Yesterday I was reading over the original script for "The Gathering," which we are making available via thestation.com for this month only. (Everything that goes through for sale has to be approved by me personally, and I wanted to make sure the copy was solid and readable, it's been a long time, after all.) And for those who've asked -- and I should've gotten to this before, it's just been kinda nuts -- it does have scenes that were filmed and didn't make it into either version of the aired pilot movie for reasons of length, and some scenes and partial scenes that were not filmed at *all.* I was actually kinda surprised at just how much there was (including two very funny scenes with Garibaldi and a tiny drunk alien in the Zocalo bar that we couldn't shoot because the mechanical props kept breaking down).
Anyway, to those who've asked, yes, there's a pretty goodly amount of new stuff there (well, new to anyone who never saw the script). It was amazing to look back at it all, after 7 years, and see it in script form again; haven't touched it since we did the re-edit.
jms
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