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Stargate Magazine issue #26 is on sale now. Click here to check out an extract from an interview with actor David Hewlett (Rodney McKay).

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

An exclusive extract from an interview with David Hewlett (Rodney McKay), featuring in issue #26 of Stargate Magazine…

A brief excerpt of the extract:



Stargate Magazine: Let’s talk about The Shrine. What an amazing episode!

David Hewlett: It’s really good. It was obviously a very McKay-centric script, as I think they all should be! Having said that, Brad Wright is great at writing for everybody, all his scripts have really nice moments – I think the Ronon moment was really nice. There were some really good opportunities for the rest of the cast to get in on that whole losing McKay thing, which you would think would be a happy thing! Other than the video footage stuff, I didn’t have much to say. Poor Keller ended up doing all the exposition.

Read the full interview in Stargate Magazine #26

Stargate Atlantis - Marathon - Wed Jan 7 '09 - Season 3

From SciFi.com's schedulebot, a Stargate Atlantis season three marathon scheduled for Wednesday, January 7 '09, on the SciFi Channel (US):

08:00A PROGENY - story by Robert C. Cooper and Carl Binder, teleplay by Carl Binder, directed by Andy Mikita. Guest stars include John O'Callaghan (Niam), David Nykl (Dr. Radek Zelenka), David Ogden Stiers (Oberoth) and Chuck Campbell (Technician)



09:00A THE REAL WORLD - written by Carl Binder and directed by Paul Ziller. Guest stars include Richard Dean Anderson (Maj. Gen. Jack O'Neill) and Alan Ruck (Dr. Fletcher)



10:00A COMMON GROUND - written by Ken Cuperus and directed by William Waring. Guest stars include Robert Davi (Acastus Kolya), Christopher Heyerdahl (his introduction to SGA as Todd!), Ryan Robbins (Ladon Radim) and Chuck Campbell



11:00A MCKAY & MRS. MILLER - excerpts written by Carl Binder, written by Martin Gero, directed by Martin Wood. Guest stars include Amanda Tapping (Lt. Col. Samantha Carter), Kate Hewlett (Jeannie Miller) and David Nykl



12:00P PHANTOMS - written by Carl Binder and directed by Martin Wood. Guest stars include David Nykl



1:00P THE RETURN - PT 1 - written by Martin Gero and directed by Brad Turner. Guest stars include Richard Dean Anderson, Robert Picardo (Richard Woolsey), Ryan Robbins (Ladon Radim), David Nykl, Bill Dow (Dr. Bill Lee), Gary Jones (Walter Harriman), Mitch Pileggi (Col. Steven Caldwell), Beau Bridges (Maj. Gen. Hank Landry), Kirby Morrow (Capt. Dave Kleinman) and Chuck Campbell



2:00P THE RETURN - PT 2 - written by Martin Gero and directed by Brad Turner. Guest stars include Richard Dean Anderson and Robert Picardo



3:00P ECHOES - story by Brad Wright and Carl Binder, teleplay by Carl Binder, directed by William Waring. Guest stars include Claire Rankin (Dr. Heightmeyer), David Nykl and Mitch Pileggi



4:00P IRRESPONSIBLE - written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, directed by Martin Wood. Guest stars include Richard Kind (Lucius Lavin) and Robert Davi



5:00P TAO OF RODNEY - written by Damian Kindler and directed by Martin Wood. Guest stars include Kavan Smith (Maj. Evan Lorne), David Nykl, Leela Savasta (Esposito) and Chuck Campbell



6:00P THE GAME - story by Don Whitehead and Holly Henderson, teleplay by Carl Binder, directed by William Waring. Guest stars include Laura Harris (Nola), Kavan Smith and David Nykl




Photos courtesy of GateWorld.

Stargate Atlantis - 'Remnants' Behind the Scenes - Commentary and Photos

From Joseph Mallozzi's blog update for November 15, 2008:

(Please follow the link for the complete blog update and to view the behind the scenes photos from Stargate Atlantis' 'Remnants,' in their original format.)




