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Friday - April 4, 2008
by Darren Sumner
from GateWorld.net
Beware of minor SPOILERS in the report below.
The long-awaited SG-1 movie Stargate: Continuum arrives on DVD in North America on July 29, writer and producer Brad Wright confirmed to GateWorld today. And the film stands head and shoulders above even the biggest episodes of the television series, according to the producer.
"This is the biggest, best thing I think I've ever done for Stargate," Wright said. "I'm very proud of it. You always have some small regret with something that you couldn't pull off. [You say] 'I wish we could have done this, I wish we could have had that.' [But] there are so few regrets with how Continuum turned out that it's not even worth mentioning. Martin [Wood] did such a good job directing it, and we had such a good time on set together."
The trailer for Continuum will make its world premiere Saturday at the official Stargate convention in Vancouver, and should appear online soon thereafter. (Watch GateWorld Play right here on the site! You will see the trailer as soon as we can bring it to you.)
Wright also described the scenario that will bring the Stargate to a ship lodged in the ice in the Arctic.
"The Stargate [was] at its most vulnerable in history -- or at least since it was dug up -- was when it was being transported from Africa to North America at the outbreak of World War II," he said. "So the Stargate is on its way across, Baal is going to sink the ship, [and] somehow an heroic act has to take place to stop the ship from being sunk.
"[And] what if the captain of that boat, by cosmic coincidence, happened to be the grandfather of Mitchell?"
When Baal succeeds in altering the timeline, SG-1 (with their memories intact, since wormhole travel essentially takes them out of space-time during the change) gates back to Earth only to find themselves in the cargo hold of the frozen ship, rather than at Stargate Command.
"And, of course, then there's the 'getting out of it' part -- which is the rest of the movie!" Wright added.
"It was so much fun. And the visual effects are among the best we have ever done. ... Craig, who used to be at Image Engine, his team did the F-16 flying sequences, and they're feature [film] quality. ... It's the big movie I always wanted to make, and it's not a hell of a lot smaller in scope than the one I would have put as a theatrical release. It feels like it could have been a theatrical release in many ways."
Watch for Stargate: Continuum on DVD July 29!
Simon alludes to Goa'uld romance
Friday - March 28, 2008
by David Read
from GateWorld.net
Beware MAJOR SPOILERS for Stargate: Continuum in the report below!
Only broad strokes of the second direct-to-DVD feature, Stargate: Continuum, have been revealed so far, but finer details are still difficult to come by. GateWorld recently sat down with actor Cliff Simon, who plays a substantial role in the movie, to throw a few hints at us.
"What really sticks out with me, what I was really excited to do and I can't wait to see, is the scene between Qetesh and myself, when there's some action," Simon told us. "That really sticks out in my mind, because it was a difficult scene to shoot."
What the actor implies is a very intimate scene between Baal and his queen, Qetesh (in the body of Vala Mal Doran, played by Claudia Black). In the altered timeline Qetesh is Baal's queen -- and this scene above all makes that abundantly clear.
"Cameras were close up on us, there's special effects involved, and a lot of tension, and we're very close," Cliff said. "We're basically nose-to-nose. That was a technically difficult scene to shoot. I'd never done anything like that before. ... The effects of it, what you'll actually see, I know is going to be mind-blowing."
What can be kinds of special effects could exist in this intimate scene? Do the symbiotes themselves get in on the action? One can only speculate.
Either way, Simon is sold. "That's why, when I read the script, I was so excited and couldn't wait to start shooting. You're going to see some things that are pretty mind-boggling, and yeah, a lot of action between the two of us.
"I really can't tell you about it. I'd be giving away the whole thing. That's a really exciting time." Continuum writer, and franchise Executive Producer Brad Wright told GateWorld that the last few frames in of the movie should send fans for a trip.
What will become of Baal? Will he or Qetesh survive once the timeline ultimately resets itself? And what of this love scene being a key element to the film? Does the last frame reveal a Harcesis?
Again, one can only speculate.
Stargate: Continuum is expected to be released on DVD this July.
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