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The Making of Continuum (Pt 2)
June 5, 2008 (General)
Continuing on from his introduction to writing Stargate Continuum, Brad Wright takes readers behind the scenes with some more hints about the spectacular Stargate SG-1 movie!
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A brief excerpt:
Besides shooting in the Arctic, producing Continuum as a feature film provided some other fantastic opportunities, particularly in the area of production design.
"There were things that we could do in Continuum that we simply couldn't afford to do in the television series. We actually built the bridge and several decks of a 1939 cargo ship, and it looks pretty damn good on the screen," Wright exclaims. "Rather than just doing a cargo hold, we did a gimballed cargo hold, and rather than just saying it's cold, we refrigerated the set. I had originally thought that we could maybe find an old ship in the harbour that we could shoot the deck scenes in, and we would have to just build the bridge. But marine technology has gone so far that there just aren't any ships around that have [that style] -wooden decks, wireless and portholes. Even the slightly newer ships have technology that would have had to have been swapped out, and it would have cost almost as much to refit an existing ship with 1939 level technology as it would to build one on the stage. It would have cost a fortune to shoot it on location and it might have even been dangerous. So, since we knew we had to build the cargo hold anyway, we decided to build the front of the ship, which was costly but it gave us a lot of fun."
**snippage**
Look out for more interviews with the cast and crew of Stargate Continuum – coming soon to Stargate.MGM.com!
Story by Sharon Gosling
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