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Update Your Calendars for Stargate Stars

Here’s the list of a week’s worth of upcoming events to add to your calendars concerning our Stargate stars! (This article might be updated if new information is made available after publishing.)

In Theaters:

  • Stargate Universe Trailer – In select US theaters this weekend, August 28-30. Visit MGM’s official website for list.

Conventions and Other Appearances:

Currently Filming:

  • Michael Shanks -In Tasmania, Australia, filming Arctic Blast. Follow him at MSOL.
  • Jewel Staite – In Louisiana, USA, filming Mothman. Follow her on her Twitter.

Make sure to follow what’s happening right now in the world of Stargate by visiting Solutions’ Stargate Twitter Superfeed that shows the Twitter accounts of actors, producers, network and studio reps, and the press who are all about the franchise. You don’t have to have a Twitter account to read the feed.

For an informal summary of what’s happened this past week, please visit our LJ Companion’s Stargate Friday News Roundup.

Got anything to add? Leave us a note in our comment section. Thanks. 🙂

[Thanks to the folks at Stargate Actor Appearances for keeping up with most of the convention/public appearances information used above.]

Stargate Universe Trailer in Theaters

MGM has announced on their Official Stargate Website that Stargate Universe will be on the big screen this weekend in the form of trailers!

If you’ll be going to see Halloween II or The Final Destination 3D this weekend, August 28-30, make sure to be there in time to see the SGU trailer before the movies start!

Visit the MGM website for a list of theaters that will be putting SGU on the big screen.

Stargate Universe premieres on the little screen October 2 at 9 PM (ET/PT) on the Syfy Channel.

Beau Bridges to Guest on “The Closer”

Beau Bridges

TV Guide has announced that Stargate star Beau Bridges will be making a guest appearance on TNT’s hit show The Closer.

Here’s what TV Guide said about the role:

Bridges will play George Andrews, a former partner of Provenza (G.W. Bailey). Andrews returns to help close a case that has been turned over on appeal.

The Closer will be returning with new episodes in December. We’ll have to watch the schedule to see when Bridges’ episode airs.

Stargate Universe Season One

The writers for Stargate Universe have finished their scripts for the remainder of Season One! Now, that’s not to say that there won’t be edits and such, but at least now all twenty of the slots have been filled and all of the episodes have intriguing single-word names!

Check out our Season One guide in the Stargate Wiki (stay away if you’re avoiding any and all spoilers)! For some of the episodes, we know the general plot, but for the most part, the first season of the new show will be a surprise for even the most active spoiler collectors among us.

Filming for the first season is still taking place and won’t be completed until late October. Fans were given a “spy” video of the fourteenth episode, “Human”, as it was filming on location at the University of British Columbia last week, and the producers and directors are already prepping for the next episodes.

Concerning the remaining episodes, consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi wrote in his weblog, “The guest casting on these final three should be a lot of fun.” These final three are “Subversion”, written by Paul Mullie, and “Incursion” parts 1 and 2, written by Mallozzi himself. Could one of those guests be Michael Shanks? MSOL reports from the Chicago Official Stargate Convention, “Michael *may* be filming another episode of Stargate Universe on his return from filming Arctic Blast in Tasmania.” Filming for that movie is starting August 24 and ending sometime in September.

After filming is complete, there are still the post-production processes to be done, such as adding visual effects and a soundtrack. To illustrate how long that takes, it was just announced that the first three episodes (“Air” parts 1, 2, and 3) have been totally finished and that the cast will be given a special private screening in September.

But for the fans, Stargate Universe will have its two-hour world premiere on Friday, October 2, at 9 PM (ET/PT) on the Syfy Channel. Soon thereafter, fans in the UK will be seeing the premiere on Tuesday, October 6, on Sky One, and it’s been bandied about that fans in Australia will be treated to the premiere on their Sci Fi Channel affiliate on Friday, October 9. The date for the Canadian SPACE Channel premiere hasn’t been announced yet.

Update Your Calendars for Stargate Stars

Here’s the list of a week’s worth of upcoming events to add to your calendars concerning our Stargate stars! (This article might be updated if new information is made available after publishing.)

Features:

  • James Spader – Film Shorts opens today, August 21. For more information, visit SCI FI WIRE.

Conventions and Other Appearances:

Make sure to follow what’s happening right now in the world of Stargate by visiting Solutions’ Stargate Twitter Superfeed that shows the Twitter accounts of actors, producers, network and studio reps, and the press who are all about the franchise. You don’t have to have a Twitter account to read the feed.

For an informal summary of what’s happened this past week, please visit our LJ Companion’s Stargate Friday News Roundup.

Got anything to add? Leave us a note in our comment section. Thanks. 🙂

[Thanks to the folks at Stargate Actor Appearances for keeping up with most of the convention/public appearances information used above.]

