Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Shaking off the post-Thanksgiving cobwebs here to let you know that GateWorld has posted their full interview with Stargate co-creator Brad Wright.
He talks about the current state of things in the franchise, the joys of letting people grow from within the company and how amazingly difficult it is to get straight-to-DVD movies released. (Minor spoilage, if you haven’t seen Season 4, yet.)
Getting a little frustrated by the unanswered questions in this season of Stargate? Hold on a little longer, says producer Joe Mallozzi. (Okay, he says this after he posts his sister’s review of a rather scrumptious looking BBQ place in Toronto.)
In other Gate news, Connor Trineer (Michael) is coming back to the show.
And have you remembered to vote for Stargate for the People’s Choice Awards?
The ongoing picture leaks from the new Trek film set continue with pictures of Zachary Quinto‘s Young Spock get-up. (via)
StarTrek.com is also reporting that Sarek has been cast with Chariot’s of Fire star Ben Cross.
The “sci-fi soap opera” Starcrossed, introduced by Stargate actor David Hewlett in his movie A Dog’s Breakfast, is being eyed by SciFi as a new comedy series.
David announced on his blog that SciFi is reviewing their proposal for a series of mini-webisodes that will help to determine whether or not there’s a market for Starcrossed to become an actual TV series that pokes fun at the process of making a sci-fi show.
I’m sure there is much to mock!
Get out the drool cups, gentlemen. Entertainment Weekly is showing off posters for The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Genre shows are getting some love from The Producer’s Guild of America.
But the Bionic Woman is not getting love from either the writers or the fans. While Battlestar Galactica, Reaper, Smallville and Supernatural are also shutting down thanks to the writer’s strike, they’re not in the same kind of trouble that Jamie Summers is in.
Rare Appearance Alert! None other than Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O’Neill) will be a guest at next year’s GateCon. The actor has never been one to attend many conventions. And it has been less so since his retirement from the acting industry to spend time raising his daughter. I wonder how air fare to Vancouver is going to look by then….
GateWorld has an interview with David Hewlett (Rodney McKay) in which he talks about the joys of tormenting his sister (Kate Hewlett) in an upcoming episode. And how easy it is to tease Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett) about being blown up.
And Stargate Atlantis is a nominee for a People’s Choice Award in the first-ever Favorite Sci-Fi Show category.
Leave it to Joss Whedon’s fans to start a fandom movement to support the Writer’s Strike.
It all started, as many fandom things do, with food. In particular, pizza and a poster. Now they’ve joined forces with online fans from the Colbert Report and Law&Order to try and get this a bit more organized.
So if you’ve been looking for a way to support the writers, head on over to the site to see what you can do.
Tonight’s Stargate Atlantis episode is Missing an episode that producer Joe Mallozzi is calling “Stargate’s Thelma and Louise” as Teyla gets to kick some butt. (While already impressive, it’s made even more so knowing that Rachel Luttrell was already pregnant with her son at the time.)
He also tells the story of how Jewel Staite (formerly of Firefly fame and now playing Jennifer Keller) demonstrated her fearlessness by going out on a rope bridge very high up from the ground. (Yet another reason why I can never be an actor.)
Over on the official SciFi blog, it’s been announced that writer/producer Carl Binder is going out on strike with the US writers as he’s a member of the guild. I’m assuming this means we’ll be waiting for Carl’s wonderful stories towards the end of next season? (The rest of the writing staff belong to the Canadian guild and are still working.)
This is shaping up to be an odd TV season. Things are good. (Many new attempts at genre shows.) Things are bad. (Writers’ strike.)
– After a strong start Bionic Woman is on life support.
– However, Chuck (okay…not technically sci-fi, but still geeky) is picking up steam; even while Heroes struggles.
– And why is Heroes struggling? Well, producer Tim Kring is admitting to making some mistakes with how this season’s story is unfolding. (I’m still enjoying it, but there are some valid points.)
– Lost fans have some happy and not-so-happy news as the season will start, but the writers’ strike will mean that it will abruptly stop.
Dang. This upcoming Trek film is becoming a cast of thousands kinda film.
– According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bruce Greenwood is playing the man soon-to-be-doomed to a bad makeup job and a chair with lights. (Aka, Captain Pike in his still-mobile days.)
– In even more interesting casting news, Winona Ryder (yes, really) has been cast to play Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson.
– Our last tidbit of casting news is that you, too, can have a chance to join this cast of thousands. There’s an open casting call this weekend for both the odd- and the good-looking to be cast as extras.
Too… many… punchlines….