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Behind The Scenes: Whispers
September 8, 2008 (Episodes)
Stargate Atlantis’ fifth season delivers up another first for the series – a knock-down, drag-out horror story, courtesy of Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi!
A brief excerpt:
“Whispers” is a decidedly different episode of Stargate Atlantis. It’s dark, moody – and to be honest, downright scary. Which was exactly the plan.
“I’ve always been a big fan of horror movies, and we’ve never really done a horror movie on this show,” explains executive producer. Joseph Mallozzi, who wrote the script. “The nice thing about Stargate is that it’s so wide open ¬– you can tell so many different types of stories, and I thought, ‘You know what? Why don’t we do a horror story?’” Courtesy of Atlantis’ arch-nemesis Michael, finding a basis for a horror story that would fit into the overall background of the show wasn’t hard. But for Mallozzi, getting the correct tone for the episode was as important as the story itself.
“I pitched out my ideas, and one was being trapped in a deserted village with these creatures on the loose. The other was the fog element, which I thought, just atmospherically, would give it a nice creepy feel,” the writer explains. “Everyone had a different idea about the fog and the reasons for the fog, but I didn’t want it to be separate – I wanted it to be related, somehow, to the story. I finally came up with this idea that the creatures exude this mist or fog as a predatory thing, sort of like a squid releasing its ink as a defensive device...”
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