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Brent Straits Rev Bem Audition Script[]
Audition Script (Scene 1) |
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REV BEM AUDITION SCENE ONE INT. DYLAN'S OFFICE
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Audition Script (Scene 2) |
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REV BEM AUDITION SCENE TWO INT. HYDROPONICS BAY
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Laura Bertrams Trance Gemini Audition Script[]
Audition Script (Scene 1) |
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TRANCE AUDITION SCENE ONE
INT. CAVE - NIGHT
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Audition Script (Scene 2) |
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TRANCE AUDITION SCENE TWO
EXT. OBS DECK
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Directors Bible Excerpt On Interstellar Travel[]
The Excerpt |
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In most space-based science fiction shows, travelling between solar systems is accomplished simply by going very, very, fast. Hyperspeed, warp speed, superzoomorama speed. Not only is this if blatantly impossible, it's been done.
So let's find another way.
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Last Call Beat Sheet[]
The Initial Background Story |
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“The Final Round”
Story by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
For Dylan, this makes Garcia a perfect potential ally. She is already known and trusted. She's already shown sympathy with his cause. All he has to do is find her. Following a series of rumors (and using Trance's ability to “find things”), Dylan (in plainclothes) and his crew end up in a grungy miner's bar deep in the Svorog outback. The bar, “The Broken Hammer,” is run by an attractive woman named ULU. Ulu claims not to know anyone named Garcia, but when Beka shows her a picture of Garcia, Ulu recognizes it. She identifies the woman as one of her patrons, the doctor at the local mine. Ulu suggests they wait for a while, the Doc usually comes in after the mine-shift ends. But as they're waiting, a surly alien patron approaches Dylan and his crew. He identifies himself as GOREJON, and presents his credentials as a freelance officer of Greater Magellanic Collections… in other words, a bounty hunter. He believes Dylan and his crew are rival bounty hunters trying to work his territory. Dylan insists that that's not why they're there. But when Gorejon insists on seeing the flexi with Garcia's picture and Dylan refuses, things get ugly. Gorejon draws a gun… and Tyr has no choice but to kill him. Unfortunately, the death occurs just the Doctor (who might be Isabella Garcia) enters. So when Dylan identifies himself and says he's looking for her, the Doctor isn't exactly receptive. She tells Dylan to go to hell and storms out. Dylan follows the Doctor to her small but serviceable office. Ulu comes with him and insists the death of Gorejon was self-defense. Dylan asks to speak to the Doctor in private, but the woman tells Dylan to let her stay. Ulu's her friend... almost a surrogate daughter. Whatever Dylan wants to say, he can say it in front of her. Dylan presents his evidence. He's certain the doctor is Garcia. She matches the description, her former associates believe the missing diplomat is on this world, and the Doctor arrived at the same time Garcia disappeared. At first, the woman denies she's the person Dylan's looking for. She claims she knew Garcia, but the politician died ten years ago. But then Dylan confronts her with an ugly fact… he and his crew weren't the only ones looking for Garcia. According to their sources, the Kalderans were after her, too. And they were getting close. In fact, the desperate pleas of her former associates were what set Dylan on her trail to begin with.
Ulu suggests a compromise. Why doesn't Garcia come back to the bar, and let Dylan explain his entire plan to her. Meanwhile, Ulu can have her sources check on how close the Kalderans are and arrange off-world passage for Garcia if she thinks it's necessary. Garcia reluctantly agrees. Luckily for her. Because just as they walk out of Garcia's office, the whole place explodes. Realizing that they are under fire from some kind of artillery weapon, Dylan rushes Ulu and Garcia back to the Hammer. Eventually, the artillery shells start landing nearby. Dylan collects force lances from his crew, then rushes outside (under fire) and plants them in the ground. He programs the lances' effectors to take out the heavy weapons fire. This creates an artillery shield… for as long as the effectors still have ammunition. In the meantime, all they will have to contend with is incoming laser fire.
