So Say We All by Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross

Author:Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

RONALD D. MOORE

The big thing that came up between David, Breck Eisner, and me in the development of the miniseries was, “What do you do about the Cylons?” We were struggling with it. There was a restaurant that’s no longer there called Chinois Hollywood, that we were having lunch in. Long working lunch trying to figure out the Cylons. The assumption at the beginning was that they should be like the original Cylons, guys in suits. Then we started talking in practical terms, because in today’s environment the audience expectation of a guy in a suit was different than what it was in 1978. It couldn’t just be silver suits. They were going to have to be more elaborate. They were going to have to be really cool and specialized to have all this stuff, and we kind of quickly came to the conclusion that, “Shit, how many of those things are we going to really be able to afford to make? Maybe one or two, and how’s that going to work? We can’t have just one or two Cylon suits that we’re going to have to do, like, an entire series of. That’s not going to be practical. Okay, what are the CGI possibilities?”

The Cylons and their technology proved to be the greatest challenge for the design team. In a significant departure from the original, it was decided early on that the Cylon hardware should reflect an organic aesthetic. Eric Chu’s design for the basestar, for example, was inspired initially by images of seedpods and insects as viewed under an electron microscope. And then there was the Cylon Raider, which, more than any other vessel, was a combination of numerous elements that the director, producers, and network executives all wanted to see. Overall, producers wanted to maintain the signature oval shape of the original, but updated with the organic quality utilized in the basestar.

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