News, spoilers and updates in the Stargate world
Fangoria has announced that Splice, a movie in which Stargate star David Hewlett appears, will be ready for its release to theaters on June 4. The film was shown at this year’s Sitges and Sundance film festivals, and according to director Vincenzo Natali in his interview with the magazine, it needed to go through some … Continue reading “David Hewlett Movie 'Splice' Releases June 4”
“I’m a Genius” is the title of an interview that Stargate star David Hewlett had with the French fansite “David Hewlett – FR”. It’s a special day in France as today (July 1) is the release day for Hewlett’s A Dog’s Breakfast! The lengthy interview covers nearly all aspects of Hewlett’s “genius”-ness in the world … Continue reading “David Hewlett Interview: "I'm a Genius"”
Based upon his twittered tidbits, David Hewlett has a new development deal with MGM to write and star in a feature-length TV pilot that can also stand alone as a Sci Fi (SyFy? not sure) movie. From his tweets, it appears David has only to sign the contract for it to be in place. He … Continue reading “David Hewlett to Write, Star in New TV Movie”
David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay) guest stars in an episode of TNT’s The Closer on Monday, June 29, 9 pm/8 pm Central. Here is a preview scene of the episode, featuring David as a visiting FBI agent: If you miss the episode, you can watch it on-line after it airs, at TNT.tv.
In response to a question posed to a SyFy representative on Twitter, David Hewlett has revealed he is taking back the rights to his sci fi comedy concept, Starcrossed. David declared (see his Twitter page): SyFy tells me that they’re going to give the Starcrossed rights back to us…once paperwork clears we shoot it! A … Continue reading “David Hewlett Retakes Control of “Starcrossed””
Stargate Atlantis star David Hewlett was interviewed by io9 concerning the end of his show’s run as a weekly engagement on Friday nights on the Sci Fi Channel. The actors finished shooting a few months ago, but there still are two episodes to be aired before the show is actually “done”. Episodes “Vegas” and “Enemy … Continue reading “io9: David Hewlett Wants to Look Forward”
Mark Wilson has published a lengthy interview with Stargate Atlantis star David Hewlett in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section of About.com. Hewlett discusses several aspects about his role as the “absolute arrogant jerk” Dr. Rodney McKay and states at the start of the five-page interview, “And my biggest concern was that they were going to soften him … Continue reading “About.com Interviews David Hewlett”
Having written, directed, and starred in his own movie, Stargate Atlantis’ David Hewlett (Rodney McKay) is continuing his do-it-yourself theme as he and his partner Jane set out to market and even distribute the film: A Dog’s Breakfast. David has coded his own website (using the Joomla CMS, for geeks who want to know), including … Continue reading “David Hewlett's Do-It-Yourself Movie”
David Hewlett announced via email to David-Hewlett.co.uk that a clip from his newly finished movie “A Dog’s Breakfast” is up at YouTube.com. You can view it here. This is the same clip that he showed at Comic Con to much laughter. It features Paul McGillion, Rachel Luttrell, David, his sister Kate, and of course his … Continue reading “Watch Clip From David Hewlett's Movie”
Gateworld reports here that Kate Hewlett, David’s sister and a professional actress, will play McKay’s sister in the Atlantis Season 3 episode “McKay and Mrs. Miller”. This is welcome news to Rodney/David fans and a great pay-off to David requesting in a Season 1 script that a reference to McKay having a brother be changed … Continue reading “David Hewlett's Sister to Guest on SGA”