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'Virtuality' takes off at Fox
By Nellie Andreeva
April 11, 2008
from: The Hollywood Reporter
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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 starship. 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 ship 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.
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