VERY COOL. One of the best things for me, personally, to come out of the Toronto Screenwriting Conference this past weekend was a quick chance to chat with Robert C. Cooper, one of the co-Creators & Executive Producers of SGU Stargate Universe.
I was lucky enough to freelance an episode of this show early last year, and it finally airs this Friday on Syfy in the USA (Space in Canada). Here's the promo for FAITH:
I've really been enjoying SGU, especially as it's gone on and the characters deepened. The last two shows, culminating with "Divided" last week, really shows the political complications of this group of people out there on this ship all alone.
As a freelancer, of course, my script was heavily rewritten, first by Carl Binder, and then I'm guessing by Cooper & Brad Wright -- but I was very pleased to see when I read the final script that my story survived, except, of course, everybody had made it MUCH MORE AWESOME.
I'll have more to say about the funny world of the freelancer later in the week -- but for now the best news was Cooper telling me that the show turned out REALLY, REALLY WELL. I'm psyched to see it!
One other massive piece of trivia that came out of Cooper's Q&A with Karen Hill yesterday -- did you know that Stargate, after 15 years and 3 shows, has just about hit the milestone of generating a BILLION DOLLARS for the Canadian economy?
That's billion with a B.
Wow.
That and the Blue Jays home opener tonight = good mood for Daddy.
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That was a very informative part of the conference. I wish I'd been able to stay after and talk to Mr. Cooper, but I had to race back to my train to Montreal - really kicked myself for having to set my ticket so close to the end of the day's events. I thought they'd made an excellent choice to change the format for SGU, and I look forward to more of the series.
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