31.Mar.07
Posted in News at 6:45 pm by DeeKayP
Launch to coincide with Stargates’ return to Sci Fi
Friday, April 13, MGM will turn on their new official Stargate website at http://stargate.mgm.com/. This website is not replacing the current websites for each of the Stargate shows, but appears to be geared more toward the Stargate franchise as a whole.
Fans visiting the website now are given a form to complete so that they’ll be notified by e-mail when the site has been turned on. Currently, the webpage sports the title “Stargate” with a spotlight shining down on an active Milky Way Stargate (see image above).
MGM still maintains websites for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Visit them at http://stargatesg1.com and http://stargateatlantis.com. (Note: News items at these sites might contain information considered to be spoilers by some.)
The Stargates return to the Sci Fi Channel with a special lead-in at 7pm entitled “Behind the Mythology of Stargate SG-1″. Stargate SG-1’s “The Quest Part 2″ airs at 8pm, followed by Stargate Atlantis’s “The Return Part 2″ at 9pm.
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29.Mar.07
Posted in News at 1:51 pm by DeeKayP
2007 Hugo Awards: Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Stargate SG-1’s landmark episode “200″ has been nominated for a Hugo in the Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form category.
“200″ was written by Brad Wright, Robert C. Cooper, Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, Carl Binder, Martin Gero, and Alan McCullough, and directed by Martin Wood. There are three episodes of Doctor Who (two-parter “Army of Ghosts” and “Doomsday”, “Girl in the Fireplace”, and “School Reunion”) and one episode of Battlestar Galactica (”Downloaded”) competing for the win.
This year’s WorldCon, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society, is being held in Yokohama, Japan, from August 30 through September 3. For more information about this year’s event, please visit the Nippon 2007 homepage. Nominations in the other categories are also provided at this website.
[Thanks to cutecouple for the tip.]
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Posted in News, Press Watch at 6:48 am by DeeKayP
Sci Fi Channel: April 13
SCI FI WIRE has talked with executive producer Joseph Mallozzi about the second half of each of the Stargates, due to return to the Sci Fi Channel on Friday, April 13. This day promises a lot for Stargate fans, as they are also showing a S10 marathon starting at 8am to gear up to the premieres.
First up will be a special, called Behind the Mythology of Stargate at 7pm, then SG-1’s “The Quest Part 2″ at 8pm, and finally SGA’s “The Return Part 2″ at 9pm. Sci Fi Friday also includes the new original program Painkiller Jane at 10pm. There will be repeats starting at 11pm: SciFi.com Schedulebot for April 13.
There will be an SGA S3 marathon the day before the premieres, starting at 8am on April 12: SciFi.com Schedulebot for April 12.
Stargate SG-1
From SG-1: There Be Dragons
By Kathie Huddleston
“Maybe some of them do [survive the dragon], and maybe some of them don’t,” Mallozzi said with a laugh. “Just for argument’s sake, if one of them were to survive—if he or she would reach the Sangraal—they’d be in for a bit of surprise.”
Mallozzi talks a lot about “The Quest Part 2″ and the team’s adventures with Ba’al and Adria. At the end of the interview, he speaks about the show’s cancellation and the two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.
Stargate Atlantis
From Atlantis Will Surprise, Shock:
By Kathie Huddleston
“The Replicator threat mounts over the course of this third season,” Mallozzi said in an interview. “And there’s a powerful palpable loss in one episode in particular that I’m sure will shock the fans.”
Mallozzi speaks about “The Return Part 2″ as the show returns to its Friday timeslot, and then touches on a few of the episodes that will be airing until the show’s season finale, “First Strike”.
Mallozzi and Paul Mullie will be the showrunners for the fourth season of Stargate Atlantis, currently in production and due to premiere in the fall of this year on the Sci Fi Channel.
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Posted in News at 6:07 am by DeeKayP
Michael Shanks is currently filming his four-episode arc on FOX TV hit 24. Although his month-long shooting schedule in Los Angeles prevented him from making the special trip for filming scenes for Stargate: Continuum, Shanks was still able to make his one-day appearance at the Vancouver Creation Con this past weekend. Shanks told his fans that he couldn’t tell much about his role, but only that his character Michael Bishop is a Washington lobbyist who has more to do with the President’s storyline than with Jack Bauer’s.