The effector rounds protecting their perimeter begin to run out. The situation looks grim. Dylan knows that Kalderans evolved from pack animals and take a little longer than normal to react to surprise, so he develops a final, desperate plan. He and Tyr set off a massive explosion in the bar, making it look like they've all died from a lucky hit to a weapons' depot. And then they all play dead while the Kalderans move in to check the bodies. Then, at the last moment, they attack the unsuspecting assassins from ambush. As predicted, the Kalderans hesitate, just for a second, to reach group consensus… and in that second, Dylan and his crew (including the recruited bar patrons) cut them down. In the end, Dylan takes Ulu up to the Andromeda. He's planning to bring her to Sintii, where the fledgling Commonwealth is at its strongest. She is impressed by what she sees of the Andromeda… and even more impressed by what she's seen of Dylan. She'll miss her bar on Svorog, miss being a nobody living in the middle of nowhere, but… it's good to be back in the game again. |
The Beat Sheet (Teaser) |
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Story by Robert Hewitt Wolfe - March 5, 2001
Story beats by John Lloyd Parry - March 11, 2001
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The Beat Sheet (Act I) |
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ACT I
1. INT. BROKEN HAMMER, DYLAN'S TABLE - LATER
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The Beat Sheet (Act II) |
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ACT II
1. INT. BROKEN HAMMER, DOC'S CORNER
ULU's on the phone. What? They're here...?
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The Beat Sheet (Act III) |
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ACT III
1. INT. BROKEN HAMMER, DYLAN'S CORNER
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The Beat Sheet (Act IV) |
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ACT IV
1. INT. BROKEN HAMMER, DYLAN'S CORNER
DYLAN covers the doorway as TYR and the MINER rush outside to plant the device.
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The Beat Sheet (Act V) |
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ACT V
1. INT. BROKEN HAMMER, TYR'S CORNER
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Robert Hewlitt Wolfe Questions and Answers, Interviews and Other Statements[]
How Andromeda Came to be |
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SPACE.com: Could you go back and describe the call you got about this series?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Tribune already had an agreement in place with the Roddenberry estate and with Kevin [Sorbo] to do a show based on some of the Roddenberry material with Kevin as the star. There was enough material for them to do two different shows. They said to me "look, we’ve got all these elements, why don’t you look at this stuff and tell us what you’d do. There are premises that lend themselves to doing stuff on a planet and there are premises that lend themselves for a starship. We want you to work on a premise for a starship."
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Interview by Space.com with Robert Hewitt Wolfe About the Cast of Andromeda |
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SPACE.com: Tell me about the psychological dynamics of the people on the bridge of the Andromeda.
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: It’s quite a dynamic group as we’ve discovered from shooting "D Minus Zero", which put them into a very ship-based, action-based environment. They just have a different dynamic.
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Robert Hewlitt Wolfes Interview With Space.Com About the Technology of Andromeda |
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SPACE.com: First of all, I found what looks like the not-ready-for-primetime Andromeda web site and it's the most scientifically detailed universe (as far as the technology goes) that I've ever seen. How was that created?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Gene [Roddenberry] did leave a lot of notes on the current stuff he wanted to do, so I had access to those notes. Gene was calling for a sentient mechanical ship. One that was basically fully human in every way, emotionally. I thought that was really cool.
More About Andromeda From Robert Hewitt Wolfe About the look and feel of the show - a little more toward the ER school of filmmaking.
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About The Technological Graphics Within the Series With Space.com and Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
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SPACE.com: Now that you’re looking at the dailies, has that affected the writing?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Oh sure, we adjust all sorts of little things.
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Questions asked before the official airing of the series |
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Q: Can you give me a short description of the heart of Andromeda, something to get friends galvanized to watch the series?
A: The heart of Andromeda is that it is basically a quest to restore civilization to a dark and sort of down-fallen galaxy. That's sort of the story heart, but the thematic heart is really about what it takes to be, well, how to be a hero is a little glib. It is really about this man who finds himself in an impossible situation and just refuses to allow that to define how he is going to deal with it. He is presented with an impossible situation and says basically "Okay, man. That's what fate's dealt me and I am going to lick it anyway. I am going for it. I am going to fix this. No matter how crazy that may seem to other people, I don't care." Thematically it is really how we all must define our own lives, our own stories."
