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After Teal'c and Vala vanish, the team realizes that the timeline has been altered and the Stargate program no longer exists. A fleet of Goa'uld motherships arrives to invade Earth, led by Baal.
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NEWS & SPOILERS
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MGM has given a green light for the show's creators to produce two direct-to-DVD movies based on SG-1. Executive producer Brad Wright let TV Guide in on the news. The studio is targetting a fall 2007 release for both projects -- just a few months after Stargate SG-1 ends its historic, 10-year run on cable television. It's entirely possible that the movies will also be aired on television -- something SCI FI commonly does with direct-to-DVD movies.
The second film will be written by Wright and will involve time travel.
"They're not big-budget [films] by any definition, but for us it's pretty good," Wright said. "As we've proven over the years, just give us little more money and we can make pretty good television, or DVDs."
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview with TV Guide [story])
Principal photography for the film will begin around the first of June.
"Brad is writing one, as far as I know, [it] is a bit more stand-alone that will involve some kind of time travel and has something to do with our main mustache twiddling villain Baal [Cliff Simon] doing something in the past that alters ... he basically finds a way to lift the Stargate from Earth so the Stargate Program never happens, and I imagine the characters will have to go through some process to reset the clock and fix everything over the course of two hours.
"Quite frankly that is as much as I know. I haven't even talked to the guys about it. They told us these pitches in September [2006], so I haven't talked to anyone since then so that could've changed overnight. I have no idea."
(Actor Michael Shanks, in an interview with IGN.com)
The production budget for Continuum was about $7 million, according to Multichannel News. A typical (44-minute) episode of Stargate SG-1 runs about $2 million.
"Right now, we know for sure that the main cast of Season Ten will be returning: Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, Chris Judge, Claudia Black, and Amanda Tapping. Beyond that, we are still working on it. I know that Brad's put a call into Richard Dean Anderson ['Jack O'Neill']. ... We're hopeful he'll make an appearance, whether he's in both [movies] or just one. We're not sure yet.
"And we have some surprises we're hoping to pull out of our hats for returning villains and allies that we don't have confirmation on yet."
"The second movie I think is a little more ... it definitely plays on a lot of the characters and brings back maybe favorites for the fans who have been watching the show. But it's also, as a story, what we call a one-off, that hopefully will get people used to the idea of SG-1 movies and hopefully whet people's appetite and make them think, 'Yeah, I want more of these, I want more SG-1 movies' ... that can be about new adventures of the SG-1 crew [and not necessarily tied to the series' long-term story arcs]."
The budget will be bigger than a television episode, Cooper also said, "but it's nowhere near what a feature has. We're going to have to use our magical powers to make these look like they're big movies. They're still TV movie budgets."
(Writer-director Robert C. Cooper, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
"My movie is a stand-alone. And what I hope to prove is it's the first in a string of movies that can continue the SG-1 legacy. ... I hope it's the first of many 2-hour movies, direct-to-DVD or bigger. I think we can show -- and I hope the audience shows by buying the DVDs! -- that the franchise still has a long way to go.
"In my story, hopefully, we will see a LOT of old faces. It's the nature of my story that we can see a lot of people going back a lot of years, even people who are not still alive in the canon of the story -- because it is a time travel story!"
(Executive producer Brad Wright, in an interview at StargateSG1.com)
"While SG-1 attends the execution of Baal, the last of the Goa'uld System Lords, Teal'c and Vala inexplicably disappear into thin air. Carter, Daniel and Mitchell race back to a world where history has been changed: the Stargate program has been erased from the timeline. As they try to convince the authorities what's happened, a fleet of Goa'uld motherships arrives in orbit, led by Baal, his queen, Katesh (Vala), and his first prime, Teal'c. SG-1 must find the Stargate and set things right before the world is enslaved by the Goa'uld."
(MGM press release - January 15, 2007)
The cast of Stargate SG-1 is headed north to film scenes for the upcoming direct-to-DVD movie Stargate: Continuum in the Arctic. Cast members including Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping will shoot in the sub-zero climate at the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station (APLIS) from March 23 to 29.
Continuum will film a variety of scenes on location in the Arctic, approximately 200 nautical miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Read the full story!
Richard Dean Anderson will appear in the upcoming movie Stargate: Continuum, Playback Daily is reporting and executive producer Brad Wright confirmed to GateWorld.
Anderson will travel with an 18-person crew to the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station in the Arctic to film scenes for the direct-to-DVD movie.
(GateWorld news report)
After five years away from the Stargate universe, actress Jacqueline Samuda will make a return appearance in Stargate: Continuum. Samuda's official Web site announced recently that Samuda will reprise her role as the power-hungry Goa'uld Nirrti in the movie.
(GateWorld news report)
"I was treated to a double-feature today. Not one but two spanking new SG-1 movies. We started with Stargate SG-1: Continuum, written by Brad Wright and directed by Martin Wood, which is a throwback to Stargate of yore: Jack O'Neill, the Tok'ra, plenty o' System Lords, and an absolutely mind-bending plot to stick it to Earth. This one is a lot of fun and moves very, VERY quickly."
