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David Blue Interview - Stargate Magazine #31

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:58:39 -0800

The latest issue of Stargate Magazine features an exclusive interview with David Blue. In the following extract, the actor talks about playing the brains of the outfit in Stargate Universe, computer whiz Eli Wallace…

“Eli knows he’s smart,” explains Blue. “He’s not a genius in that he was born an Einstein, but he can figure things out and see patterns in things. One of the reasons I think he has a good sense of humor is that he can see patterns in the world and find the humor in certain things. That’s who Eli is, and because he applied his intelligence to random things, he never truly found his way. He dropped out of MIT and had a whole bunch of stuff in his life that took precedence.

“People ask me about my character being a videogame geek, and Brad and Robert may disagree, but I’m a huge fan of Eli not being a videogame geek. It’s just that he enjoys challenges. If he sees a challenge, like in the occasional videogame, and someone tells him he can’t beat it, he’s like, ‘Screw that, I’m, going to beat it.’

“So that’s where my character started from. As for where Eli is at now, well, as a kid I liked Star Trek: The Next Generation and like any sci-fi fan, I had that little fantasy that one day Riker [Jonathan Frakes] would ‘beam’ into my living room and go, ‘Yes, it’s real.’ That’s essentially what happens to Eli. All this stuff that he joked about with his friends as being real, and hoped was real, is, in fact, out there. So for the first few episodes of Universe everything with him is, ‘Oh, my God,’ and then life and death struggles ensue. I think we’re at the point with the episode we’re filming now [Time] where Eli is starting to accept that this is his family now. These are the people who he not only needs to rely on, but must somehow convince to rely on him. For that, he has to find his place.”

Read the full interview in issue 31 of The Official Stargate SG-1/Atlantis/SGU Magazine, on newsstands now!

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Stargate Convention This Weekend

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:44:39 -0800

The Official STARGATE SG-1/ATLANTIS/UNIVERSE CONVENTION returns to Los Angeles this weekend, November 6-8, 2009 at the Marriott LAX Hotel, and you're invited! It is a three day celebration of all things Stargate and Creation Entertainment is ramping up for an especially exciting gathering highlighted by in-person stars (Michael Shanks, Ben Browder, Joe Flanigan, Robert Picardo, Paul McGillion, Cliff Simon, Ryan Robbins and Gary Jones), on-stage events, contests, parties, autographing and photo opportunities. Join fans from around the globe for the festivities!

Tickets to see it all are as low as $25 a day, available at the door. Get full information here.

And, as an extra cool bonus this year, the Farscape Convention will be taking place in the hotel the same weekend! This means 2X the guests, 2X the fans, 2X the fun!

SG-1 Dialing Up Sweepstakes

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:54:55 -0800

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Atlantis Wins 2 Gemini Awards

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:52:47 -0700

Stargate Atlantis received 2 Gemini Awards at the 2009 Gemini Awards industry awards presentation.

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series went to Brad Wright for the episode The Shrine.

Best Achievement in Make-Up went to Todd Masters, Leah Ehman, Holland Miller, Brad Proctor and Kyla Rose Tremblay for the episode Vegas.

For a complete list of the winners and nominees, click here.

Robert Carlyle on The Late Late Show

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:59:08 -0700

Robert Carlyle visits Craig Ferguson on The Late Late Show where they talk Stargate Universe, Glasgow and Vancouver.

To see the full episode from CBS.com, click here.

Stargate Universe on G4!

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:12:57 -0700

Blair Hertner from G4's Attack of the Show visits the Stargate Universe set and talks with Lou Diamond Phillips, Elyse Levesque, Louis Ferreira, David Blue, Special FX Supervisor Mark Savela and Stunt Coordinator James Bamford.

To watch the G4 exclusive video, click here.

SGU on the Today Show!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:04:34 -0700

Robert Carlyle, Ming-Na and Lou Diamond Phillips visit the Today Show to talk about Stargate Universe.

To watch the video of thier interview, click here.

SGU Trailer In Theaters Again!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:32:49 -0700

See Stargate Universe on the big screen!

A Stargate Universe trailer will be playing in theaters from 9/18 to 9/24 before all R-rated titles, including "Jennifer’s Body" and "The Informant". The trailer could play up to 20 minutes before the movie starts, so be sure to arrive early.

To find a theater playing the trailer near you, click here.

Dialing Up

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:30:00 -0700

New book available from Titan Books: Dialing Up

Starting where the blockbuster Stargate movie left off, Stargate SG-1 quickly became a sci-fi phenomenon in its own right. The record-breaking ten-season series continued the story of Colonel Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and his elite military team as they probed the secrets of the Stargate.