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Questions and Answers From and To Fans |
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I recently noticed some Andromeda episode titles in a poem I found by W.B.Yeats called 'The Second Coming' I am curious, was this intentional and part of an arc?
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe on The Fanbase of Andromeda With Space.com |
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In this exclusive Dispatch from Andromeda, Don Lipper speaks with Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda co-executive producer and head writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe about the X-Men, the Wolfe signature and why he won’t be telling his fans to get a life.
SPACE.com: We’ve noticed a big groundswell of fan interest in the show. There are a lot more sites now—SlipstreamWeb.com for example.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks About Season 1 and the Future of the Show |
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SPACE.com: The last time we talked you were in the mid-season and now you’ve shot the season finale. What went into the final episodes of the first year?
RHW: I think we really got our stride about episode 11 or 12. We knew what we needed to do in order to get the results that we wanted and the last 10 or so episodes that will air are very, very strong. So, we’re really happy. It’s been a haul. Starting a science fiction show from scratch is not an easy thing to do.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks About Shooting Season 1 |
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SPACE.com: So you’re shooting now. Tell me what that’s like.
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: It’s great! The dailies are looking really, really good. Kevin’s been terrific. He totally inhabits the role and the rest of the cast is doing great work too. Not that I had much to do with the quality of the dailies, the credit goes to Allan Eastman and Brenton Spencer, the first two directors.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about Special Effects |
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SPACE.com: How’s shooting going?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Good, we’ve got three episodes in the can. And that’s really nice.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about Season 2 |
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SPACE.com: What episode are you onto now?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: We are shooting "Banks of the Lethe" [Episode 9-ish]. We are working the scripts for 16, 17 and 18. We may not shoot in that order.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about Makeup and the Writers |
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In this exclusive Dispatch from Andromeda, Don Lipper speaks with Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda co-executive producer and head writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe about makeup, the ABC’s of writing an episode, why Kevin Sorbo regularly kisses an actor named Sam and why you won’t see many other Trek writers working on the show.
SPACE.com: I hear that Brent [Stait]’s makeup is quite an ordeal.
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Interviews about Species and Races[]
Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about the Persieds |
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SPACE.com: When you’re designing a new race, what sort of analogs did you have?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Well we haven’t quite nailed down the look of the Perseids yet, but we have gone through the obvious limitations that these all need to be very comfortable costumes or puppeteered, etc., so we have that. That also means they have to be of a certain size. Ideally you want to put a face behind whatever’s going on in most cases, so we have that as a basic starting point. The reality of the situation is, in 15 years that may not be true.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about the Than |
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SPACE.com: It sounds like the Than are of a hive. Are they a hive society, a hive mind or individuals?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: They are an insectoid race but they are not a hive-mind race. They are individualistic insects.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about the Nietzscheans |
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In this week’s dispatch, Wolfe discusses one of the series' most intriguing species: the Nietzscheans.
The newly released Andromeda web site states that Nietzscheans (Homo sapiens invictus) are an offshoot of humanity "bigger, faster and stronger than normal humans."
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about the Nightsiders |
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SPACE.com: Tell me about Nightsiders.
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Nightsiders, they don’t like their children. They’re not very nice people. I tell you, there’s certain African frogs that lay huge amounts of tadpoles and then eat them. That’s what Nightsiders do.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks about the Vedrans |
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SPACE.com: Who is the most important alien race in the series?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: It depends on what your definition of "important" is. In the greater scheme of the universe the most important race is the Vedrans. They founded the Commonwealth. In the importance of the series they’re not so important because we haven’t quite figured out how we’re going to pull them off yet and we don’t have a show featuring one yet. Overall we will see their alphabet all over the place. We will hear the word "Vedran" quite a bit. They’re very important but we won’t see much of them.
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Robert Hewtitt Wolfe Talks About Casting |
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SPACE.com: Let’s talk about Tyr Anasazi. First of all, what was your image of him before you cast anybody?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Well, we wrote the part to the actor.
