Damian Kindler

Damian Kindler: The idea for Sanctuary as a series was born about six years ago, while I was living in LA working as a freelance TV writer. My agent at the time asked me to write a script that would (it was hoped) showcase my "voice" as a writer. Basically write a pilot for a TV series I would create, given the chance. So I wrote the first hour of Sanctuary back in 2001 and then it basically sat in my Hard Drive after I went to work on the Stargate TV franchise in 2002 until recently. Last year I started a new venture with friends from the gaming, software and internet communities here in Vancouver. We wanted to prove that the internet could turn people with the ability to develop and create high end content into their own studio and network, as it were. And the more we looked into it, the more we realized that sci fi fans were amongst the most passionate and sophisticated early adopters on the web. We were also looking for ways to rethink the way we made TV series-like content -- using innovative green screen techniques and real time 3D computer model tracking. All this came together in January 2007 when the Stargate crew and the newly hired VFX team here at Stage 3 Media combined to shoot the two hour pilot of Sanctuary. We had an absolute blast and can't wait to go back into production in the Fall.

Damian Kindler: (On which Stargate story that he wrote felt is the most realized)Well, it's a good question. First of all, on Stargate, because people are so good at their jobs and there's actually a very healthy budget, a lot of what you write gets realized in a very, very nice way. They don't cheap out. They're going to do a space battle, they're going to do it right. You're going to do a fight, you're going to do it right. They're going to do a scene in some amazing location, they'll find it. Or they'll build it. So that's always really nice. I remember the very first one, "The Other Guys" that Martin Wood directed, just coming together brilliantly and going "Wow." This is my first Stargate experience at that level. Just going "Wow." I've never had a script that was produced at a feature-film-level of quality.

Damian Kindler: Without publicly kissing ass and blowing smoke, I've always liked the way Rob Cooper writes. He's got a great eye for plot, and for character, and detail. And Brad Wright writes really good sci-fi. He writes sci-fi where you're left kind of wondering about the fate of our lives. He writes dark, and I really admire that in him. He can go to the dark places. I mean, he wrote 'Unnatural Selection'. Wonderful. His 'Outer Limits' are just awesome. For such a sunny happy guy, he's got a very dark way of writing sometimes! But I love that. I'm very admiring.