Popular actor Michael Ironside was cast to play in Season Nine’s upcoming episode, “Crusade”, written, directed, and produced by Robert C. Cooper.
Ironside has been in a huge number of projects, some of the most popular playing against Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, as Ham Tyler in the sci-fi series V, and as Darryl Revok in Scanners. One of his more recent television appearances was in the recurring role of General Sam Lane in Smallville in 2004.
Ironside will be seen in Season Nine’s penultimate episode portraying the character Seevis, a local barkeep in the village to which Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black) was transported in the episode “Beachhead”. This village is on a planet in the Ori’s home galaxy, and the people are simple villagers who are taking part in the Ori’s plan to build and man spaceships destined for a massive invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy. Seevis is a powerful man who runs the village, but is also the leader of an anti-Ori movement which aims to destroy these ships, with their armies onboard, before they ever leave the galaxy. Vala believes his plan to cause the ships to explode upon activation by the Priors will work, but is taken aback by his attitude that eliminating the worshippers is the way to end the Ori’s oppression. Seevis tests Vala’s position through torture, but eventually takes her into his trust. He shows her the Ancient communications terminal which helps her contact the SGC through Daniel’s body.
“Crusade” was before the cameras in the last part of September and is currently in post-production. It will be aired in March 2006.