Stargate Continuum Continues SG-1 Tradition
Stargate SG-1 has been one of the most successful sci-fi TV shows ever made, and in addition to its ten regularly aired seasons, the production crew has created two direct-to-DVD movies. The latest, Stargate Continuum, is to be released late July of this year.
Speaking to Sci Fi Wire, writer and executive producer of Continuum Brad Wright said that making a feature film is a lot different than making a series episode. "We've done so many two-parters, you'd think it would be easy to just make it longer," said Wright.
But "it's much more fun in some ways to do a movie, because the story can evolve the way it's supposed to. It doesn't have to owe anything to the episode before or the episode after. That was the fun part, to actually write a movie and not just a long episode."
Being a movie, Stargate Continuum allowed Wright a lot more time with his characters, and he used that to its fullest. "[There] are things that I could type in an episode of television, but would be the first things to go once I got in the concept meeting because I just wouldn't have the schedule for it," he said. "That's time-eating material. You have to move a whole unit to a location and shoot what is ultimately three seconds or five seconds of film."
The movie also boasts the return of fan favorite Richard Dean Anderson as the beloved Jack O’Neil, as well as Don S. Davis and a favorite villain Ba’al, played by Cliff Simon. The plot summary sees Teal'c and Vala vanish leaving the team to realize that the timeline has been altered and the Stargate program no longer exists. A fleet of Goa'uld motherships then arrives to invade Earth, led by Baal. Mitchell (Ben Browder), Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Jackson (Michael Shanks) then must head back in time to restore their timeline.
The direct-to-DVD movie is released on the 29th of July 2008 in the US.
Joshua S. Hill
5/15/2008
Source:
Sci Fi Wire