Curious fans still wanted more, so one has asked TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello in his “Ask Ausiello” feature in which his answers reveal spoilers. Here’s the information he revealed about Shanks’ role in 24:
Question: Do you have any information about Michael Shanks’ upcoming recurring role in 24?— Elizabeth
Ausiello: He’s playing the lover of one of VP Daniel’s key advisors (I’m guessing the Invasion lady) who may have an agenda beyond their courtship. His first airdate is April 23.
Ausiello’s “guess” as to which character Michael Bishop is involved with appears to be Lisa Miller, played by Invasion actor Kari Matchett (she played Dr. Mariel Underlay in that TV series). Miller is VP Daniels’ personal assistant and was introduced in episode 12, “Day 6: 5:00pm – 6:00pm”. According to reports from the Vancouver con, Shanks said that his introductory episode is #18, putting him in at “Day 6: 11:00pm – 12:00am”.
Ausiello announced that Shanks’ first appearance will be April 23. This conflicts with the date previously announced by MSOL (and thus by Solutions), as well as the date currently associated for this episode on the Wiki 24 schedule. Viewers should check their listings to determine why there is this discrepancy. 24 has a regular timeslot on Monday nights at 9pm Eastern on FOX. Viewers in the UK are also getting the current season on Sky One on Sundays at 11pm (their schedule appears to be two weeks behind that of the US).
[Thanks to SueB for the tip.]
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28.Mar.07
Posted in Atlantis at 10:05 am by DeeKayP
Introduction
Season Four of Stargate Atlantis is currently being filmed. The following includes casting spoilers for the fourth episode, “Travelers”, written by Paul Mullie and directed by William Waring.
Details
In the episode “Travelers”, Sheppard is captured by a group of people who live on a ship. At first these people went into space in order to avoid the Wraith, but after several generations, life onboard a ship defines them as a people. They scavenge the galaxy for advanced technology and have found an Ancient battleship similar to an Aurora class. Unfortunately, they don’t have a way to operate the ship because they lack the Ancient gene that Sheppard uses to interface with the technology. The Travelers had heard that there were humans operating the technology of the Ancestors and placed spy satellites near the orbiting Stargates of a few planets hoping to detect a Puddle Jumper coming through. Sheppard was piloting one when he was detected and attacked.
The leader of the Travelers is Larrin. She tells Sheppard about her people and threatens his life in order to get him to reactivate the battleship with his gene in order to perfect an interface adaptor that they are developing.
Casting for Larrin has been difficult, according to comments such as “This Larrin casting will be the death of me” made by Joseph Mallozzi in his personal blog. It is possible that Larrin and other Travelers will have recurring appearances throughout the season, since Mallozzi has hinted that the group could prove to be a technologically advanced ally of which the Atlantis Expedition is in such dire need against the Wraith and Asurans. Mallozzi and director William Waring worked with LA casting agent Paul Weber in the search for the perfect actor among “interesting potential candidates.”
Finally, Mallozzi announced, “The lovely and talented Jill Wagner, formerly of Blade,” has been cast as Larrin (in his March 27 entry).
Jill Wagner played Krista Starr in Blade: The Series, another television series filmed in Vancouver. After graduating from North Carolina State University in 2001, Wagner moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. According to her IMDb profile, Wagner is known as the “Mercury Chick” because of her series of commercials for Lincoln-Mercury automobiles.
Season Four of Stargate Atlantis will be premiering in the fall of 2007. The final ten episodes of Season Three will begin with “The Return Part 2″ on Friday, April 13, at 9pm Eastern, on the Sci Fi Channel.
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Posted in SG-1, Views at 7:46 am by DeeKayP
Introduction
Reuters has released an update on the incredible experiences of the filming crew of Stargate: Continuum, the second direct-to-DVD movie to be released this fall. This article contains spoilers about six scenes being shot in their dangerous location.
