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May 09 2010

Stargate Universe 1.5 DVD and Blu Ray Details Released

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A group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, fleeing an attack, find themselves stranded billions of miles from Earth on an Ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them.

Following up on February’s release of 1.0 on DVD and Blu, MGM and distributor Fox Home Entertainment have formally announced to retailers that on July 27th they will release Stargate Universe – 1.5 in both disc formats. Yes, that date is two weeks later than the one we passed along a while ago from The Official Stargate Magazine…but then again, dates move all the time in this industry!

The DVD release will come on 3 discs running 537 minutes long, presented in widescreen video. Audio is in both English: 5.1 Dolby Digital and with an option for Spanish: Dolby Surround. Subtitles are English, Spanish and French. Cost will be $29.98 SRP in the USA, and CA$37.98 SRP in Canada. Package art is below.

The Blu-ray Disc version will also be a 3-disc set for these 10 episodes Video is high-definition widescreen, and audio options on the BD release are for English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio or for Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. English, Spanish and French subtitles are available here as well. Price will be $39.99 SRP in the USA, and CA$49.99 SRP in Canada. Box art can be found at bottom (and we’re certain that MGM/Fox will fix the typo on the spine before the package ships!).

Extras for Stargate Universe – 1.5 (both DVD and BD) are shown as follows: Episode Commentary on all 3 Discs

David Blue: An Interview with the Creators of SG-U
Brian J Smith: An Interview with the Creators of SG-U
Alaina Huffman: An Interview with the Creators of SG-U
Designing a New Race: Space Aliens
Tanked! Elyse Levesque Goes for a Swim
Chatting with the Cast: Peter Kelamis
Chatting with the Cast: Julia Benson
Chatting with the Cast: Jennifer Spence
Chatting with the Cast: Patrick Gilmore
Finding Destiny: A Tour of the Destiny Set with Chris Beach
The Destiny of General O’Neill
A Day in the Life of Louis Ferreria
Out for a Spacewalk with Jamil Walker Smith
A Behind the Scenes Look at “Incursion”
Two-for-One: Behind the “Incursion” Double Ratchet Stunt
Kino Video Diaries One Long Endless Night
Horrible Accident
We Volunteer to Do This
Wait for It
Drop the Sirs
Like a Hug
Painful Moments Part 1
Painful Moments Part 2
All the Stages

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Apr 17 2010

Watch Elyse Levesque Answering The Fans Questions

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The fans had the questions for Stargate Universes Elyse Levesque, find out how she feels about being cast in the sci-fi series, what it’s like working with her costars and much more, in in this latest video featurette to be added to the sites media collection.

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Apr 03 2010

Head Through the Stargate with SGU’s Elyse Levesque

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After a four month mid-season break, Stargate Universe is now back. Eric Goodman from IGN has had the chance to speak to one of the show’s stars, Elyse Levesque, about the return of the series and some hints on what’s to come.

Elsyse discusses below the evolution of her character, Chloe and the continuing love triangle between herself, Lt. Scott and Eli and much, much more in this exclusive interview.

IGN TV: When last we left off, Dr. Rush had been abandoned, although the whole crew doesn’t know that that’s exactly what went down. How’s everyone dealing with his absence? He wasn’t the most popular guy, but…

Elyse Levesque: He really wasn’t, but he’s kind of the only person that knows how to get us out of all our situations. And I think people suspect that maybe there’s a little more to Young’s story that he’s not revealing and what happened on the planet. But yeah, the unfortunate thing of the situation is we don’t have time to go back and get him. We don’t know how to manipulate the ship in order to save him. So we’re kind of left out on our own and just hoping that, you know, he’s a smart guy and he can handle himself and that he manages to make it back.

IGN: What can you say about Chloe’s storyline in the coming episodes?

Levesque: Without giving too much away, something happens in the first episode which really drastically affects her; it changes her. And we see her go through almost a bit of a personality change. We don’t see the full repercussion of the event on her until Season 2, actually, which we started filming. But we do see a bit of it come into play, and we’re gonna see her relationship with Scott get tested and her relationship with Eli and everyone else on board, and I think we see her become a more active member of the crew and the life onboard the ship.

IGN: Poor Eli…

Levesque: I know. Poor Eli. Unrequited love is the worst. It sucks, let me tell ya. We’ve all been there. We understand.

IGN: Is she just not seeing that this guy wants to be more than her buddy?

Levesque: I think she knows. She knows. I mean, she’d have to be blind not to tell that the guy cares about her and has feelings for her, and I think it’s one of those situations where it’s hard for her to see him in the same light. She loves and cares about him very much, and I think she’s never had anyone in her life that she’s connected to on the level that she’s connected with Eli, where it’s a friendship with someone she really, genuinely trusts and values as a friend. And you’re always in that predicament of, do you mess up a good thing? Do you take that to the next level and then possibly ruin a great friendship? And then, of course, she’s got her relationship with Scott, which complicates that whole business, and I think where she stands right now with Eli is she sees him solely as a friend. I think she tries her best to be careful with his heart and not hurt him.

IGN: Meanwhile, she and Scott kind of rushed into things, though it was understandable, given the circumstances.

Levesque: You know what? They were about to go up in flames. I mean, come on. What would you do? [Laughs] Seriously. No judgment. Yeah, I was all for it. No one wants to be alone.

IGN: In different ways, she spent time with both those guys, when the end was nigh.

Levesque: I know. And there was a lot of – this is funny – the fans were peeved because they thought I was leading Eli on and then I go and slept with Scott. But from how I saw it, she’s trying to keep herself together, and you just want to be close to somebody that you care about and trust, and I don’t think that any of the stuff that happened between them actually was sexual at all. It was clearly a matter of, “Oh sweet Jesus, we’re about to die. This is the end. At least let’s stick by each other and be there for each other through this.”