Sci Fi Wire: Fan Video of SGU on Location

SCI FI WIRE has published a fan video of Stargate Universe star Robert Carlyle and Stargate veteran Michael Shanks as they filmed a scene for Robert C. Cooper’s “Human”, currently scheduled to be the 14th episode of the first season, on the campus of the University of British Columbia.

Fan “Xanderic” not only took a video of the actors in action, but also created a Photobucket album of the August 17 location shoot.

Stargate Universe premieres on the Syfy Channel on Friday, October 2, at 9 PM.

Stargate Universe Premieres Oct. 6 on Sky 1

According to the Glasgow Daily Record, Stargate Universe will be making its UK premiere on Sky One on Tuesday, October 6.

Along with the announcement of the UK premiere, Robert Carlyle was interviewed about his decision to star in a cable television series and to leave Scotland to live in Vancouver for nine months.

“I have not left Scotland,” Carlyle reassures his fellow countrymen. “I am going to go back in November and I don’t start this again until next March so I’ll have a good five months at home. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots. But, to be honest with you, at this point in Britain I’m quite happy not to be there at the moment because economically it’s f***ed.”

Concerning his decision to take the role of Dr. Nicholas Rush, Carlyle says, “It’s been very, very easy for me. Everyone on Stargate Universe has been very welcoming from the beginning and kept me up on the plot and they’ve given me a great platform to express myself and I’m enjoying it.”

Visit the Daily Record for the complete interview.

Stargate Universe is making its two-hour world premiere on the Syfy Channel in the United States at 9 PM on Friday, October 2. It will then take its regular slot at 9 PM on Fridays. Also starting in October, the show will be broadcast by Canada’s SPACE channel.

Update Your Calendars for Stargate Stars

Here’s the list of a week’s worth of upcoming events to add to your calendars concerning our Stargate stars! (This article might be updated if new information is made available after publishing.)

Features:

  • James Spader – Film Shorts opens next Friday, August 21. For more information, visit SCI FI WIRE.

Conventions and Other Appearances:

Make sure to follow what’s happening right now in the world of Stargate by visiting Solutions’ Stargate Twitter Superfeed that shows the Twitter accounts of actors, producers, network and studio reps, and the press who are all about the franchise. You don’t have to have a Twitter account to read the feed.

For an informal summary of what’s happened this past week, please visit our LJ Companion’s Stargate Friday News Roundup.

Got anything to add? Leave us a note in our comment section. Thanks. 🙂

[Thanks to the folks at Stargate Actor Appearances for keeping up with most of the convention/public appearances information used above.]

Robert Carlyle Sets New Standard in Video Ad

In an amazing single shot (one camera, no edits), Stargate Universe star Robert Carlyle gives in just over six minutes the 200-year history of Johnnie Walker and his whiskey. Director Jamie Rafn unveiled Johnnie Walker’s “The Man Who Walked Around the World” last week, and according to Creativity Online, “a new standard may have been set.”

The article gives the history of the development and production of the short film, and the interviewer asked Rafn, “What made you choose Carlyle in the first place and how did he meet/exceed your expectations?”

I literally cannot overstate how brilliant I think Robert is. He was the natural choice for the role. In terms of expectations I think I only had the ones anyone would have had about Robert. He’s our DeNiro. He’s a legend and it did worry me slightly that he might not take the project seriously and might be difficult to direct. Nothing could have been further from the truth. He was incredibly easygoing, charming as hell and incredibly professional. It was really interesting actually. I often wondered what it is that made someone like him as successful as he is. There are of course all the things you’d expect – like the talent etc. But the thing that really struck me was just how hardworking he was. The pressure he put on himself to get it right was amazing. The take we ended up using was the last one of the last day — take 40 at 8 p.m. By the time we finished that take there was this collective euphoria in video city. The light was gone, everyone was shattered and desperate to get to the pub. Robert sidles up to me and asks me if I wanted him to go again.

Rafn also talked with Shots about Carlyle’s performance. He was asked, “What were the key things you wanted to achieve from Robert Carlyle’s performance? What was he like to work with?”

The key thing I was concerned about when we started rehearsing was making sure that the audience remained engaged with the story Robert was going to tell. Six and a half minutes is a very long time to be walking and talking without any cutting. It is also a very long time to be essentially talking about whiskey.

The other thing I was concerned about, having never worked with Robert before, was how he was going to handle the shear technical feat that is shooting a six and a half minute single take. As soon as we started rehearsing however I quickly realized that Robert is an utter genius. Not only was he (as you’d expect) absolutely professional and determined to get it just right, but he also had this abundant natural charisma. He just filled the screen and possessed it. Robert is a natural story teller, and between takes had me utterly rapt with tales from his extraordinary career. I knew as soon as we started shooting, that we were in very safe hands.

The Shots article notes, “[W]hat makes it all the more mesmerising is the fact the whole spot was shot in one take, with Carlyle and the [steady] camera operator [George Richmond] navigating the treacherous countryside.”

Here’s the ad …

Johnnie Walker : Walk from George Nimeh on Vimeo.