“V”’s Morris Chestut — A TV Guide On-Line Interview
November 17, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Our partner web site, TV Guide On-Line has an interview with “V”’s Morris Chestnut. Chestnut plays Ryan, a member of a resistance cell determined to stop the Visitors’ plans.
TV Guide Interviews “Legend of the Seeker” Stars
November 17, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
TV Guide has a new interview with Bridget Regan and Craig Horner of “Legend of the Seeker.”
Sit Down with Visitors’ Leader Morena Baccarin — A TV Guide On-Line Interview
November 10, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 6 Comments
TV Guide On-Line has a new interview with actress Morena Baccarin, best known to genre fans for her role on “Firefly” and as the new alien leader on ABC’s reimagined version of “V.”
Baccarin sits down to discuss the series and where things are headed in upcoming episodes. Some of what she says is minor SPOILER [...]
Producer Kelly Souders of “Smallville” — A TV Guide On-Line Interview
October 29, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Our partner site, TV Guide On-Line has a new interview with “Smallville” executive producer Kelly Souders. Find out some details on the upcoming season and the huge crossovers from the DC Universe.
TVGuide.com: You teased a big twist coming up with Chloe. Can you discuss what it is? Is she returning to the Daily Planet?
Kelly Souders: [...]
Actor Edward James Olmos Explains How “Battlestar Galactica” Leads to “Blade Runner” — An AMC Interview
October 27, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
The BSG star goes double-duty directing The Plan, a movie depicting the series from the Cylon’s point of view. He describes adding nudity to the franchise, explains how the movie answers lingering questions, and dishes on his role in Green Hornet.
Q: Was directing this Battlestar movie different than directing a normal [...]
Sonya Walger Talks About “Flash Foward,” “Lost” — A TV Guide On-Line Interview
October 15, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Actress Sonya Walger sat down with our partner site, TV Guide On-Line to talk about her roles on “Flash Forward” and “Lost.”
Does the success of “Flash Forward” mean we won’t see Penny in the final season of “Lost”? Walger offers some hints about both shows.
TVGuide.com: All right, when are you returning to Lost?
Sonya Walger: [...]
Our partner site, TV Guide On-Line has a new video interview with actor Lou Diamond Phillips. Phillips is part of the cast of the new “Stargate: Universe” and he talks about what the series and drops a few hints about what fans can expect as the first season rolls on.
Novelist Eoin Colfer on Resurrecting Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — An AMC Interview
October 12, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Nueman
On the 30th Anniversary of the first publication of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comes And Another Thing…, the sixth book of the series penned by Artemis Fowl novelist Eoin (pronounced Owen) Colfer. Colfer discusses his reluctance to take on the project and his hopes for the future [...]
Slice of SciFi partner, TV Guide On-Line has a new video interview with the star of “Stargate: Universe,” Robert Carlyle.
You can check out the video below, courtesy of TV Guide On-Line.
“FlashForward” Author Robert J. Sawyer On How George Lucas Pre-Empted His SciFi Series — An AMC Interview
September 21, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 5 Comments
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
The novelist discusses the ABC adaptation of his 1999 book — about a worldwide event that allows everyone a glimpse into their future — and explains the network’s reluctance to compare it with LOST.
Q: FlashForward was originally optioned as a movie. Now it’s a television series. Do you have a preference [...]
Director Jonathan Mostow Explains the Difference Between Surrogates and Terminator — An AMC Interview
September 14, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 4 Comments
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
Terminator 3 director Jonathan Mostow returns to cyborgs with the Bruce Willis thriller about citizens who live their lives vicariously through robot avatars. Mostow discusses the implications of his movie and the movie’s similarities to the recently-released Gamer.
Q: This is your first feature film since 2003’s Terminator 3. Why the [...]
Tom Welling Feels Super About Season 9 — A TV Guide Interview
September 10, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Rich Sands, of our partner site, TV Guide On-Line has an interview with actor Tom Welling about the upcoming ninth season of “Smallville.”
Here’s a sample of what Welling has to say bout coming back to the show and what fans can expect this year.
How did you come to the decision to sign on for Season [...]
9 Director Shane Acker on Playing Mouse Trap With Puppets — An AMC Interview
September 8, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
Animator and filmmaker Shane Acker makes his feature debut in the Tim Burton-produced “stitchpunk” movie 9, based on his own award-winning short. Acker describes building a world for humans — and destroying it for his creatures.
Q: How did this movie evolve from your short?
A: I spent four and a half [...]
Gamer Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Wanting to Be Abused — An AMC Interview
August 31, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
The twisted minds behind the Crank series turn their attentions to human video games and real-life Second Life in Gamer. They talk about their controller fantasies and the top secret sequel they can’t talk about.
Q: Where did you get the inspiration for Gamer?
MN: We were looking at all these reality shows [...]
Winds of Dune Author Brian Herbert on Flipping the Myth of Jihad — An AMC Interview
August 17, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 3 Comments
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
Dune author Frank Herbert’s son discusses picking up his father’s threads in Winds of Dune, out this month, and his hopes for Peter Berg’s film adaptation of the saga.
Q: The Winds of Dune is part of your Heroes of Dune series of prequels. What was the inspiration to go back?
A: When [...]
Actor John De Lancie Discusses Alien Voices and Rebooting Trek — An AMC Interview
August 3, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Interview by: AMC’s Clayton Neuman
The Star Trek: The Next Generation actor describes his futuristic production of Madame Butterfly and explains how a role on AMC’s Breaking Bad helped him outlive the omnipotent Q.
