Pazsaz.com/TVoftheAbsurd.com: Interview with Joe Flanigan re Ferocious Planet

[wraithfodder]

This one is in text, so you can read:

http://articles.pazsaz.com/fplanettr.html

This is an interview from April 6, 2011 with Joe Flanigan from the Syfy movie Ferocious Planet. In "Ferocious Planet," an experimental device designed to view alternate universes malfunctions on its first demonstration, transporting a group of observers into a nightmarish new dimension. The team must use ingenuity and courage to outwit the bloodthirsty creatures of this bizarre world, while trying to repair the damaged machine and return home.

Question:
What are these aliens like compared to the types you've gone up against on Stargate Atlantis?

Joe Flanigan:
They seem to be almost impossible to kill. I seemed to be very good at killing the other ones. When we shot this, we shot it Ireland, and we worked strictly on green screen, and we weren't given much in the way of what it was going to look like. And that's kind of interesting because on the show, we always knew what the Wraith were going to look like. And so, you had an idea of what you were looking at and what you were working with. And in this case, I have to say they're much bigger than I anticipated them to be.

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excerpt:

Flanigan plays the whole thing like a war-weary commando whose quick with a quip and more annoyed than fearful of being killed. Flanigan says his calm demeanor was less of a directorial choice and more about the fact that he was mislead in regard to the size of the monsters.

"I didn't think they'd be that big," he told reporters on a recent conference call. "When we shot this, we shot it Ireland, and we worked strictly on green screen, and we weren’t given much in the way of what it was going to look like. And that’s kind of interesting because on [Stargate Atlantis], we always knew what the Wraith were going to look like. And so, you had an idea of what you were looking at and what you were working with. [With Ferocious Planet], we weren’t entirely clear what these things were going to look like until after we shot it, so I was just hoping that our levels of appropriate fear were there."

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Apparently this was a 'satellite' interview where he got interviewed by a whole lot of people from, well, wherever (hey, where is SyFy's interview???) regarding the movie. More to come as they are unearthed.

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Thanks!

[meckman37.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for posting this. What a great interview! I was a big Atlantis fan (still miss it!), and have lost touch with what Joe Flanigan was doing, so it was great to read this.

Re: Thanks!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. if you're on twitter, you should follow him :)

[jipujoke.livejournal.com]

Very enlightening and beneficial to someone whose been out of the circuit for a long time.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[2bluaeryn.livejournal.com]

I found this answer from Joe such a \0/. Good for him.

And, thanks for sharing these.


Question:
Are we ever going to get to see Stargate Extinction?

Joe Flanigan:
Apparently not. I believe that those things have been postponed indefinitely. I mean as you know, the franchise has been summarily closed. That doesn't mean that's the end of the franchise by any stretch of the imagination, especially if I have my druthers, I'll find a way to bring it back. I think the fans deserve to see some closure or at least some type of continuation. I think that - and especially in regards to my show, it was just unceremoniously closed and we need to do something about it




Read more: http://articles.pazsaz.com/fplanettr.html#ixzz1J5FHn5Te

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup! Ah, I'd love to see SGA come back as a two hour movie....

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

I loved his comment in one interview where he said
"As long as somebody yells
'I'm going to die!' 'I'm going to die'
it seems to work well or words like it
all the while wearing a deadpan expression