Reuters: Stargate Filmmakers Risk Lives…
From Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
“Stargate” filmmakers risk lives in Arctic Circle
By Borys Kit:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – As the submarine slips under the ice, water splashes a cameraman who is lying on the ice’s edge with a submersible camera. Here in the Arctic Circle, the temperature is minus-37 degrees Fahrenheit — the point at which mercury turns solid — and this crew member is in immediate danger of freezing.
Martin Wood, the director of the direct-to-video movie “Stargate: Continuum,” quickly radios for help, and the cameraman is whisked away by helicopter to the base camp. He’s treated and will be OK.
The shoot is taking place as close to the North Pole as possible — at the Navy’s Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station, 3,000 kilometers north of Vancouver and 200 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, the northernmost city in Alaska. A team of about 15 crew and actors arrived Thursday for a seven-day shoot of six scenes for MGM’s $6 million-$7 million extension of the long-running sci-fi series “Stargate.”
The article also mentions the crew’s spotting of polar bears nearby, another one of the risks the crew is taking in order to film exciting and realistic scenes for the movie. Wood also talks about the USS Alexandria, the submarine being used in the film, and how difficult it is for the vessel to break through the ice at the right spot marked by an “X”.
Even though the landscape within the Arctic Circle changes constantly, Wood is enthusiastic about the location because the production crew were convinced that it couldn’t be replicated in a studio or generated with visual effects (although, they are building sets in Vancouver to accommodate Michael Shanks’s scenes; see previous story). “I don’t think it could have been done with the same sort of intensity that you’re going to have by shooting it real,” Wood said. “I don’t think you can capture the right feeling and sound if you tried to re-create it in an unnatural way.”
[Thanks to minigeek for the tip.]
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Posted in News, SG-1 at 6:42 am by DeeKayP
Introduction
The following article contains spoilers concerning the locations and sets for Stargate: Continuum, the second direct-to-DVD movie being produced over the next few months by Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright.
Filming Location: March 23-29
MGM released a news report about the 15-person crew that will be shooting scenes for the movie:
“Stargate: Continuum,” which is being co-financed by MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, will shoot a variety of scenes on location in the Arctic ice, located approximately 200 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In addition to the frigid outdoor environments, the filming will also involve U.S. Navy submarine USS Alexandria (SSN-757). Among the most visually stunning and dramatic scenes to be filmed at the location involves the submarine as it bursts through the ice and into the cold Arctic air with temperatures hovering around 50 degrees below zero.
The crew includes Martin Wood, director; Peter Woeste, director of photography; Richard Dean Anderson, actor (Gen. Jack O’Neill); Ben Browder, actor (Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell); Amanda Tapping, actor (Lt. Col. Samantha Carter), and others. Producer and writer Brad Wright and MGM executive Charles Cohen are also said to be among those spending a few days at the frigid location.
Vancouver Sets Mimic Arctic Location
Concern was raised by fans that Michael Shanks (Dr. Daniel Jackson) was not included in the Arctic crew even though the storyline for the movie indicated that he should have been with the other three. Although Michael Shanks himself was not available for the shoot as he is filming his four-episode arc for FOX TV’s 24, Daniel Jackson will be making appearances in these scenes with the team through the magic of filmmaking. Shanks will film Daniel’s scenes on sets in Vancouver, including those in a refrigerated area and submarine mimicking the locations his fellow castmembers are currently experiencing for real in the Arctic. (This information was reportedly revealed by N. John Smith at the Vancouver Creation Con held this past weekend and has been reiterated by Darren Sumner of Gateworld on the site’s forum.)
This is not the first time that Martin Wood has shot scenes in a cold set environment. His Stargate directorial debut was Season One’s “Solitudes” in which the second Stargate was found in the Antarctic. Wood has also had the honor of directing Season Six’s “Frozen” in which the Ancient woman Ayiana was found frozen in the ice not far from the site where the second Stargate was found, and Season Seven’s “Lost City” in which the team finds the Ancient Outpost in Antarctica with the advanced weapons needed to destroy Anubis’s fleet. These locations speak to Wood’s experience in directing episodes significant to the Antarctic story arc, but the news releases have not given away any plot spoilers as to whether the shoot in the Arctic is substituting for Antarctica.
The closest the team has gotten to the Arctic was in Season Four’s “Watergate” in which they visited the Russian Stargate Program base in Siberia and in Season Six’s “Descent” in which they were attempting to salvage Anubis’s ha’tak that crashed in the North Pacific.
