Travel Inspiration found in the “Stargate”

This month, Stargate: Continuum was released on DVD. This meant huge excitement for longtime fans of the series but it should also be exciting for set-jetters as I predict this will be one of the most travel inspiring movies of the year! Why you ask? Because the film was partially shot in the Arctic, a rare feat for a production of this size.

This all came about because of an overzealous fan, Barry Campbell, who happened to work at APLIS. Campbell attended an autograph signing at a Stargate Convention and asked the film’s stars if they would like to go to the Arctic. The producers liked the idea and once it was ok’d by the Navy, Stargate’s writer, Brad Wright, began a script that would incorporate the Arctic.

The show’s director Martin Wood called filming in the region “amazingly complicated”. This was exemplified at one point when the cast and crew (cut down to only 7 people for the trip) waited nearly six hours in negative 50 degree temperatures for the Navy to drive a submarine up through four feet of ice.

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