This bumper volume takes you back to the beginning, covering all the episodes from the first four seasons of the show, and is packed with full color imagery, exclusive interviews with the cast — including contributions written by them, giving their own take on their character — and crew, and behind-the-scenes secrets.

An official full-color companion that’s a must for fans of the show!

Dialing Up will be available September 22, 2009.

To visit our store where you can order Dialing Up and other Stargate books from Titan Books, click here.

SGU Makes TV Guide List

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:10:00 -0700

What Are the 10 Most Anticipated New Fall Shows?

Stargate Universe makes TV Guide's 10 Most Anticipated New Shows List

Click here to see the full list.

SGU TV Squad Interview

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:17:33 -0700

David Blue talks to TV Squad about the realistic tone in Stargate Universe.

Check out the interview at tvsquad.com.

SGU Canada.com Interview

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:07:23 -0700

Brad Wright and Robert Cooper talk Stargate Universe with Canada.com.

Read the interview here.

SGU TV.com Interviews

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:56:41 -0700

Watch Lou Diamond Phillips and David Blue as they give TV.com interviews at the TCA's.

To see Lou Diamond Phillips' interview click here.

To see David Blue's interview click here.

SGU Writing Team - Stargate Magazine #30

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The following excerpt, featured in the latest issue of The Official Stargate SG-1/Atlantis Magazine, begins with co-creator/executive producer Brad Wright explaining why the series opener Air took some creative engineering to pull off...

"Originally, the story was supposed to be a two-parter. That was the first production challenge," says Brad Wright. "Robert and I were writing this script together, which came out of a story we'd spun. He had put the story beats down and, as I tried to go through those beats, I realized that these scenes weren't little, they were huge. I struggled for a while to write certain parts of the script, and finally I emailed Rob and said, 'We have too much story. We're never going to get to the planet before the end of part two, especially if we write these scenes the way they should be written.' "Rob wrote two words back to me, which were 'three hours' – and that's what ended up happening. Obviously, we had to get on the phone and discuss it with Syfy and MGM, and as a result Air has become a two-hour premiere with a cliffhanger, and its resolution is Air Pt. 3.

Expanding our story was a function of having such rich characters to play with, and a big, almost epic tale to tell, which required three hours. "It's not like it's terribly complicated, though, despite all this talk about beats. Basically, our people are running out of air, and while the solutions are more complex, they need to solve a very elemental problem. That's true of most of our first season. It's about survival and just getting to the next day alive. And that's because our ship, the Destiny, as wonderful and full of technology as it is, is really old. It's falling apart, and staying alive is going to be a challenge for all our characters."

In order to resolve the environmental issue aboard the Destiny, Lt. Scott (Brian J. Smith) leads a team on an off-world mission in Air Pt. 3 in search of calcium carbonate to remove excess CO2 from the ship. Regular viewers of Stargate SG-1 and/or Stargate Atlantis who might be expecting to see the team trudging around 'familiar surroundings' are in for a surprise. "We desperately did not want to have our characters running through trees," insists Wright. "In every other Stargate series we've been surrounded by the forests of Vancouver, and this time Charlie Cohen [a senior executive] at MGM said, 'Well, let's go somewhere new, then!' We told him that it would be expensive, and Charlie said, 'This is a big, important new show for us, so let's make it work.' So we shot in the White Sands Desert of New Mexico and it looks like a feature film.

Robert Carlyle [Dr. Nicholas Rush] actually got T-shirts for everyone who went down there with '117' printed on the front because that's how hot it was! "The footage is magnificent and Andy Mikita, who directed all three parts of Air, did an amazing job. As most people know, he's been with us for years and once again he absolutely hit it right out of the ball-park. So the New Mexico shoot was another production challenge with Air and very much worth it, but those who were there suffered to get the job done.

Their efforts come out of our desire to tell elemental stories that aren't about fighting big latex-faced, English-speaking bad guys. That's the major difference between this show and the other Stargates. Universe is much more man against nature/man against man and the crises and conflicts are more internal and onboard the ship. It's human interaction and human conflict as opposed to alien. That's not to say we're not going to run into aliens, because we are. They're just not going to twirl their mustaches and all speak English."

Read the full story in issue 30 of The Official Stargate SG-1/Atlantis Magazine, now on newsstands.

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SGU Trailer in Theaters

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:20:12 -0700

See Stargate Universe on the big screen!

A Stargate Universe trailer will be playing in theaters before "Halloween II" and "The Final Destination 3D" this weekend, 8/28 - 8/30.