Stargate Dials Up a New Chapter in March
The Stargate SG-1 team returns to your television set on March 11 as long as you turn on the DVD player instead of the cable box.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth is the first of two direct-to-DVD movies from the Stargate SG-1 franchise. The story picks up after the series final and has the old familiar crew searching for an ancient weapon that would help them defeat the forces of Ori.
Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Beau Bridges, Christopher Judge, Ben Browder and Claudia Black all reprise their original roles but executive producer Robert C. Cooper says you ought to notice a difference.
In an interview with Home Media Magazine he said, "Overall, the movies feel like they are a little bigger and a little richer than the show,” he said. “We shot in 35mm film, framed for 16×9, and spent the money on some sets and locations we never could have afforded on the series. We also shot the movies with a bigger scope in mind. In TV you tend to concentrate a little more on close-ups, but in this case we tried to shoot a little wider. And we also were able to afford a symphonic musical score.”
And while "Ark" wraps up some loose ends from the series, the next project, Continuum, is a totally new, stand-alone story.
The jump from weekly series to full-scale movies reminds me of another scifi franchise that went in a similar direction. Alien Nation was only on the air for one season, but after the show’s demise, they returned with five TV movies in four years, all of which did quite well on TV in the mid-nineties. Today, they would have gone direct to DVD, an option that is opening up a whole new world for TV shows looking to expand their audience.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth is available for pre-order at Amazon for delivery on March 11.
Source: HomeMediaMagazine.com
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