Sci-fi TV series 'Defiance' launches with video game: 'one world, two ways in'
Cast members of the television show "Defiance,"
(left to right) Tony Curran as Datak Tarr, Jaime Murray as Stahma Tarr,
Julie Benz as Amanda Rosewater, Mia Kirshner as Kenya Rosewater, Grant
Bowler as Joshua Nolan, Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nyira and Graham
Greene as Rafe McCawley are shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/HO-Shaw Media-Joe Pugliese/Syfy
What
will Earth look like in the year 2046? Pretty beat up if a sprawling
outdoor backlot for a new sci-fi TV series, tucked out of sight in an
industrial section of Toronto's east end, is any indication.
"Defiance" launches
simultaneously in Canada and the U.S. April 15 as both a TV series and a
video game. Both Showcase and the U.S. cable channel Syfy will premiere
it over two hours Monday at 10 p.m.
Earlier this year before TV critics in Los Angeles,
Syfy president Dave Howe called it "one world, but with two ways in."
Five years in the making, the series was planned all along as a way to
unite "high-quality scripted television and online gaming in an
unprecedented way."
Read more at
Brandon Sun
Tweets (and photos) from Tony Curran:
Great night at Syfy up Fronts New York City
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Datak&Stahma having a moment 3 days till launch
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It wouldn't be the Syfy Upfront if it wasn't a star studded event, and the stellar cast of Defiance surely delivers
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Up Fronts NYC
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In MYM Magazine out April 18th in UK
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Defiance Trailer: Datak
Cunning,
intelligent, and ambitious, Datak Tarr has a firm grip on Defiance's
underworld. How long can they stay on top? Defiance premieres Monday at
9/8c only on Syfy.
Watch the trailer
here.
Defiance - Syfy Video Featurette: 'Datak' Promo - NEW Series Apr 15 '13Read more at
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DEFIANCE: Jaime Murray and Tony Curran Plan To Prosper In New Sneak Peeks
Full article at
Seriable
Another Trailer for Syfy’s Defiance
The 2-hour premiere arrives April 15th.
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SciFi Cool
Nice Boy of the Week: Tony Curran
The Nice Boy of the Week this week is actor
Tony Curran, who is one of the cast members of the upcoming Syfy series
Defiance that will debut on Monday, April 15.
Tony Curran
was born in Glasgow, Scotland and graduated from the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama. He got his first break on television in 1986
in the British children’s series called
Dramarama.
A few years
later he had small roles in the box office films
Captive that starred
Julia Ormond and Tim Roth and
Being Human that starred Robin Williams.
Over the course of the next four years, he appeared in the British and
Scottish TV series
Soldier Soldier,
Grange Hill,
Taggart,
The Bill,
A
Touch of Frost,
This Life and
Touching Evil.
Read more at
Nice Girls TV
NBCU's $100 Million Gamble on Syfy's 'Defiance'
The first TV series and video game to launch in tandem, the multiplatform event marks a critical test for the cable network.
Syfy
is welcoming a two-headed baby into the world. The NBCUniversal-owned
network in April is launching
Defiance, a risky experiment in transmedia
that pairs the most expensive series in the cable net's history with an
equally pricey massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game. Each can
be enjoyed on its own, but NBCU, which has invested close to $100
million in Defiance, needs both sci-fi fans and gamers -- two fickle
groups -- to show up in big numbers to justify the expense.
Read more at
Hollywood Reporter
Defiance - The Gate Mag: Cast Video Interview - NEW Series Apr 15 '13 on Syfy
The
cast of SyFy's series,
Defiance, introduce themselves and actor Grant
Bowler talks about the inspiration for his character, Chief Lawkeeper
Jeb Nolan.
Video includes interviews with Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Jaime Murray, Mia Kirshner,
Tony Curran and Graham Greene.
Set on a transformed Earth thirty years in the future,
Defiance is the
story of courage and survival in a frontier town where feuding factions
of humans and aliens must stand together against outside forces that
threaten their existence.
Defiance premiering Monday April 15 at 9/8c on
Syfy.
Watch the interviews at
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Defiance - The Gate Mag: Cast Video Interview Part 2
The
cast of SyFy's new series, Defiance, talk about the languages of the
alien races, the Votan, and how it impacted their performances. David J.
Peterson developed the languages for the series.
More
here.
Loving The Aliens - Article in TV & Satellite Week
Read a scan of the article
here.
Michael Nankin interview: Defiance, latex, TV pilots and more
With
the launch of the Defiance series and TV show imminent, we spoke to
producer and director Michael Nankin about its making...
The Syfy Channel is about to air what is surely its biggest experiment
yet. Called
Defiance, it’s a sci-fi series which not only employs some
proven industry talent - not least writer Rockne S O’Bannon, of
Alien
Nation and
SeaQuest DSV fame, director and producer Michael Nankin, who
previously helmed episodes of
Battlestar Galactica and
Alphas - but also
coincides with the launch of the online shooter of the same name.
In
a media first,
Defiance the TV series and
Defiance the videogame will
share characters and storylines, with events in the show replicated in
the online experience, too. It’s a concept that has roped in the
creative minds from both Syfy and Trion Worlds, cost an undisclosed sum
of money, and will, if successful, no doubt pave the way for further
‘transmedia’ collaborations in the future.
Set on a
post-apocalyptic Earth where multiple races of aliens live uneasily
among humans,
Defiance takes place in the ramshackle town of the same
name. Roguishly handsome newcomer Nolan (Grant Bowler) provides our way
into this grubby community, in which bitter rivalries and cultural
chasms constantly threaten its stability. As much a Western as a sci-fi
show,
Defiance is infused with a lightness of touch and a faintly kitsch
sensibility, which is far removed from the brooding, post-911
atmosphere of
Battlestar Galactica, whose success Syfy will no doubt be
hoping to replicate here.
Ahead of the
Defiance pilot’s premiere
on the 16th April, we had a chance to talk to Nankin about what we can
expect from the show, the pitfalls in developing a TV series and game at
the same time, and the perils of directing a show full of alien
prosthetics, contact lenses, and brightly-coloured wigs...
Read the full interview at
Den of Geek
Tony Curran (Datak Tarr)Actor bio at
Showcase
At the Defiance Shoot.
Photos (including Tony Curran)
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Defiance: the official photos of the cast bonus
http://www.syfy.fr/blogs/defiance-les-photos-officielles-du-cast-bonus
Defiance: the official photos of the cast bonus. Tony Curran
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Dive Into the TV and Game World of DEFIANCE With Featurette, Exclusive Set Visit Pics and More
SciFiMafia.com attended a set tour and press
conference a few months ago and we have chosen a sampling from the sheer
tonnage of pics taken to share with you, to accompany this first Making
Of featurette of the game and series and the newest trailer for the
series and TV spot for the game.
Read more at
SciFi Mania
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Vampires, Zombies & Werewolves Movie Marathon - Syfy: Schedule Apr 6 '13
Underworld: Evolution
Gory sequel finds the bloodsucking heroine (
Kate Beckinsale) tracing the origins of the ancient feud between the tribes of vampires and werewolves.
Cast includes Kate Beckinsale,
Defiance's
Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen and Sophia Myles.
Blade II
A vampire slayer (Wesley Snipes) teams up with the undead to take down a band of mutant bloodsuckers.
Cast includes Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela,
The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus, Luke Goss and
Tony Curran.
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