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Exclusive Interview: 'Stargate' Exec Happy in Vancouver
Brad Wright talks about shooting sci-fi in Canada
By Blaine Kyllo | Sunday, July 27, 2008
Vancouver’s film and television production industry has had its ups and downs. After surging for the last ten years it’s declined recently, suffering from a less appealing exchange rate between the Canadian loonie and the American greenback, and because of the worldwide industry’s slowdown since last winter’s writers’ strike.
“There is definitely less production going on right now,” writer-producer Brad Wright admitted in a phone interview. The strike and the exchange, he said from his office at Vancouver’s Bridge Studios, has “had an affect on this town. There is less television being made.”
**snippage**
Wright’s first movie, Stargate: Continuum, releases on DVD and Blu-ray on July 29. It’s a time travel tale in which the Stargate program gets erased by the meddling of a long-time enemy, Ba'al, and forces the SG-1 team to set things right, and prevent Earth from falling into the hands of the Goa’uld.
“Why leave, at this point?” quipped Wright, who admitted he’s trying to ride out the dollar. “I can’t imagine that it’s going to stay that way forever...”
