Taking a page out of the John Wayne play book the cast of the Stargate SG-1 movie titled “Stargate: Continuum” are going North To Alaska, er — that is, North of Alaska to do some shooting, according to franchise owner MGM studios.
Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping will be on location next week at the US Navy’s Applied Physics Lab “Ice Station” for some of the scenes of the film, and it is really cold up there with nightime temps well beyond the 50F to 75F degrees below zero mark. Who says an actor and film crew’s life isn’t hard?
The storyline for “Stargate: Continuum,” deals with the execution of Ba’al, the last of the Goa’uld system lords. When the SG-1 team show up as witnesses to the execution Teal’c and Vala suddenly disappear into thin air. Upon the remaining team members return to the SGC, the world is no longer the same one they left and only Carter, Daniel and Mitchell seem to be aware of it. Their timeline has been erased and the SGC never existed in this different world.
To make matters worse a whole fleet of Goa’uld motherships arrive encircling Earth with Ba’al, his queen, Katesh (Vala); and his first prime, (Teal’c) in command. The Earth’s only chance for survival is the discovery of the original Stargate, buried somewhere in antiquity. Mitchell, Carter and Jackson set off to locate it and set existence back to its normal timeline before Ba’al enslaves all of humanity.
“Continuum” will be movie number two. The first new Stargate SG-1 film will be entitled “Stargate: The Ark of Truth.” The plot for “Ark” will bring closure to the Ori storyline so that movie 2 can concentrate on wrapping up the Ba’al character, the last surviving prominent Goa’uld, who has been left hanging in limbo until now. Both films are made for straight-to-DVD release.
Both movies will also star SG-1 regulars Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, Michael Shanks and Gary Jones. Richard Dean Anderson may show up as well. Last we heard from Amanda negotiations for his appearance in the flicks were still underway.
yay 🙂
While I understood Richard Dean Anderson’s need to leave the show for family. The choice of Browder was poor, the character writing so lame, he seemed like the newbie Lieutenant too stupid to live. Hot shot fighter pilot can never equal, 20 years plus experience doing different things in hard places and leading people in and out of battle. I would not have trusted him to lead a boy scout troop, and as an actor he reminded me too much of William Shatner. I had dearly hoped he would NOT be in the movies. But then I never understood why no effort was made to replace O’Neal over an Arc with someone nearly as good, with Gravitas. SAD.