MGM’s Official Stargate website has posted another new video clip featuring the episode “Vegas”. In this edition, writer and director Robert C. Cooper talks about presenting an alternate reality story that featured a different John Sheppard than what we’ve seen over the past five years.
“Because it’s an alternate reality,” Cooper explained, “he doesn’t have to be quite as much a shining hero. He’s got more flaws and he can make some darker choices.”
Visit MGM: “Vegas” for Cooper’s insights about his last Stargate Atlantis television story.
Producer and writer Joseph Mallozzi has turned over his weblog to Amanda Tapping so that she could answer several pages’ worth of fan questions submitted by Mallozzi’s readers not too long ago. Tapping covered a lot of ground, including Stargate, Sanctuary, parenting, women in film, and on being a role model. Visit Amanda Tapping Answers Your Questions for a great read!
Michael Shanks Online, the official website for the Stargate star, has announced that Shanks has landed a recurring role in a new CBS show called The Eastmans.
The actor himself reported the news of his casting: “Have been cast in a CBS pilot called The Eastmans, as a recurring character. The show stars Donald Sutherland, Jacqueline Bisset and Saffron Burrows. I play a paramedic named Jack O’Brien, who is having an affair with Jacqueline Bisset’s character. The pilot is being produced by Warner Bros TV.”
The news of Donald Sutherland’s casting came from The Hollywood Reporter, which explained a bit more about the show and Sutherland’s character: “WBTV’s “Eastmans” revolves around a dysfunctional family of doctors. Sutherland will play the rogue and wealthy patriarch, a distinguished cardiologist.”
Here’s hoping that The Eastmans gets picked up! Congratulations, Mr. Shanks!
The first direct-to-video movie produced after the cancellation of Stargate SG-1, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, will be making its US television debut tonight on the Sci Fi Channel at 9 PM.
Meant to wrap up the Ori story arc that was begun during Season Nine, this movie sees SG-1’s taking the Odyssey to the Ori’s home galaxy to locate a piece of Ancient technology, the Ark of Truth, that is believed to be able to stop the advance of the Ori’s destructive and deadly army. Having no confidence that SG-1’s mission will succeed, the IOA develops a dangerous plan of their own.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth was written and directed by Robert C. Cooper and stars the Season Ten cast. The Sci Fi Channel has also promised a sneak peek into the franchise’s upcoming television series, Stargate Universe, which is making its debut in the fall on their newly-renamed Syfy Channel.
Todd the Wraith in “Vegas”, played by Christopher Heyerdahl (image from MGM)
MGM has added a new video featuring Todd the Wraith in “Vegas”. Hosted by producer/writer/director Robert C. Cooper, the feature discusses the difficulties that actors experience portraying aliens. Actor Christopher Heyerdahl was praised for bringing a convincing Wraith to life, and in this particular episode, a crazy one at that.
Michael Ausiello at EW has given us a photo of the cast of Stargate Universe, but he wasn’t bothered with labeling who’s who. Instead, he told us to pass the picture around and label it on our own. (He said, “Study it. Discuss it. Share it with friends. And then try connect the names with the faces, ’cause I don’t have the time to do that whole left-right-front row-back row thing.”)
So, here it is:
Back Row. Left to Right: Ming-Na (Camille Wray), Justin Louis (Col. Everett Young), Jamil Walker Smith (Sgt. Ronald Greer), Brian J. Smith (Lt. Matthew Scott), Lou Diamond Phillips (Col. Telford)
Middle: Alaina Huffman (MSGT Tamara Johansen), David Blue (Eli Wallace), Elyse Levesque (Chloe Armstrong)
Here’s a gentle reminder that the first promotional teaser for Stargate Universe happens tonight on the Sci Fi Channel during the series finale of Battlestar Galactica, which begins airing at 9 PM!
Consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi said in his weblog, “Just received confirmation that this Friday night, during the series finale of BSG, viewers will be treated to the sneakiest of sneak previews of Stargate: Universe. It’s a great-looking promo so, if you happen to be in the neighborhood, check it out.”
The Sci Fi Channel has been advertising that a sneak peek will also be shown during their broadcast of Stargate: The Ark of Truth on the 27th at 9 PM and of Stargate: Continuum on April 3 at 9 PM.
Check them out and get a glimpse of the ship, the crew, and the show!
Stargate Universe Creative Consultant John Scalzi has been nominated in several categories this year in the Hugo Awards. Consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi announced the nominations in his weblog:
Blog favorite and Stargate: Universe Consultant John Scalzi earned three nods: Best Novel for Zoe’s Tale, Best Related Book for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008, and Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form for METAtropolis.
The awards will be given at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, Montréal, Québec, Thursday, 6 August. through Monday, 10 August, 2009.
For more information about the Hugo Awards, visit their official website.
Start from the beginning of Stargate Command as they put together their first teams to explore the galaxy through the Stargate. Certainly, they needed to find advanced technology, but they also needed to form alliances with other races who could help them free the billions of slaves—of many species—who were at the mercy of the powerful Goa’uld System Lords.
HULU (US only) now has the first season of Stargate SG-1 so you can catch the story of how Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, Captain Samantha Carter, and the Jaffa warrior Teal’c became the legendary SG-1 under the command of Major General George Hammond.