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Jim Finn Talks About Ship Sizes |
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SPACE.com: The original teaser campaign featured a long rusty ship that many viewers just assumed was the Andromeda.
Jim Finn: It is funny because I track the message boards, and a lot of the talk is about the Eureka Maru because I think a lot of people believe that that's the Andromeda, and it's not. That ship fits in the corner of one of the hangers on the Andromeda. It would look like a single car in the parking lot of a huge shopping center.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks About the Military of the Series |
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SPACE.com: Andromeda seems to focus on military tactics and psychology. What sort of exposure have you had to the armed forces?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: I'm an army brat. My father was in the Special Forces. So I grew up on military bases. The focus of the show certainly isn't military, but I do want to get those details right. Additionally, Ashley Edward Miller, one of our staff writers, is a consultant on combat operations for the US Navy. When we hired him, he was working for the Pentagon.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Answers Critics of the Show |
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Now that Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda has finally hit the airwaves, the fans can at last see what they’ve been reading about for the past six months. SPACE.com’s Don Lipper speaks with series head writer and co-executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe about press excess, shakedown progress and ratings success.
SPACE.COM: First of all, how’s it going now that you’re on the air finally?
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Laura Bertram Talks About Her Character, Trance |
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Laura Bertram plays Trance Gemini, the mysterious purple crewmember on Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda. SPACE.com’s Don Lipper spoke with the actress in her first-ever celebrity interview.
SPACE.com: So, is this your first interview about Andromeda?
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Laura Bertram Talks About Makeup |
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Laura Bertram plays Trance Gemini, the mysterious purple crewmember on Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda. SPACE.com’s Don Lipper spoke with the actress about hours in the makeup chair and tricks she’s learned to do with her tail.
SPACE.com: Now it looks from the publicity photo that you’ve got some makeup on. What’s that like?
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks About Technology and Physics Within the Series |
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SPACE.com: First of all, I found what looks like the not-ready-for-primetime Andromeda web site and it's the most scientifically detailed universe (as far as the technology goes) that I've ever seen. How was that created?
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Gene [Roddenberry] did leave a lot of notes on the current stuff he wanted to do, so I had access to those notes. Gene was calling for a sentient mechanical ship. One that was basically fully human in every way, emotionally. I thought that was really cool.
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks About Conventions and Outdoor Shooting |
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe: Well, we’re shooting show [number] five right now, which is our first show we’re actually out and about in the nicely terraformed Greater Vancouver pine forest. It’s our first planet show, it’s looking pretty good. And very nicely, the Vancouver Film Commission actually managed to make the rain stop just in time for our exteriors. Hey, they are very powerful men.
SC: On Trek and especially DS9, you didn’t do much location shooting. Has it proved challenging?
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Robert Hewitt Wolfe Talks About Writers, Actors, and Life on the Set |
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SPACE.com: I hear that Brent [Stait]’s makeup is quite an ordeal.
Robert Hewitt Wolfe: He’s great. He’s very, very cool about sitting in the makeup chair. We actually did a cast on him before he got the part so that he would know what it was like, what he was getting himself into. He’s done a lot of martial arts, so he just sort of mediates in the chair while they put the makeup on. So far, so good.
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Questions Submitted by Fans About the Future of the Show |
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I'd like to ask about the direction the show is going in "post" the episodes you supervised. One of the things I've liked best about this season is continuity and attention to the big story. Given Kevin's comments about wanting more stand alones and less arc, is this something we can expect later this season?
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Fan Submitted Questions About RHWs Departure |
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So you did actually get sacked then? You didn't just leave? Only whilst most of us suspected this was the case, your original post wasn't that clear on this.
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About Andromeda, With Robert Hewitt Wolfe |
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Question
I recently noticed some Andromeda episode titles in a poem I found by W.B.Yeats called 'The Second Coming' I am curious, was this intentional and part of an arc?
I noticed a character named Jamahl in the episode guide for "Home Fires." Is this a nod to Jammer by any chance?
Robert, if you had to name one episode in your reign as Drom's crowning achievement, which would you nominate?
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