Post by Captain Hawke on May 20, 2007 9:41:04 GMT -6
Source: Gateworld.net
STARGATE: CONTINUUM
U.S. RELEASE DATE - Fall 2007
WRITTEN BY - Brad Wright
DIRECTED BY - Martin Wood
STARRING - Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill), Ben Browder (Cameron Mitchell), Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter), Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Christopher Judge (Teal'c), Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran), Cliff Simon (Baal)
After Teal'c and Vala vanish, the team realizes that the timeline has been altered and the Stargate program no longer exists. A fleet of Goa'uld motherships arrives to invade Earth, led by Baal.
****CAUTION!!!! SPOILERS BELOW!! DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!!*******
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NEWS & SPOILERS
(Newest information is added to the bottom)
# MGM has given a green light for the show's creators to produce two direct-to-DVD movies based on SG-1. Executive producer Brad Wright let TV Guide in on the news. The studio is targetting a fall 2007 release for both projects -- just a few months after Stargate SG-1 ends its historic, 10-year run on cable television. It's entirely possible that the movies will also be aired on television -- something SCI FI commonly does with direct-to-DVD movies.
The second film will be written by Wright and will involve time travel.
"They're not big-budget [films] by any definition, but for us it's pretty good," Wright said. "As we've proven over the years, just give us little more money and we can make pretty good television, or DVDs."
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview with TV Guide [story])
# Principal photography for the film will begin around the first of June.
"Brad is writing one, as far as I know, [it] is a bit more stand-alone that will involve some kind of time travel and has something to do with our main mustache twiddling villain Baal [Cliff Simon] doing something in the past that alters ... he basically finds a way to lift the Stargate from Earth so the Stargate Program never happens, and I imagine the characters will have to go through some process to reset the clock and fix everything over the course of two hours.
"Quite frankly that is as much as I know. I haven't even talked to the guys about it. They told us these pitches in September [2006], so I haven't talked to anyone since then so that could've changed overnight. I have no idea."
(Actor Michael Shanks, in an interview with IGN.com)
# "Right now, we know for sure that the main cast of Season Ten will be returning: Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, Chris Judge, Claudia Black, and Amanda Tapping. Beyond that, we are still working on it. I know that Brad's put a call into Richard Dean Anderson ['Jack O'Neill']. ... We're hopeful he'll make an appearance, whether he's in both [movies] or just one. We're not sure yet.
"And we have some surprises we're hoping to pull out of our hats for returning villains and allies that we don't have confirmation on yet."
"The second movie I think is a little more ... it definitely plays on a lot of the characters and brings back maybe favorites for the fans who have been watching the show. But it's also, as a story, what we call a one-off, that hopefully will get people used to the idea of SG-1 movies and hopefully whet people's appetite and make them think, 'Yeah, I want more of these, I want more SG-1 movies' ... that can be about new adventures of the SG-1 crew [and not necessarily tied to the series' long-term story arcs]."
The budget will be bigger than a television episode, Cooper also said, "but it's nowhere near what a feature has. We're going to have to use our magical powers to make these look like they're big movies. They're still TV movie budgets."
(Writer-director Robert C. Cooper, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
# "My movie is a stand-alone. And what I hope to prove is it's the first in a string of movies that can continue the SG-1 legacy. ... I hope it's the first of many 2-hour movies, direct-to-DVD or bigger. I think we can show -- and I hope the audience shows by buying the DVDs! -- that the franchise still has a long way to go.
"In my story, hopefully, we will see a LOT of old faces. It's the nature of my story that we can see a lot of people going back a lot of years, even people who are not still alive in the canon of the story -- because it is a time travel story!"
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
# "While SG-1 attends the execution of Baal, the last of the Goa'uld System Lords, Teal'c and Vala inexplicably disappear into thin air. Carter, Daniel and Mitchell race back to a world where history has been changed: the Stargate program has been erased from the timeline. As they try to convince the authorities what's happened, a fleet of Goa'uld motherships arrives in orbit, led by Baal, his queen, Katesh (Vala), and his first prime, Teal'c. SG-1 must find the Stargate and set things right before the world is enslaved by the Goa'uld."
(MGM press release - January 15, 2007)
# NEW! March 15 - The cast of Stargate SG-1 is headed north to film scenes for the upcoming direct-to-DVD movie Stargate: Continuum in the Arctic. Cast members including Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping will shoot in the sub-zero climate at the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station (APLIS) from March 23 to 29.
Continuum will film a variety of scenes on location in the Arctic, approximately 200 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Read the full story!
# NEW! March 17 - Richard Dean Anderson will appear in the upcoming movie Stargate: Continuum, Playback Daily is reporting and executive producer Brad Wright confirmed to GateWorld.
Anderson will travel with an 18-person crew to the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station in the Arctic to film scenes for the direct-to-DVD movie.
