It was a wacky, weird idea and we just kind of liked it. Maybe there's a sense of theology and they believe they're going back towards a form that God had intended. But then someone said, “Well, they could look like people.” CG Cylons were more practical but we couldn’t do a whole show with them. Moore: Very early on we had to ask, “What are we gonna do about the Cylons?” We couldn’t go for any version of guys in suits. I had them write in my contract that if I saw one alien creature I'd be off the show. I told them as long as it doesn’t have any creatures from the black lagoon or four-eyed aliens from outer space then I would be more than willing. But Ron talked about the way that the world would materialise and it was different from anything that had been seen before. After being in Blade Runner, which was such an extraordinary experience, I didn’t really want to touch that world again. We could examine that moment through a science fiction prism.Įdward James Olmos (Commander William Adama): They asked me if I wanted to be a part of it. I was re-living the 9/11 experience and I realised that if we did this now, it would carry all that with it for the audience. Watching the Cylons destroy the colonies at that moment, when the Twin Towers site was still smouldering, I realised this was part of the world I was living in.
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When Universal said they wanted to do another Battlestar, I tracked down the original series pilot, and I was surprised by my reaction.
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Moore (Showrunner): When I was working on Star Trek, I was constantly thinking about darker tales your could tell, a different kind of science fiction war story.