Robert Davi (Acastus Kolya)

November 15, 2008: The Remnants Write-up


The original idea for this episode came out of a desire to do a Woolsey story. It's no secret that, in the short time he has become a regular, Woolsey has become a favorite of mine and I wanted to continue the rehabilitation of the character we'd started as far back as SG-1's 7th season episode Inauguration. To that end, I wanted to humanize him a little more by focusing on his vulnerabilities and the fact that, despite his officious nature and occasional abrasiveness, he is at heart a lonely individual.





Director Will Waring, Anna Galvin (Dr. Vanessa Conrad) and Robert Picardo (Richard Woolsey)

I wanted to do an episode not unlike the play Harvey (later a movie starring Jimmy Stewart) which tells the tale of a softspoken, socially awkward individual with an imaginary(?) friend = a tall, upright-walking rabbit. In the Stargate: Atlantis version, a discussion on Woolsey's apparent loneliness would segue into his encounter with a new addition to the Atlantis expedition, a female scientist who he ends up hitting off with. Over the course of the episode, pressured by the strains of his ongoing probationary review, he finds comfort and, inevitably, romance in Dr. Conrad. At episode's end, however, the truth is discovered and the individual known as Dr. Conrad must leave him. It is a bittersweet moment and, with her departure, Woolsey returns to his lonely existence.





Tamlyn Tomita (Shen Xiaoyi), Anna and Robert

Needless to say, this original version with a lot more melancholy. And a huge challenge because, as I sat down tried to beat out an outline, I realized that the core of the story lacked any real conflict (Woolsey's review aside) and, quite frankly, the idea couldn't really support an entire episode. So I thought about it some more and remembered an idea we had pitched out and shelved seasons ago involving Sheppard on the mainland hallucinating an encounter with Kolya. Finally, I needed certain backstory elements that could be delivered piecemeal over the course of the episode - which was where the McKay-Zelenka story came in.



David Hewlett (Dr. Rodney McKay) and David Nykl (Dr. Radek Zelenka)



In the end, the episode wound up focusing on three seemingly dissimilar storylines that eventually turn out to be linked by common themes - the fundamental loneliness of these three characters and their deep-seated vulnerabilities which are exploited by the A.I. ...





Sekkari seeding pod

Stargate Atlantis - MGM Stargate: NEW Publicity Stills - 'Remnants' - Nov 10 '08

At MGM Stargate:

(Please follow the link to view all the photos in their original format.)

15 MGM publicity stills from 'Remnants,' airing Friday, November 14 at 9pm on the SciFi Channel (US).



Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) and Vanessa Conrad (Anna Galvin)



Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and Acastus Kolya (Robert Davi)



IOA Representative Shen Xiaoyi (Tamlyn Tomita) and Vanessa.

Stargate Atlantis - Video: Episode Trailer for 'Remnants'

Courtesy of the SciFi Channel:

(Please follow the link to view the trailer in its original format.)



Stargate Atlantis' 'Remnants' airs Friday, November 14, 2008 at 9pm on the SciFi Channel (US). Guest-stars Robert Davi (Acastus Kolya), Anna Galvin (Vanessa Conrad) and Tamlyn Tomita (Shen Xiaoyi).

Stargate Atlantis - Publicity Stills from 'Remnants' Sept 23 '08

Publicity stills from the new Stargate Atlantis episode, 'Remnants,' scheduled to air later this fall on the SciFi Channel. (Please click on photo for a larger format.)



Dr. Vanessa Conrad (Anna Galvin)



IOA Representative Shen Xiaoyi (Tamlyn Tomita)




Kolya (Robert Davi) and Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan)



Vanessa



Kolya



Kolya and Shep

Stargate Atlantis - 12 NEW Stills from 'Remnants' - Sept 9 '08

Courtesy of Andreas at GateWorld Forum (please follow the link to view the photos in their original format):

12 NEW stills from Stargate Atlantis' 'Remnants,' scheduled to air later this fall on the SciFi Channel.



IOA Representative Shen Xiaoyi (Tamlyn Tomita), Dr. Vanessa Conrad (Anna Galvin) and Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo)



Shen and Richard



Vanessa



Richard



Shen and Vanessa



Kolya (Robert Davi)



Kolya (Robert Davi) and Lt. Colonel John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan)



Kolya, some of Kolya's friends and Shep...