TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Now on TVGuide.com - Sneak Peek! Stargate Atlantis executive producer Joseph Mallozzi answers readers' burning questions
BREAKING NEWS TOP 10 (page 10)
STARGATE CHILLS IN THE ARCTIC
Talk about a cool shoot! The latest SG-1 movie, 'Stargate: Continuum,' was filmed in the Arctic, not far from the top of the world. In the DVD, out on July 29, the SG-1 team is trapped after longtime alien enemy Ba'al (Cliff Simon) travels back in time, hijacks the first Stargate and stows it away in the Arctic ice to keep it away from humanity. For what's touted as the most northern movie production ever, Amanda Tapping, Ben Browder and Richard Dean Anderson filmed at a scientific station on a moving ice floe above the Arctic circle.
"We lived in plywood boxes with kerosene heaters and chipped ice to make water," Tapping tells TV Guide. Despite the -58 degree chill that gave her "a tiny bit" of frostbite on her cheek, Tapping says, "Ben and I were so giddy about walking in this vast wasteland. We made snow angels, giggling like 6-year olds."
"It was really nice to get the gang back together," Tapping says.
Includes photo of Cam, Daniel and Sam aboard the ship Achilles.
SCI-FI PREVIEW - The Future is NOW
(pages 30-31)
Photo of Woolsey, Shep, Zelenka, Teyla and Ronon
Stargate Atlantis (Fridays, 10/9C, SciFi Channel)
With Amanda Tapping off doing Sanctuary, Col. Sam Carter is gone. That leaves the officious Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) in charge, and with a troublesome galactic coalition rising, Atlantis' fifth season brings lots of change. It's also a season of stellar returns, including an arc featuring dying clone Dr. Carson Beckett (Paul McGillion) thawed out to fight a plague. Alien warrior Ronon Dex (Jason Momoa) goes to the dark side after old buddy Tyre (Iron Chef America's Mark Dacascos) sells him out to the pasty-faced Wraith. Stargate SG-1's Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) crosses galaxies to collaborate with rival brainiac Rodney McKay (David Hewlett).
"The two of them are like the intergalactic Hardy Boys figuring out a mystery," jokes executive producer Joseph Mallozzi.
And a Vegas episode finds Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) in the midst of a CSI-like murder case.
- Ileane Rudolph
SANCTUARY
NEW - (Premieres this fall, SciFi Channel)
This series, created by Damian Kindler (Stargate SG-1), was originally on the Web, and is the first to shoot almost entirely on green screen (a la "300"). It'll also use the new RED camera technology, which has four times the resolution of high-def TV. Amanda Tapping (also of Stargate) stars as 157-year old Helen Magnus, a doctor from the Victorian era who has now dedicated her life to tracking and protecting nature's strange and scary creatures.
"The public thinks these monsters are figments of the imagination - the stuff of lore and legend - but they're actually quite real," Kindler says. "We've created a world where the modern and the old collide. We'll do Jack the Ripper and some incredible mutant threat all in the same episode." - ML
HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, 7/18
STARGATE ATLANTIS 10/9C Sci Fi
The team finds pretty Dr. Jennifer Keller unconscious with a bizarre web of tendrils sticking out of her body. Always expect weirdness in Atlantis, and in this story, look for an old friend to help bring her back to normal.
COUNTDOWN by Damian Holbrook - page 68
Ten interstellar bodies of sci-fi who rock our world
Jason Momoa - Stargate Atlantis
In space, no one can hear you scream. But you sure can hear the sighs when this strapping 6-foot-4 hunk unleashes his animal magnetism as Atlantis' resident warrior, Ronon Dex. His tall, dark and hottie routine more than makes up for the 'Predator' dreads.
