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SYFY: Defiance at SXSW! Details (VIDEOS)
By April Neale Mar 9, 2013, 19:19 GMT
The series is executive produced by Kevin Murphy, who also serves as showrunner, Michael Taylor and Rockne O’Bannon. Scott Stewart directed the pilot; Michael Nankin will serve as supervising producer/director on the series. Defiance is produced by Universal Cable Productions.
"Defiance" the TV series and the same named third-person shooter game are launching this month as part of NBC Universal’s SYFY network and venture-backed game company Trion Worlds collaborative efforts.
Trion reportedly has raised more than $150 million and it has a team of 150 working on the game.
Premise of the series is pure science fiction: The action is set on Earth in the year 2046. A massive alien ship, the Ark, crash lands on Earth, and its aliens are seeking a refuge as they flee their own planet, and then wreck Earth. The ship deposits seven unwanted alien races to live or fight among the surviving humans. In Defiance, the races are living together in an uneasy truce.
The game launches on April 2 with a huge amount of publicity from NBC Universal and its owner Comcast. The game is one of the only ones that works across the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 platforms.
Official description for Defiance from SYFY
Premieres Monday, April 15 at 9 p.m. – Syfy’s highly-anticipated transmedia event DEFIANCE is the first-ever convergence of television and online gaming, featuring an interconnected world between the two mediums as they evolve together into one overall story. The series’ luminous cast includes Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene and Mia Kirshner. Set in the near future, Defiance introduces an exotically transformed planet Earth, its landscapes permanently altered following the sudden – and tumultuous – arrival of seven unique alien races. In this somewhat unknown and unpredictable landscape, the richly diverse, newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully. Each week, viewers will follow an immersive character drama set in the boom-town of Defiance, which sits atop the ruins of St. Louis, MO, while in The Game, players will experience the new frontier of the San Francisco Bay area.
The series is executive produced by Kevin Murphy, who also serves as showrunner, Michael Taylor and Rockne O’Bannon. Scott Stewart directed the pilot; Michael Nankin will serve as supervising producer/director on the series. Defiance is produced by Universal Cable Productions.
Whether you’re in Austin this weekend or not, Syfy is giving you glimpses of the action all weekend with Storify. See images of the village, tweets from Jesse Rath & experience Defiance (almost) firsthand.
If you’re lucky enough to be at SXSW, watch @DefianceWorld & tweet #DefianceSXSW to enter for chances to win some swag, including a chance at a private happy hour in the village.
Link: http://sfy.co/q2mt
