{"id":13854,"date":"2011-10-03T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=13854"},"modified":"2011-10-03T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:52:11","slug":"joe-flanigan-cast-in-european-scifi-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/joe-flanigan-cast-in-european-scifi-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Flanigan Cast in European SciFi Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/412186580.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13855\" title=\"412186580\" src=\"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/412186580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/412186580.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/412186580-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Joe Flanigan announced at a convention in the UK this weekend that he&#8217;s taken a role in a new scifi series called the <em>Metal Hurlant Chronicles.<\/em> He said (according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/FlanInfo\">@FlanInfo<\/a> Twitter report) that he&#8217;ll be filming in November, after he goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoglio-events.com\/halfway\/index.php\">Marseille Halfway Convention<\/a>. He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s cool, like Blade Runner, but more bad guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em> has published two articles about the project so far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118031732\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118043751\">here<\/a>. The first describes the show as being based on the 1980&#8217;s French graphic novel series that was called <em>Heavy Metal<\/em> in the US. The live-action series is a multi-national Euopean production that&#8217;s been sold as a TV series to more than 20 territories, although not yet to the US. Distribution in the US is still under negotiation. There is a plan to produce two seasons of 12 episodes each.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode will be shot in English and French. Perhaps Joe&#8217;s ability to speak French (to some degree!) helped him get the role!<\/p>\n<p>The second article announces early casting decisions, naming Joe as &#8220;starring&#8221; in the show. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118031732\">the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CANNES &#8212; Scott Adkins (&#8220;The Expendables 2&#8221;) and Michael Jai White (&#8220;Black Dynamite&#8221;) have joined the international cast of sci-fi TV series &#8220;Metal Hurlant Chronicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rutger Hauer (&#8220;Blade Runner&#8221;), Joe Flanigan (&#8220;Stargate Atlantis) and James Marsters (&#8220;Buffy&#8221;) will also star in the TV show&#8217;s first season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if Joe will be a regular or a guest star in one or more episodes. At the convention he only mentioned filming during the month of November (in Belgium), and in the past he&#8217;s said he doesn&#8217;t want to work far from his home in Malibu for long periods.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Joe tweeted the attached picture late last week, showing the stenciled tattoos he wore for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1975249\/\"><em>Six Bullets<\/em><\/a>, which he just finished filming in Romania. By the way, IMDB shows the name of that movie has changed to <em>The Butcher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FlanInfo\">@FlanInfo<\/a> for gathering all the <em>Metal Hurlant<\/em> information from the convention and the &#8216;net!<\/p>\n<p>Metal Hurlant has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=164114859161&amp;v=info\">FaceBook<\/a> page, in French. So far no mention of Joe that we can see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Flanigan announced at a convention in the UK this weekend that he&#8217;s taken a role in a new scifi series called the Metal Hurlant Chronicles. He said (according to a @FlanInfo Twitter report) that he&#8217;ll be filming in November, after he goes to the Marseille Halfway Convention. He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s cool, like Blade Runner, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/joe-flanigan-cast-in-european-scifi-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joe Flanigan Cast in European SciFi Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-13854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-joe-flanigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13854\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}