The upcoming straight-to-DVD movie Stargate: Continuum, based on SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate SG-1, gave producers a chance to wreak havoc on a main character to serve the exigencies of the film’s location shooting. (Major spoilers ahead!)

Writer and executive producer Brad Wright told SCI FI Wire that the script called for Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) to lose a leg–but not simply to serve the writer’s whim.

Rather, Jackson had to become disabled to meet the needs of the production, which shot several scenes in the Arctic when Shanks was unavailable.

“I had to finish the Arctic scenes first, before we started to shoot [Stargate: The] Ark of Truth,” Wright said in an interview in Vancouver, Canada, last week. “It was kind of weird. We shot all the Arctic scenes, and then took a long, long break, shot another movie and then did Continuum.”

The plot required Col. Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder), Col. Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Shanks’ Jackson to be together on a wrecked ship in the Arctic. But because of a scheduling conflict, “Michael wasn’t available to do the Arctic shoot,” Wright said. As a result, Jackson isn’t in any of the early footage of Mitchell and Carter struggling to survive on the ice.

You can read the full article at SciFi Wire 

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Brad Wright, writer and executive producer of Stargate: Continuum, told SCI FI Wire that making a Stargate feature film is very different from making series episodes. “We’ve done so many two-parters, you’d think it would be easy to just make it longer,” said Wright, who spoke to SCI FI Wire following a press screening of the direct-to-DVD film in Vancouver, B.C., on May 14.

But a feature, Wright explained, has a very different structure.

“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.”

Wright took that opportunity to have some fun and ran with it. Stargate: Continuum features the return of beloved series actors such as Richard Dean Anderson and Don S. Davis, as well as fan-favorite villain Ba’al, played by Cliff Simon. Fans of Claudia Black’s Vala will see a whole new side of her character as well.

But perhaps the biggest difference is the chance to take a deeper look into the personalities of the main characters, made possible by the more luxurious running time. Even amid all the action, one of the film’s highlights is a sequence in which Mitchell (Ben Browder), Carter (Amanda Tapping) and Jackson (Michael Shanks) return to an Earth where the entire Stargate project never happened.

You can read the full article at SciFi Wire.

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This summer fans will be treated to the second Stargate direct-to-DVD feature, Stargate: Continuum, a film which will not only rip away the boundaries of what the franchise has done, but will also return to core staples, such as Jack O’Neill.

Richard Dean Anderson will be getting some much-anticipated screen time in Continuum, and if executive producer Brad Wright has his way, it won’t be the last.

“For me, an SG-1 movie should include O’Neill. That’s how I feel about Stargate,” Wright told us. Already a third SG-1 movie is being considered, and if nothing else, Brad says Jack needs to be back.

You can read the full article at GateWorld.net.

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Stargate SG-1 Solutions has posted the “final” version of the cover art for the new Stargate: Continuum movie.  This version has the names of the all the main cast, plus a “Special Appearance by Richard Dean Anderson” line, at the top, and the tag line “History may never repeat itself again”.  I can’t wait to see this movie.

Release dates for the movie are as follows:

July 29, 2008: North America
August 2008: UK

You can preorder it from Amazon

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The Stargate franchise is well-represented in the nominations in the second annual Constellation Awards:

Best Female Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode: Amanda Tapping for her performance in SG-1’s Season Ten’s “The Road Not Taken”

Best Science Fiction Television Series of 2007: Stargate Atlantis
Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction Film or Television in 2007: Stargate SG-1

Source:  stargate-sg1-solutions.com 

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Stargate is lending its talent to the Waterkeeper Alliance in support of their Charity Buzz Earth Day Auctions!

Items up for Auction are

Lunch with Joe Flanigan (“Colonel John Sheppard”) on the StarGate Atlantis Set

Lunch with Jewel Staite (“Dr. Jennifer Keller”) on the StarGate Atlantis Set

A signed double kayak paddle from the casts of SG-1 and Atlantis

Lunch with  Amanda Tapping (“Colonel Samantha Carter”) on the set of her new television series, Sanctuary.

Last but not least, Richard Dean Anderson “General Jack O’Neill” has made himself available in Vancouver for lunch as well.

Visit the Charity Buzz Web site to view the current bids! All auctions close on April 29.

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Gateworld has the new Stargate: Continuum Preview.  

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TV Guide has a new article written by Ileane Rudolph concerning the upcoming DVD release of Stargate: The Ark of Truth, letting viewers know that “we’re happy to share that it’s all about SG-1’s search for a fabled weapon that’s reportedly the only chance to stop the Ori from taking over Earth.” 

In addition to covering the upcoming release of the movie on DVD (March 11 in North America), Rudolph also mentions the return of Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O’Neill in Brad Wright’s Stargate: Continuum. This stand-alone story is an “alternate time-line venture, where no Stargate program exists and the long-vanquished Goa-uld rule.”It also mentions that Cooper’s and Wright’s Stargate Universe, the third television series, has not yet be signed off on by the Sci Fi Channel. The premise of this new show, according to Rudolph, “will have a new setting yet allow for crossovers from the other series.  Rudolph also hints at a possible summer-time premiere for Season Five of Stargate Atlantis: 

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A sample from the upcoming Big Finish Stargate audio drama series is now available at their Web site, and is three minutes long.  "Gift of the Gods," the first audio drama in the series of Stargate releases, features the voice talents of Michael Shanks ("Daniel Jackson") and John Schwab. Shanks can be heard voicing not only Dr. Jackson but also General George Hammond and Colonel Jack O'Neill. 

 Source:  GateWorld

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GateWorld has a great review of StarGate The Ark of Truth DVD that is coming out next Tuesday.  Its a great review that doesn't give alot away.    

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