Lots of chat about possible casting in both SFX and Digital Spy for this new crew of "One Innocent and Six Criminals" the showrunners have released. Obviously mainly about Avon, who I suspect given his unavoidably English anti-hero persona will get the Damian Lewis - Andrew Lincoln - Johnny Lee Miller second-level-brit-actor-in-usa-tv-show-to-give-it-gravitas position. But they won't want him to overshadow whoever they pick to play Blake, who is going to have to a rather tougher character to justify the show being about him. The original show was "Avon's 7" very early on in the piece.
Perhaps the rest of the casting will have the BSG formula of altering race and gender, and note they also have to find an extra character from the beginning to properly make up the 7 who escape en-oute to a penal colony - they are keeping the start of the story the same evidently. Zen could appear as a Bishop style Android perhaps, or an early entrace for Tarrant or more possibly Deyna.
And there is also Servalan to consider as it is unimaginable such an iconic female character should be missing from this reboot, but Morena Baccarin has just essentially played a rather similar looking character in V, so they might have to go in a slightly different direction from Jacqueline Pearce's unforgettable creation. But I hope they don't.
Above all, the show must be kept gritty and dark, but without the seeming self importance that has always put me off BSG. Do we have to ram Post 9:11 and Iraq slash Afghanistan metaphors into everything?
Let the story tell itself, without signposting "ALLEGORY! ALLEGORY! ALLEGORY!" over every damn thing.
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