Reminds me that I need to pick up new running shoes...
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Adrian Paul Stars in SciFi Original Movie This Saturday-- Info Date : Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:30:48 -0800 (PST) From : Augustus Augustus <jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com if it's that bad, i will be running right behind you both! --- On Mon, 1/12/09, keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Adrian Paul Stars in SciFi Original Movie This Saturday-- Info To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 7:06 PM I fear the horribly bad CGI in all SciFi Originals --less impressive than some five year old video games i've seen--may have you and me both running away in horror... ------------ -- Original message ------------ --------- - From: "Martin Baxter" > Really, Keith, you didn't have to go to all the trouble... > > I'll check this out, solely because of the promise of pirates. > > > > > > ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- > > Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Adrian Paul Stars in SciFi Original Movie This > Saturday-- Info > > Date : Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:29:25 +0000 > > From : KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net > > To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com > > > Whoops! Left off the SciFi blurb on the movie. Here it is... > > ************ ********* ********* ******* > > "The Immortal Voyage of Francis Drake" > > 1592....Four years after England's defeat of the Spanish Armada, tensions > still > run deep, especially between Sir Francis Drake, "The Queen's Pirate" and his > lifelong nemesis, Captain Don Sandovate. > An encounter with a mysterious Syrian sultan, however, finds the two men and > their crews engaged in a daring race against time, each embarking upon a > desperate quest to exotic foreign lands where they face perilous obstacles > and > untold dangers at every turn. > > CAST: Adrian Paul, Peter Easton, Temuera Morrison, Wes Ramsey, Daniel Kash, > Sofia Pernas, Nick Harvey, Mike Straub & George Zlatarev > Production:: Sci Fi Channel > Producers: Jeffery Beach, Phillip J. Roth > Writer: Rafael Jordan > Director: David Flores > > In a recent Starlog Magazine Interview Adrian stated: �It was an ambitious > project, done for a small amount of money,� he comments.�CAPTAIN DRAKE is > supposed to take place in about six different locations around the world, so > there is going to be lots of CGI. We shall see whether the CGI holds up. "The > funny thing about Sir Francis Drake is that he wasn�t liked by very many > people,� Paul notes with a laugh.�He was an egotistical, self-centered > pirate. The only reason he was a �hero� was because Queen Elizabeth I > sanctioned him. So it was fun to play Drake as not so much of a good guy. We > found lots of black humor in that.� > > ------------ -- Original message ------------ -- > From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net > Well, I guess Adrian Paul doesn't have problems getting work. He stars in a > SciFi Originals movie airing this Saturday. Some hookum about Sir Francis > Drake > having gone on a desperate mission and encounter all kinds of magical > creatures > and such. Have no idea what to think about this flick. It being on SciFi, and > Pau's saying in an interview that it was CGI-heavy and they'd have to see how > that holds up, make me nervous. Oh well could be worse: Paul could be > starring > in another "Highlander" movie! > Here's a blurb about the movie, and another about "Wraiths of Roanoke", > another > film he did recently, airing Friday night. > > ************ ********* ********* ********* ******** > http://adrianpaulne wswire.blogspot. com/2008/ 07/sci-fi- channel-to- > air-immortal- vo > yage.html > > "The Immortal Voyage of Francis Drake" > > SCI FI CHANNEL (USA) > 1592....Four years after England's defeat of the Spanish Armada, tensions > still > run deep, especially between Sir Francis Drake, "The Queen's Pirate" and his > lifelong nemesis, Captain Don Sandovate. An encounter with a mysterious > Syrian > sultan, however, finds the two men and their crews engaged in a daring race > against time, each embarking upon a desperate quest to exotic foreign lands > where they face perilous obstacles and untold dangers at every turn. > > CAST: Adrian Paul, Peter Easton, Temuera Morrison, Wes Ramsey, Daniel Kash, > Sofia Pernas, Nick Harvey, Mike Straub & George Zlatarev > Production:: Sci Fi Channel > Producers: Jeffery Beach, Phillip J. Roth > Writer: Rafael Jordan > Director: David Flores > > > > In a recent Starlog Magazine Interview Adrian stated: �It was an ambitious > project, done for a small amount of money,� he comments.�CAPTAIN DRAKE is > supposed to take place in about six different locations around the world, so > there is going to be lots of CGI. We shall see whether the CGI holds up. "The > funny thing about Sir Francis Drake is that he wasn�t liked by very many > people,� Paul notes with a laugh.�He was an egotistical, self-centered > pirate. The only reason he was a �hero� was because Queen Elizabeth I > sanctioned him. So it was fun to play Drake as not so much of a good guy. We > found lots of black humor in that.� > > Adrian Paul & Sofia Pernas > > ************ ********* ********* ********* ** > Wraiths of Roanoke Re-Airs January 18 at 1 PM > > SCI FI CHANNEL (USA) > In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited 117 men, women and children for a > permanent settlement on Roanoke Island, located on North Carolina's coast. > John > White (Alex McArthur) was appointed governor of the new "City of Raleigh." > Among > the colonists were White's pregnant daughter Eleanor Dare (Frida Show), his > son-in-law Ananias Dare (Adrian Paul), and the Indian chief Manteo (Michael > Teh), who had become an ally during his stay in Britain.The group journeyed > from > Britain to Roanoke Island and established the first English settlement in > America. Within three years, however, they had vanished with scarcely a > trace. > England's initial attempt at colonization of the New World was a disaster, > and > one of America's most enduring legends was born... > > > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
