Stargate SG-1 star Michael Shanks told SCI FI Wire that he’s just wrapped production on an upcoming SCI FI original picture entitled Swarmed. “It’s not a bee [movie],” Shanks said in an interview. “No, it’s a wasp movie.”
Shanks plays a scientist in Swarmed. “It’s one of those sort of campy little throwbacks to the ’60s period of SF movies,” he said. “It’s kind of like The Swarm, where there’s this cloud of genetically altered wasps, rather than bees, that descends on this small town in Indiana.”
Shanks added, “It was a fun project to do. I always go into those things and hope the people involved actually get the fact that this isn’t supposed to be life and death, and that the important task is to have as much fun as possible and to maybe give a wink now and then to the audience and let them know that we know that we’re not putting men on the moon in this particular two hours of television.”
Swarmed, which co-stars Carol Alt and Ellen Dubin, will air sometime in 2005.