IGN: So as the actress playing the character, who are you rooting for in this love triangle?

Levesque: I’ve been asked this a couple times. You know what? Oh man… I’ve been the Eli. I totally have. And I know that it is a horrible situation to be in, to love somebody and to not have the feelings reciprocated. So a part of me gets him, and I am rooting for him, but at the same time, and you’ll see it happen more and more, the relationship with her and Scott grows and changes and become more serious. It’s not really just a fling. So my hands are tied at the moment. It’s tough, man, being fought over like that. [Laughs] It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. I’ll take it for the Destiny team, no problem. I’ll carry that burden.

You can read the full 3 page interview here courtesy of IGN »

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Universe Press Release Announces Two New Season Two Guest Stars

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New York, New York – April 1, 2010 – Syfy’s acclaimed series, Stargate Universe has cast famed actors, Robert Knepper (Heroes, Prison Break) and Julie McNiven (Supernatural, Mad Men) as guest stars to the second season of the hit series. Knepper joins the cast for a six-episode arc and will portray Simeon, a member of the Lucian Alliance. McNiven will also join the cast for a five-episode arc, portraying Ginn, a member of the Lucian Alliance. Season two of Stargate Universe premieres on Syfy fall 2010.

Production is underway in Vancouver, Canada. The second-half of Stargate Universe’s first season premieres Friday, April 2, at 9 PM (ET/PT).

Edgier and younger in tone, SGU takes the franchise in a dynamic new direction, appealing to longtime Stargate fans and first-time viewers alike. The series stars Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, Brian J. Smith, Elyse Levesque, David Blue, Alaina Huffman, Jamil Walker Smith, Ming-Na and Lou Diamond Phillips .

SGU follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Faced with meeting the most basic needs of food, water and air, the group must unlock the secrets of the ship’s Stargate to survive. The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them Robert Cooper and Brad Wright, of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, serve as executive producers and writers. SGU is produced and distributed by MGM Worldwide Television Distribution.

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Big Stargate Universe Return Premiere Spoilers & Those News Aliens

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Want to know all about what we have to look forward to for the second half of Syfy’s Stargate Universe, which premieres tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT? More on that in a minute. How about a really big teaser from co-creator and executive producer Brad Wright? (Spoilers ahead!)

While we know that Stargate Universe has been picked up for a second season, during that second season the crew of the Destiny will receive information that will affect them all, Wright told us in an exclusive interview

“Ultimately what we’re going to realize over the course of the series is that Destiny is a very important thing and our [presence] there plays a huge role. It is an important mission that we’re on. It’s not just a cruise ship. It’s not just about getting home. What we’re doing is very important. … It is something we’re going to learn over the course of the whole series, the long-term arc. But Rush has believed in it from the beginning.”

Rush (Robert Carlyle)? Wasn’t he abandoned and left for dead on an alien planet? Well, tune in tonight.

And while info on that mission will be a while in coming, in the meantime we’ll get a chance to dig back into the middle of the first season after Stargate Universe’s four-month break for a chance to see the fallout from the cliffhanger mid-season finale, “Justice,” where Col. Young (Louis Ferreira) attacked Dr. Nicholas Rush. Of course, Rush had tried to set him up for murder before that, but still it wasn’t exactly a heroic move for Young.

In the last 10 episodes of the first season, which begin tonight, Wright admits, “I don’t think I’m giving too much away by saying Rush is coming back.” However, he doesn’t promise Rush will actually come back tonight, just that he’s coming back to the show.

While Wright isn’t about to tell us exactly how Rush manages to make it back to the Destiny, “Young suffers the repercussions of his actions. As he should… He crossed a line.”

The fascinating Col. Young has been one of the many surprises of the series. “He’s this character who is driven by nobility, but pushed beyond it. Pushed to do things that are not him. Not the man he wants to be, at least,” he said.

On tonight’s mid-season premiere, “Space,” Col. Young’s consciousness ends up in an alien being when things with the communication stones go awry, which results in a standoff between the Destiny and the alien vessel, and with Chloe (Elyse Levesque) trapped in the middle.

While the series has suffered some complaints from previous Stargate series fans about not be action-oriented enough, Wright says, “We took a few risks to bring in some new viewers, but I think if enough of our regular fans stick with us they’ll start being more satisfied, too, with Universe. Because they were missing aliens and spaceships and adventure. There is significantly more of that.”

According to Wright, the second half of the season was designed from the beginning “for everything to start ramping up and to get more action-oriented. We wanted everybody to know the characters well for the events,” he said. “You see, for me, run, jump and action stuff is really only riveting if you really care about the characters and have a relationship with them. We wanted to focus a lot on that. … I mean, it’s still a character driven show. I’m not suggesting we’re not doing character-driven stuff. But I think the pace picks up over all. We meet aliens. I mean, we meet more than one group of aliens, and the intensity of discovery gets higher.”

The aliens the Destiny will encounter “were done in the same manner and actually by some of the same people who did District 9. These are full on CG aliens, still living up to my promise that they’re not speaking English or wearing latex. They are very cool. They’re not that nice. They’ve got an agenda. In fact, you’ve seen two examples of them already one at the end of “Air, Part 3.” That little ship that peeled off and flew way belongs to them. The crashed ship belonged to them.”

Another intriguing fellow on the series is Col. Telford, played by Lou Diamond Phillips, who will also return to the Destiny. “He comes back. Yes, certainly in a big way toward the back of the back 10. In fact, the season has been building and there is a big twist, very big twist with his character, which is interesting and fun.”