As far as submarines are concerned, the Russian Foxtrot class submarine codenamed “Blackbird” in Season Four’s “Small Victories” was involved in the Replicator story arc. The Stargate crew got to shoot some scenes onboard a real submarine, but eventually built a matching set in which they could more easily accommodate various camera angles and the filming crew. Wood directed this episode as well.
Filming Resumes May 22 in Vancouver
The next time the cast and crew will be filming scenes for Stargate: Continuum will be in May on the 22nd. Previously, it had been announced that filming for the movie would start around June 1, but it’s possible, but not confirmed, that the Arctic shooting opportunity changed the schedule. As a result, Lexa Doig, who plays Dr. Carolyn Lam, cancelled her appearance in the Vulcon: Ladies of Sci-Fi convention to be held May 18-20 in Orlando, Florida, in order to be available for filming.
Between now and the resumption of filming Stargate: Continuum, the cast will be filming the first direct-to-DVD movie, Robert C. Cooper’s Stargate: The Ark of Truth, concluding the Ori story arc. The filming of this movie is scheduled to start around April 15 (SCI FI WIRE’s website once stated April 17 in a sidebar), and will take approximately four weeks.
MGM is aiming to release these two DVD movies in the fall of 2007.
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27.Mar.07
Posted in Articles & Updates, News at 6:37 am by DeeKayP
Congratulations to our Solutions team for completing the transcripts for all episodes of Stargate SG-1 — every single episode from “Children of the Gods” to “Unending” now has a high-quality transcript in our Stargate Wiki!
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26.Mar.07
Posted in News, SG-1 at 2:13 pm by DeeKayP
Browder talks about working with Richard Dean Anderson
Stargate: Continuum, the second of SG-1’s direct-to-DVD movies, is currently filming in a very unique location. Several press releases have talked about this location, but in the interest of those who are trying to avoid spoilers, here’s a fair warning that this article contains them! 
Details
Ben Browder attended the Sci Fi Channel’s Upfront Press Party held on March 21 in New York City as a representative of Stargate SG-1 and the franchise. This was the first year that Sci Fi had actors from their original programming present at the event. Photographer Peter Kramer of Getty Images captured Browder for some individual photographs that show off his non-Air Force length hair.
Browder might need the extra protection of his longer hair style in the cold of the Arctic as he films scenes for Continuum with Richard Dean Anderson (Gen. Jack O’Neill) and Amanda Tapping (Lt. Col. Samantha Carter) from March 23 through March 29. Their camp will call for very close quarters, the sharing of “hooches” with others of the crew, including Anderson himself. Browder said that he’ll be returning with lots of “Rick stories.”
To read more about Browder’s time at the Party and his trip to the Arctic, visit Multichannel News: Dear Ben Browder: Wear Many Layers
[Thanks to ShardsofGlass for the info.]
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Posted in News at 8:31 am by DeeKayP
Michael Shanks talks to fans about his role
MSOL is reporting a few tidbits from Michael Shanks’s appearance on March 25 at the Vancouver Con. Sporting a new haircut for his role as Michael Bishop, Shanks revealed that Bishop is a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and has more to do with the President’s storyline than with Jack Bauer’s.
Shanks is in the midst of filming his four-episode arc, due to debut on April 16 on FOX at 9pm in Episode #18, “Day 6: 11:00pm – 12:00am”. He stated that he’s mostly working with Powers Boothe who plays Vice President Noah Daniels and Peter McNicol who plays Thomas Lennox, President Palmer’s Chief of Staff. Shanks admitted that being in the President’s storyline has its advantages in that encounters with Jack Bauer (played by series star Kiefer Sutherland) are usually fatal. Even though his character Bishop appears not to carry a gun, he still gets involved in a lot of action sequences that have left Shanks with “bruises on my bruises.”
24 is currently filming and airing episodes in their sixth season (called “Day 6″). This Day is approximately nine years and two months following “Day 1″. For more information about the show, visit the official website at FOX Broadcasting Company: 24 or Wiki 24. (Note: There are no spoilers about future episodes on Wiki 24.)
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