From IfMagazine:
SciFi Channel Voyages into "The Triangle"
Six Hour Bermuda Triangle Mini-Series to Premiere This December from executive producers Dean Devlin and Bryan Singer
By: Brian Patrick O'Toole News Editor
6/2/2005
LOCATION The place where gas bubbles pull down ships and planes
THE SKINNY The mini-series is alive and well on the Sci-Fi Channel. The cable network that brought us the Emmy Award winning Steven Spielberg presents TAKEN; adaptations of literary classics CHILDREN OF DUNE and EARTHSEA; and most recently the critically acclaimed re-imagining of the 70's classic space opera BATTLESTAR GALACTICA has now turned its sights on the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in a six hour mini-series entitled THE TRIANGLE.
Production began this week on THE TRIANGLE in Cape Town, South Africa and will continue on to New York. This new take on the legendary seascape of unexplained disappearances will have a three night run on the Sci-Fi Channel this December and stars Eric Stoltz, Sam Neill, Catherine Bell, Michael Rodgers, and Bruce Davidson.
In THE TRIANGLE, billionaire Rice Benirall (Neill) is losing his cargo ships, and their crews, at a frightening pace-and now, he wants answers. His bemused, handpicked team of subject-specific experts include lead skeptic and tabloid journalist Howard Thomas (Stoltz), ocean resource engineer Emily Patterson (Bell), scientist/adventurer Bruce Gellar (Rodgers) and psychic Stan Latham (Davison). Pulled together with the promise of unlimited funding for their research and the chance for once-in-a-lifetime riches, the team sets out to solve this most daunting of puzzles.
When a jetliner disappears over the Triangle, bizarre, unexplainable occurrences begin to affect each member of Benirall's team. When the government takes an alarming interest in their work, our crew is drawn into something far more dangerous than they had believed possible. A research expedition with the promise of riches soon becomes a frantic, head-turning ride through the unstoppable force that is THE TRIANGLE.
The mini-series was written by Rockne O’Bannon, who previous wrote FARSCAPE: THE PEACEKEEPER WARS. THE TRIANGLE’s executive producers X-MENdirector Bryan Singer and INDEPENDENCE DAY producer Dean Devlin collaborated on the original story. The production will be handled through Devlin’s Electric Entertainment, which owns iFmagazine.com.
