Stargate star Michael Shanks is filming a new movie in his hometown of Kamloops, British Columbia. Shanks’s Official Website (MSOL) has details about the movie, Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon, which is said to be “in the spirit of Indiana Jones.” And guess what? Shanks plays an archaeologist!
According to MSOL, Shanks will be co-starring with Shannen Doherty, who plays Sarah Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading an expedition into the Grand Canyon. His team has disappeared, and she “assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.” Her father and his “team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a ‘great flying serpent of death.'”
The movie is being produced for the Sci Fi Channel and is one of four movies in the Starz Fantasy Adventure Collection. To read more about the movie and its production, visit Michael Shanks Online: Movie News.
Shanks’s other TV movie that he filmed after the two Stargate direct-to-video movies, Living Out Loud, will be making its debut sometime around Mother’s Day 2009 on the Hallmark Channel.