MAN OF VISION
GateWorld talks with Martin Wood
Martin Wood has been involved with Stargate since the very first season of SG-1 and has directed nearly a quarter of the franchise. GateWorld has considered itself long overdue for an in-depth discussion with this influential producer. We spoke with him at the Stage 3 Media offices earlier this year.
In Part One of our video interview, GateWorld talks with Wood about the excitement he had filming the for the direct-to-DVD feature, Stargate Continuum, dodging submarines in the arctic, and bringing all his learned lessons to bare for Sanctuary.
GateWorld's interview with Martin runs 24 minutes. The video requires QuickTime 7.0 or higher. The interview is also available at GateWorld Play! Rather not view the video? It's also transcribed [at the link above]!
A brief excerpt (on filming Continuum in the Arctic):
GW: Oh, so weather halted production?
MW: It did on one day. We woke up one morning and I looked outside and thought "This is not going to be good." We're in little 8 by 8 by 20 foot plywood hooches, they're called. Little plywood 8 by 8 by 20. And there was me, Ben Browder, Richard Dean Anderson, the captain of the base, and another guy called George, who was a government worker who was not allowed to tell us what he did. We spent the entire time in the hooch trying to find out what George did.
You can't have Richard Dean Anderson and Ben Browder -- we laughed all night long. Inside it's plus 75, and outside, as soon as you open the door, it drops the temperature down to minus 50. I looked outside the little window we have, the polar bear window, and thought "We're not going out in this." We have a helicopter and we have snowmobiles. We can take either one of them to get where we need to be, which doesn't make a lot of sense because you're on an ocean that's frozen. It's all the same. "Hmm, should we shoot over here or should we shoot over there? Uh, let's see, uh, Peter?"
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