RED FACTION: ORIGINS - ASSIGNMENT X: Exclusive Interview: RED FACTION: ORIGINS actor Brian J. Smith on his new Syfy tour of duty
The actor talks about the differences between this and STARGATE UNIVERSE
By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
June 4th, 2011
Syfy’s new telefilm RED FACTION: ORIGINS, premiering Saturday at 9 PM, is a live-action film produced in partnership with videogame company THQ. It is set in the universe of THQ’s RED FACTION videogame franchise. The original game involved a group of miners on Mars rebelling against the oppressive government on Earth. ORIGINS takes place between the games RED FACTION: GUERILLA and RED FACTION: ARMAGEDDON, picking up twenty years after the original rebellion. Red Faction leader Alec Mason, played in the telefilm by Robert Patrick, has become seriously disillusioned with how things have worked out now that Mars is governing itself. However, his son Jake Mason, played by Brian J. Smith, is ready to challenge the new world order.
Smith, who just finished a different tour of duty as Lt. Matthew Scott on two seasons of STARGATE UNIVERSE talks about his work on RED FACTION: ORIGINS...
Danielle Nicolet and Brian J. Smith in Red Faction: Origins
... ASSIGNMENT X: Since you were already working for Syfy on SGU, did that factor into them bringing you in for RED FACTION: ORIGINS?
SMITH: Yeah. Erica McNair, who was sort of our point person at Syfy for SGU, knew my work. She was really familiar with what I did and I guess I didn’t piss too many people off [laughs] and I think they thought this would be not just a good role for me, but it would be a challenging one and this would be the kind of project that would be really fun to work with me on and for me to work with them on. It a great, great stretching experience, because there were things I got to do in this that I think I probably might have eventually gotten to do on STARGATE, but hadn’t really gotten to yet...
Brian J. Smith and Robert Patrick in Red Faction: Origins
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