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Phaeton Crew Coming Together In Virtuality
Resident scifi hottie Clea DuVall has joined the cast of Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald D. Moore's new show Virtuality, about a crew in deep space who get hooked on virtual reality. DuVall will play the starship Phaeton's co-pilot and engineer. Also actor Jose Pablo Cantillo and Erik Jensen have been added to the crew. Cantillo will play the ship's mathematician and Jensen is cast as the navigator. DuVall gives great "troubled angry girl," so it'll be exciting to see how Moore uses her in his tale of the Earth's first starship on a 10 year mission to explore unknown space. [Hollywood Reporter]
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Immortal Detective Cast As Commander In Moore's Virtuality
New Amsterdam's star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is taking the lead as Mission Commander on Ron Moore's Virtuality, about astronauts on a long-haul space voyage who rely on virtual reality to preserve their sanity. Coster-Waldau will play Frank Pike, the intrepid captain of the ship who has to deal with nightmare glitches in the ship's V.R.. More spoilery details about this character's sordid life after the jump. More »
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"Technology is Another Version of Communism or Aliens or a Large Praying Mantis"
Does science fiction appeal mainly to audiences who are ignorant about how technology works? That seems to be the message from creators of some of TV's most innovative science fiction, who talked to Variety about why viewers are hot for tech-centric shows. Some of last seasons's best new shows were about technology run amok (Chuck, Sarah Connor Chronicles); next season's Battlestar spinoff Caprica, plus JJ Abrams' Fringe and Ron Moore's Virtuality promise more. Though scifi has historically been deemed the purview of techie geeks, creators from many of these shows agreed that people are fascinated by them because they find technology (and especially computers) terrifyingly incomprehensible. More »
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Virtuality Casts Its Vilest Character: A Reality TV Show Producer
Ronald D. Moore has cast the most complex character from his new backdoor pilot Virtuality. James D'Arcy will play Roger Fallon, who has a weird double role, and a major conflict of interest, aboard the starship Phaeton. He's the mashup of Gaius Baltar and the Cylon Brother Cavil whose twisted manipulations you'll be talking about for days afterwards. More »
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Gorgeous City Of Ember Pics, Plus An Awesomely Ugly Tekken Photo
This morning, we're celebrating the return of our previously dead mascot, The Spoiler — a superhero whose only superpower is spoiling other people's plots. She revealed her true identity in yesterday's Robin #174, and we won't give it away here. But yay. To celebrate, we're posting another batch of spoilers from Ron Moore's new virtual-reality-addicted astronauts program Virtuality — including the pilot's big twist ending. Plus there are new photos from City Of Ember and the new Tekken movie. Also, minor spoilers for Get Smart and X-Files 2. And a few tidbits about Doctor Who and Stargate Atlantis, plus some Heroes rumors. We'll keep spreading spoilers in The Spoiler's glorious name. More »
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Exclusive: First Details Of Ron Moore's New Show Virtuality
When we first heard Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore was doing a show about a deep-space long-haul crew who lose themselves in virtual reality entertainments, our first thought was, "Oh great, a whole show of Star Trek holodeck episodes." But Moore's new Fox pilot, Virtuality, is a lot more multi-layered and twisted than that, judging from the tons of script pages that have turned up. The pages are "casting sides," for actors auditioning for roles in the series, but they appear to be taken from the actual pilot script. Details, with spoilers, after the jump. More »
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Fox Will Be Home Of Paranoia And Virtual Unreality Next Spring
Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams' X-Files-esque show Fringe and Joss Whedon's amnesiac-puppets-in-dystopia show Dollhouse for January 2009. And now Fox is taking more of an interest in Ron Moore's new astronauts-in-virtual-reality-show Virtuality, based on the reports that Peter Berg (Hancock, Dune) may direct the pilot and produce the show. Click through for more details on Virtuality and Fringe. More »
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Give BSG's Ron Moore Some Career Advice
Battlestar Galactica supremo Ron Moore could be the busiest science fiction producer in Hollywood, if all of his post-BSG projects come to fruition. He's writing at least three big movie projects, one of which is a trilogy. And he has three TV movies in development, including two which are definitely appearing — and any one of those could be picked up as ongoing series. Hollywood being what it is, some of Moore's projects will probably vanish into the murk of development. Which of Moore's pending masterpieces do you hope actually succeed? More »
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