(GateWorld news report)
STARGATE: CONTINUUM
U.S. RELEASE DATE - Fall 2007
WRITTEN BY - Brad Wright
DIRECTED BY - Martin Wood
STARRING - Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill), Ben Browder (Cameron Mitchell), Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter), Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Christopher Judge (Teal'c), Claudia Black (Vala Mal Doran), Cliff Simon (Baal)
After Teal'c and Vala vanish, the team realizes that the timeline has been altered and the Stargate program no longer exists. A fleet of Goa'uld motherships arrives to invade Earth, led by Baal.
****CAUTION!!!! SPOILERS BELOW!! DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!!*******
5
4
3
2
1
Ok, don't say I didn't warn you!!!
NEWS & SPOILERS
(Newest information is added to the bottom)
# MGM has given a green light for the show's creators to produce two direct-to-DVD movies based on SG-1. Executive producer Brad Wright let TV Guide in on the news. The studio is targetting a fall 2007 release for both projects -- just a few months after Stargate SG-1 ends its historic, 10-year run on cable television. It's entirely possible that the movies will also be aired on television -- something SCI FI commonly does with direct-to-DVD movies.
The second film will be written by Wright and will involve time travel.
"They're not big-budget [films] by any definition, but for us it's pretty good," Wright said. "As we've proven over the years, just give us little more money and we can make pretty good television, or DVDs."
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview with TV Guide [story])
# Principal photography for the film will begin around the first of June.
"Brad is writing one, as far as I know, [it] is a bit more stand-alone that will involve some kind of time travel and has something to do with our main mustache twiddling villain Baal [Cliff Simon] doing something in the past that alters ... he basically finds a way to lift the Stargate from Earth so the Stargate Program never happens, and I imagine the characters will have to go through some process to reset the clock and fix everything over the course of two hours.
"Quite frankly that is as much as I know. I haven't even talked to the guys about it. They told us these pitches in September [2006], so I haven't talked to anyone since then so that could've changed overnight. I have no idea."
(Actor Michael Shanks, in an interview with IGN.com)
# "Right now, we know for sure that the main cast of Season Ten will be returning: Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, Chris Judge, Claudia Black, and Amanda Tapping. Beyond that, we are still working on it. I know that Brad's put a call into Richard Dean Anderson ['Jack O'Neill']. ... We're hopeful he'll make an appearance, whether he's in both [movies] or just one. We're not sure yet.
"And we have some surprises we're hoping to pull out of our hats for returning villains and allies that we don't have confirmation on yet."
"The second movie I think is a little more ... it definitely plays on a lot of the characters and brings back maybe favorites for the fans who have been watching the show. But it's also, as a story, what we call a one-off, that hopefully will get people used to the idea of SG-1 movies and hopefully whet people's appetite and make them think, 'Yeah, I want more of these, I want more SG-1 movies' ... that can be about new adventures of the SG-1 crew [and not necessarily tied to the series' long-term story arcs]."
The budget will be bigger than a television episode, Cooper also said, "but it's nowhere near what a feature has. We're going to have to use our magical powers to make these look like they're big movies. They're still TV movie budgets."
(Writer-director Robert C. Cooper, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
# "My movie is a stand-alone. And what I hope to prove is it's the first in a string of movies that can continue the SG-1 legacy. ... I hope it's the first of many 2-hour movies, direct-to-DVD or bigger. I think we can show -- and I hope the audience shows by buying the DVDs! -- that the franchise still has a long way to go.
"In my story, hopefully, we will see a LOT of old faces. It's the nature of my story that we can see a lot of people going back a lot of years, even people who are not still alive in the canon of the story -- because it is a time travel story!"
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
# "While SG-1 attends the execution of Baal, the last of the Goa'uld System Lords, Teal'c and Vala inexplicably disappear into thin air. Carter, Daniel and Mitchell race back to a world where history has been changed: the Stargate program has been erased from the timeline. As they try to convince the authorities what's happened, a fleet of Goa'uld motherships arrives in orbit, led by Baal, his queen, Katesh (Vala), and his first prime, Teal'c. SG-1 must find the Stargate and set things right before the world is enslaved by the Goa'uld."
(MGM press release - January 15, 2007)
# NEW! March 15 - The cast of Stargate SG-1 is headed north to film scenes for the upcoming direct-to-DVD movie Stargate: Continuum in the Arctic. Cast members including Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping will shoot in the sub-zero climate at the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station (APLIS) from March 23 to 29.
Continuum will film a variety of scenes on location in the Arctic, approximately 200 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Read the full story!
# NEW! March 17 - Richard Dean Anderson will appear in the upcoming movie Stargate: Continuum, Playback Daily is reporting and executive producer Brad Wright confirmed to GateWorld.
Anderson will travel with an 18-person crew to the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station in the Arctic to film scenes for the direct-to-DVD movie.
(GateWorld news report)
