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Farscape: The Movie?

Rockne S. O’Bannon (series creator) and Anthony Simcoe (D’Argo) spoke to Cinescape at the San Diego Comic Con about the possibility of a Farscape movie.

"There’s been talks [of a FARSCAPE movie] from the very beginning," says O’Bannon. "It’s been a passion of Brian Hensen to make a feature out of the project. Of course, the difficulty initially was just getting the series made. Now we’re having more serious conversations about a movie, but it’s an issue of where to fit it in the production. Do we do it during the FARSCAPE hiatus?"

"Creating a movie based on a television series that’s still on the air is really tough to do because where do you put it?" asks O’Bannon. "[Chris] Carter did it with THE X-FILES by essentially designing a season that led up to the movie, then the movie came out in the summer, and then the next season tailed off. Seriously, I don’t know how successful that was – it gives the movie a short shelf life, I feel, as opposed to being a stand-alone film. However, in the case of our show, you have characters who were on the show in the beginning, but aren’t there now. We have new characters that have come in, so where do you place it? We’re in an arc in the series right now where John Crighton, the lead character, has been split in two. So we’ll have one episode with him and some of the characters, and the next with his other self and another group of characters. So if the movie premiered tomorrow, it would be in the middle of the series about this split guy. I don’t know how we’re going to resolve that; it’s a toughie."

You can read the entire interview here.

- your resident Farscape guru, Ultra Magnus

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