In November, SciFi will bring us the final chapter from the Ron Moore “Battlestar Galactica” universe with the two-hour movie, “The Plan.” The movie is set during the first and second season of the series and be told from the persepctive of two Cylons–Anders played by Michael Trucco and Cavil played by Dean Stockwell.
“The thrust of it is what happened before season two, when suddenly on this planet, Caprica, Starbuck finds this guy Anders and his band of resistance fighters, former teammates of the Caprica Buccaneers,” Trucco recently told SciFi Wire. “Then, later in the season, we find this mysterious Brother Cavil, and this movie is going to answer questions [about] the moments before that, where we came from and how we came to get integrated into the story.”
“It’s going to weave its way in through storylines that we’ve already seen, [and] it’s going to make you want to go back and go, “Oh! I want to watch that episode in season two again. Wait, Cavil was standing there the whole time?” We’re going to use footage from stuff that’s already been shot, but then they’ll integrate it with a shot that will tie in [the fact] that Cavil was just around the corner hiding behind a tree in the forest, long before we even met him,” added Trucco.
As for the future of the series, Trucco said he’s very interested in where Ron Moore and company will take the universe with the upcoming prequel series, “Caprica.” He also hinted that there could be an opportunity for his character to cameo on the show.
“I mean, because it’s possible, right?” Trucco said “The Cylons, once we saw them in ‘Battlestar’, we realized, ‘Oh, they’ve been around for a long time.’ So it’s certainly possible, and it would be kind of cool.”
“I don’t know if they would ever do it, like, as just a cameo,” he speculated. “Like maybe a walk-by in the background—’Wait, wasn’t that … ?’ But, no, no discussions. Nothing has been discussed in terms of if we want to bring some of the Cylons from ‘Battlestar’ back into ‘Caprica’. But who knows? The show still has yet to be aired and take off, and if they decide that’s a storyline then we’ll do it.”