Q: You’re directing a stage production of Madame Butterfly set 1,000 years in the future. How did that idea occur to you?
A: Well, [...]
Slice of SciFi, in partnership with Star Trek Magazine, is proud to bring you the following excerpts from edition #20 of the magazine headquarters for the Star Trek franchise.
Here is an excerpt from the interview with J.J. Abrams, director/producer of the latest Star Trek film:
(ST): Every director approaches a script differently initially; when you read [...]
Actor Robert Carlyle (28 Weeks Later, Angela’s Ashes) stars as Dr. Nicholas Rush for the new SyFy Channel series “Stargate Universe” beginning October 12, 2009. Here is an exclusive IGN interview with the actor as he talks about the uniqness of this new Stargate show.
A band of soldiers, scientists and civilians are forced through [...]
Ice Age’s Director Describes His Prehistoric Journey to the Center of the Earth — An AMC Interview
July 7, 2009 || Category: Interviews | Leave a Comment
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Nueman
Animator-turned-director Carlos Saldanha describes taking the Ice Age franchise into genre territory, infusing a Moby Dick love story into his latest picture and turning his attention to humans for the upcoming movie Rio.
Q: In Ice Age 3 you were tasked with bringing dinosaurs into a time period they didn’t belong. [...]
The smallest cast member of Transformers 2 talks to Michael and Brian!
Kortney Nash, better known for her work in commercials, talks about her work on the set, her life so far as an actress, and her dreams of being an actress and a director when she grows up… maybe she’s the one who can [...]
Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci Compare Trekkies to Transformers Fans — An AMC Interview
June 30, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 2 Comments
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Nueman
The writers for Fringe, Star Trek, and Transformers discuss their latest movie’s American Pie connection, arguing logic with Michael Bay, and writing Trek’s reverse premise in Cowboys and Aliens.
Q: You were reluctant to write a Transformers sequel. What changed your minds?
AK: I think the “refusal to the call” story is what [...]
Virtuality Creator Michael Taylor Imagines His Ideal VR Scenario — An AMC Interview
June 22, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Written by: AMC’s Clayton Neuman
A writer for Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and Caprica, the co-creator of Fox’s Virtuality describes his show’s grounding in science and its “New Orleans funeral” of a pilot.
Q: Both Caprica and Virtualty deal with the virtual world. What’s the attraction for you?
A: It’s interesting. Virtual reality is actually becoming [...]
Slice of SciFi Interview: Can’t Stop the Serenity 2009
June 8, 2009 || Category: Featured, Interviews, Specials | 2 Comments
It’s June 2009, and that means it’s time to get underway with the “Can’t Stop the Serenity” worldwide screenings to benefit Equality Now, a program that is near and dear to Joss Whedon, creator of the series Firefly and its feature film followup, Serenity.
Equality Now was founded in 1992 to work for the protection [...]
Author Alan Dean Foster Reveals the Secret to Penning SciFi Novelizations — An AMC Inteview
May 26, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 2 Comments
Written by: AMC’s Clayton Neuman
Alan Dean Foster is the “the patron saint of scifi movie novelizations,” having penned the original Star Wars and the first three Alien movies among many others. He discusses his recent adaptations of Star Trek, Terminator Salvation and Transformers 2.
Q: What makes you the go-to novelization guy?
A: I don’t get [...]
Novelist Brandon Sanderson Discusses the End of The Wheel of Time — An AMC Interview
May 19, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Interview by AMC’s Clayton Neuman
When fantasy author Robert Jordan died, it fell to one of his fans to finish Jordan’s epic Wheel of Time series. Brandon Sanderson explains why he split the last novel into three — the first of which, The Gathering Storm, will be released this November.
Q: Were you ever reluctant to [...]
Emerson Previews “Lost” Season Finale — A TV Guide Interview
May 13, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 2 Comments
Actor Michael Emerson spoke to our sister site, TV Guide On-Line’s Matt Milovich about what fans can expect to see tonight on the two-hour season finale of “Lost.” Emerson, who plays Ben, hints about the showdown between John Locke and the mysterious Jacob and Ben’s role in what will unfold tonight starting at 9 p.m. [...]
[Video courtesy SCI FI Wire]
Star Trek: Countdown Writers Discuss Passing the Next Generation Torch — An AMC Interview
May 5, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Interview by: AMC’s Clayton Neuman
Writers Tim Jones and Mike Johnson talk about their prequel comic book to J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot and share their concept for an ongoing Wesley Crusher comic series.
Q: How closely did you work with Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci to write the prequel comic?
MJ: We were working [...]
O’Loughlin Talks About “Moonlight” — A TV Guide Interview
April 29, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Our partner TV Guide On-Line has a new interview today with former “Moonlight” star Alex O’Loughlin. In the interview, the actor talks about his time on the show, his reaction to the cancellation and what his fans can look forward to in the future.
VGuide.com: Where have ya been, man? We had a long stretch there, [...]
“Battle for Terra” Director Describes Turning Humans Into Aliens — An AMC Interview
April 28, 2009 || Category: Interviews | 1 Comment
Interview by: AMC’s Clayton Nueman
Digital artist Aristomenis Tsirbas describes designing aliens on a shoestring budget for his first directorial feature and defying the rules of special effects for Star Trek.
Q: Terra began as a short film. How much did it change when you turned it into a feature?
A: Well it’s about 80 minutes longer [Laughs]. [...]
