In article <ghe104pvubq023ol7adaf5ja3vnjasf8i5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, dimlan17
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says...
> from the hollywood re****ter
>
> 'Virtuality' takes off at Fox
> By Nellie Andreeva
>
> Fox has given the green light to "Virtuality," a two-hour back-door
> pilot from "Battlestar Galactica" mastermind Ronald D. Moore.
>
> The sci-fi project, from Universal Media Studios and producers Gail
> Berman and Lloyd Braun, is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first
> star****p. It revolves around its crew of 12 astronauts on a 10-year
> journey to explore a distant solar system. To help them endure the
> long trip and keep their minds occupied, NASA has equipped the ****p
> with advanced virtual-reality modules, allowing the crew members to
> assume adventurous identities and go to any place they want. The plan
> works flawlessly until a mysterious "bug" is found in the system.
>
> "It's very much about what's fantasy and what's reality; what we do to
> escape our lives and what actually institutes our lives; are these
> things very different," UMS president Katherine Pope said.
>
> "Virtuality" is a brainchild of Braun, who shaped up the idea with
> Berman, his producing partner at BermanBraun.
>
> The two approached several writers, including Moore, who sparked to
> the premise and quickly developed it into what became the concept for
> "Virtuality." He brought in with him "Battlestar" writer-producer
> Michael Taylor. The two penned the script and are exec producing the
> project with Berman and Braun.
>
> Under BermanBraun's first-look deal with NBC Universal, "Virtuality"
> was pitched to UMS and NBC. UMS, which produces "Battlestar," quickly
> came on board. After NBC passed on the project, considered to be too
> sci-fi for the network, it was taken to Fox.
>
> "For all the times we've read that a project has a ?unique point of
> view,' it rarely applies," Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly
> said. "This time it does ... in spades."
>
> The project, slated to begin production in July, reunites Berman with
> Fox, where she was entertainment president from 2001-05.
>
> In Fox and UMS, "we are confident that ?Virtuality' is in the right
> hands," Berman and Braun said.
Canceled in three. We got a pool running for this one yet?
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