Stargate: Continuum
Stargate: Continuum | |
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Directed by | Martin Wood |
Written by | Brad Wright |
Produced by | Brad Wright Robert C. Cooper |
Starring | |
Cinematography | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
Release date | July 29, 2008 |
Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $7 million |
Box office | $8.6 million |
Stargate: Continuum is a 2008 American
The film is a time-travel adventure in which
Continuum was released
Plot
SG-1 and
A year passes, and SG-1 is called back into action when Goa'uld scoutships appear. Ba'al has brought the other System Lords under his control and now stands ready to conquer Earth, with
Above Earth, Ba'al's armada arrives. To the displeasure of his subordinates, the other System Lords, Ba'al announces that he will treat the
When the Goa'uld destroy the Antarctic Stargate, SG-1 is rerouted to Russia, as the Russians had retrieved the Achilles' Stargate from the ocean floor. Teal'c arrives at the facility as well, seeking to use the Stargate to reach the time machine before Qetesh. The two sides agree to a truce and get to Ba'al's time machine: an underground supercomputer connected to hundreds of satellites that monitor solar flares from various stars that could intersect a wormhole created by the Stargate; the flares are necessary for time travel. SG-1 must wait for the right flare in order to journey to the right time, but when Qetesh's troops attack, they are forced to dial the Stargate to the year 1929 - ten years before their desired target date. Sam and Daniel are killed in the firefight, and only Mitchell passes through the Stargate. Teal'c, mortally wounded, blows himself and Qetesh up. After a decade of waiting, Mitchell stows away on the Achilles and kills Ba'al and his troops when they come aboard through the Stargate.
In the now-restored timeline, SG-1, completely unaware of the previous events, watch the extraction proceed without incident. On Earth, Daniel wonders what Ba'al meant by his fail-safe.
Cast
- Ben Browder as Colonel Cameron "Cam" Mitchell and Mitchell's grandfather, the captain of the Achilles
- Amanda Tapping as Colonel Samantha "Sam" Carter
- Christopher Judge as Teal'c
- Michael Shanks as Dr. Daniel Jackson
- Qetesh
- Henry "Hank" Landry
- Richard Dean Anderson as Major General (& Colonel) Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill
- Ba'al
- Apophis
- Nirrti
- Don S. Davis as Lieutenant General George Hammond
- Henry Hayes
Production
Stargate: Continuum was written by
The original draft for the film started with a view of the
Due to a scheduling conflict, actor Michael Shanks was unavailable to shoot the scenes in the Arctic. However, Jackson was on the boat with Cameron Mitchell and Samantha Carter in the preceding scenes. In order to make his disappearance plausible, Wright decided that Jackson would develop frostbite after stepping in water and be unable to continue with the others. When commenting on the dialogue scenes, Wright commented that scenes like that would be "cut off" because of the time constraints in the Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis episodes, and further commented that they could keep these scenes since the film is "longer" than the episodes.[2]
The film includes scenes filmed at the U.S. Navy's Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station in the Arctic, 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. These scenes feature Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping and Ben Browder. They were filmed from March 23 to 29, 2007. The film also features USS Alexandria (SSN-757).[4] The Arctic filming included scenes shot on the ice,[5] scenes shot with the Alexandria as a backdrop,[6] scenes shot on board the Alexandria,[7] and shots of the Alexandria surfacing and submerging. Because of the minimal facilities, the Arctic scenes were filmed with only the three actors and a four-man crew. Director Martin Wood worked as an extra in one scene (as "Major Wood"), as did another member of the film crew. The captain of the Alexandria, Cmdr. Mike Bernacchi, and members of her crew played themselves. Barry L. Campbell, head of operations at the San Diego-based U.S. Navy Arctic Submarine Laboratory, who had arranged the opportunity to film in Arctic, also appeared as a seaman.[8] Writer Brad Wright also had a cameo appearance, as an F-15 pilot.[2]
The film is dedicated to the memory of Paul McCann and Anthony Huntrod, who lost their lives during an accident under the ice cap on the submarine HMS Tireless (S88) at the time of filming.[9][10][11][12] The film took 19 days to shoot, plus five days of shooting in the Arctic (they were there for seven days).[2][13] Continuum was placed in the Guinness World Records in the category for farthest north film shoot.[14] This film also contained the final scenes filmed by actor Don S. Davis who died on June 28, 2008, about one month before the film's release.[15] He was later honored in Stargate Universe by having the ship named for his character George Hammond commanded by Samantha Carter.
Release
The film premiered at
Reception
Critical response
A reviewer for
Stargate: Continuum won the High-Def Disc Awards 2008 category for Best Nontheatrical Blu-ray.[31] The film was nominated for 6 Constellation Awards in 2008, the results were announced on July 11, 2009. The film won one award out of six nominations. Claudia Black received the award for "Best Female Performance in a 2008 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series" for her portrayal of Vala Mal Doran.[32] The film was also nominated for a total of 11 Leo Awards in 2009. The results were announced on May 8 and 9, 2009, the film won three awards: Brad Wright won in the category "Best Screenwriting in a Feature Length Drama", Michael Shanks won "Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama" for his portrayal of Daniel Jackson and the three production crew members Paul Sharpe, Iain Pattison and Graeme Hughes won "Best Overall Sound in a Feature Length Drama".[33]
The two Stargate direct-to-DVD movies to date, Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: The Ark of Truth, were re-released in the United States as a Double-Pack DVD on March 3, 2009; the Double-Pack is also available on Blu-ray.
Accolades
In 2009, Stargate: Continuum was nominated for 11
Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
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Leo Awards |
Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama | Michael Shanks | Won |
Best Overall Sound in a Feature Length Drama | Paul A. Sharpe, Iain Pattison, Graeme Hughes | Won | |
Best Screenwriting in a Feature Length Drama | Brad Wright | Won | |
Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Drama | Peter F. Woeste | Nominated | |
Best Costume Design in a Feature Length Drama | Christina McQuarrie | Nominated | |
Best Direction in a Feature Length Drama | Martin Wood | Nominated | |
Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Feature Length Drama | Amanda Tapping | Nominated | |
Best Picture Editing in a Feature Length Drama | Brad Rines | Nominated | |
Best Production Design in a Feature Length Drama | James Robbins, Mark Davidson, Robert Davidson | Nominated | |
Best Sound Editing in a Feature Length Drama | Jay Cheetham | Nominated | |
Best Visual Effects in a Feature Length Drama | Michelle Comens, Stephen Bahr, Christopher Stewart, Krista McLean, James Kawano | Nominated |
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External links
- Official Stargate site at MGM
- Stargate: Continuum at IMDb
- Stargate: Continuum on Stargate Wiki
- Stargate: Continuum Archived 2010-03-07 at the GateWorld
- Stargate: Continuum at The Numbers