{"id":1180,"date":"2008-03-10T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:13:40","slug":"christopher-judge-on-the-ark-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/christopher-judge-on-the-ark-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Judge on &quot;The Ark of Truth&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/sg-aot-ms-0029.jpg\" alt=\"Teal\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Stargate<\/em> star Christopher Judge shared his thoughts about Robert C. Cooper&#8217;s <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate:_The_Ark_of_Truth\"><em>Stargate: The Ark of Truth<\/em><\/a> in two recent interviews.<\/p>\n<p>In the first one, an audio interview conducted by Tony Tellado of <a href=\"http:\/\/scifitalk.libsyn.com\/index.php?post_id=315799\">Sci Fi Talk<\/a>, Judge enthuses about how Teal&#8217;c&#8217;s trek was depicted in the movie and how it appears on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Judge also gets into the religious implications of the story, especially concerning blind faith and how Tomin&#8217;s journey depicts that of an every-man&#8217;s. &#8220;When you are accepted into something, I think that human nature is &#8230; the first thing that we do is we&#8217;re so glad that we&#8217;re accepted into something that we <em>do<\/em> follow blindly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge talks about how the production was blind-sided by the cancellation of the show, especially after they had just negotiated two-year contracts to go into Season Eleven. &#8220;That&#8217;s why Season Ten felt so unfinished: because we didn&#8217;t think it was the end; we thought there was going to be a Season Eleven!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back on the ten seasons of <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em>, Judge says his most enjoyable week was shooting the landmark episode &#8220;200&#8221;. He reminisces fondly about the sequences for <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> and <em>Farscape<\/em>. He admits that the addition of Ben Browder, Claudia Black, and Beau Bridges to the show helped the production find new energy. &#8220;Season Nine: it was a new show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge touches a little on the stand-alone nature of Brad Wright&#8217;s <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate:_Continuum\"><em>Stargate: Continuum<\/em><\/a> and how that movie is meant to start the series of stand-alone SG-1 stories.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of <em>Stargate<\/em>, Judge talks about his role in fellow <em>Stargate<\/em> star David Hewlett&#8217;s <em>A Dog&#8217;s Breakfast<\/em>. &#8220;I jumped at the chance to do it.&#8221; And to wrap up the interview, Judge talks about his production company&#8217;s pursuit of his pilot script <em>Rage of Angels<\/em>, and how the Writers Guild of America strike stopped the negotiations with MGM for a while, but after the strike ended, the paperwork was pushed through in three days. &#8220;We&#8217;ll probably shoot it up at Bridge [Studios in Vancouver].&#8221; Besides writing and producing the movie, Judge will also be starring as the angel Gabriel, and fellow <em>Stargate<\/em> star and business partner Michael Shanks will also star as Lucifer.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview (mp3 file) from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/talk\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/scifitalk\/ChristopherJudge08.mp3\">THIS LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"image-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/still1200525790-1.jpg\" alt=\"Teal\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the second interview, conducted by Kevin Carr of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmschoolrejects.com\/interviews\/exclusive-stargates-christopher-judge-talks-about-the-ark-of-truth.php\">Film School Rejects<\/a>, Judge touches on how tight the filming schedule was for Cooper&#8217;s movie. Of course, Cooper pulled off the endeavor, to which Judge comments, &#8220;In true <em>Stargate<\/em> fashion, Brad [Wright] and Rob [Cooper] showed that they are smarter than I am, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re the boss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge talks about his appearance in the Season Four episode &#8220;Midway&#8221; of <em>Stargate Atlantis<\/em> and about his working with Jason Momoa, who plays Ronon Dex: &#8220;I was afraid. Yes, I was. I was scared. That kid is a lot younger than me. That kid is younger, better looking, bigger and faster than I am.&#8221; He laughs.<\/p>\n<p>Carr mentions Judge&#8217;s fears during the filming of the show and movies: from what his hair was going to look like to being attacked by wolverines during the filming of <em>The Ark of Truth<\/em>. Judge says, &#8220;They told me, &#8216;We&#8217;d like to say you&#8217;ll be 100% safe.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;You&#8217;d like to say that, but you can&#8217;t.'&#8221; Judge didn&#8217;t go to the Arctic shoot with <em>Stargate: Continuum<\/em>&#8216;s crew because he was afraid that he&#8217;d be mistaken as a seal by a hungry polar bear.<\/p>\n<p>As far as looking forward to both direct-to-DVD movies, Judge reassures fans, &#8220;Truly from day one was in the grand scheme of things that <em>Stargate<\/em> was ultimately going to go back to the movie format.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full interview, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmschoolrejects.com\/interviews\/exclusive-stargates-christopher-judge-talks-about-the-ark-of-truth.php\">Exclusive: Stargate&#8217;s Christopher Judge Talks About The Ark of Truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stargate star Christopher Judge shared his thoughts about Robert C. Cooper&#8217;s Stargate: The Ark of Truth in two recent interviews. In the first one, an audio interview conducted by Tony Tellado of Sci Fi Talk, Judge enthuses about how Teal&#8217;c&#8217;s trek was depicted in the movie and how it appears on the screen. Judge also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/christopher-judge-on-the-ark-of-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christopher Judge on &quot;The Ark of Truth&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","category-press","category-sg-1","tag-chris-judge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}