(Stargate executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, in a post at his blog)
"Continuum is not a Vala-centric piece, so both I and the Vala-haters sigh with relief on that one. She is a high energy character to say the least, and as much as I love to work and play her, it is great to sometimes add a flash of color and go home. I also play another character in Continuum, which was great fun. Short but also sweet. I loved Brad's script and what he gave me to do.
"I think they are aware of her strengths and moral limitations and keep her on a leash for the sake of national security and damage control while trying to capitalize on her resourcefulness in the meantime. She is not part of the team out of pity. She certainly has proved more than useful. In Continuum we see a hint of that give and take but she really only makes a brief appearance in this one."
(Actress Claudia Black, in an interview with Slice of SciFi)
"Continuum is more like Stargate of old than it is going forward. It's a good 'ole Stargate story made as big as possible. And that, in part, is because Rick is in it. But it's also because it's a time-travel story. Therefore I was able to bring back a lot of very familiar faces who've been gone for some time.
"The timeline has been changed at the end of Continuum in a subtle, but permanent way. And that is actually illustrated in the final frame of the picture. You'll see. It's cool. Keep in mind, too, in this time travel story, what makes this subtly different than other stories we've done is these guys remember the old timeline. That's what makes Continuum different. That's what makes it the time-travel story I wanted to do.
"As the movie unfolds, and as Baal's plan unfolds, we try to get back to Earth -- and, granted, it's a conceit of mine that traveling through the wormhole keeps them immune from the effects of the timeline [changing].
"... There's hundreds of shots. Hundreds of visual effects shots in both movies. I have a sequence over the Atlantic with F-15s and Goa'uld death gliders. That's just one of the many visual effects. I have a freighter in the ocean crossing the Atlantic that is a visual effect. I have a lot of visual effects, and it's going to take a significant amount of time to finish them.
"But having said that, it's not all us. There's a significant amount of time in the release process that I wasn't even a hundred percent aware of when we went into this. I love the time. I think it's a really smart thing to do to release the first one in March and the next one around Comic-Con in July. I think the summer's a great time to release a movie like Continuum. Because it's fun. It's a fun movie."
(Writer-producer Brad Wright, in an interview with GateWorld)
Actor William DeVane will reprise his role of Henry Hayes in Continuum, according to photos obtained by GateWorld. Hayes appeared in a three-episode arc late in Season Seven, when he assumed the presidency of the United States, but hasn't been on SG-1 since. It is not known if Hayes is president in the altered timeline in which the members of SG-1 find themselves.
Also appearing in the film is Don S. Davis as General George Hammond, who served as the commander of Stargate Command through SG-1's seventh season.
"In Continuum I particularly like the scene where the team comes through the gate and realizes they are in a frozen ship in the Arctic. I think that -- without giving away too many spoilers, that's at the beginning of the movie -- it was the jumping-off point that Brad used to come up with the whole story."
(Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in a fan Q&A video at Stargate.MGM.com)
"Continuum is done. It was shot at the same time and then delayed in its post-production until 'Ark' was finished, and Brad's [writer and producer Brad Wright] finished it off, now. ... I know it will be coming out at the end of July to coincide with Comic-Con.
"... [The Goa'uld] are a big part of Continuum. That's why I say nothing is ever dead. People said, 'Oh, the Goa'uld were done and the Ori were in season nine,' but there were a number of stories involving the Goa'uld in Seasons Nine and Ten. Baal was still a significant factor in terms of being a villain in the show, and I think we kept them alive and used what was interesting about them. That plays a huge part in Continuum, which is a bit more of an old school SG-1 story."
(Executive producer Robert C. Cooper, in an interview with CinemaSpy.ca)
"This is the biggest, best thing I think I've ever done for Stargate. I'm very proud of it. You always have some small regret with something that you couldn't pull off. [You say] 'I wish we could have done this, I wish we could have had that.' [But] there are so few regrets with how Continuum turned out that it's not even worth mentioning. Martin [Wood] did such a good job directing it, and we had such a good time on set together."
"The Stargate [was] at its most vulnerable in history -- or at least since it was dug up -- was when it was being transported from Africa to North America at the outbreak of World War II," he said. "So the Stargate is on its way across, Baal is going to sink the ship, [and] somehow an heroic act has to take place to stop the ship from being sunk. [And] what if the captain of that boat, by cosmic coincidence, happened to be the grandfather of Mitchell?"
(Writer-producer Brad Wright, in an interview with GateWorld)
Check out this special Continuum video feature from the Air Force!
NEW! May 13 - After no less than four different versions, FOX Home Entertainment has revealed the final DVD and Blu-ray cover art for Stargate: Continuum. (Click on an image to pre-order it at Amazon.)
As information is listed here while the movie is still
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