“It will definitely be informed by the history, as established in Caprica, and the future, as established in BSG—and, yet, neither of those things should matter,” he said ” The goal with Blood & Chrome is to appeal to our fan base, of course, but it’s primarily to reach out to new fans who do not have, and will not require, any allegiance to either previous show.
“The show takes place when William Adama, the character played by Edward James Olmos in BSG, is in his 20s, fresh out of cadet school, on the precipice of experiencing his first taste of combat. The era—in our mythology–is the threatening, treacherous period known as the First Cylon War, which fans of Battlestar Galactica may remember took place over 40 years before the events of BSG,” he said.
When asked if the franchise’s history will be restrictive when writing for the new show, Eick said, “I’m not sure it’s true that our past history is confining—just because we might meet someone in Blood & Chrome whom we don’t recognize as a younger version of someone from the realm of Battlestar Galactica doesn’t mean that character necessarily died. Alternatively, we may meet the ancestors of characters we’ve come to know in BSG, which can be Easter eggs for the BSG faithful without being a distraction to new viewers of Blood & Chrome who may not be familiar with BSG.”
How did the show come to be called Blood & Chrome?
“Michael Taylor, one of my partners on the cracking of this story and the writer of the teleplay, gets full credit for the title. We’d been calling it “the ‘Young Adama’ project,’ and then one day the script shows up with that wild and provocative title,” noted Eick.
Source: ScifiPulse
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