Brad Wright’s Stargate: Continuum finished filming months ago, and the movie is currently in post-production (MGM plans to distribute it on DVD world-wide in the Fall of 2008). There were plenty of interviews conducted during its filming, and Dreamwatch’s Total Sci Fi has recently published one with Amanda Tapping in which she discusses the end of Stargate SG-1, her move to Stargate Atlantis for Season Four, the two SG-1 movies, and her new web-based serial Sanctuary.
Tapping doesn’t talk much about Robert C. Cooper’s Stargate: The Ark of Truth, which is to be released in the Spring of 2008 and ties up the Ori storyline that was started in the show’s ninth season, but she does answer a few questions about filming in the Arctic for Continuum and reveals more of the plot of the story:
What did you find most exciting about playing a different variation of Carter in Continuum?
The story is that we are thrown into this alternate timeline where the Stargate didn’t exist. We have to race against time to prove that we can get it to work and there is a real threat to Earth. They dismiss us entirely and send us off to live our lives away from each other, and we’re not allowed to work in our chosen areas of expertise. We are kind of flying in the wind and they’ve left us there.
We shot this scene two days ago with Beau Bridges where he basically says, “You are on your own and we are going to give you new identities and lives.” That, for me, was probably the most telling scene of the movie. There is that element where we are left to our own devices and we can’t even contact each other. That is pretty scary – to be thrown into a world where you don’t know anybody and can’t even do what you love for a living. All the Arctic stuff, just being on that desolate, barren, we-may-die environment. That O’Neill comes back is a very cool thing. Beau is involved and General Hammond has a little cameo. There are a lot of tender hearty moments.
The “we” in this portion of the story are Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, and Cameron Mitchell, who return to Earth through the Stargate only to find that the timeline has changed after Teal’c and Vala “inexplicably disappear into thin air.”
To read the full interview, visit Dreamwatch’s Total Sci Fi interview Tapping on the Gate, published July 27, 2007 (but the interview took place during the movie’s filming). Reminder: Spoilers for Tapping’s other projects are included in the interview.
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