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Producer David Eick on Galactica Third Season and Possible Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 15:44, 11 May 2006 / General Genre/SciFi

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iFMagazine just posted a new interview with Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick, in which he reveals spoilers for the upcominh third season of the show and talks about the possibility of a Galactica movie. Here are few excerpts.

iF:  What stories are you really excited about for season three?

EICK: I can't give spoilers. [Laughs]  I'm excited about the fact that we will be exploring the interior of a Cylon basestar, and that will include the introduction of the new type of Cylon.  I'm excited about the fact that we're going to have Lucy [Lawless] back.  I think it's going to be exciting for the fans to watch the opening trilogy of episodes, because we're really falling into the rubric of something for everybody.  There will be great philosophical crisis talking place with Baltar [James Callis].  There's a round-up taking place of human beings becoming a police force, or a Gestapo, for the occupying Cylons.  Then there's an attempt at an escape that will be like The Great Escape, and be a dynamic action episode.  There's a lot of really rich stuff for the opening three.  Beyond that point everything is embryonic, and still in development. 

The script that I'm writing right now, has to do with a revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Adama was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the attack, and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing it's head.  An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant.  The fun is always in dealing with the humanity of these characters.  They're heroes, but we are always discovering their feet of clay.  For reasons both personal and practical they have to carry on as leaders and role models in their world.  The script is called Hero, because it's necessary to keep functioning.

iF:  Have you talked about taking Battlestar to the big screen?

EICK: We've talked about, but it just becomes an issue of time.  I don't think we've had the wherewithal to pull over to the side of the road, and take a story idea that we were considering for the premiere of a season and use it instead as the idea for a movie.  We locked editorial picture on episode twenty of season two, about a week before it aired, because it was such a long episode and there were extra logistical concerns airing an episode that was over an hour long.  We had to prepare another version of it that was only an hour long, and it was a real marathon. 

We don't really have a big enough writing staff either.  Our writing staff on Galactica has been a little lean.  As far as other major network shows, they have about three or four more warm bodies than we have.  Lots of these shows have many series consultants that are producers, and can roll out of bed and get you a draft you can go right into prep with.  We tend to go with younger writers who have more spirit.  They might take a little bit longer to get there, but I feel we have a more passionate piece of work at the end. 

Here we are already, with drafts for the first three scripts for season three, and I don't know where a pocket of downtime to make a movie would be.  You never know, maybe we'll figure out a way to do it.

The full interview can be found here.






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By: perhaps (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:44:25 on May 16, 2006

is just having seen season 2s finale ..holy frakkin moly I can't wait for season 3


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By: perhaps (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:44:11 on May 16, 2006

is just having seen season 2s finale ..holy frakkin moly I can't wait for season 3


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By: Cymro (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:36:26 on May 14, 2006

First Comment!

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Dig deep piles of rubble and ruins
Towering overhead both far and wide
There's unknown tools for World War III
Einstein said 'We'll use rocks on the other side'

No survivors!


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