Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Sanctuary
7/23/08 - Damian Kindler, creator and executive producer of SCI FI
Channel's upcoming supernatural series Sanctuary, bridges the
real and the fantastical with a graphic-novel style that hasn't been
seen before. Kindler said, "I feel like Sanctuary has the
ability to be like a really cool graphic novel you've never seen yet.
... It's got a graphic-novel feel and look and tone and attitude and
visuals, but you've never seen it before." Sanctuary, which
began life as an online series, centers on Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda
Tapping), who tracks the mysterious creatures that live among us,
abnormal offshoots of evolution in the fringes of society. She harbors
the benign ones in a Sanctuary and protects the world from the dangerous
ones. She is joined in this quest by her fearless daughter, Ashley (Emilie
Ullerup); quirky tech whiz Henry; and a new recruit, Will (Robin Dunne),
a brilliant psychiatrist/profiler with a knack for finding the strange
and unusual. Sanctuary, which is also executive-produced by
Tapping, Martin Wood and Sam Egan, is shooting 13 episodes; it debuts on
SCI FI in the fall.
03/26/08 - Amanda Tapping will star and executive produce SCI FI Channel's upcoming new series Sanctuary. SCI FI Channel announced in late January that it had ordered 13 episodes of Sanctuary, which was created by Damian Kindler and co-written by Martin Wood. Tapping will play Dr. Helen Magnus, an apparently immortal doctor and scientist who seeks to locate, aid, and protect supernatural creatures. To adapt the high-definition digital Web series for television, SCI FI has ordered up a new pilot. Sanctuary will premiere later in 2008.
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