GATEWORLD: CROSSROADS
Thursday - May 17, 2012
by Chad Colvin
One of GateWorld’s favorite activities over the past eight years has been traveling to Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada every spring to cover Creation Entertainment’s Official Stargate Convention. And every year we make sure to arrive a few days early in order to spend some time with cast and crew members local to the area who aren’t necessarily part of the convention. With this year being the final Vancouver event, we felt it imperative while there to sit down and chat with a creative team that needs no real introduction on these pages.
The impact that Amanda Tapping and Martin Wood have had on genre television is immeasurable, not just with the Stargate franchise but also with the series they helped create: Sanctuary. GateWorld visited the duo at Stargate‘s former home, The Bridge Studios (where they are working on their latest project), for a discussion that was equal parts emotional, brutally honest, hopeful and, best of all, hilarious. We discuss the potential for Stargate‘s future, Sanctuary‘s best moments of the past two years, whether or not the latter series will grace our screens again, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, the latest on Primeval: New World, and more. Plus, the pair take a few moments to answer some questions you provided from GateWorld Forum!
GateWorld’s interview with Amanda Tapping and Martin Wood runs 37 minutes and is available in audio for your listening pleasure. It’s also transcribed [at the link above]. Forum questions are exclusive to the transcribed version … so read on!
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A brief excerpt:
GateWorld: I know you guys have heard this a lot lately, especially on Twitter, because I know a lot of fans have been approaching some of the cast and crew that way in regards to it. Season Four aired and finished airing, basically right before the end of the year last year. And since then, there really has been no announcement, future-wise ... Do you see it returning? I know the Season Four finale could function as a series finale if it needs to.
Amanda Tapping: "It totally could.
Do we see it returning? I’d love to see it return. It was never an intention to end the show after Season Four. And in all honesty, we’re not going to be on TV screens in the fall. We know that. It’s really just been a logistical [nightmare] and a heartbreaking, soul crushing play-out of events. But the truth of the matter is Syfy was not able to make a decision in a timely fashion as to whether or not we were coming back for the fall. They had their whole crunch going on with Comcast taking over at NBC. So they weren’t able to give us a decision.
Our financiers were getting really nervous about whether or not the show was coming back. And even though Syfy doesn’t have to tell us until July, telling us in July means the show is not coming back in the fall because we can’t possibly do it. In that time period where the financiers were getting nervous and Syfy wasn’t giving us a decision, our studio came up for lease. And our studio is very expensive. They wanted us to sign a year-long lease and pay three months in advance. And our financiers were like “Why would we do that? We don’t even know if the show’s [returning].” So they released the studio.
All of our assets are currently sitting in a massive storeroom. Everything Sanctuary. Except for our sets which have been sold. Which is fine..."
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